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Beautiful and mind-boggling. The endless zoom into the weird polyps
of Ernst Haeckel is stunningly original. Rudy Rucker,
father of cyberpunk
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With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of
Spotworks, Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital
psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation. His
electric sheep are the fluttering Gaian spawn of networked computers
and genetic algorithms, while his visual 'dubs' of Ernst Haeckel's
fin-de-siecle scientific lithographs add a resonant historical
dimension to trippy visuals. Mind-melting stuff, and refreshingly
devoid of the usual fungal kitsch.
Erik Davis, author of
Techgnosis and contributing writer to Wired Magazine
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| Spotworks is a totally mesmerizing display of etheric
color and form. Projected at a party , I've seen the fractal flames
utterly engross people on the dancefloor. It's a unique visual analog
to psychedelic music. Shakatura, DJ and Music Producer, SF
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This isn't just trippy wallpaper -- it's not even just
art. This is garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking
up a new species made of code, decisions and cooperation, and
this disc is a petri dish swimming with the organisms that
deserve to succeed us here on Earth. I for one welcome our new a-life
masters.
Cory Doctorow,
author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of
Boing Boing.
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| He provides not only mind-blowing
hardcore psychedelics, but also a visual theory of evolution... A
review in the
Earplug electronic music
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| Spotworks is a VERY entertaining DVD collection and feast
for your eyes and ears. A review in the Intelligent Agent
Magazine |
| If you're looking for a new DVD full of mind-blowing
visuals to play at your next party, or just to go on a personal
journey with, check out Spotworks. ... This is cutting edge and
futuristic stuff bound to blow your mind. A review in en'trance
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