Video interlude: Radiohead and lasers

by Mathew on July 14, 2008 · Comments

Maybe Radiohead should change their name to something a little more futuristic — Laserhead, perhaps. For their new video “House of Cards,” the band decided to experiment with laser-scanning technology and make a video without using any cameras at all. Instead, they used 360-degree scanners that created what amount to 3D maps of the band and various actors in the video, as well as a much larger scanner that created a 3D image of an entire street. The parts where the data forming the image seems to disintegrate are very cool. Not crazy about the song though. Google has a whole page devoted to the creation of the video, and TechCrunch has some more info here.

 

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  • Radiohead's In Rainbows is still growing on me. And no I didn't pay them anything for it. And guess what, it's their most financially successful cd to date. I think the song will grow on you after awhile. This album has more quiet than the last few radiohead projects.

    And that's where this video seems to fit so beautifully. All the data and information we are exchanging daily, twitters, posts, photos, emails... And this video takes the humans out of the picture completely.
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