‘The Way Things Go’
March 4, 2010 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: VideoTo continue with the them of destruction we’ve got this awesome video which is a part of 30 minute short called The Way Things Go. It was created by a pair of Swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, who’ve been creating kinetic sculptures since 1979. This is just a clip of the larger video but it totally puts to shame that OK Go video. Why do I say that? Because this one has a ton of explosions!
I think it’s amazing that people can do these kinds of things, that they have the creativity, to make all of these pieces come together and interact. I’m really tempted to get the DVD of this to see how they do an entire 30 minutes of interactions like this, I’m sure it’d be amazing.
Thanks to Matt Lyons for the tip!
Bobby
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If you've got something to say, keep it positive.Kinda bummed it is cut up though, when the zoom into the fire both times it clips to a new shot. I don’t hold that against them for the video is still cool as heck, but the OK GO vid is a different level, non stop and 4 dudes that aren’t necessarily athletic ninjas! :)
But to get back to the point of your post…mmmmmm, tasty fire and ‘splosions!
Wow! I never thought I’d see this again. When my family took a vacation to Paris we visited a ton of the museums there. I’m pretty certain that it was in the Centre Pompidou that I saw this. They had it projected on a fairly large hanging screen and I think it looped the whole day. It was pretty awesome to see the whole thirty minutes though, that’s for sure.
Pretty rad, i really dig the OK GO one though compared to this though.
In German it’s called: Der Lauf der Dinge. It has been a epic short for some years now.
Great stuff.
actually, there are a couple of moments in der lauf der dinge where you can spot the cuts… and the cinematography of that ok go video puts the german short to shame. but yeah, fischli and weiss did it first.
The genius of this creation is as much from their artistic talent as it is their inherent Swiss craftsmanship. Excellent find!
honda ripped this off for an ad a bunch of years ago and got sued. my local PBS would show this in some available empty 30 minute block late at night back in the day before playing the national anthem and logging off. and i think the franklin institute in philadelphia has this playing somewhere in the museum, or it was last time i was there.
This was fun to revisit, I remember seeing it in one of my favorite art professor’s classes in college.
Hey guys, those of you in LA can see the film being shown at the Hammer Museum in Westwood (it is currently being looped on the 3 screens next to the Wolfgang Puck Cafe)