Walking City: Slowly Evolving, Mesmerizing Video Sculpture

Created by Universal Everything, Walking City is a constantly morphing, mesmerizing video.

With the incredible variety of textures and shapes, the audio work is actually quite fantastic as well – matching the feel and style as the video progresses.

I’d seen mention of this video online for a while now, but didn’t actually go to check it out until tonight. Really incredible stuff.

On watching this video, I was reminded of two bits of writing on cities. The first is Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino:

The other bit of writing I was reminded of was Neil Gaiman’s essay on cities, which I first read when playing SimCity 2000 and built my first library. It’ll be familiar to fans of Sandman, which I was coincidentally reading at the time.

// PS: Wow, Universal Everything really has some other really fantastic work posted on their site. Go look around and lose some time!

[via bit101]

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