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Erik Wernquist – One Revolution Per Minute

Erik Wernquists exquisite Kurzfilme hatte ich soweit ich mich erinnere schon einmal in meinem alten Blog. Vor kurzem hat er dieses tolle Video veröffentlicht, welches sozusagen einen Rundgang über Raumschiff bietet, welches künstliche Gravitation durch Rotation ermöglicht. Dieser Luxusliner, so wie es erscheint, ist in Cinema 4D gebaut. Das Licht- und Schattenspiel ist sehr überzeugend gelungen.

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#Cinema 4D #concept design #Erik Wernquist #Künstliche Gravitation #Raumschiff #Science Fiction #Sonnensystem #Vimeo

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ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE - a short film by Erik Wernquist

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One Revolution Per Minute

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2023 March 26

Wanderers Video Credit: Visuals: Erik Wernquist; Music: Christian Sandquist; Words & Voice: Carl Sagan

Explanation: How far out will humanity explore? If this video's fusion of real space imagery and fictional space visualizations is on the right track, then at least the Solar System. Some of the video's wondrous sequences depict future humans drifting through the rings of Saturn, exploring Jupiter from a nearby spacecraft, and jumping off a high cliff in the low gravity of a moon of Uranus. Although no one can know the future, wandering and exploring beyond boundaries -- both physical and intellectual -- is part of the human spirit and has frequently served humanity well in the past.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230326.html

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Herge's Moon Rocket by Erik Wernquist

I know what I said.

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20th Anniversary of Crazy Frog

20 years ago, Erik Wernquist's animated short "The Annoying Thing" was released online.

The short's titular character would later become the ringtone and musical artist known as Crazy Frog.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

"This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever."

161. WANDERERS (Erik Wernquist, 2014) - Sweden - Streaming - Vimeo - 4 minutes. Rewatch #14.

#wanderers #science fiction #short film

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Mind-bending speed is the only way to reach the stars – here are three ways to do it

While we have never been closer to becoming an interplanetary species, any hopes humanity has for inhabiting planets beyond our solar system – let alone solar systems beyond it – remain a distant dream. However, as this stunningly-rendered CGI animation from the Stockholm-based director Erik Wernquist shows, while human-transporting spacecrafts that might traverse the vast distances between…

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WANDERERS

Wanderers est un court métrage réalisé par Erik Wernquist. Basé sur la science-fiction, ce film explore un plausible futur où les humains aurait conquis d’autres planètes. A travers des paysages époustouflants,  nous retraçons notre système solaire. Ces séquences sont de grandes précisions, car ce sont des reconstructions numériques à partir de réelles photographies prises dans l’espace et de données cartographiques.

Cette œuvre m’a touchée, car le visuel est vraiment spectaculaire. Le rendu est vraiment bluffant et immersif. Bien que la science-fiction va souvent de pair avec l'imaginaire, Wernquist nous propose un travail construit grâce à de réelles données ! A mon sens, cela nous permet de nous rapprocher visuellement de cette possibilité en tant qu’avenir et que ces images nous permettent d’imaginer à quoi pourrait ressembler ce type de vie. J’ai aussi adoré ce style, car cela m’a énormément fait penser aux jeux vidéo. Ce mélange fiction et réalité grâce aux technologies utilisées m’a convaincue et fait m'a fait voyager durant ces quatre minutes.

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ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE is a short film I made to explore my fascination with artificial gravity in space. It takes place aboard the "SSPO Esperanta" - a planetary orbiter that spins around itself at a rate of one revolution per minute (1 RPM). With a radius of 450 meters, the spin generates artificial gravity with an effect of approximately 0.5 g along its main deck. With the "Esperanta" I wanted to create a leisure-like environment, such as a hotel or cruise ship, and explore what the views could be like onboard when the orbiter visits some of the worlds in our solar system. I was also particularly interested in how light and shadows from the sun play around in the interior as it spins around. For those reasons, I decided to keep all artificial lights off - with the exception of some emergency lights to avoid complete darkness - and to only let natural light illuminate the interiors. As this made the place appear quite desolate, I found it interesting to imagine someone being onboard, alone…

CREDITS: Written, produced and directed by - ERIK WERNQUIST Music by - CRISTIAN SANDQUIST Live action photography by - CHRISTINE LEUHUSEN The Passenger performed by - LARS KNUBB P.A. Voice performed by - HANNA MELLIN Visuals by - ERIK WERNQUIST

THANK YOU Caj Müller Harold "Sonny" White Nic Stacey Paul Odgren Metronome Rental AB

The visuals of this short film were made in Maxon Cinema 4D with Otoy Octane Render and composited in Adobe After Effects.

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#ArtificialGravity, #space, #SolarSystem, #CoriolisEffect, #cinema4d, #octanerender

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CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga

CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga Inscreva-se no Canal Compartilhe Esse Vídeo:   • CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics ...   A música Axel F é uma versão remixada da composição original de Harold Faltermeyer, que foi usada como tema do filme Um Tira da Pesada, de 1984. Em 2005, o personagem Crazy Frog, criado por Erik Wernquist, gravou a música e lançou como seu primeiro e mais bem-sucedido single. A música tem um ritmo eletrônico e uma letra simples, que consiste em sons imitando uma rã maluca. #CrazyFrogAxelF #CrazyFrogMeme #AxelFChallenge #CrazyFrogFan CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga

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Crazy Frogs Odd History

Little essay on that blue bastards from 05

Growing up in the 2000s, a have a lot of nostalgia for that era, particularly around 2005 to 2010. There were things that are still talked about today from that time and even still widely used, YouTube being the biggest example of this. With that said, there are some parts of the 2000 decade some wish to forget

Crazy frog was at one time, one of the biggest rising musicians in the world, and kind of was for a little bit the most talked about thing, especially in the US and Europe. What originally started as a teenager making motorcycle noises turning into a small animation of this bizarre mutant that we know today. Then it was marketed by the infamous Jamba or Jamster in the US, where he spread to most of the known universe as a ringtone, then emerging with singles and albums. Then suddenly out of nowhere, it just all stopped. I wanted to explore the characters history today and see how he rose to global fame, only to crash and disappear for over a decade, only to slowly re-emerge and regain some of his lost fame. It’s an interested tale of media fads, controversy, terrible yet catchy music and over-marketing that I think you will enjoy. So, sit back whilst I explain Crazy Frog, and his rise, fall and resurgence.

Okay, so let’s start off with a little background on the character and those involved with his creation and rise. Back in 1997, Swedish 17-year-old student Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself emulating two- stroke engine noises, which he would then post to various websites. Because of this, he was brought into a Television studio to record the audio live, which was then distrubted to file sharing websites under the file name 2TAKTARE.mp3. The sound was used for various projects in the years after, such as for 2DENG DENG FORM” and “The Insanity Test”, which were moderate viral videos back in the early 2000s. It wasn’t however until 7th October 2003, when Swedish Erik Wernquist found the sound file and decided to create a 3D animated character around the sound. Dubbed “The Annoying Thing”, this became the first instance of the Crazy Frog character, and it got a fair amount of attention at the time, popping up all over the internet and being spread through file sharing sites. Interestingly, Wernquist didn’t know who to originally credit for the sound file, and credited originally as Anonymous, until Malmedahl got word of this and got into contact with Wernquist, giving him proof that we was the original maker of the audio and had him credited with the video. Eventually, word of this creation got the attention of Jamba (known as Jamster in the majority of the world), who would license the rights to market the animation, changing the name to Crazy Frog in mid-2004. Wernquist was apparently very displeased with this decision, as in an interview with HitQuarters, He states “if I had known that this was going to be such a big thing, I would not have allowed them to use that stupid name. It has nothing to do with the character. It's not a frog and it's not particularly crazy either”. From there, Crazy began to Boom in the US and Europe as a ringtone star, being one of many of Jamsters Ringtone marketing mascots. Before I continue with Crazy Frog, let me give you a brief rundown of Jamster. Known as Jamba in Germany, they were a German company founded back in 2000 that specialised in selling Ringtones and were known for their heavy marketing and advertising, often having multipul Jamster adverts in the same advert break slot. They were making a lot of money back in 2005, 2006, but eventually died off in popularity and haven’t really been hear from since the early 2010s. Honestly, I’m really glad about that, because my god these bastards were everywhere during 2005 to 2009. You really couldn’t change a channel without one of their CGI abominations blessing your screens. Fun fact, you weren’t actually paying for a one-off ringtone, you were actually paying for a monthly subscription which was very hard to get out of because Jamster didn’t provide instructions on how to do so. This was one of their many controversies, with others being that their marketing was mostly on youth channels and was essentially sucking money out of children’s pockets, and they had a short animation that was banned due to its portrayal of Hitler, which, if your curious, has him hanging out in the bath with his dog mate. I will leave a link to it below if your curious, but yeah, I can see why this banned in Germany, and actually their adverts were banned in the UK to be shown before the 9pm watershed, which probably hurt the company a bit since by then most kids were either asleep or not watching TV.

Back to the main man himself, Crazy Frog was actually only one of many of the characters featured Jamster, with others such as Anna Blue having decent success and even having her own Facebook and Myspace at the time. Crazy frog though was clearly the frontrunner, and Jamster knew it, eventually expanding the character to other formats. One thing I have to mention is that in the early Jamster commercials and back in the annoying thing video, Crazy Frog had visible genitals. It was met with complaints and Jamster decided it voluntarily censor them in future broadcasts.

On May 17th, 2005, Axel F was released, a cover by Crazy Frog of the 1980s song of the same name by  Harold Faltermeyer, and quickly rose as the most popular song and a summer hit of 2005. It was produced by Matthias Wagner and Andreas Dohmeyer, the two members of Off-cast Project, and Henning Reith and Reinhard "DJ Voodoo" Raith, two members of the German dance production team Bass Bumpers. It used samples from the original song and also sound bites of Malmedahl throughout the song, and honestly it was kind of a catchy backing beat. Unfortunately, it has crazy frog noises, so it becomes a bit more annoying than catchy. The Music video was done by Wernquist and for the time is pretty well done. I like that he rides around on an invisible motorcycle and has a chase scene through a city to the sewers, then all ends in a missile exploding, though sadly Crazy Frog is not one of those killed. The song then turned into a Ringtone by Jamster, because of course it was, and with this and the take-off of the Single, Crazy Frog became a household name. Axel F on its own was number 1 in the charts in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the UK. Another single, Popcorn, topped the charts in Belgium, France and New Zealand and did very well in the other European countries too. It’s clear that 2005 was the year of the          Crazy Frog, as he had singles Going Platinum, a very successful album in Crazy Hits, was all over European and American television and Jamster, and had tonnes of merchandise being sold, especially in the UK. This wanker was even crossing over to other media. Digital Jesters acquired the rights to make Crazy Frog games, which spawned Crazy Frog Racers in December 2005 and then a sequel in 2006, both of which were very poorly received and are considered some of the worst games ever made. There was even talks in 2005 for an animated TV show on the character, however this idea was quickly shelved. He even went on tour in Australia in 2005. Fair to say, a lot of people loved Crazy Frog during this time, however, a lot of people really hated him.

Because of this huge amount of oversaturation in the market, the bubble was bound to burst at some point, and it seemed in the waning years of the 2000s it really did. Whilst his first album, crazy hits did very well and the second album, more crazy hits did pretty well too with some high rankings in some charts, the third album, Everybody, dance now released in 2009 didn’t do anywhere near as good as the others, though still doing relatively okay. Despite that, 2009 would be the year the Crazy Frog went on hiatus. The reasoning for this is unclear, however I like to think a number of reasons were behind this. Jamster were under heat from their constant advertising and saturation, and with the UK and other stations in countries like Germany banning or limiting the adverts, maybe they saw it was a losing market. I mean it didn’t mean they couldn’t still just advertise old Crazy Frog and other Jamster ringtones, but maybe they saw no point in making new ones, since essentially it was the same idea repurposed over and over again. Wernquist and the other animators maybe got bored of making this blue mutant ride around on an invisible bike and decided to just leave the project. Personally, I like to think that the advent of smartphones and their advancement really hurt Crazy Frog. Think about it, by 2009 the iPhone had been around for a couple years and with that and similar smartphone advances you could potentially download whatever you wanted to use as a ringtone, so gibing Jamster money didn’t seem like a good option anymore.

Following this, the Music Videos were released on a YouTube channel, where they sat  viewed but mostly ignored for quite a few years, until a few years ago. Suddenly, the music videos and other Crazy Frog stuff started going viral on YouTube and TikTok and started generating millions of views. Siegfrid Soderburg, the CEO of Kaktus and Crazy Frog entertainment stated that Axel F was getting 4 million views a day at one point, and currently has around 3.9 billion Views on YouTube, easily making it into the top 30 most popular YouTube videos. I mean, it does make sense. There has always been a place for Annoying and trendy videos on the internet. The same year Crazy Frog went on hiatus was the same year The Annoying Orange started, and that went on to become a media franchise on its own too. Despite that, it’s fair to say that crazy was really dormant from at least 2012 to 2018 and served as really a memory among those who remembered him and the god-awful adverts. Though with this resurgence of popularity, it was only really time for the Crazy Frog to come back from the dead. And on April 22nd, 2020, with the creation of the twitter account and news of a new album, the crazy frog was back, and they even released a new single, tricky back in 2021 and continues to regularly post to this day. Although, like in the old days, this character can’t seem to stay out of controversy. Their official twitter announced a line of NFTs and was met with considerable backlash due to their controversial nature. The other big controversy is a bit more shocking. So back in the day, there were a lot of parodies and jokes about Crazy Frog, and famously there was a virus that depicted Crazy Frog being killed, which I guessed showed how much people hated the Amphibian asshole. Well, the official twitter page decided to make his death finally cannon as they posted a fucking photo of the bastard hanged from a noose with the caption “Goodbye World”. I mean I’m glad death finally came to collect him after surviving the explosion back in Axel F, but man this was out of left field a bit shocking to see, not only a suicide, but on their official fucking page. This was quickly met with backlash and removed quickly, and the Twitter released an apology, but it’s just weird we live in a timeline where Crazy Frog killed himself and then was retconned not a day later. One other thing, you remember how many people were offended at his knob being out in Axel F? well, in the photo you can see his penis again, as this was an edited post that I managed to date back to July 2005, obviously mocking the character and another example of the clear hatred of the character.

What I learned from this is that Crazy Frog never really dropped off. Sure, he fell from grace as music star and wasn’t hitting number 1 singles left and right, but he still had an audience to consume his media. Jamster just dug too deep and flooded the TV waves with this guy until there wasn’t a person in the UK that didn’t know Crazy Frog, and we all hated them and especially him for that. That hatred however kept the character alive and relevant as a joke and way for people to vent at how much they hated him. Yeah, he decayed in mainstream popularity in the 2010s considerably, but people around at the time will always remember the Crazy Frog, and whilst most hated him, some true fans come from it, and it formed a fanbase. In the 2020s, Crazy Frog has more fans than he probably ever did, but rather than being constantly annoying older people and uninterested populaces, he is travelling through social media sites like Twitter and TikTok. Honestly, were Kinda going through a Crazy Frog renascence at the moment.

It’s interesting that what started as a dumb Sound effect quickly became a silly viral hit of the early 2000s, then became an infamous advertisement campaign and mascot for bad music in the mid-2000s, then became a joke amongst the people in the 2010s, to come back to his music roots in the 2020s. Crazy Frog was a part of my childhood growing up, was a part of lot people’s lives in the UK growing up, and unfortunately might be a part of a new generations too.

Here is the video I made on the Subject

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Check out hugely admired and billion viewed Sweden CGI animated musicVideos widely popular by the name CrazyFrog from Gothenburg actor & musician Erik Wernquist on sdtunes http://www.sdtunes.com/sweden/crazy-frog-huge-hit-music-video-songs

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