Mixed videos from live shows in 2011

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Throughout 2011 there were a goodly number of live shows by the old band Severed Heads and under my own name. Every live set has to have new videos - and there were quite a few made. Generally they get made pretty quickly as they'll only be seen once by lots of drunk people on a big screen! In the past if they had something worthwhile I'd make an improved version. These videos aren't likely be fixed up as the band isn't around and I'm generally…

# vimeo.com/37234408 Uploaded 3 months ago 171 Plays / 1 Like / 0 Comments

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Mixed videos from live shows in 2011

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 3 months ago
Throughout 2011 there were a goodly number of live shows by the old band Severed Heads and under my own name. Every live set has to have new videos - and there were quite a few made. Generally they get made pretty quickly as they'll only be seen once by lots of drunk people on a big screen! In the past if they had something worthwhile I'd make an improved version. These videos aren't likely be fixed up as the band isn't around and I'm generally…
# vimeo.com/37234408 171 Plays / 1 Like / 0 Comments
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Oblique Firefly Overlocker (2002 version)

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
3D animation works hard to present the illusion of life - somehow it always falls short. This is a clip is about the disillusion of life. It celebrates those of us who are not as well made. Boy meets girl in virtual discotheque - the wireframe mirror ball looks over their dancing, which is awkward given that their motions have been inserted back to front. Sometimes they manage a bit of shading but most of their time their romance is sketchy. I'm partly…
# vimeo.com/37800187 74 Plays / 1 Like / 0 Comments
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Oblique Firefly Overlocker (2010 Sydney Festival version)

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
3D animation works hard to present the illusion of life - somehow it always falls short. This is a clip is about the disillusion of life. It celebrates those of us who are not as well made. Badly scripted boy meets poorly debugged girl at the Uncanny Valley Discotheque. Their romance blossoms in the short moments between halts, glitches and resets. Will they ever find enough stability to live out their artificial lives together? One hopes that someday…
# vimeo.com/37795369 125 Plays / 0 Likes / 0 Comments
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Greater Reward (2007)

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
First made in 1988...89? Hell I'll have go back and look, been a long time. It was a 2D Amiga animation and it had a guy made out of shoes and dancing bats and ended up in some damn CyberPunk movie. Not very satisfactory, and so I remade it in 1993 on the Amiga using Imagine 3D. Then again, and again and ... this was my first benchmark video, remade endlessly as a kind of exercise in iterative learning. It always has to have the bats, the shoe…
# vimeo.com/38615587 80 Plays / 1 Like / 0 Comments
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Harold and Cindy Hospital 2010

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
A clip first made in 1985, animated in 2005 and reanimated for the Sydney Festival in 2010. The marching beat of the track always inspired the notion of a person being forced to walk, and initially I sketched out the idea of a frightened old lady in some kind of clockwork contraption. That wasn't very practical without a budget (or lady) and with a looming 1985 tour, we settled on myself being marched around by two friends - Garry Bradbury and Pedro…
# vimeo.com/38610860 138 Plays / 7 Likes / 0 Comments
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Live at Metro Screen July 1982 - Part 1 - Petrol

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
Written: Garry Bradbury and Tom Ellard, 1981. Synths and tapes: Tom Ellard, Garry Bradbury. Guitar and effects: Simon Knuckey. Video Synthesiser: Stephen Jones Produced: Bradbury, Ellard, Knuckey, Jones, live at Metro TV, Sydney, 1982. Video post-production: Stephen Jones at Heuristic Video (1983). Stephen: One of three videos that were the result of an invitation by Metro TV to demonstrate my video synthesiser at one of their monthly seminar…
# vimeo.com/39454294 95 Plays / 5 Likes / 0 Comments
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Live at Metro Screen July 1982 - Part 2 - Lower Than The Grave

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
Written: Bradbury, Ellard, Knuckey 1982. Synths and tapes: Tom Ellard, Garry Bradbury. Guitar and effects: Simon Knuckey. Video Synthesiser: Stephen Jones Produced: Bradbury, Ellard, Knuckey, Jones, live at Metro TV, Sydney, 1982. Video post-production: Stephen Jones at Heuristic Video (1983). Stephen: One of three videos that were the result of an invitation by Metro TV to demonstrate my video synthesiser at one of their monthly seminar weekends.…
# vimeo.com/39457682 40 Plays / 3 Likes / 0 Comments
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Goodbye Tonsils (1985)

by Tom Ellard

Uploaded 2 months ago
Written and Produced by Garry Bradbury and Tom Ellard, 1984. Direction, Super-8 film loops: Garry Bradbury, Tony Cornaga Video edit and synth effects: Stephen Jones (Heuristic Video) 1985 Stephen: Garry and Tony filmed various bits of TV garbage off the TV screen and made film loops with the results. They brought that in and we re-shot the film off the wall of the studio to put it to videotape. Garry lip-synced the words of the song and we taped…
# vimeo.com/39463718 79 Plays / 7 Likes / 0 Comments

Severed Heads

Created by Tom Ellard Plus
3 months ago

Here are videos that were made under the name Severed Heads 1983 - 2008.
The principle makers being: Stephen R Jones and myself. Some clips were directed by Garry Bradbury. Others get mentioned when the clips are added.

Right now I am adding those clips which I have done myself... permissions are the thing.

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Shout Box

Tom, I've been an avid fan of yours since 2000 when a friend of mine introduced me to your music, that pivotal point I started writing electronic music. I am now 35. I was truly inspired by your ideas and work. Thank you, always will love Severed Heads.

by Almark (Synth'o Electro) 1 month ago
I dunno Al Hine, it's pretty bad :-)

by Tom Ellard 2 months ago
love walrus guitars, i'd like to think that out in the middle of the ocean somewhere ghostly sirens floated in and out of existence just like that

by jon moore 2 months ago

Severed Heads

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