“The New America”: Nando Costa’s Laser-Cut Stop-Motion on 800 Blocks of Wood is Epic

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It’s been a while since we heard from Nando Costa and his Kickstarter launched project to laser engrave a stop motion film. After a long two years, and a ton of work on Costa’s part, the project is finally complete… and it was well worth the wait. The animation features a series of modernist psychedelic vignettes that flow in hypnotically smooth motion as changing wood grain flickers across the rectangular background.

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The entire 800+ frame sequence was individually photographed and assembled into the film you see here – and smartly, Costa sold each of the unique frames to support the creation and share some seriously beautiful art. What’s the film all about? He explains:

“The abstract storyline showcased in this piece is a concoction of a variety of ideas and can perhaps be described as a union between concepts and experiments born during the Situationist movement and real life events experienced during the last few years in American society. Particularly the duality between the economic downturn and the shift in values and beliefs of many citizens.”

Thats a little different from his original proposition to depict the rise and fall of a fictitious near-future society – but we’re not complaining. This is some seriously awesome work. You can buy the few remaining frames of the film on Etsy, check out the seriously good sounds by World Gang, or see more from Nando Costa here.
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