Recently, the Black Ox Skateboard, a Patrick Boivin video featuring amazing stop-animation and aKido’s music (Dancing in Chains) hit 1 million views on YouTube.
Check it out on YouTube.
Recently, the Black Ox Skateboard, a Patrick Boivin video featuring amazing stop-animation and aKido’s music (Dancing in Chains) hit 1 million views on YouTube.
Check it out on YouTube.
The amazing stop-motion genius Patrick Boivin used aKido’s Dancing in Chains as the soundtrack to his new work; a Black Ox action figure doing skateboard tricks.
As of May 2010, the video has close to 825 000 views!
Video by our good friend Thien Vu Dang, aka VJ Pillow.
On Friday March 24th 2006, aKido had the opportunity to play one of the last concerts held at the legendary Montreal SPECTRUM venue. The event was to celebrate Bande-a-Part’s 5th anniversary, and other acts that night were Karkwa, Malajube and Les Dales Hawerchuk. The concert was also a live broadcast on Radio-Canada.
Here are 3 songs taken from the performance, fimed by Radio-Canada:
Directed by Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël and Thien Vu Dang. “After discovering the villagers are performing a secret vote to besiege him, Monkey launches a massive attack to protect his reign.”
WINNER
• Prix Grafika – Jury award 2005
• Prix Grafika – Digital Animation award 2005
• Public Prize – Festival de Court-Metrage de Sherbrooke (short films)
SCREENED at:
• Indie Music Video Festival (Chicago-Seattle-SF- USA)
• Museum of Modern Arts (Montreal)
• Anim’Est (Hungary)
• Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
The video was inducted in the Cinématèque Québécoise’s vault in January 2010.