Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers

What this video is

Released October 2010 alongside Flying Lotus's Pattern+Grid World EP on Warp Records, 'Kill Your Co-Workers' sits at the intersection of left-field IDM beat culture and the emergent open-source digital art ethos of the early 2010s internet. Beeple, then known primarily within online 3D and VJ communities for his daily 'Everydays' project and Creative Commons VJ loops, brought a prosumer Cinema 4D workflow to music…

Why it matters

Landmark example of DIY 3D-animated music video production in the IDM/experimental electronic space. Predates the widespread use of Cinema 4D in mainstream music video production, establishing Beeple's visual language — blocky figures, saturated palettes, dystopian narrative reversals — that would…

The director

Michael Joseph Winkelmann (born June 20, 1981), known as Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer, and animator based in Charleston, SC. He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Science in 2003. Beginning May 1, 2007, he…