MiraRuido

Spain

Joseba Elorza, also known as MiraRuido, was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a small city in northern Spain. He studied to work as a sound technician, but his artistic interests pushed him towards collage, a technique he has been practicing for more than 15 years. Shortly after publishing his first works online, he received his first commissions for different magazines. Since then his illustrations have been seen in publications such as Esquire, Wall Street Journal or Hollywood Reporter among many others. In his eagerness to continue developing his technique, in 2013 he began to animate his collages, adding the dimension of time to his work. With the publication of his first animations, the first commissions began to arrive, with music videos being one of his main focuses of interest and winning multiple awards for them. Since then, he has directed and animated videos for bands like Green Day or brands like National Geographic Channel or Amazon Studios among others.


During these almost two decades of creative career, he has combined client work with small personal projects that have served as a spearhead for his creative development. MiraRuido uses copy and paste as a technique to de/contextualize the general knowledge, re/configure our senses and re/mix the known past with the unknown future. His works show us snapshots of a different world, in which everything seems to be possible and imply a sense of ironic humor addressed to the society, showing ordinary, well-known things in a confusing new way.



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Space Tramway

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In 1970, a year after the successful Apollo 11 mission, NASA began designing a plan to connect an aerial tramway between the Earth and the Moon.


After a few years of work, they started building what scientists and engineers called the "Space Tram". They used the Apollo 14 mission to carry a cable to the moon and it was connected to the earth.


7/24/1974 was the day chosen for the first cable car ride from the Earth to the Moon. On board was Commander Lori, an experienced 46-year-old astronaut. All seemed to be going well, but when the tram car was only 10,000 km from the moon, the cable broke, leaving Commander Lori's car drifting aimlessly through space. Nothing could be done for her. The inertia and the shock of the cable was pulling the commander away from the Earth and the Moon. Houston lost radio contact with Lori a few minutes later; her last words were "I think I'm skipping this stop". Nothing more was ever heard from her. The Space Tramway program was cancelled and the story shrouded in silence.


Today I bring you a recreation of what the Space Tramway could have been.

technique

collage

format

portrait

duration

01:00

year

2021

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