After prodding around the filmmaking duo Radical Friend’s Creators page, we went rooting around the world wide web searching for other forward-thinking videomakers. We soon happened upon an intriguing digital art piece created by art director Jopsu Ramu and artist-designer Shun Kawakami. It’s a fascinating work that can be viewed as both a 200-second journey or as 40 individual, five-second parts. Here’s how the explain the concepts and ideas behind the piece:

“Urban Abstract is a journey across urban space that unfolds in 40, five-second parts. The journey, in one, two, and three dimensions, is a bit like abstract surfing in which the original destination is only reached after a number of seemingly random yet linked detours occur. Points, lines, planes, and other abstract elements create a journey through an Urban Abstract.

The space between things is as important as intended space, perhaps creating a fourth dimension. Meaningful shapes and purposes occur in this dimension’s reality as well. The concept of negative space has meaning here.

The style of the shorts is fluid and, though seemingly random, stream into a cohesive whole. Perhaps watching them in a different order would be more like seeing the same journey from another point of view. The sound world is also very important — movement in space is sensed even if watching the shorts with eyes closed. Sounds overlap, fade, come and go.

This feeling is reached through mixing techniques such as vectors, hand drawn lines and painting.”

Indeed! This all adds up to an entertaining, and strangely soothing, four minutes. Have a watch and also go check out their website, which works as part of the piece.