Eddie Whelan, or eddie the wheel, is a video artist and musician listed on MySpace as hailing from Wilmington, Delaware.
The projects that I have become attached to are those involving bears. Specifically: Atlas Bear and Metal Bear.
In both of these pieces, Whelan is very successful at playing different elements against one another. Initially, the organic subject matter (bears) clashes wonderfully with the sharp, flatness of the color bars. But over the course of each video a reconciliation takes place and by the end the organic and the digital have melded into a cohesive force. Metal Bear forms an angry, jagged image, while Atlas Bear resolves to something much more sublime.
The audio selections are also very fitting, and compliment/re-enforce these moods well.
