It is so stupid and pointless… that it’s awesome. I laughed hard.
A nice breathe of fresh air in the mountains of “Merry Xmas” ads and songs that have been played over and over again for every year.
Who wants to be the Pied Pipeeeeer, muahahaaa!
Update: Here is a new one -- Warm And Fuzzy Feeling
Be original, think outside the… ehhm… wait… Isn’t that what everybody says? Joseph Pelling offers some other versions in the video below.
Terrifying, disgusting, scary and… alluring. This is video for Ken Ishii’s pulsating and energetic techno track Extra. I remember seeing it back in the late nineties. Even though the video was so strange and frightening for me as a kid at that time, I still remember myself really enjoying the music and the combination of flashing, violent anime that went together with it. I think it is some kind of a way of touching that animalistic part of a human being that lives inside of all of us. Scary yet tempting. A way of releasing that energy by diving into the music and visuals that take over your senses. That’s why I like this tune and it’s video so much. Masterpiece in my world.
Btw, the track hasn’t lost any of it’s punch over the years, it still feels fresh even by today’s standards. Album version is almost nine minutes long. Ken Ishii still is one of my favorite techno artists.
I make pictures by cleaning… I have this weird thing about dirty surfaces where I look around for it all the time. I am a professor of dirt.
I’m a 42 years old teenager.
These are the words spoken by reverse graffiti artist Moose. And, basically, they say it all. Beautiful, original concept realised by -- what it feels like -- a calm and peaceful person who has found his vocation. More here.
Tonight something a bit different. Not electronic. Not active, dark, massive or fast. Tonight is different.
Tonight being a silent and a bit sad, full with thoughts and reflections about my life and feelings, and suddenly I found this treasure – Emilíana Torrini.
Her music and voice… brilliant. Simple and yet so interesting, full of emotions and soul. One of the rare guitar music artists that I fell in love instantly. Magic, magic, magic…
The best I’ve heard since Lykke Li.
While listening to her songs (got hold of all of her albums) I just had a thought that she has to be a wonderful live artist. I mean, her voice has to be beautiful and perfect even when performing live. And, voila, check this out:
P.S.: for those of You not familiar with my music taste – I have no particular genre I only listen to. I just love music. Almost all of it, as long as it touches my heart, as long as it vibrates on the same frequency that I am at that moment given. Yes, there is a lot of electronic music in my life. But there are days and moments when I do prefer classical music or something like Emilíana Torrini or Lykke Li. Like tonight.
Just some minutes ago I finished watching what is one of the best and certainly the most interesting documentaries that I’ve seen. Al Reinert’s film For All Mankind.
It’s a film, 80 minutes long, about the first missions to the moon. We’ve all seen those tiny clips in the TV, we all know the legendary words about the one small step, we’ve all heard the pompous music, front-page slogans and all other overwhelming things that accompany the whole moon trip thing. But this is different. Very different. This is calm, quiet, ruminative. This is about the real, humanistic and emotional experience of going to the moon -- the reflections and feelings of the astronauts themselves. And a lot of footage never seen before.
I found this film by listening to one of my childhood’s favorite music albums -- Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks by Brian Eno (try listening to An Ending (Ascent) -- my favorite music composition ever).
I just thought I had to know more about the music that influenced and encouraged my imagination as a child. Music that induced fantasies about different, remote and mystic worlds that I could visit in my dreams. So that’s how I found this gem.
The movie is available on YouTube in several different parts, but I don’t recommend watching it there. It is in a very bad quality (some old VHS recording) and will ruin the experience. Find a way to rent or buy this unworldly film, or, if you’re familiar with torrents, you can try your luck here.
For those of You, who won’t watch it -- here are some of my favorite quotes that I wrote down, spoken by the astronauts in the movie:
You have to literarily just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently -- do you really know where you are at this point and time, and space, and in reality, and in existence…
Everything that I know -- my family, my possessions, my friends, my country -- is all down there on that little thing, and it’s so insignificant in this great big vastness of space.
You just had to steal time now and then, just had to stop chippin’ at a rock and figure out that bringing back a little bit of some kind of thought, feeling was as important as bringing another chunk of rock back.
And not being a machine, being a human being you have to stop and say -- do you know where you are and what you’re lookin’ at?
The moon is different. It’s become man’s first outpost. Our first footstep in space. Where man was able to look back at the earth and see the earth and see himself. In a different perspective.
As time goes on I truly do believe that you’re able to pull out of subconscious a great many things that you absorbed in those moments while you were there, looking back at the earth. And I can almost transform my body, certainly my mind, through time and space instantaneously to that spot on the moon.
I know where I am when I look at the moon. It’s not just some abstract, romantic idea. It’s something very real to me. Stars are my home.
Stars are my home.
This amazing project is called 555 KUBIK – How it would be, if a house was dreaming. Realized by UrbanScreen.
A very beautiful, breathtaking illusion. And the sounds added to the whole experience make it seem even more realistic.
The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture – the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”. Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves – describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself. – UrbanScreen
More interesting videos of their projects can be found on UrbanScreen’s Vimeo Channel.
Commercial for the Nike Skateboarding. Respect for the long version -- beautiful camerawork, cool tune and a great feeling. Eh, if all advertising was so kicky!
Tune from the Ice Cube. He himself is the guy in the car at the end of the clip.
Wild visualisation for a wild song. Yet another pleasing revelation in past ten hours – W.A.R.R.I.O.R. by Ebony Bones. Slightly out of sync thou, but good anyway.
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