Let me be clear: this is not a joke. It’s a strange collage of images along with snippets of lectures given by architects and critics. I can’t identify everything happening in this video, but there are some familiar voices. I also know the video was presented in an exhibition called ”Students, Patients, Paupers: the many lives of the St. [...]
Haven’t we all wanted to play magician and rip the tablecloth from underneath a dressed table to find everything remain intact? What about get into a sloppy, messy, absurd food fight, like a group of kids at camp in a 1990s children’s film–haven’t you wanted to do that? If not, have you ever wanted to [...]
The collective known as Moth have put together one of the finest looking, thought provoking animated shorts I’ve seen in a while. They describe the short as, “A serendipitous journey in which a lone fisher is united with a form of estranged matter.” I took the easy route with cut and pasting the description because [...]
Lindisfarne is the name of a small island off the north east coast of England, and it’s also the name of James Blake’s new music video. It was directed by one of my favorites Martin de Thurah, and is, as usual, filled with all kinds of strange beauty. You may remember that Martin also directed [...]
The Saga Of Biôrn is a wonderfully animated short created by the graduates of this year’s bachelors programs at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. This seven minute film tells the tale of Biôrn, an old Viking warrior who is determined to reach Valhalla and join his warrior friends in an afterlife filled with excessive drinking and debauchery, but [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I was listening to some Foxes in Fiction last night and I came across this track called 15 Ativan (Song for Erika). It’s actually a pretty dark song, about a friend of Warren Hildebrand, the guy behind Foxes in Fiction, who overdosed. It’s a spooky, haunting song that’s [...]
