4.26.2010

un video: Beck's Record Club - INXS

Record Club: INXS "New Sensation" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.



Artist/Musician/Renaissance-man Beck Hansen puts his own inimitable spin on INXS’ classics New Sensation and Devil Inside as part of his oh-so-awesome Record Club studio project. Check it out. Worth every second of not working.

4.20.2010

un video: Grieves & Budo: Cloud Man

Grieves & Budo "Cloud Man" Music Video from Jesse Brown on Vimeo.



Pure and simple, beautiful bit of stop-motion magic in this music video. Created by the brains behind the Fleet Foxes’ excellent Mykonos video, Jesse Brown and Christian Hansen. As satisfying as a weekend getting accidently sunburnt in the park.

4.13.2010

un video: The Futureheads - The heartbeat song



La descripción de su página web en google dice "the Offical home of Sunderland's finest rock band." Que sea verdad o no es debatible siempre, pero la verdad es que no son nada malos. Tienen dándole duro desde el 2000. Está bueno el single y el video. Enjoy.

4.05.2010

Fotos: TV Sets from Cuba - Simone Lueck




En su página, Simone Lueck, escribió una interesante descripción, o el famoso "about me":

"I live in LA and I like it here. I like that the palm trees were all planted at the same time. I like that Gloria Swanson played herself in Sunset Boulevard. I like that she had it, and then she lost it, and she didn't know the difference. I like that she buried her dead chimp in a satin lined casket. Making pictures in LA is good. It's like sifting through an old trunk filled with worn out fan letters and a bright blonde lock of hair from 1953."

Un personaje.

Sus sets de fotos están increíbles, y dan fe de que a veces los conceptos más simples, son los más fuertes. Una joya.

Más por aquí.

3.25.2010

un video: 70 Million - Hold your horses



This video its just awesome. Their concept was simple: reenact—using face paint, cardboard cutouts and lots of drapery—a lineup of classic paintings while performing their new song. Their portrayals are impressively orchestrated, surprisingly accurate and really pretty funny. For Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson, an otherwise stiff corpse fingers a keyboard; Da Vinci’s The Last Supper features Jesus pounding a pot with a couple of salad spoons; and Botticelli’s Venus strums an advantageously placed guitar. Plus, the tune itself is infectious! Coming from the lips of goddesses, saints and lovers, it makes for art worthy of the adjective “fine.”

2.23.2010

un video: the black belles - what can I do?



The Black Belles son la última banda firmada a la disquera de Jack White, Third Man Records, y con un catálogo durísimo como el suyo, no me sorprende escuchar que suenan muy bien. Estoy seguro de que estaremos escuchando más de ellos en un futuro no muy lejano.

Muy buenas.

2.15.2010

un documental: Synth Brittania - BBC

El inicio de este reportaje lo dice absolutamente todo: "Welcome to a time where there were no guitars, or no drums, just synthesizers." Un documental hecho por BBC FOUR. Muy brutal.

De más está decir que lamento profundamente que en YouTube hayan bajado la novena -y última parte del documental-. Si lo encuentran por ahí, pásenlo.















un video: Adobe Photoshop Cook

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.



En un mundo perfecto, el Photoshop sería capaz de crear algo más importante que artistas en portadas de revistas sin celulitis y demás. Ahí les dejo este video de stop-motion que está bien bueno.

2.02.2010

un video: Mia Doi Todd - “Open Your Heart”

MDT from Viewers Like You on Vimeo.


El primer video musical de Michel Gondry desde el video que hizo el año pasado para los Flight of the Concords del tema "Too many dicks on the dance floor". Muy cool.

12.31.2009

Muzorama

Muzorama from Muzorama Team on Vimeo.

Muzorama is a short 3D animation film based on the universe of french illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson aka Muzo.



Produce in 2008 with a six weeks production time.



Directed by Elsa Brehin, Raphaël Calamote, Mauro Carraro, Maxime Cazaux, Emilien Davaud, Laurent Monneron and Axel Tillement.



Softwares used are Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.



Siggraph 2009 official selection.

11.04.2009

Fred Lebain: a spring in NY

Fred Lebain es un fotógrafo francés que se fue a NYC y tomó una serie de fotos alrededor de la ciudad. Luego, revisitó esos mismos sitios luego de imprimir sus fotos en versiones de posters enormes de las fotos que ahí había tomado. Cuidadosamente realineó cada una de sus fotos dentro de un encuadre para una nueva creando algo increíble. Idea simple y brillante.





11.02.2009

I wanna be your dog

I Wanna Be Your Dog from LEGS on Vimeo.



In the 30 years since the Stooges recorded “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” the song has been covered by a variety of other artists, including Uncle Tupelo, Joan Jet and Sonic Youth (“Weird Al” Yankovic even paid tribute, with the parody “Let Me Be Your Hog”). But perhaps the most unexpected—and entertaining— version is this short film by Georgie Greville, who won the Samsung Grand Prix for this piece at Diane Pernet's festival 'A Shaded View on Fashion Film'

Described as a “a subversive take on the casting process,” the film opens with impossibly lovely young models anxiously awaiting their moment to audition. The recognizable Stooges beat is supplied by clicking heels, nervously tapping feet and drumming fingernails—each girl recites a lyric before eventually joining the others for the chorus. Have the words “I wanna be your dog” ever taken on such dark overtones as when each pretty face blends into the next, all in the hopes of pleasing a visibly bored casting director? I guess Iggy Pop would approve.