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Another entry from those indefatigably creative minds at OK Go. This one's a nice little HTML5 vid that lets you become part of the video. Just send a message and watch...
Note: View it in Chrome
Good clean fun (for the most part).
These guys don't so much release videos, as filmic "events".
Not sure I could tell you what any of their songs sound like, but I do enjoy the videos, and it's apparent that they enjoy making them, so it's win-win.
OK Go: “This Too Shall Pass” RGM Version
Director: James Frost with OK Go & Syyn Labs
Production Company: OK Go Partnership
Producer: Shirley Moyers
Director Of Photography: Dermott Downs
Telecine and Online: The Mill New York
I was asked to flesh out my last blog post for a special Alex Chilton tribute, for the show "The Ledge", on Real Punk Radio.
The show airs on Fridays at 9pm Central (10pm Toronto time) and is hosted by Scott Hudson, AKA Paulisded, one cool guy from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
If the time slot doesn't work for you, you can listen to the show anytime here, but you'll miss the opportunity to chat with Scott (and me!) during the show.
So do what you have to do, but be sure to listen. Scott's pulled together some beautiful material and created a very touching tribute to the great Alex Chilton.
Felix Thorn creates musical sculptures. With a background in fine arts and sculpture, an overriding love of electronic, breakcore and experimental music, and an intensely creative spirit, Felix builds machines that embody aspects of the mechanical and digital, creating music which is both acoustic and synthesized, as well as visually and aurally interesting. Not to mention beautiful.
Musical pieces are created with Apple's Logic Studio and sometimes Bidule (made by Canadian-based commercial software company Plogue Arts and Technology) and the sculptures are scavanged from a variety of sources and musical instruments (eg: an old piano, guitars, drums, an old shoe polisher brush, a towel rack...). Thorn also incorporates LED lights into his sculptures that flash on and off in time with various beats.
Parts of Felix's Machines frequently break, or come undone and this is all part of the natural process. (Sometimes double-sided tape can be a robot's best friend) Thorn, who was born in 1985 and lives in southeast London, UK, continually builds new robots, adds to and revises his existing machines, and is apparently in the process of developing a method of incorporating wind instrument sounds into his mechanical orchestra.
Why go to all this trouble when you could easily play your compositions on a computer and be done with it? Thorn explains that what drives him, is the desire to see music played live, without human intervention, in a way that matches what humans can do, and he does achieve that with his machines. Each note is physically hammered out or plucked and the experience of listening to and seeing the music, feels remarkably warm, human and emotional.
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Another Music Video. This time, an interactive film created by Champagne Valentine (Nexus Productions), for Placebo's The Never-Ending Why.
From Champagne Valentine's case study synopsis: "Champagne Valentine’s multi-sensory experience takes the viewer through an interactive gothic landscape full of shadows, monsters and psychedelic splashes of colour.
Internet users can immerse themselves within this world by moving their mouse over the video as the song plays, becoming fully involved with the images presented to them."
Oh yeah, and the song's good, too.
Click the image below, to play the video.
Music Video for Of Montreal's Id Engager. Totally awesome awesomeness, created by Passion Pictures. Directed by SSSR directors Marc Reisbig and Hanne Berkaak.
2D Animation by Hanne Berkaak, and additional animation by Robin Bushell and Julia Pott
Stop Frame Animation: Matt Cooper
Compositing: Marc Reisbig and Hanne Berkaak.
Enjoy!
Met up for a rummage around the local Chapters with my friend, and fellow-blogger, sister Louise K a while back. sLK is the blogger behind My iPod Is My Sketchbook.
It was great to spend time in real life with a fellow geekoid artsy person and it's surprising how refreshing the concept is. Think about it. We're all in contact through various digital channels, with a wide (and sometimes vast) assortment of people, but how often do we actually SEE most of them these days? Of course part of my problem is that I've been working at home for the past year and spend virtually ALL of my waking hours in the virtual world. ugh. You heard it here: I'm henceforth advocating for more real life meetups! Get on board, and drop by!
So back to the story - As much as I love Amazon, nothing beats the oh- so-physical, real-world sensation of picking up a book and fondling it, fresh off the shelf. Major scores of the day? The latest issue of IdN magazine and, I finally picked up the copy of Gig Posters (volume 1), that I've been coveting since before Christmas.
The giant book is a collection of gig poster art from the online archives of gigposters.com (founded and curated by Clay Hayes) and features a mammoth collection of gig posters by some of the biggest names in concert poster design, like Rob Jones, Steve Walters, Jay Ryan, Gary Houston, Aesthetic Apparatus, Patent Pending Industries, Print Mafia and Squad 19 (to name a few).
It also contains 101 perforated, full-page posters, ready for framing but I'm not about to destroy my book, so if anyone wants to send me another one "for archival purposes" drop me a note. I promise I'll take very good care of it!!
A friend posted this awesome link from The Lost Turntable on Facebook. It's Paul McCartney and Freelance Hellraiser (wish I'd thought of the name). Anyway, McCartney is doing some very cool stuff lately. First Fireman with Youth (from Killing Joke), and now this. Give it a listen, you'll be amazed. Oh, and if you haven't heard the Fireman yet give it a whirl too.