This looks like a wonderful new kids show. The first line of the song is “Here comes Gali Alligator. He’s a puppet decimator.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOETlkc_nNY&feature=player_embedded
Time Displacement Experimental Video
Scared… so scared……
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Radiohead: “In Rainbows”
I downloaded Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” this morning and was disappointed to find that the mp3 files did not include the cover art, so feel free to use this:
I kid, I kid…
But feel free to leave your own two-word-only review in the comments. Could be fun to see the range of responses without all that pesky reading.
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Brian Eno & David Byrne: Mea Culpa video
Sorry it’s been so quiet around here – I hope to be back again soon. In the meantime, enjoy this video from Brian Eno and David Byrne’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” album (1981):
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Better quality video, clips of all tracks, and tons of info about it here.
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Long Exposure Vintage Videogame Photos
Rosemarie Fiore took these long-exposure photos of old Atari games. From her website:
These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80′s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.
Quick! Someone call the Strokes!
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Brian Dettmer’s Carved Books
I just came across this little gem on JoshSpear. Artist Brian Dettmer carves into old books, mostly reference books apparently, to reveal artfully chosen bits of content. I can’t image what kind of times this takes, let alone what sort of tools, but they are captivating. There are plenty of images here, and also here, and information can be found on Wikipedia.
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“Spinning Plates” Video
Here’s a twist I haven’t seen before: get a row of cameras and lock the shutters down on all of them for lots of captures of the same light painting(s) from slightly different angles. The results is a creepy 3D view of the same event, complete with “leaks” (ghosted images of the people moving through the space holding the light source). Enjoy:
I guess I really should create a light painting category already…
PS: Anyone know if this was an official Radiohead video, or did the artist simply use their song to accompany his/her work?
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Heima Trailer (Sigur Rós movie)
My little brother just directed me to the official movie site for “Heima”, a film documenting Sigur Rós’s Icelandic homecoming tour. It looks to be a nice mix of interviews, live footage, and stark wide angle shots of some simply amazing outdoor vistas.
The cinematography looks absolutely stunning. Although to be fair, that little island just begs for wide format film, with its low angled sun and other-worldly landscapes.
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Old-time amusement park audio
Jay Ducharme has the original 8 track tapes from various fun houses and other attractions from a now closed amusement park named Mountain Park. I always love random old-time audio of almost any kind, so I consider these haunting clips a must-save. There are some classic sci-fi sounds, a pirate’s den, and best of all: Zoltan the fortune teller (yeah, as in the movie “Big”).
From Jay’s site:
Here is a collection of wise sayings from that master of eloquence, Zoltan, backed by musical excerpts from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. This was a “hi-tech” spin on the old fortune-teller arcade machine that would give you a small card containing a paragraph or two of advice…
…You would press a button on the machine to correspond with your zodiac sign. Then you lifted a small speaker to your ear so that Zoltan would speak to you and you alone. There are perceptible phonograph scratches in the recordings.
How great is that?! Check out these samples:
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Stop-Action Polaroid Short: “Process Enacted”
Okay, obviously this took a ton of time–but 987 Polaroids? Aren’t they like $1 a piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkq2Kq-LmJg&feature=player_embedded
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