Something Planned: Think Beauty

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Here’s a cool little piece using orange safety tape and a chain link fence from Something Planned (direct link – who still uses frames?!) complete with time-lapse video of its creation. Via NOTCOT.

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Faces in Places

Faces in Places

When we were shopping for houses last year my wife was (barely) amused at my ability to immediately dismiss a house simply because the arrangement of door, windows, and roof line made it look like it was making a stupid face. After stumbling on this site, I’m thrilled to discover I am not alone. The faces are everywhere.

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Gali the Alligator

This looks like a wonderful new kids show. The first line of the song is “Here comes Gali Alligator. He’s a puppet decimator.”

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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:

Shark Sandwhich

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):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QLXTsviMxk (taken down)

Better quality video, clips of all tracks, and tons of info about it here.

EDIT: more videos here, and here.

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Long Exposure Vintage Videogame Photos

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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

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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)

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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.

Movie site linkOfficial Band site link

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