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Philip Glass – Sesame Street – Geometry of Circles

MK — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:05:17 +0000

Thanks to Kottke for finding this gem from the past. A Philip Glass composed piece that aired on Sesame Street to stimulate learning in children. My aunt just had a baby and it’s only now I realize just how wonderfully deranged the world of children learning videos are.

Beatles Rock Band Cinematic Outro – animated eye-candy bliss

MK — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:40:01 +0000

Words can’t properly describe the enjoyment I get out of seeing these highly-stylized videos for the Beatles Rock Band. Great use of digital motion graphics in conjunction with what looks like hand-drawn animation to create something wholly befitting as a modern day take on the seminal band. Somehow I imagine these minute-long videos will still trounce the crap out of the completely unncessary remake of Yellow Submarine.

Nosaj Thing Visual Performence Clip/test

MK — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:24:30 +0000

Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.

*note to self: see Nosaj Thing live

Really enjoy the integration of these motion graphics here. Hey, it’s one way to spruce up the “watch 1 guy wearing headphones on his laptop/decks perform” dilemma.

Amy Stein – Domesticated [photography series]

MK — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:18:49 +0000

My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the “wild” and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.

The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania that borders a state forest.

Fantastic images from Amy Stein melding narrative interludes where animals and (primarily in this series) suburban existence meet. These photos make me think about the split-second hush that falls upon citizens here in L.A. whenever we spot a coyote.

RYAN MCGINLEY – Moonmilk series

MK — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:35:49 +0000

These otherworldly photos by Ryan McGinley are stunning. The use of color and landscape in conjunction with his subjects — beautiful.
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Air – Sing Sang Sung

MK — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:14:01 +0000

AIR MUSIC VIDEO SING SANG SONG from MATHEMATIC SAS on Vimeo.

A fantastic trippy ‘lil video for Air’s newest single. Now if they released a companion DVD with videos to all the songs in this visual style, I’d be a happy man.

Marvel/Disney mash-ups

MK — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:34:52 +0000

Over at SuperPunch they’ve collected a fair number of the visual mash-ups of Disney meets Marvel. Got to love the speed of the interwebz. News hits of Disney purchasing Marvel and literally within hours these little gems are making the rounds.