Japanese Trailer to Gaspar Noe’s psychedelic, visually coke-up, incestuous, cinematic-assault Enter The Void (2009)
Excuse the bad quality but footage is rare and brand new and amazing.
(via Quiet Earth)
Japanese Trailer to Gaspar Noe’s psychedelic, visually coke-up, incestuous, cinematic-assault Enter The Void (2009)
Excuse the bad quality but footage is rare and brand new and amazing.
(via Quiet Earth)
Trailer to Kynodontas (Dogtooth) (2009)
‘Dried Out Eyes’ by Jonna Lee
Xtina, I am disappointed in you. (This song is still one of my favourites though).
Well that’s a disappointment. Popjustice seems to be 99.9% sure iamwhoami is Jonna Lee, just trying to out-Knife The Knife. Weird since she had a new album last year called “This is Jonna Lee” and the songs sound nothing like anything from those videos, maybe a side-project? butanyway WHO CARES. NEXT.
EDIT: a 14 year old and her mother figured out all of the mysterious ciphers. Thanks for making me feel like a failure.
‘Blue Whale’ by Transmittens
A two minute garage-jangle-pop highlight from Delicious Scopitones’ Ecstatic Winter 02 Compilation.
‘Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now’ by Patience & Prudence
Drummers. Step your game up
Dual-instrumental drummers are generally awesome, but this guy has one-man Death From Above 1979 potential.
(via aubzillatron)
Ramin Bahrani + Werner Herzog = Plastic Bag (2009)
Made last year as part of Futurestates series of short videos, Ramin Bahrani’s Plastic Bag can now be watched for free online. This little movie is the pathetic fallacy taken to its extreme: shouldn’t a planet where consumer goods outnumber consumers be seen as populated by objects first, and people second? Siding, very firmly, with things, the short stars human Werner Herzog as the voice a plastic bag, writing a love poem to the anonymous owner he develops a crush on only to be tossed away. Like a low-key A.I., the movie follows him into a world where humans are absent and only their trash remains. Without the hope of a Blue Fairy to turn him to real man, he can do nothing more than join his bretheren in the North Pacific Gyre. Its sweetness only strengthens the creepiness of its premise.
(via The Auteurs)
Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You.
‘Machine Gun Funk’ by Notorious B.I.G.
All I want is bitches, big booty bitches
New Music Video! She & Him - “In The Sun”
First single off the duo’s sophomore effort, Volume Two — in stores 3/23.
[pitchfork.]
Making sure whimsy is still strong in 2010.
Lights Out: Independent French label Record Makers celebrates ten years of pretty sound making the only way it knows how: With a mesmerizing Mrzyk and Moriceau video featuring Sébastien Tellier’s silky phonics and lots and lots of animated ass.
(NSFW, aforementioned ass.)
[thanks simone!]
Information Architects’ shoot of a reflowed facebook layout.
This is what Google Wave should look like.
‘Karen’ by Chew Lips
Tigs from Chew Lips is my favourite frontwoman in music today, so much so that they’re one of the only bands I make an effort to see obsessively anymore. Her voice and stage presence ooze confidence and cool, her style is a thing to behold (check out her high-waste shorts and cropped top combos in this video!) and most of all I love her hand thing.
Campfires - “Royal Orange”
Jeff of Campfires just sent me a bunch of songs and I’m particularly digging this instrumental. It reminds me of a summertime pool party. You’re having a contest with your friend to see who can hold their breath the longest underwater when you hear the band start playing on the patio. You swim up to the surface and emerge just in time to catch the totally righteous last half of the song.
Absolute bliss.
You can find this track off his split “cassingle” with Benoit Pioulard through FM DUST.
“When she was 18, in the middle of her senior year of high school, she decided that she needed “some sort of ritual marker of the end of childhood.” Her plan was to camp in the open air for three days and nights, eating little, seeing no one, communing with the great outdoors. Newsom’s mother sanctioned her missing school and helped her daughter scout out a place by the Yuba, in the middle of 35 wild acres owned by family friends. “I hesitate to speak about it because it sounds so corny, but one of my goals out there was to find a spirit-animal,” Newsom told me. “On the third day, I was kind of delirious. I’d only eaten a little rice. I’d just slept and looked at a river for three days. I was prepared to be visited by my spirit animal — I was just sitting there, saying some sort of prayer, inviting that presence into my life. And then I saw three white wolves charging down at me. I thought maybe I was hallucinating; but I was also prepared to die. But the wolves ran up and started licking my face. Then I remembered that the daughter of the woman who owned the property kept domesticated wolves.” A few hours later, Newsom hiked out of the woods and went home. Her mother had organized a celebratory dance party for Newsom and her girlfriends. She strung up lights and served four kinds of cake.”
Joanna Newsom, the Changeling - NYTimes.com
asdkfhasifaoiwhgTwhftapsidhgawrig. It turns out that everything this woman does is chill-inducing, not just her music. (via veraville)
Replace “river” with “computer screen” and that’s totally my life.
prisma en llamas - cadete
listening to prisma en llamas in a cafe in bk is giving me a very weird combination of being so extremely happy to be back here and so bummed to miss their first show ever tomorrow in madrid.
College - The Heart of the Matter Mix
Another italo-disco infused electronic mix from the always amazing College
Technasia - Monsoon
Mario Basanov - Do You Remember (Arithmatix Remix)
Marina and the Diamonds - Mowglis Road (Mile Remix)
Savage - Twothousandnine (Italo Radio)
Stephen Falken - The Wanderer
Pink Computer - Inside My Soul (PDLT Edit)
The Crashlanders - Samantha
Mark du Mosch - Now or Never
The Hasbeens - You and Me
College feat.Electric Youth - A Real Hero
Parallels - Midnight Voices
The Hacker - Fadin Away
(via Valerie)
‘Bear Island’ by DraculaZombieUSA
Before Yacht there was DraculaZombieUSA (and they were awesome.)
NYTimes’ video profile of Marina Abramovic for T Magazine plays like a trailer that highlights her unconventional approach to performance art. While some artists can’t really control how their art engages or affects people, Marina plays an almost dictator-like role and forcibly subjects her audience to endurance tests and self-reflective activities in a communal and ritualistic My Dinner With André fashion.
A retrospective of her work will be shown at MoMA from March 14, but read this article for a great profile and check out her gorgeously minimalist SoHo loft and star-shaped country house.
X-girl fashion show 1994
Clothes by Kim Gordon & Daisy von Furth. Organised by Spike Jones & Sofia Coppola.
Classixx’s mix for last month’s Valentine’s Day, full of 80s classics and repurposed slow jams.
Ridiculously chill.
From The Archives: Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow’s 107-year-old short Alice in Wonderland — the first cinematic adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s story — was recently restored by the BFI National Archive using the only print known to exist. Unfortunately, 4 of the film’s 12 minutes have been lost forever.
[mefi.]
Break out those red ‘n blues. Everything (Ep. 5) In 3D!
thanks for all the amazing, dannyjelinek + whetzell
‘Most Wanted’ by Cults
This Cults song is so much cuter. More here. (via Delicious Scopitone / GvB / Head Underwater)
In a programme recorded on location in the USA, broadcaster, writer and musician Banning Eyre discovers and records the uniquely American folk music that was born in the southern Appalachian mountains through the 18th and 19th centuries.
via BBC iPlayer
Disclosure - Offline Dexterity (mp3)
Delicious dub/2-step-tronica by two brothers from outskirts London aged 18 and 15. Seriously.
Tiny Furniture is an independent feature by Lena Dunham about a 22 year old post-grad who returns home with a useless arts degree, no job and no friends. This was practically hand-tailored for me. She bills it as a “tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time”. She wrote, directed, stars as the lead and uses her real life mother and sister to depict her onscreen family.
We’re the same age, obviously experienced in the same crisis, yet this is her second feature film. I’m clearly doing something wrong. (via CinehouseUK)
dbg:
It’s time for you to meet my monkeys.
Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda (Hidden 3D Image: There It Is!)
It’s like, 3D, paralax scrolling, magic eye…. holding a diorama in your hand on the DSi.
Don’t know how to explain this, JUST WATCH THE TRAILER. And prepare for your jaw to drop at 00:06
They’re finally doing something interesting with face-tracking!
Trailer to Lourdes (2009) Directed by Jessica Hausner
Out March 26th
Fawnography
I will watch this every morning to ensure I have the best day ever.
It’s funnier if you pretend he just forgot the words. All of them.
Califunya: Episode 4 - The Key to My Happiness
Is it me or is Califunya, the cooky Becky Stark ‘thing’, starting to have some sort of dark, Lynchian significance? In this episode Becky finds a key to her happiness in the trash(!) but quickly forgets what it is or what it does and ultimately rejoices in the fact that it is big and beautiful. It opens nothing she states before knowingly looking at the viewer. Do we ourselves tend to pride in that which is without function yet is superficially desirable? Does our potential happiness disappear the more we adhere to such a paradigm?
In the following episode she ushers in Colin Meloy who, carrying a heavy suitcase filled with Despair, sings ‘The Kingdom of Spain’, a sad song about golden ages long lost. I could also write paragraphs about how Episode 1 is allegory for the biblical apocalypse & how Episode 2 might as well be called ‘Blue Velvet’ but you can’t deny that something is going on here.
I didn’t think this needed any explanation. But here it is.
“Welcome to France, voted the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row by International Living magazine, which has been analyzing data and publishing its annual Quality of Life Index for 30 years …
France scores high marks across the board in the survey, which is done every January, from health care (100 points) to infrastructure (92 points) to safety and risk (100 points).
“No surprise,” said the magazine in its report. “Its (France’s) tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world’s best health care.”
Following France in the top ten are Australia, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, Luxembourg, the U.S., Belgium, Canada and Italy, in that order.
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Other European countries slipped a little in the magazine’s rankings this year, with the exception of France and Germany. Britain dropped to 25th place from last year’s ranking of 20.”
Oh Britain…