“This video uses a mathematical formula based upon an image Escher did (The Print Gallery), known in these days as the “Droste Effect”. It was made entirely using a Digital Reflex Camera, Canon’s Mark III which captures up to 115 continuous pictures, at 10 fps.”
Johnny from DGenetics Music has been informing people in the grapevine that if you sign up to their mailing list you can download Dgenerate Nation’s full length albums (that is their music video above) and the three other acts on their label; Fiore, and Pumpkin Patch, Old Gold.
Nice little extra somethin’ somethin’ for a Friday afternoon.
After their first well received collaboration with REM (Hollow Man), Crush follows up with “Man Sized Wreath.” This piece deals with an anonymous man’s daily routine and shows us how lost and alienated we can become in our visually saturated and over-stimulating environment.
“[As Hollow Man] was intended as a statement about isolation, the fear of losing who we are. This film is a more pointed statement about the state of the world politically, and the idea that we are all hypnotized by so much meaningless diversion we don’t focus on things that matter.”
Wow I am not only digging the actual music video for Morton Valence’s ‘Chandelier’, I am also digging the music. The video was directed by Klaas Diersmann & Dan Sutherland.
11/16 CLUNKER CASH COW So here’s the story: A 1963 Pontiac Tempest with no motor and no transmission is put up for sale on Ebay. Asking price is $500. It turns out that it was the fastest car of its time and 1 of only 6 ever made. It sells for over $226,000
11/13 CIRCUIT CITY TANKS Circuit City has filed for Chapter 11 while Best Buy warns of sharp cutbacks in what they describe as ‘the most difficult climate’ they have ever seen.