Flavor of the moment
via YouTube – Interpol – Lights directed by Mr. Charlie White (official video).
Download the HD version, for free, here.
During December last year (2009) a bunch of music bloggers and journalists got links to iamamiwhoami’s Youtube videos sent to them. Who he/she/them are is a complete mystery. Incredible visuals, high production value and eerily beautiful. Go have a look for yourself > iamamiwhoami youtube channel
My guess: Goldfrap, Fever Ray or… Lady Gaga
THE CASE
To date, iamamiwhoami has released nine videos, varying from short to quite long; the first six videos featuring a provocative slime-covered girl and, as Montgomery says, “a dendrophiliac’s wet dream, loaded with images of a mud-smeared woman licking a tree and some strangely sexualized sap.”The music is a compelling mix of electronic, alternative rock and experimental music though the woman’s voice is distorted and or muted at points in each video. They are believed to be part of a viral marketing campaign. The seventh video features a woman covered in plastic from head to toe playing the electric organ, the eighth shows a woman in a greenhouse singing with an Elizabethan collar around her neck, while the ninth shows a man with a singing puppet.
THE CLUES
The first six videos are titled with a series of numbers. When indexed into the alphabet, these spell out words such as “educational”, “I am”, “its me”, “mandragora”, “officinarum” and “welcome home”. Mandragora officinarum is the mandrake root, particularly when used for psychedelic purposes.Each of the first six clips closes with a drawing of an animal– a goat, an owl, a whale, a bee, a llama, and a monkey. After previously blogging about the anonymous clips MTV writer James Montgomery received a package by messenger with a lock of blond hair, a piece of bark, and a pictogram of the six animals with the question “says what?”, it is however, still unproven that the sender of the package is the same as the person behind the clips.
Furthering the mystery; the sixth clip ends with the woman in the video whispering “Why” or “Y”.
The seventh clip was posted without the mysterious coded numbers as previous clips were and is instead simply titled “b”. This video features a woman wrapped in plastic, watched over by three men. Unlike the others, it does not include an animal illustration at the end or a numeric code though there is a cat, or possibly six cats, in the video.
The eighth video, at 6:52, is the longest video to date, and is the video for the single “o”. It features (presumably) the same woman as in “b” who this time has slightly shorter white eyelashes and is singing in what appears to be a greenhouse with an Elizabethan collar around her neck. This video follows the trend from “b” and does not have a numeric code or animal illustration, but seems to take place in the same style of house as the last video and has 6 cats, strawberries and what looks like 6 black faces.
The ninth video, entitled “u-1″, shows a man running through a forest towards a cardboard-like fort, and a man (presumably the same one) with a puppet in the same cabin as “b” and “o”; in the beginning she says “a quién le corresponda”, Spanish for “to whom it may concern” which has been part of the artwork of all single downloads.
Broken Bells = Danger Mouse (possibly the coolest person on the planet), artist and producer (Aka Brian Burton) + James Mercer (an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Spacey), lead vocalist and guitarist for The Shins. Enough said. Get the Album.
Top Tracks: Mongrel Heart, The Ghost Inside
Listen to “The High Road” on The Spinner
Artist’s description:
5d, 5dmkII, Anamorphic 35mm
Shot over the past year while I was traveling. I had never really done any time-lapse before this, so it was fun to learn.
Numerous locations include: Prague, Japan, Banff, Utah, Oregon, California, and more…
Via: origin68
What is google wave and is it better than email? The guys at EpipheoStudios.com attempt to answer this questions.
Something about this song combined with the music video caught my eye -> sparse, white, neon, African, tribal, sinister, techno, space ships.
It makes me want more.
Is Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” classifyable as Hip Hop (I think not)?
Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model. By distorting the focus of the photo, the artist simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is. Many miniature faked photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. Objects oriented horizontally, such as the train in the first example, make better subjects for tilt-shift miniature faking than vertically oriented objects such as in the second example, in which one can see how the bottom of the trees are in focus but the top of the trees are out of focus, despite being the same distance from the lens.
Beached from Keith Loutit.
