I’m feeling a bit nostalgic these days, so here’s an old favourite of mine; Thomas Dybdahl with his song “Maury the Pawn”. I’ve seen him several times live, and his music is so much more country on stage than on the albums, which are more… intimate… The version in the video is with the Norwegian National Broadcasting Orchestra KORK. And I like it!
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THE EAGLEMAN STAG from Mikey Please on Vimeo.
The above movie is nothing short of a masterpiece of handicrafts! What you see is not computer animated at all; it is a stop motion animation using thousands of foam models. That is: handmade foam models. The creator Mikey Please and his crew must have literally worked their fingers off in making this. All I can do is bow deeply in respect and utter a simple WOAH! And if you’re interested in “making of” processes you can watch a time lapse from one of the scenes below.
The Eagleman Stag – lake timelapse from Mikey Please on Vimeo.
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Of Montreal has a song with the very long title “Wraith pinned to the mist and other games” that I’ve been listening too quite a bit the past week. It makes me want to silly-dance in the streets every time I hear it (but since I’m kinda tied down by social convention, I don’t do that). Anyway. It’s my contribution to Soft Sunday today. I love the cute/bizarre video too!
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Do you remember the tale of Desmodowe? I got an e-mail from Gabrielle di Vietri yesterday saying that part two of the tale is here. It is fascinating how weirdly understandable the story is even though it’s filled with these strange “words.”
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Why didn’t I learn about number sequences this way in school? That would be so cool, like science instead of abstract thinking! My botanist mother would certainly approve of maths like this, hehe.
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Finding the right song for today has taken me hours of searching. Nothing really intrigued me or fit my current Sunday mood, until I visited (the always reliable) Blogothèque and found Canadian Little Scream. The slightly swinging rhythm of the song Black Cloud instantly caught my attention. The fact that they are flirting with the country genre, that I have come to love so much, just made this the perfect song for today.
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Everyday is like Sunday, for Malin on her birthday! Poor, poor Morrissey who is always slightly sorrowful… Just the way we like him.
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Daniel Palacios is the creator of this installation called Waves. Basically it is a rotating rope between two “motors” that are responsive to people’s movements through sensors. While active, the rope also creates a wind like sound which is also waves, only invisible. So one could actually say that this installations translates the human movements into visible sound waves:
These kinds of action-reaction influences applied to sound and space are the basis of this installation. Due to its particular features, a space has a way of relating with sound, understanding sound as a series of compressions and decompressions which move through the air, so that the geometry of the space itself and the elements in it will influence the movements of the sound and finally our perception of the sound; adding to this entire stationary system a chaos of infinite variables from the most minimal movement on our part.
But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations.
This almost scientific kind of art is truly inspiring to me; getting a physical experience of the theories we learn about widens our understanding and gives us true beauty. And since I’m currently reading a book on quantum physics these waves trigger my interest a little more than normal…
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Luminaris is a cute stop motion film by Juan Pablo Zaramella, about shadow and light, light bulbs, inventions and horrible bosses. Watch, watch, watch!
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Time for some Ryan Adams and Sylvia Plath! Curious fact: very often when people mention Ryan Adams I think they’re saying Brian Adams. I get equally chocked every time that happens…
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