Love this song.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Grizz-nix
This is a brilliant little idea, and strangely does seem to work amazingly well...
http://wearephoenix.com/grizzly_bear_remix/
http://wearephoenix.com/grizzly_bear_remix/
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Song 12
Wax Tailor feat. Charlie Winston " I Own You" from SoLab on Vimeo.
I really like this director. The singer looks like a twat. I thought hats were out?
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Song 11
Ok, so sometimes, you come across something visually arresting, usually from some director that's kind of known for being a little bit out-of-left-field, and you just think: "Why could you not use those production values on something that doesn't scream 'I'm so out of left-field and visually arresting!' but rather uses a more intelligent and less obvious way to explore emotions so visceral?" And then you realise it's because no idiot on the web is going to put it up on his insignificant little blog unless the material is both 'WTF' and 'NSFW' and he can claim some clever insight into works of art and culture.
Not one for family-viewing, I'll warn you.
Not one for family-viewing, I'll warn you.
HEALTH "We are Water" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Oh how I used to love maths
For precisely these reasons:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/?src=me&ref=homepage
The problem is with age, is that you completely forget the things that you used to find exciting and fascinating when you were younger, because you just assume that you know them. And even if you now have an imperfect knowledge of them, you just assume that it is because you can't really remember them properly. But because it seems like a step backwards to go and relearn them again, you're happy with your imperfect memory of them, mainly because the bulk of your learning is set, your philosophies and priorities are somehow set, and you don't really want to go back and rethink everything. Mainly because it's a massive drag and has no practical application to your life - just as you expected most of school was when you were there.
I don't think I really miss those days when I was young and ignorant of learning, I just wish that I wasn't constantly reminded of how in the world I have no complete knowledge of, and especially how it's a constant Sisyphean task trying to know everything about the world. Even if most of that knowledge may be abstract and wholly impractical, it's real in some way, and it's a shame that with every avenue I venture through and recognise, there is a new, wider avenue that opens up at its end.
I remember once being told that Beethoven, on his deathbed, said something in the sense of the fact that he feels as only he has only begun to understand the world and there is still so much he hasn't yet mastered. And then there are the rest of us, who have to live in the knowledge that if Ludwig so moaned, we really aren't trying hard enough or seem to be content with too little.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/?src=me&ref=homepage
The problem is with age, is that you completely forget the things that you used to find exciting and fascinating when you were younger, because you just assume that you know them. And even if you now have an imperfect knowledge of them, you just assume that it is because you can't really remember them properly. But because it seems like a step backwards to go and relearn them again, you're happy with your imperfect memory of them, mainly because the bulk of your learning is set, your philosophies and priorities are somehow set, and you don't really want to go back and rethink everything. Mainly because it's a massive drag and has no practical application to your life - just as you expected most of school was when you were there.
I don't think I really miss those days when I was young and ignorant of learning, I just wish that I wasn't constantly reminded of how in the world I have no complete knowledge of, and especially how it's a constant Sisyphean task trying to know everything about the world. Even if most of that knowledge may be abstract and wholly impractical, it's real in some way, and it's a shame that with every avenue I venture through and recognise, there is a new, wider avenue that opens up at its end.
I remember once being told that Beethoven, on his deathbed, said something in the sense of the fact that he feels as only he has only begun to understand the world and there is still so much he hasn't yet mastered. And then there are the rest of us, who have to live in the knowledge that if Ludwig so moaned, we really aren't trying hard enough or seem to be content with too little.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Song 10
Note: Never get the singer to direct the video.
Great song though.
Beach House "Silver Soul" from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.
Great song though.
Beach House "Silver Soul" from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Talking of horrible things going mainstream...
I meant to post this yesterday, but didn't for some reason. In any case, here is yesterday's bile:
In the WSJ today, another conservative seemingly comes out in favour of Sarah Palin as a valid candidate. I fear this may be some kind of trend, as a party devoid of any sensible leadership begins to grasp at straws. What seriously annoys me, however, is that Republicans still have interesting candidates and a compelling ideology, but they are destroying it by listening to their increasingly socialist-resembling rabble. Urgh. It makes my blood boil that people are so inept at seeing the complexity of governing that they would prefer waste over some kind of attempt at streamlining as Obama has tried to do with healthcare. The US has one of the most inefficient markets for healthcare, it's deeply troubling and needs sorting out, and people are calling some kind of attempt at removing market inefficiencies socialism?
I have serious issues with the healthcare bill that has been passed (namely the cynical pandering to the left by Obama on some issues), but my main issue has been with the nature of opposition which was and is completely undignified. The counter-arguments that I've heard by the Republican party have been some of the most shocking examples of a party which is so mixed up between what is a truly socialist and what is a populist agenda that the sum of all its parts does not constitute any kind of reply. The continuation of that fact is the seeming embrace of people like Sarah Palin, who have no coherent world-view either and it all makes for a scathing slap in the face to serious conservatism, which should be about tempering society to responsibly embrace new realities and not a soulless opposition to debate. They both go against what Protestantism was all about in the first place, and their opposition to the idea of a more streamlined government, flies in the face of supposed support for capitalism.
In the WSJ today, another conservative seemingly comes out in favour of Sarah Palin as a valid candidate. I fear this may be some kind of trend, as a party devoid of any sensible leadership begins to grasp at straws. What seriously annoys me, however, is that Republicans still have interesting candidates and a compelling ideology, but they are destroying it by listening to their increasingly socialist-resembling rabble. Urgh. It makes my blood boil that people are so inept at seeing the complexity of governing that they would prefer waste over some kind of attempt at streamlining as Obama has tried to do with healthcare. The US has one of the most inefficient markets for healthcare, it's deeply troubling and needs sorting out, and people are calling some kind of attempt at removing market inefficiencies socialism?
I have serious issues with the healthcare bill that has been passed (namely the cynical pandering to the left by Obama on some issues), but my main issue has been with the nature of opposition which was and is completely undignified. The counter-arguments that I've heard by the Republican party have been some of the most shocking examples of a party which is so mixed up between what is a truly socialist and what is a populist agenda that the sum of all its parts does not constitute any kind of reply. The continuation of that fact is the seeming embrace of people like Sarah Palin, who have no coherent world-view either and it all makes for a scathing slap in the face to serious conservatism, which should be about tempering society to responsibly embrace new realities and not a soulless opposition to debate. They both go against what Protestantism was all about in the first place, and their opposition to the idea of a more streamlined government, flies in the face of supposed support for capitalism.
Image 3
There are some other great ones on this site also, but this has to be the most shocking.
However, I see that paedophilia is seemingly going mainstream, so maybe, in a few years...
However, I see that paedophilia is seemingly going mainstream, so maybe, in a few years...
Monday, March 29, 2010
Song 8
Ok, four things here:
1. Why did they remix it when the previous version was superior?
2. While this video does look good, it feels like it's an idea for another completely different song and I don't think it captures the playful spirit of the song at all.
3. I'm glad they re-released it, but why not wait another month until the summer really hits?
4. I'm getting really tired of the 1st person perspective in filmmaking these days. I get why it's seemingly so popular, but it just seems wrong to be so overused in a media which works best in objective mode.
That is all. Also, this was my favourite song of last summer, so a) I'm like so ahead of the times, b) I'm a douche (cf. point (a)), c) I wish I could have directed the video.
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