Category Archives: satire

Tinjail

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stillproject07
Still Project 07 (2007, 5.7MB, 1:29 min)

Half of the splendid & indispensable MTAA, whose work we feature here
whenever possible – conceptualist pranksters with a rare (for the territory)
& self deprecating human warmth – Mark River makes interesting video stuff
(amongst other things) on his Tinjail site.
A lot of them are kind of multi-channel (go look) & don’t fit the dvblog format.
This one does & is excellent too..
Here’s his preamble to it:

‘The wild blue yonder, the decent, la jetee, fearless, street fight,
loud QUIET loud, a sound of thunder, enemy at the gate, so wrong they

Invisible Threads: Sweatshop Jean Factory in Second Life

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Invisible Threads (2008, 18.3 MB, 2:53 min.)

Stephanie Rothenburg & Jeff Crouse will be producing designer blue jeans.
Styles include boot cut, skinny leg, flare and the new “Boyfriend” trousers.
Profits from these purchases will be used to maintain the factory and pay for
workers

Boling & Morales – Mad as a Box of Badgers

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sleighride
Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)

church
the church of the future (2006, 28.5MB, 2:39 min)

There’s a rather un-PC expression current in estuary English:
mental. Its semantic nuances don’t lend themselves to easy explanation.
It implies a kamikaze degree of chutzpah, often in a physical
context but also by metaphorical extension to any field of
behaviour & often expressing a kind of stunned admiration.
Well, watch the vids & deny if you can that John Michael Boling
+ Javier Alberto Morales ( collaborators on the visuals, JAM does the music on
sleighride) and owners of
www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
are totally fucking mental

‘Rorschach Revelations’ by Aaron Bourget

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Rorschach Revelations (2005, 3.5MB, 1:56 min.)

‘A Rorschach test blot comes slowly into view. A voice responds to the image
in free flow of associations. The abstract image humorously morphs into a
recognizable one, in which the viewer identifies a demonic vision of the political left.’.
Eat your heart out Woody Allen!
From ‘Too Much Freedom’ by freewaves.org

What Would Jesus Buy?

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Trailer for ,
a documentary about Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping,
produced by Morgan Spurlock.
I’m not convinced that Spurlock is the man to spread a good message,
but I sure would go to any church where Rev. Billy showed up.
DRIVE THE DEMONS OUT OF THOSE CASH REGISTERS!!

Patrick Lichty Season – #2

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One Language, Indivisible
One Language, Indivisible (2003, 20.9MB, 2:52 min)

Corporate Ritual
Corporate Ritual (2003, 5.4MB, 1:43 min)

Corporate Ritual
America’s Most Famous Mexican (2003, 9MB, 1:41 min)

‘Two!’ I hear you cry ‘Two! – WHEN WAS ONE!?’
Well it was er..um..in April & I meant to post more
sooner only I was just plain dilatory.
Partly because the body of work Patrick has handed over
to us is simply somewhat overwhelming in volume & scope
& I’m actually a bit overawed.
So now I’ve grabbed the bull by the horns & am going to
post these three, which showcase Lichty the radical.
They’re funny, pointed and (always a good sign with political art
IMHO) really, really weird…
[Actually, coming back to revise this post, it occurred to me
I don’t think Swiftian is entirely hyperbolic]
There’ll be more before too long…

Designer Slash Model

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Designer Slash Model (2007, 9.19 MB, 3:04 min)

“There aren’t many Saul Bass/Hiedi Klums out there”
but you may already be a Designer Slash Model.
The award winning creative shop Digital Kitchen pokes
fun at self-congratulatory, uber cool designers
while showcasing their own work.

By Mica Scalin.

TRIPTYCH TV – the 3 maestros

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chocolatereign
chocolate reign (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)

losthighwayjam
lost highway jam (2007, 500k, 4 sec. loop)

pushupworm
push up worm (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)

From hipdom’s answer to the three tenors,
a little taste of triptych.tv
Fearless (& peerless) trailblazers; continuing innovators:
abe linkoln
antonio mendoza
jimpunk

Bathtime in Clerkenwell – Alex Budovsky

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Bathtime
Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002, 15.3MB, 3:14 min)

Alex Budovsky aka Aleksey Budovskiy created this great animation
based on Stephen Coates ( aka (The Real) Tuesday Weld‘s) song of the same title.
This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos,
who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move
inside the cuckoo clocks.

The Planets – Toine Klaassen

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The Planets (2005, 1MB, 1:07 min.)

Toine Klaassen draws attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small,
and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings
with no predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work.
Often the work is created in the presence of the public
in a performance setting, in which he makes no attempt
to avoid the absurd.
Or as Klaassen himself states:
“If you catch a butterfly in your hands the powder on its
wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”