Joy Comes in the Morning

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Joy Comes in the Morning (2005, 24MB, 4:14 min.)

“In 2005 I concepted, pitched and produced a music video for the band Xploding Plastix.
I directed and animated the video using L.A. artist Joe Ledbetter’s hand-painted elements
to create a puppet-show aesthetic.”

from Scott Friedman.

Residential Erection – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

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Residential Erection (2008, 48 MB, 4:35 min)


Picot et al – Dr Hairy & the London Hospital

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London Hospital ( 2010, 49MB, 9:59)

Writer & artist Edward Picot doubles as an administrator
in the UK health service & lets his hair down with this
deeply odd but amusing bit of lo-fi puppetry made in
collaboration with Julian Le Saux & Dr David Hindmarsh.

Just in case there are any knuckleheads out there
(and of course this is unlikely as you have the good taste
to read DVblog) who imagine this is an attack of any sort on
socialised medicine, the authors have kindly provided the
following statement:

“The creators of this piece would like to point out that they all work in
the National Health Service and are completely devoted to it.”

suppendapo – Wreck & Salvage

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suppendapo (2009, 33 MB, 2:51 min)

Are You Alive?
Wanna Stay That Way?

By Wreck & Salvage.

Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

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Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People (2007, 79 MB, 7:24 min)


Mark Napier at [DAM]Berlin Gallery

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Venus 2.0 (2009, 8 MB, 30 sec.)

[DAM]Berlin Gallery will exhibit new software works by artist
Mark Napier from 5th of December 2009 to 27th of January 2010.

For Little Girls

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Beauty Kit (2005, 4.2MB, 2:16 min.)

This is a very dark take on advertising and cult of beauty
made by the talented video makers at Pleix.

By Mica Scalin.

15 Minutes – Marque Cornblatt

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15 Minutes – clip (1997, 8.2 MB, 5:09 min.)

Early clip made for the web.
Over the course of several weeks, guerrilla-style film and video crews followed
artists 24 hours a day, and along with actual news coverage, tell the tale
of taking the media and the art world hostage in an effort to manufacture
’15 Minutes’ of fame.
From Marque Cornblatt.

Dom Cheverti – Throwing Chamberlains

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Bowl (2009, 2 MB, 1:52 min)

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Bowl/Glass (2009, 2 MB, 1:01 min)

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Bowl/Flower/Vase (2009, 3 MB, 57 secs)

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Little River (2009, 2 MB, 1:00 min)

Recommended to us by the sublime Sam Renseiw who,
when he speaks, we listen.
Nonetheless I had some difficulties in coming to grips with this.
Sam tells me it relates to some current You Tube thing whereby people
throw ping-pong balls into various receptacles with a high degree of accuracy.

Clearly I should stay in more.

So…in this case the balls are substituted by a species of cookie, apparently
known in Denmark as ‘chamberlains’.
(I asked Sam exactly what a chamberlain was.
He says:
“Chamberlains is an odd translation of ‘kammerjunker’ that
can both be a chamberlain and danish cookie/biscuit.
It is usually consumed in summer with “koldsk

The Yes Men Fix The World

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The Yes Men Fix The World (2009, 37 MB, 2:30 min)

Coming to theaters in October, The Yes MenFix The World.
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives
of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits,
the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their
corporate targets in ever more extreme ways – basically doing everything
that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.

More vids here and here.