wine tasting (2002, 28MB, 3:57 min.)
British chameleon Baron Cohen as Borat – the spoof Kazakh television presenter.
more Borat here.
Category Archives: strange
Day of Ashurah (Day of Tenth)
Day of Tenth (2006, 13.6MB, 1:40 min.)
Europe January 2006.
Sunnis and Shi’a Muslims commemorating ‘Day of Ashurah‘.
Aaron Koblin –The Sheep Market
The Sheep Market (2008, 5.4MB, 32 secs)
Aaron Koblin, whose work we’ve featured here before does
rather wonderful things using the Processing language.
Well..of course that’s true..but if he wasn’t endowed with wit & smarts
& a sense of beauty then the tools he used would interest us not at all.
Here’s what he says about this piece (or rather the project for
which this vid is a short installation view):
TheSheepMarket.com is a collection of the first 10,000 sheep
made by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to “draw a sheep facing to the left.”
Animations of each sheep’s creation may be viewed at
TheSheepMarket.com.
Bent – Circuit Bending Festival
BENT 2004 (2004, 8.43MB, 5 min.)
This short documentary explains what circuit bending is
and why you want to attend BENT 2008, the Fifth International
Circuit Bending Festival.
By Mica.
German Political dogs?
The Divide – 911 Music Video
The Divide (2006, 19.15MB, 5:15 min.)
Music & Video by VOICE & FluxRostrum aka Gianni Lazuli.
Boling & Morales – Mad as a Box of Badgers
Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)
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
Addi Somekh – Balloon Bass Player
Juicy Brunette (2006, 2.9MB, 3:24 min)
Addi Somekh is obviously a talented musician but his
chosen instrument is the common household balloon.
You can hear more balloon music on his site Balloonbass.com.
By Mica Scalin.
Dog Toothed Jewels
Dog Toothed Jewels (2004, 44.1MB, 7:20 min.)
Strange art fairy tale from artist Jerelyn Hanrahan,
seen at the VIII Digital Colloquium
in Havana last June.
I like the narrative drive of this piece which,
coupled with the intensely personal, almost arcane,
iconography, gives it a quite unsettling character.
Patrick Lichty Season – #2
One Language, Indivisible (2003, 20.9MB, 2:52 min)
Corporate Ritual (2003, 5.4MB, 1:43 min)
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…