Dayvan Cowboy (2006, 11.4MB, 4:36 min)
Boards of Canada’s first music video and a great one at that.
Utilizing some insane footage of Joseph Kittinger’s Excelsior III jump in 1960.
Directed by Melissa Olson.
Gordon Parks
What I Can Say About Gordon Parks (2006, 2.9MB, 2:28 min.)
Gordon Parks passed away last year on March 7 2006.
He was a gifted and versatile artist & his work will continue
to provide inspiration for generations to come.
By Mica Scalin.
Patrick Lichty Season – #1: 8 bit videos
a wristful of bits (2002, 6.19MB, 4:26 min)
8 bits or less (2002, 5.58MB, 4:47 min)
close vision (2002, 4.79MB, 3:33 min)
for a few bits more (2003, 6.29MB, 4:59 min)
Patrick Lichty, artist, writer, curator & wit, the man responsible
for the excellent Intelligent Agent, has donated a decade’s worth
of his video work to DVblog.
We’ll be showing it all over the next few months.
We start with these wonderful pieces: smart
& delirious, made mostly with images from a
Casio WQV-1 WristCam watch which is B&W with a resolution
of 100X100 pixels, ‘both the embodiment of technological determinism’ ,
Lichty comments, ‘and its antithesis.’.
I mostly have the urge to run fast from stuff which is fashionably
self referentially about the technological, often so worthy but oh-so-dull.
Thing with Lichty is, dull it is so not, rather, simultaneously
light (in a good sense..not dumbed down & simplistic,
but playful & engaging) possessed of genuine humor,
& just chock full of ideas & joyous invention.
Ting Ting – Piano Sonata by Mozart
Ting Ting Solo (2003, 6MB, 1:06 min)
Ting Ting plays “Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major” Third Movement
by Mozart at the Kichijoji Music Festival. Ting Ting plays the ancient Chinese
“Pi Pa” – a four-stringed Lute, one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments
which first appeared in Chinese written texts of the second century BC.
Filmed and edited by Rob Pongi.
Karaoke Death Match 100 – MTAA
We Gotta Get Out of This Place [M.River] (2007, 15.8MB, 3:15 min)
Hashpipe [T.Whid] (2007, 17MB, 3:23 min)
From the bastard progeny of Marcel Duchamp & the Marx Brothers,
the splendid & singular MTAA, comes Karaoke Death Match 100.
Here’s the thing:
Artist collaborative M.River & T.Whid face off in the most brutal performance art smack down of the new millennium.. Karaoke Deathmatch 100! This alcohol-fueled blood feud features 50 rounds of sing-along fury (taped live over an 8-hour period with hardly any pee breaks). No Carpenters hit too cheesy, no heavy metal lyric too trite for these teleprompter warriors to hurl in a battle to the end. Who will emerge victorious? Only YOU can decide.
It’s great stuff & clearly one to follow closely -we’ll be returning to them here ‘ere
close of play in 50 days. Just want to sneak in, though, that actually I found this
quite ahem..er.. moving: – the sheer effort invoked in the
act of singing; T.Whid’s strange shambling captive bear dance & M River’s weird
but somehow totally appropriate sudden & violent changes of dynamics.
A bit like Bas Jan Ader falling over, there’s something more here than originally
meets the eye & ear, & it’s a lot human & a bit wonderful.
Borat on Politics
Borat on Politics (2004, 25MB, 3:31 min)
Official Borat Homesite.
Ken Turner #2 – Derrida &c
Do the Dew
More Brian Gibson
Atlantis to Interzone (2007, 14.8MB, 2:59 min)
Lang Syne Andalusian (2007, 39.2MB, 6:55 min)
Well, Atlantis to Interzone is a neat bit of cell phone footage
derived work but Lang Syne Andalusian is a tour de force of mashology,
remixing Bunuel’s notorious masterpiece with bits of stock footage.
Again: the musical eye… the musical eye…
Music Credits:
Atlantis to Interzone: Klaxons Atlantis to Interzone (Mr. Miyagis Bootleg Remix)
Lang Syne Andalusian: Soundhog “The Rinse” Mix
syzygy
syzygy (2001, 18.6MB, 3:51 min)
This tiny film gem was made by my brother, artist and graphic designer,
Noah Scalin. It was made as part of a Super 8 challenge.
Watch to the end and see rules of this game.
And then, I dare you to try this at home.
By Mica Scalin.