I feel like these sorts of videos will be the metaphor for my generation one day. For remix culture, the group of folks addicted to music, art, design, film and of course re tooling something already existing into something new, these videos stand as a perfect snapshot of the zeitgeist being created today.
Didn’t know what this was for the first time I saw it. Didn’t care. So awesome, it makes a non-gamer like myself wanna game.
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App coming soon (they promise)
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And now for the best thing I’ve seen and heard all week, this trimmed, ripped and maximized blockbuster incarnation of Flames. This video, shot entirely macro is high energy and makes me want to dance and film and make art all day long. I might set this song as my alarm, this sounds like the perfect way to inspire a day.
As promised, here we go with Mixcast no. 013, the quiet and laid back counterpart to most of the previous Mixcasts. Artists featured this Mixcast are:
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Russell Leng is an artist living in Vancouver. His work is inspired by the relationship between natural and built environments, which is expressed in this explanation of his work.
My work is characterized by geometric forms interacting with organic marks. This is seen in a variety of ways, such as a rigid line next to a loose application of paint or gradient. I notice these relationships in nature as well; a tree breaking through a concrete sidewalk, or a housing development by a river. I want to examine these relationships between natural and built landscapes, conjuring a new sense of place. By confronting the viewer’s perception of landscape, I aim to question how these unceasing amalgamations change how we identify with our environments, and perceive ourselves in them.
Reading on, it’s eerie how many similarities I feel I have with Leng, his time is often spent daydreaming about cabins, neon lights, and the feeling he gets while hearing the ocean before seeing it, feels like a page taken out of my own book. Perhaps it’s just impossible not to feel this way living in BC?
Prints of Leng’s work are available through Little Paper Planes and Mammoth Collection.
Great live recording of Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto performing The Girl from Ipanema back in old-timey times.
Mixcast no. 012 is another edition of Neon Nights! Music for bright lights and dark nights, a nice warm up before a night on the town. Artists featured this Mixcast are:
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Like I really need to make this blog sound like it only promotes Cut Copy (or Young Galaxy)… here is the video for Cut Copy’s single Need You Now directed by Keith Schofield.
“Back to the Future”, an amazing series of photos by Irina Werning. People were invited to re-create their old photos. Very cool, matching colouring and lighting such as this would be incredibly time consuming, she has one marvelous eye.
If you’re familiar with me you probably already know I manage another blog called AwesomeOkangan.com. We hope to raise awareness, foster a community of creative people, and share everything we think is totally awesome about where we live. And to everything un-awesome, we find a way to instill all that sense of wonderment and elation. It allows me exciting opportunities like last Thursday night when I (finally) saw that talented Calgary native, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, at Habitat. We sat down after the show for a quick chat and fondly reminisce about the time I assaulted him during BreakOut West last year. This interview could be especially awkward because 1) the mic wasn’t recording the first time around and we found out nearly halfway through it, and 2) we’re totally wearing the same hair even though we specifically decided on each wearing two different styles beforehand. That last part was a lie, but this interview isn’t, so give it a chance.
After providing the soundtrack to oki-ni’s spring/summer ’11 preview video, CFCF returns with REINCARNATION, an eclectic and haunting mix combining his current fixations, a few oddities, and a handful of previously unheard CFCF tracks, made exclusively for this mix.
“As a mix REINCARNATION contains the same synth-heavy melancholy as The River, while also being more of a mixed bag. It is a mixture of CFCF’s current fixations, dancefloor favourites, and a liberal sprinkling of ‘strange ones’, the most strange being from the expansive Japanese music collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi.”
For Mixcast no. 011 I present to you another varied Mixcast. It kind of hops around a bit, taking in various moods, but I definitely see it as an unwind mix. At the end of a long day, have a hot shower, a cold beer or glass of vino, pop in this Mixcast and wash the day away. Lather, rinse repeat as needed. Artists featured this Mixcast are:
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Here’s the video for Heartsrevolution’s 薔薇と彼女の王子 (The Rose and Her Prince)
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Cute and funny video from the Rural Alberta Advantage. Pretty sure I’ve seen these non-verbal cues in the eyes of patrons at Habitat on more than one occasion. I’m also pretty sure I’ve had these exact same thoughts at more than one show…
There is a definite Marina & The Diamonds mood here, a little bit dreamier perhaps, you’ll feel these remixes go darker than if it were Marina’s standard fare. I fought the music snob inside when I started hearing some of the familiar pop hooks we’ve all heard before and instead allowed myself to get lost in the weight of the song.
The video is a surreal adventure, stretching the imagination & pushing the POV of Clare’s character. Within the immensity of the room you sense the loneliness and longing facing the protagonist, a desire that builds throught the song to an epic and nearly overwhelming ending. Maguire wrote “The Last Dance” the day after her childhood hero Michael Jackson passed away. “I was a huge, huge, huge fan of his,” she says in a recent interview with Blackbook.
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Take an up-close look on how Moleskine notebooks are customized. This decorating procedure is used to create Moleskine custom edition.
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