Origins of break dancing revealed 🙂 A little cultural exchange. Run DMC and the Red army getting down to it.

Bjork and Polly Jean Harvey. committing the sound of hunger. Not a bad way to start a Monday. Keep it moving,. As they say “a rolling stone gathers no moss”.

  Click here to see Evolution Italian Born Canadian raised artist Marco Brambilla first registered on my radar with his incredibly massive vertical video loop ‘Civilization’ Megaplex (below). Civilization was installed outside of a glass elevator and played in step with the vertical position of the lift. It appears since […]

Danish DirectorMartin De Thurah now again in the spotlight for his quirky and pitch perfect video for the song ‘Who’ by David Byrne and St Vincent is it turns out the man behind two of the most striking videos that had appeared in the past few years. Both feature models […]

Rita Indiana mixes traditional merenge of the Dominican Republic with North American  rock influences. Unfortunately an HD version has escaped me but the lofi video quality kind of compliments the synthesizers… not to mention the mind melt.    

This piece by California based animator and film maker Andrew Thomas Huang is supposedly almost entirely made of practical effects, with computer generated imagery sprinkled on top. Huang pitches a beautiful tone and somehow I am reminded both of Fever Ray’s ‘When I grow up’ video and Bjork’s ‘Wandelust’. Solopsism: […]

french directing duo Jul and Mat achieved an amazingly playful textured and relentlessly dynamic video for the song ‘She wants’ by Metronomy.  At times shot backwards at times forwards always perfectly intended, the effect is a seamlessly stitched together piece that is always just as it should be yet free […]

Lhasa De Sala, Born in Big Indian In new York, Died of cancer in Montreal Canada at the age of 36. Spent much of her childhood in Mexico, Sang in French English and Spanish. Named for the city of Lhasa in Tibet. Below is her explanation of the song soon […]

Greek born French raised Romain Gavras created two of the most striking pieces that I have come across lately. Of course there was the M.I.A. ‘Bad Girls’ that takes the snippets of Saudi Arabian motorway sandal skating (that have been floating around on youtube for years) and jacks it up […]

Tel Aviv born video artist and music video director Alma Har’el (famed in my mind at least for her video for ‘Elephant Gun’ by Beirut) has made another piece I only recently discovered. It is for the Sigur Rss song ‘Fjögur Píanó’ and is part of a collaborative experiment where […]