FLTR 1.0 <double-minded version>
[10.29.01]
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1. Spiritualized: Stop Your Crying
2. Iconlogic: trikala
3. m9ndfukc: punk.protokol.999o
{collab}
4. violentnation: familyiiawah
{audio}
5. Stereolab: radio mix 1
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6. Jean-Luc Lamarque: Pianographique
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1.
Spiritualized: Stop Your Crying:
http://www.spiritualized.com/music.html
This spiritualized video is so happy-making. It's all mellow and
slow motion, with orchestral accompaniment. Then the orchestra
members smash their instruments, kind of like Art of Noise, but much
more posh and angsty. And of course the rock musicians just stand in
the front stoically, amidst the chaos. Maybe they play this video on
MTV all the time. How should I know? Anyway, what would it matter?
Groovy is as groovy does.
I got this same Spiritualized CD and also Portishead's Live in NYC
this week. That's two rock CD's with orchestral accompaniment.
Neither surpass Neil Young's _Harvest_, but then what does?
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Oh marylou won't you tell me what to do
I got a dollar on the corner and a laser in my shoe
If I don't get an answer gonna split myself in two
double-minded #1:
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2.
Iconlogic: trikala
http://www.iconologic.com/trikala/1.php
This is a great example of the weird new hybrid genre of Flash and
film. This particular movie is about a guy who is having a dream,
then he wakes up and reads a book that turns into these
Lichtenstein-looking vectors. "Trikala" is similar in mood and
technique to this earlier piece by the World Domination Design Group
<http://anamorph.wddg.com/> Except "trikala" is not as dark, which
makes it even more creepy. View these movies at their highest
resolutions if you can. It's all about resolution, detail, and
execution, so the fidelity does make a difference. Graphic design
demo/promo work as art. Did I say "art"? It would appear so now,
wouldn't it?
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six of one, half dozen of the other.
double-minded #2:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NKCQ/lab404webcreatio
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3.
m9ndfukc: punk.protokol.999o
http://www.m9ndfukc.org/data/filmz/nato.0%2B55.msk.html
This is old NN stuff, and 11.4 M at that. If you can't take the
heat, get out of the fast lane. What's not to respect? So many
people talk so much theory and cyber-cyborg crap. NN talks that
stuff too, but then she (as in "the ship of state" she) delivers. It
could have been optimized to be less than 11.4 M, but then that's yet
another thing punk about it. It was probably just saved straight
from max/nato in quicktime format and called into an html page.
Compare it to "trikala" above. If "trikala" represents a _Fifth
Element_ future of beautiful, chromium-sheen distortion; this piece
is like a _Sid and Nancy_ future of fuzz, crackle, puke, and
overload. "Trikala" is Radiohead's _Kid A_, "punk.protokol.999o" is
The Velvet Underground's _White Light / White Heat_.
I realize NN fancies the art deco stylings of _Metropolis_, and maybe
that's an underlying persona guide or something. But the output is
pure Lou Reed. "A drug hit Sally inside" -- Looped on 11
<http://www.spinaltap.com/video/11_sm.mov>.
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A man of my mind can do anything.
double-minded #3:
http://steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track3
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4.
violentnation: familyiiawah
http://www.violentnation.com/collab/
It's just a messed up exquisite corpse collab where you start off
with a picture, and then the next person tweaks it and passes it on,
etc. This one is cool because it's comprised neither of the "graphic
ds9r/ check my photoshop skillz" crowd, nor the "ascii art/ can't
really do anything but am terribly thoughtful" crowd. It's just your
standard goofy anarchic fun.
The project includes such "notables" as:
lew baldwin <http://www.redsmoke.com>
ben benjamin <http://www.superbad.com>
terbo ted <http://www.sketchzilla.com>
pud <http://www.fuckedcompany.com>
So far "familyiiawah" has subsumed an "Eye of the Tiger on Easter
Island as policed by CHIPS" vibe, but it's not over yet.
The project is open, but you've got to somehow convince the guy at
violentnation that you are worthy to handle such explosive devices
(cf: <http://www.redmenace.za.net/ladiesweapons/> ) Good luck, and
may the force be with you.
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The outline:
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The talk:
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5.
Stereolab: radio mix 1
http://www.stereolab.co.uk/radio/
"Here for your listening pleasure is a compilation of some songs and
sounds that we like, hope you like them too."
Streaming net radio mix from the band that somehow convinced an
entire generation of twenty-something groovers that lounge music was
def. Dubbed by Eryk Salvaggio as "the first band to aesthetically
withstand the blow of the 9/11 attacks" (I'm grossly
mis-paraphrasing), Stereolab is no mere fad at which to be sneezed.
Especially since they are now produced by Jim O'Rourke, who is from
Chicago and collaborates regularly with Sonic Youth, so you know he's
got to be cool. Jim's best production work, incidentally, is on
Edith Frost's _Calling Over Time_
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000019QM/lab404webcreatio>,
just in case you were wondering.
And the new DJ Spooky? Yeah, the new DJ Spooky.
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The book:
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The outline:
http://www.lab404.com/dan/
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6.
Jean-Luc Lamarque: Pianographique
http://www.pianographique.com
Of all the interactive multimedia autogenerative web things, this is
one of the best. Like several previously designed web audio engines
<http://www.amontobin.com>, "Pianographique" is controlled by
keyboard taps. Hitting the "d" key might trigger a snare. Hitting
the "b" key might start a bass loop. But the keys not only trigger
audio, they trigger correspondent video behaviors as well. Mouse
clicks and drags further modify the video on some earlier modules.
"Compulsion" and "Angular Entropy" are the coolest modules. "Angular
Entropy" combines house music with the iconographic vector sharding
of todays rad web ds9rz <http://www.designgraphik.com>. "Compulsion"
is jazz sounds wed with groovy 50s and 60s retro-layouts in the style
of various jazz CD covers.
The only thing that maybe comes close to this kind of multimedia
interactive control online is http:www.ambientmachines.com But
pianographique is much more responsive and explosive. Amaze your
friends. Tease animals. You won't want to put it down.
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