In the past few months I’ve seen some stunning artists and I’d like to share a few with you today. One of the most visually striking artists I’ve seen is Paul Laffoley. This is ‘Zeitgeist’ and this is his collection.
I especially enjoyed his 1967 piece Mind Physics: The Burning of Samsara. Meanwhile Russian artist Layamkin Alexander has got a superb flowing surrealist style. The full Art Hit gallery is well worth checking out. This for me is his standout piece ‘Dream of a retired Major’.
North Korean animation. Impressive stuff.
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We’ll focus exclusively on Chinese films today. I think as a general rule there will be 10 in every post I write, at least have enough content for a few different angles and their developments. Last month monkeypeaches.com reported on the first true military blockbuster Assembly: The movie started in the winter of 1948, during the climate of the blood Chinese Civil War, which broke out shortly after the end of WWII. Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu), a captain of the communist Liberation Army, leads his 9th Company to sweep through a narrow street with an unknown number of Nationalist soldiers hiding inside ruined houses. The film also has a superb website ,but don’t try it on 1 meg broadband. Meanwhile here is Legend of Twin Dragons. Set it to 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
New Jiang Wen film ‘Tai yang zhao chang sheng’ (The sun also rises) features drama, memory loss and high production values. Wen tells us its a ‘a poetic rhapsody of memory, madness, serendipity and an ode to pleasure and fantasy.’ Well, sounds good to me – more after the break.
I seem to recall the transcript of this advert originated from a real life correspondence between Americans and Canadians. Good stuff!
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Nothing says art like a huge fork sticking into the ground. Click here for 32 more.
This poor sap looks like she’s been injected with testosterone as her and her pals have a nice sing-a-long in another hyperactive clip from Japan.
Further to this discovery of a ‘face in Mars’ EM radiation background noise has been converted into an audio file that could be ethereal nonsense or perhaps an Enochian point of contact. Indeed, as this archive claims, ‘The universe is divided into 33 aethyrs, each separated from the others by almost impassable walls…The physical world is the lowest of the aethyrs, surrounded by higher and higher spheres.’
Here we have an amusing video that looks set to become a key debating point in the Clinton vs Obama struggle. Maybe Hilary should ask her husband!
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Well it’s certainly been a long hiatus from when I last posted but I see no reason I shouldn’t start up again… after all most the videos on here still work, most the links do and I’ve got some genuinely decent material! Well done me. OK, so this time we’ll focus on animations that are perhaps a little more obscure and we’ll translate the term anime to what it actually means – all animation from all over the world. A little variation never hurt anyone. One film I saw recently that I really enjoyed was the 1999 film ‘The Iron Giant.’ Directed by Brad Bird (known for ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘Ratatouille’) it features a scene where the robot goes absolutely mental… Here it is in a nice 10-minuter… I would point out though that the majority of the film is generic Hollywood trash and that once you’ve seen this scene, seeking out this title would be a futile and ultimately unsatisfying exercise.
I suppose that one wasn’t particularly unusual…Look at this examination of what a leucocyte is, its from BioVision, doing their thing at Harvard…inner life of a cell …what goes on behind closed doors… or even under them… I wonder how large a magnifying glass would have to be before it could see that… So if a cell is like that and a nanobot is like this…
Probably going to be a fun little technological period… that’s only CG btw, don’t go getting too excited… anyway I haven’t finished yet, I think we’ll go for that magic number ten, go through time as well. Hmm.
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