Flying Lotus – “MmmHmm” [ft. Thundercat]

This song and video ain’t no accident either “Fly-Lo” has been tweaking and morphing different musical genre’s for quite a few years now in this new millennial era, and the 2 people behind this video: Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali – over at: www.specialproblems.com.  Appear to be some of the more talented short form and music video artists w3rking today. Peep their site to see a pretty diverse collection of their video w3rkz’.

Flying Lotus!

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Transcendent Video: The Books – “Take Time”

“Take Time. Take Time. Take Time. Take Time.  -A Time and a Time and a Time and a Time..  -A Time and a Time and a Time and a Time.”

Official Video:
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Unofficial Fan Video:
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The full-length video for “Take Time” by The Books, at the top, and twelve other full-length music videos are included on The Books – “Playall” DVD, which you can nab at: www.thebooksmusic.com.  They’ve also got a stellar new album out, their 4th LP eye believe, called “the way out”.

When it comes to combining sound collage, video art, musicality, w3rds, and existentialism.. I don’t know too many modern day artists who do it better.

Long live The Books!!!

PS – For those wanting more.. There’s also all kinds of other videos by: “The Books” over on LastFM.  Official and fan made clips. -> http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books/+videos

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Assemblage: “DAAS” | By: Gar BaiLey

One of my best friends and biggest supporters recently commissioned me to to do one of my trademark “portrait assemblages” of/for him. It took a couple months to gather the ingredients, and a couple more weeks to assemble it all in the perfect manner. In the end, I think it’s definitely one of my strongest w3rks in this particular style. It’s also my first assemblage that has a removable accessory, ie the hat. Anyway, there’s a few photos of the assemblage included here. You can go to this flickR page to view larger, linkable versions if ya like.

Thank you Daas for all your support as a true friend, a patron of my w3rk, and an inspiration. Massive thank you’s D for helping me become a better artist in the process. I’ll never ever forget yer support hombre. Hope this assemblage helps show you how much you mean to me as a friend.

Alwayz – Matthew gaR BaiLey

Can you see any resemblance?

Daas Desu’s paintings can be seen and purchased here:
www.daas-art.com

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Memorial Day.. retrospections

Being intro/retrospective today.. Thinking of all the Veterans.. past, present, and future. My Grandfather, Father-In-Law, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, and millions of whom I have no relation to.. other than that we are all brothers and sisters of the Human race. I am extremely thankful and proud off these brave soldiers for their service, sacrifice, and extreme courage, but I am simultaneously saddened by the unmitigated suffering and deaths that so many of them have had to endure, often times unnecessarily. Wondering will there ever come a day in the future when we can look back at “WAR” itself as an abolition and a monumental error in the fabric of our human existence here on earth? Is War & Violence just something that’s in our nature and something that we’ll have to live with forever? On this day I also wonder, which will go extinct first.. War or Human Beings? -because it almost seems like it’s got to eventually be one or the other. Regardless of any of that though, I’m thankful that there are folks who are out there protecting me and my family, because lord knows I wouldn’t want to pick up a gun. I just hope there come a day when there won’t be a need for them to do it anymore. I hope there comes a day when human beings evolve to live in true harmony with each other and when, as a wiser than me once said.. “The world can live as one”.

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Video: Pogo – “Garden”

This an amazing piece of A/V exploration & reconfiguration at it’s finest. Where a special young artist called: “Pogo” turns his Mother, her “Garden”, House, and her voice into spectacularly potent contemporary art.

Pogo – “Garden”

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Pogo is an emerging, young electronic music artist from Perth, Western Australia. Equal Parts Programmer, Producer, ReMixer, Mash-Up king, VJ, and Visionary. He is known for his work recording small sounds from a single film or scene and sequencing them to form new pieces of music altogether, many of which have accompanying videos which correlate with the sounds/samples. Creating wonderfully concise and colourful reflections of contemporary technological world culture.

While also, engaging the viewer/listener to think about intellectual “property”, and what/who determines the “tools” that modern day artists are permitted to use in creation of contemporary aRtw3rks. Much in the same way pioneers of similar artforms, such as: Negativland, The Avalanches, Girl Talk, and a few others have done in years past. And at a mere 21 years of age, Pogo is an incredible mature and aware artist who appears to have a very bright future ahead of him. Good for him and good for the w3rld!

See more of his audio/video w3rk here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

WEBSITE:
http://www.pogomix.net

TWITTER
http://twitter.com/PogoMix

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*Uber Props to my boy: Brian Scissors for the tip.

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Otto Von Schirach mural by: Francesco LoCastro w/ Video

One of my favorite painters living in FL, Francesco LoCastro, recently painted a large mural of one of FL’s most original, auditory artisans, Otto Von Schirach, on a wall in Wynwood, Miami. Peep the video below to see the mural take shape, colour, and form to the uncanny soundz of Mr. Otto V. S. Any way you slice it, some pretty sick stuff! With mad talent galore spewing out of all avenues, angles, & orifices.

Francesco LoCastro's Otto Von Schirach mural in Wynwood, Miami

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Video: Joanna Newsom performs “81″ Live w/ her GIANT Harp

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Joanna Newsom

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(NSFW) Assemblage: “FuckFace”

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To see more photos of this assemblage click on: This Link

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Documentary – The Artist Formerly Known as: “Captain Beefheart”

Who is/was “Captain Beefheart” and why was he one of the most original and important avant garde musicians of the 20th Century? The Documentary below has answers to those questions. Get Learned.

Part 1 of 3 | (15 minutes 53 seconds)

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Part 2 of 3 | (15 minutes 26 seconds)

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Part 3 of 3 | (15 minutes 30 seconds)

Save This Video / Part 3

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Karin Andersson of “Fever Ray” curious n’ creepy Award Acceptance Speech

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Classic and haunting. As is everything Mz. Andersson lays her hands on or puts her voice to. If you’re the artistically adventurous and eccentric type, check out anything you can by “Fever Ray”, and her and her brother’s experimental pop electronic group “The Knife”.

peas – gaR

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