and thanks to Yoel for the link 🙂
DIE FORM : Poupée Mécanique
23 Oct
This is the first commercial clip for Die Form, filmed by television team for a music TV show in France.
Erick Benzi : keyboards/Linn 9000 programm./arrang & mix.
Gildas Arzel : electric guitars
Vocals : Veronique Perrault (France)
Laurence O. was only an actress for this clip
Philippe Fichot said that exist 2 other versions of that clip.
Midnight Moment: “Eye Test” – 2×4
22 OctWarning: might trigger epilepsy or migraine.
Eye-melting op art by 2×4 design consultancy for the NY Times Square October Midnight Moment.
Jakob Skøtt’s Work for El Paraiso
20 Oct
In all of these fine examples of very recent psychedelic rock music and videos Jakob Skøtt is responsible for parts of the music as well as for the awesome visual style and direction. There is a resemblance to Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii and some Amon Düül II videos from around the same time. So stop saying that they don’t make ’em like that anymore and enjoy the work of Jakob Skøtt !
[thanks to Jochen for pointing out Causa Sui to me]
The beautifully disturbing videos of Champagne Valentine
19 OctThere is something attractive yet deeply disturbing about the videos of Champagne Valentine, which showcase the work of artists Geoff Lillemon and Anita Fontaine. Maybe it is because Lillemon and Fontaine are artists creating psychedelic commercials, which seem to be aware and to reflect the disturbing nature of late-capitalistic society.
See for example Anita Fontaine’s video “Beefeater London” (above) which follows a young blonde through the streets of London. Although it seems to sell the viewer on the romantic image of a young and beautiful girl roaming the streets and having fun by herself, the videos seems to be inherently aware that this is a fantasy, something which comes to bare in the small viewing disturbances which appear on the screen from time to time to remind us that this is not the real thing but a simulation. The girl in the film is not really just roaming the streets and having fun, she is actually nothing more than an image which sells us notions about cities and identity and who we can be. But we are not that carefree person happily roaming the streets, we watch this video on our digital screens, where this kind of free adventure is just a substitute for life. Moreover, our hero seems to be inexplicably alone all through the video, or just flirting with the camera, something which is emphasized by her strange, somehow disturbed gazes, caught by the camera in close up shots. When the video ends, our hero is toasting a glass with somebody, but we don’t see that somebody and somehow it seems like she’s still all alone.
A similar sort of disturbing psychedelic simulacra is also evident in the §tereop§i§ video, and in the the Versace, and Louis Vitton commercials created by Champagne Valentine