Cate Blanchett’s face is warped, changed and rearranged in the haunting new video for Massive Attack’s “The Spoils,” featuring Hope Sandoval:
Directed by John Hillcoat, the clip features Blanchett’s head rotating against a black background as Sandoval’s lithe voice drifts over Massive Attack’s brooding production. At first, the actress undergoes a simple hairstyle or makeup change, but soon, her whole face is cast in plaster, as its skin peels off and transforms into a stone statue.
Anonymity — I appreciate what this allows people to do and feel when they recognize they have it. When I began this blog for instance, I didn’t know what I was doing or care much about how I was doing it and for whom would see it. Over time I came to understand that blogging was for me, and this blog was my space where I didn’t have to be shy or censor myself for the sake of modesty or judgment from the world. It was fun. It was only when I realized that people I knew and cared about were visiting me that I began to filter my content to what I deemed suitable for them to read. My sister and younger brother for instance. This also meant I couldn’t write about my friends anymore either. Which isn’t a bad thing, but for myself, I don’t open up to people in my life, so writing is something I need.
This blog changed for the better and made me a better writer for it, but I also lost a personal mechanism for coping with my real life and my wishful thoughts. I truly believe I need writing in order to exorcise my thoughts and feelings on the regular, and I can’t do that on this blog anymore. I want that to change. Hence the reason why I am changing the general settings from public to private as of today. In my life right now, I could really use the benefits that come from journaling. No one visiting had gotten to know me any better anyway, so maybe it is about time I got to know myself, and experiment with this medium.
Music video for Portishead’s excellent moody cover of ABBA track released in tribute to British Labour Party politician Helen Joanne Cox who was sadly murdered 16 June 2016:
A Touch of Zen is one film coming to this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival I will not pass up seeing on the big screen. I already have my ticket, see:
A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks. It is much more than that of course, as the official NZIFF write-up about the film below the HD trailer promises:
Continue reading ‘A Touch of Zen / Xia Nü (1969) directed by King Hu’
恢复/Recovery by 2814. From the album 新しい日の誕生/Birth of a New Day:
Footage is from the 1986 short film “Dream City” by Steve Siegel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTLKn3CcGLQ) / Video edited by David Dean Burkhart.
Blending her original photography with hand-drawn illustrations in Photoshop, animator Yoyo the Ricecorpse creates quirky ghost-like characters that live in a world where anime meets Roger Rabbit. Each animation is limited to a single animated GIF that sees her doughy characters living in teapots or lounging around urban backdrops in photos taken from Yoyo’s travels to Tokyo.
Recently out of school, Yoyo now works full-time as an illustrator and animator in London and has transformed many of her characters into an assortment of shirts, pins, buttons and other objects available in her Etsy shop. She is also working on an animated music video that should be out soon. You can follow more of her work on Instagram and Behance.
I think these are great. If only I were as proficient in animation as Miss Yoyo The Ricecorpse → That’s me undergoing a failed performance art/garden project in the middle of Albert Park. I should have better spent my time learning how to animate. I guess the next best thing is the augmented-reality game Pokémon GO.
Links to Yoyo’s tumblr and etsy pages are here: Tumblr / Etsy / Instagram
JC Sheitan Tenet, who is based in Lyon, France, lost his arm 22 years ago. He received the world’s coolest prosthetic courtesy of French artist JL Gonzal, who modified an existing arm prosthesis to accommodate the tattoo machine:
Performance artists U-Machine created this work in which a pole dancer interacts with the geometric images projected on the screen behind her:
Art director: Amine Rachad / Dance and choregraphy: Marie Clain / Video & Music: Amine Rachad / Shooting and editing: Amine Rachad / Creative partners: La Grainerie ( la-grainerie.net/ ) / Co-producers: Festival Electro Alternativ ( electro-alternativ.com/ ) / Contact: contact.umachine@gmail.com / facebook.com/umachineshow/.
This Reddit comment ^
YouTuber, Mike Diva, makes some pretty weird and hyper surreal content, but his Trump parody of an eccentric Japanese commercial takes the sparkly rainbow sprinkled cake:
Nicole Angemi, aka @mrs_angemi, is a pathologist’s assistant in real life. But online she helms one of Instagram’s most controversial accounts, a first-hand portal into the world of organ dissections and autopsies — definitely one of the most interesting accounts:
And on a more, err, surprising (not even sure that is the right word) note; given Nicole’s profession, she had access to Prince’s autopsy report and publicly posted his death certificate while taking the opportunity to give insightful information and educate the masses on accidental death by opiate toxicity (Fentanyl).
“Let’s talk some more about Prince. The death certificate. Here it is! When humans die in this world, it can only happen in 4 ways. Naturally, at the hands of yourself (suicide), at the hands of another (homicide), or by accident. This is called the MANNER of death. One of these has to be picked by the person filling out the death certificate. If, after autopsy, it is uncertain still how the person died, a 5th category called “undetermined” can be picked. In Prince’s case, accidental was chosen as his manner of death. The next category listed under manner of death is CAUSE. What caused the manner of death? In Prince’s case, what caused the accidental death: Fentanyl toxicity. This means after toxicology results were received, the pathologist determined that Prince had levels of Fentanyl in his blood that caused him to accidentally overdose. […] The facts also are that in America thousands of people are dying from this everyday.”
Angemi regularly reminds her followers that she is not a doctor. Her expertise is in identifying infections and recognizing diseases among the deceased. Not everyone shares in her passionate mission to shed light on the postmortem world. Angemi faces constant anxiety over infringing on Instagram’s posting guidelines. She’s had countless photos “reported” by the Instagram community for reasons that have gone unexplained. Three of her accounts have unexpectedly shut down over the course of the year.
Peers in the medical world are also gunning for her Instagram account. Angemi’s pathologic documentation may strike most of her followers as a worthwhile medical contribution to an otherwise vapid social media landscape, but she said some health professionals believe that the photos and videos of autopsies and dissections she shares should be kept within the confines of academia and medicine, away from the general public.
“If someone wants to see what an autopsy looks like, why can’t they have access to that?”
Do you feel that? That right there is the primary catalyst for controversy, my friends. Besides film-making, comics, high fashion and strippers posting insane physics defying twerk videos (Olympics 2020, anyone?), @mrs_angemi is one more reason I should probably jump on board the Instagram bandwagon. And I have also just made up a new rule for myself; anytime Prince gets mentioned a song MUST accompany said mentioning.
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