It was freeezing that day. I don’t know how women can cope dressed like that.
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Go and Go and Go, Go, Go aaand…
Ok Go!
This band is becoming famous for their one-take videos. And of course for the brilliance of those videos and hopefully as well for their music.
Here is another gem. The second video to their single “This too shall pass” A short while ago I already posted the first version of it. But this one here topped that one by a million miles.
Do you remember the Honda ad where we follow for a minute and a half a chain reaction that has been build from the part of a Honda?
Now the new OK Go! video beats the cr*p out of the Honda Ad. All i can say: Pure Genius!
Watch it again and again – and you ll discover new elements in it. I hope there is a making-of video, cause I wanna see if they really shot it all in one go, or if like in the Honda ad clever editing was used.
In any case for true inventive brilliance: All thumbs up for the creators of this. A true music video masterpiece.
Update on 2010-04-03 17:52 by itchy i
And a little research showed: Of course it was not done in one take. But still it is incredible.
Update on 2010-04-03 17:54 by itchy i
And here is the first part of the official making-of video which you can find on youtube. I am watching it right now. Loving it!
Update on 2010-04-03 18:23 by itchy i
I have just learned that these kind of obsucre chain reactions are called Rube Goldberg machines named after an cartoonist who drew complex overcomplicated machines that would fulfill simple normal day-to-day tasks.
Update on 2010-04-03 18:40 by itchy i
Haha. It seems the Ok Go! video chain reaction has started a chain reaction of follow ups from my side. I just found a video from the artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss who in 1987 created an almost 30 (!!!) minutes film of a Rube Goldberg machine they built.
You can clearly see where Honda and Ok Go took their inspiration from. Here a few snippets from that art movie called The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge).
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Childgood
These truly imaginative images from Tim MacPherson make me wanna be a child again. Brilliant ideas. It took me a few seconds to see that the motorbike actually wasn’t a motorbike at all.
Check out his webpage. www.timmacpherson.com
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This old fella was coughing his lung and soul out. He was standing there for minutes. It didn’t seem too hopeful for him
itchy i becomes the london i
A little more than a week ago my friend Ally told me about this iPhone app called Hipstamatic, which mimics old camera lenses and analogue film developing processes. It gives your iPhone images the feel of old-school photographs with all it’s odd colour nuances and imperfections.
I instantly fell in love with it – and at the same time I fell in love with Photography – again. I started taking candid photographs of the life and the people around me – on my way to work or when going home, or just wondering around the streets.
Because no one would notice that i take their photos while pretending I m just typing on my phone – I achieve the almost impossible. Photos that in no way interfere with the subject. I photograph reality as it happens. This has been my dream since I started doing street photography.
The new series of images will be called Every Day People. And will be a tribute to London and it’s millions of colourful citizens – but also to life in general. The things we love, laugh but also loath sometimes. Because that that’s life – in a nutshell – and now also in my photographs.
ITCHY EYE 