Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Nature of Play

I saw these two things today and I felt compelled to add them here.

THING ONE


THING ONE is very stable, static. Isn't it? Is it a simple photograph or is two thousand years in motion?

If there is anything so great as THING ONE, it just might be something with motion and music called




THING TWO

[EDIT] The original video is no longer available.


(There are a lot more of these THING ONEs created by Jan Vormann on this site recently featured on this other really great site called There, I fixed it. THING TWO teeters precariously on the high wire line of good advertising and good art. Both at once, just barely holding onto either.)

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And I can't even think about these two things without being reminded of this other third thing called

SHAPE

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Five Minutes into the Future

It sounds so outrageous, yet so possible
at the same time.

So with that
I present to you a very short still-shot including music
by the talented band called

MODEST MOUSE