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Creative Destruction

I have a bit of a love of skating videos even though I dont skate, and now I've discovered I also have a love for surf videos even though I cant surf (or swim!!!). Anyway through the lovely people at VBS I discovered Creative Destruction,  basically a couple of Australians who travel the world surfing and making good videos, I like these films as they are not just full of great surfing shots (there are some) but just show a group of surfers travelling around having a laugh - watch some!!!!
On a slightly related subject I now feel like the VBS site is replacing the Guardian weekend magazine in introducing me to cool stuff that I feel like I should have discovered by myself - it makes me feel like a fraud!!!


Creative Destruction- Chapter 1: As the Crow Flies from CREATIVE DESTRUCTION on Vimeo.

All watched over by machines of loving grace

Continuing on a creative/interesting film tip, I would recommend everybody to watch the new Adam Curtis, series that starts tonight on BBC2 at 9pm.
Now I cant say that this type of documentary will be to everybodies taste, Adam Curtis basically uses a  cut-up technique, splicing together archive footage to create the narrative - in this case an analysis of the fallout of technoculture, it's not your usual repeat the argument till everybody looses interest in what you were saying in the first place style tv journalism, and I'm guessing there will be no 'exciting cliff hanger' at the end of each episode.  But you should really watch it, I'm going to try and review the first episode, but am not promising anything as I might not understand it all!!!
Oh he also did a few short films for Charlie Brookers newswipe - watch them here
Apologies to blog readers used to our normal posts we got a bit 'high brow' there!!

Logorama

I'm not sure how I heard about this, obviously in one of my many hours loitering about on the internet looking for interesting stuff - and this is just that!!! This short film/animation was made by French collective H5 (They've done vids for Goldfrapp), I'm sure originally it was going to be a video for George Harrison, but his record company wanted them to drop the logos (once you've watched it, that will seem like the stupidest idea ever), so it just ended up being an artistic project for H5.
Initially I thought maybe it would be a little bit dull, just one of those vanity animations that design companies do to show they can animate well, but it's not it's extremely well done and interesting to watch.
Many of the logos are for companies that don't operate in the UK but you will be surprised at how many of those you recognise - which shows the power of logos - and how we are subliminally fed these images through US produced tv shows (that last sentence is not a rant against advertising in tv shows - I really dont care, it's more an observation of how our brains work)


Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

Handmade T-Shirts

Here's a film of us making our handmade and handprinted organic t-shirts

This is what we do!!!!!

Ai Weiwei

So I woke up early on Sunday morning (annoying cats) and was browsing around the internet and chanced upon this amazing documentary on the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. I had vague idea of who he was from the installation of porcelain seeds at the Tate turbine hall, and seem to remember reading something about him being under house arrest at some point. I spend time reading magazines and browsing stuff on the internet so you get this knowledge that covers a range of things but only in a very vague sense, a kind of surface knowledge - I know a little bit about alot of things. So it was very insightful to actually get beneath the surface and find out more about someone I had 'vaguely' heard of. Here's the film, watch it!!

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Name in Lights

In a bid to cheer Angie up after her never ending illness (she's getting better) I got her name put up in lights on the side of the Australian Museum in Sydney as part of the Sydney Art Festival - watch it below