Ryan Mathieson is a photographer from Vancouver who has some amazing light leaks. I’m so jealous of how great these came out so much so that I questioned if they could have really been done all in-camera. Sometimes photography just blows me away.
See more pictures on his photostream.
The other day I ran across Joseph Pellings Vimeo page and loved all the weirdness and experimentation I found. I’d seen his short animation “Outside the Box” before, which won the Digital Artists Award in 2009 for animation. It was really hard to choose just one of his animations so please go to his page and watch more of his videos.
Via Pitchfork:
Stereolab are still on hiatus, but they’re coming out with a new album anyway. The record, Not Music, was recorded during the same sessions as 2008’s Chemical Chords and features 13 songs, including an Atlas Sound remix of the previously released “Neon Beanbag”. It’s out November 16 on CD, MP3, and vinyl via Drag City and the band’s own Duophonic UHF Disks imprint. The cover is above and the tracklist is below.
Not Music:
- Everybody’s Weird Except Me
- Supha Jaianto
- So Is Cardboard Clouds
- Equivalences
- Lelekato Sugar
- Silver Sands
- Two Finger Symphony
- Delugeoisie
- Laserblast
- Sun Demon
- Aelita
- Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2)
- Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Mix)
I hate how behind I am with some music news. However, whenever I hear about an album coming out for a band I really like which won’t be released for months I often forget. Here’s a more timely reminder for the normal ones out there.
Hollie Chastain is an artist from Tennessee who makes some psychedelic textural drawings. It reminded me at first of Animal Collective’s cover art for Feels. I’m getting of hint of a kind of larger than ourselves existential confusion or imaginative vibe from these. Meaning that they feel concerned with thoughts and dreams and ideas. I guess it was for these reasons why she was featured in the Soul Pancake book, which you can pre-order here.
See more on her work on her website.
Pitchfork TV is showing The Flaming Lips: Blastula (The Making of Embyonic). I know what I’ll be doing after class tomorrow. Click on the link above to watch.
Black lights, blue eyes, and belly dancers play large roles in the new video for Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion jam “Bluish”. Don’t worry, it’s sufficiently trippy. (via Pitchfork)
Click here or the image to see the whole video.
Isn’t no secret that Tame Impala kicks some serious ass. Maybe I was late too I but now I know that this video for their track “Half Full Glass of Wine” does too. It was created by multi-disciplinary design studio Special Problems. The visuals remind me of the lo-fi psychedelic visuals of early Flaming Lips videos as well as Deerhoof’s video for “Wrong Time Capsule”. Awesome warped colorful imagery here that never seems to bore me.
Arnaud Loumeau’s work is the kind of thing that’ll give you headaches, but in a good way. He makes these intense psychedelic patterns on graph paper with pens and markers. Almost sets you into a trance after a while.
The Flaming Lips play “See the Leaves” on Letterman on July 28th, 2010. I love how Dave doesn’t even know what to say after their performance and how Wayne hits the cymbal one last time when he walks in front. Do yourself a favor and put the volume up all the way when listening to this.
