LOW TO BEHOLD

Yes, I know the entire dance. No, I am not a loser.



Title: A Band of Skulls song from their 2009 Single Album for "Fires." I really love their album artwork as well, some of which I've included below


Music: Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights"

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY

Yesterday I watched Syndromes and a Century for the first time, and it instantly became one of my favourite films. Of course, I immediately thought of you, my readers scattered around the globe like so many flickering stars, and I wanted very much to tell you all about it.


The film is by Thai director/auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and it's set in two different times in some kind of hospital. A lot of the shots remind me of Sophia Coppola's style, except without the bored rich people (I just watched Somewhere, it was pretty good I must say). 


There's not really a plot that makes sense, It's more about people living together and interacting with one another and in nature. So, I've included three, count them THREE video clips. I hope you like them 

THE FIRST STEP IS TO STERILISE MY BIOREACTOR

Title: A random quote I saw when watching a TV program about...making food. 
Music: Cardiacs "Burn Your House Brown." yummers. 

SPARKLE THE DARK UP

OK today's film selection is called "Mysterious Skin," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He's one of my favourite actors  because he makes good choices and (I think) looks at his career as a long term exploration of character and development of his craft. Even when he does a blockbuster, it's "Inception"

So, "Mysterious Skin" is a really good film about coming of age in a small town in the American South where nothing ever really happens - on the surface. Underneath the still landscape though, the characters have to make sense of scars they've had since they were little kids. I don't want to summarise it too much because that would basically give everything away. Just look at the preview I guess. :o)]

[Post title comes from an exhibition currently happening at the London's Design Museum called Design Overtime]

COME ONE, COME ALL

Complexd have only gone and done a lovely vintage issue! Love this magazine and glad to be involved. Here are some of my favourite images, sketches by designer and illustrator Priscila Molin.

   

[Today's title comes from the Task Force song "Buttafly's Reprise." UK hip hop produces some rare gems that I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else. Gorgeous.]