FRIDAY IS FOR VIDEO
1. For the two of you who haven’t heard: Chriso‘s band, Ex-Boyfriends, just released a new video, like, Wednesday. Rock out while you’re playing ForumWarz and downing butter mints from the breakroom, waiting for the big hand to hit 5.
2. Martijn Hendriks’ latest project involves removing all the birds from The Birds, one frame at a time. It’s pretty gimmicky, and sadly, the result is pretty weak. His digi-skills are far from perfect, and since he doesn’t remove the audio, it’s kinda like nothing changed. Garfield Minus Garfield does the same thing, but totally way better. See for yourself:
Also: the whole “Hitchcock homage” has been done to death (perhaps most intriguingly by Stan Douglas). Which is not to say that future artists shouldn’t explore Hitchcock’s work, but if you’re gonna tread on well-trodden turf, you better bring it, bitch.
3. An overview of war in the 20th and 21st centuries, as told through food. Or rather, with food:
Courtesy of BoingBoingTV, which offers a slightly different version with helpful titles.
4. And here’s a really crappy copy of one of Jonno’s faves: Dara Birnbaum’s Kiss the Girls:
5. Someone mashed up a bunch of snippets from Reform School Girls–a film that’s been occupying a lot of my time recently. Mainly because we’re performing it in less than a month:
6. And a parting gift of even more video fabulosity, including a full (hooray!), downloadable (hooray!), QuickTime (boo!) version of Todd Haynes’ Barbie doll masterpiece, Superstar. Totally. Not. Kidding.
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