Triumph of the Earworm

Annie Lennox made all the studio masters of her single material available to DJ Earworm and this is the insanely good result:

Vacation

My wife's parents are in town for the next week, so posts here will be minimal. I am perpetually available via email, however.

See you in a week.

My Friend Ship

This is so good that at first watch, I felt pangs of envy. Then I watched it again and admitted to myself that I might be able to learn something from it if I wasn't so busy being jealous.

Canadian musician Dave Righton, aka Roche Limit, made this video for $12 using Google SketchUp after he ran out of funds in the process of getting his new album mastered and pressed.

Pretty amazing:

Flawless

This sand animation in real time by Kseniya Simonova is awe inspiring. Yes, it's worth the full eight minutes:

Love

"It's very hard for most of us to tolerate being loved."

George Vaillant,
"What Makes Us Happy?" The Atlantic, June 2009

Conflict (конфликт)

I just finished some minor remastering of Garry Bardin's film, Conflict (конфликт), the Soviet-era stop motion animation I recently mashed up with a track off Dark Night of the Soul — Just War, feat Gruff Rhys.

It's now uploaded to his channel, http://www.youtube.com/garrybardin, which will be a digital storage vault for all his films eventually.

He has some really great material that I'm looking forward to working on and uploading.

Here's Conflict in its original form, watchable in HD:

Videomaker

With the exception of the Brady Bunch for six-seconds, the following video was created entirely with footage I've filmed, animated and remixed for various projects over the last two years.

The footage of Wade Wolf, my deceased friend, was shot by Bryant Strachan and Isaac Cody Smith, who have been great comrades and generally wild and entertaining rogues. They went ballistic with a camera and a handful of DV tapes last summer, the Summer of the Wanabango, a used Winnebago they gutter punked down the West Coast and into the multitudinous desert trailer parks, filming everything non-stop while we were working on three episodes of Fail, my first film projects during which I was also teaching myself to edit video.

Wade Wolf was an inspiring guy to be around.

Enjoy:

November Rain - Literal Video Version

Here's my latest video, another collaboration with Alex Heitlinger — November Rain, interpreted literally. Alex wrote, sang, and mixed the vocals, and I cut the video, did additional audio mastering, and added some liner notes. Enjoy: