“The finished animation is mostly made from early twentieth century photographs that I found while browsing through the vast collection of the U.S. Library of Congress. I also used old postcards from New York that I purchased at a flea market in Paris. Most of the time I would only zoom into a tiny portion of the picture and utilise that as my frame.
“The hardest part was to make it look as if it had been pasted together from a lost reel depicting this curious experiment where they’d lightened up a piano and thrown it off a building only to see what would happen. The kind of unnecessary crash test executed under the sole purpose of drooling over the beauty of slow motion.”
Brazilian house duo The Twelves are getting tons of noise for their white-hot remixes, from club kids and indie nerds alike. Not just Furries, like the pic suggests.
Jonathan Ratcliff snapped this pic of San Francisco’s drum-and-guitar duo, The Ferocious Few, down on Powell & Market. What’s rad about them, on top of their raw-ass sound, is that they play all around town. Like, on the street. A lot. Check their MySpace for dates and tunes.
Krystalline Armanderiz aniamted this music video made up of zillions (or so) of YouTube vids. Clicking on each one takes you to that vid. You gotta be fast. The RickRoll’s only up for a flash. Watch and click here.
A night of many firsts … My first time at the historic Mystic. My first Devendra show. Plus, a setlist crammed with a ton of songs performed live for the very first time. Including an impromptu first by an audience member.
