And when I choose my color, it will be razzle dazzle rose...
Things That Quicken The Heart
Director’s Cut: St. Vincent: “Marrow”
From Beck’s “Devils Haircut” to the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony”, great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director’s Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. The men and women behind the camera are often overlooked in today’s YouTube era, but this feature aims to highlight their hard work while showcasing the best videos currently linking around the internet. A little behind-the-scenes dirt couldn’t hurt, too.
VICE PHOTOS - By Miranda July & Roe Ethridge
Dear Julie,
Do you ever feel like an extra in your own life? It seems like I’m forever stuck in the background, watching all the people say and do all the things I feel inside. One day I’m gonna surprise everyone with my talents. They will be laughing and crying and and texting me so often that I will be annoyed.
Until then,
Sandy.
Look at what the light did now!!!!
“The biggest project I’m working on now is for a film that singer Leslie Feist is making with director Anthony Seck…” simone goes: Look at How the Light Moves Us
This summer, Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, The Tracey Fragments) and Shadow Shows, in collaboration with Arts & Crafts, will be filming a new feature film called THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN starring Broken Social Scene.
“The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her I love you madly , because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly . At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly that it is no longer possible to speak innocently, he will nevertheless have said what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence. If the woman goes along with this, she will have received a declaration of love all the same. Neither of the two speakers will feel innocent, both will have accepted the challenge of the past, of the already said, which cannot be eliminated; both will consciously and with pleasure play the game of irony But both will have succeeded, once again, in speaking of love.” - Umberto Eco
In the morning mist, the barely visible figure of a woman. As if on a tight rope, she walks along the edges of a stone pool, one step at a time. Close by, the same figure appears, creating a hand shadow on the wall of a rough concrete building, or contemplating its reflection in the calm waters of a lake…Recollections of childhood games, moments when one discovers in bewilderment that we are actually part of this world. Human presence discretely seeps into the landscapes, softly slides in. A posture, a slight gesture… and a link is established. A shadow is cast, an object is picked up, a reflection is seen : the effect of a being on his surroundings always remains slight. The body may then make its imprint by proxy, by mere projection. Points of contact appear, bonds are woven, and these minimalist spaces become territories of introspection (…)
Raphaëlle Stopin in Nextlevel no.4, 2003
“Saskamodie” is Mocky’s first release for Crammed Discs. He is listed as playing drums, bass, rhodes, piano, guitar, percussion, bells, recorder, vocals, whistle, organ and toys as well as writing string arrangements. Taylor Savvy, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, and Feist contribute additional instrumental and backing vocal performances that make this record sound more like a live performance than a studio creation.
Named after a song he made up when he was seven using imaginary words, “Saskamodie” is a new future/retro classic: a return to pure musical expression by a cutting edge artist who is no longer bound by the electronic music scene.
