The once funny classic Bud ad, made bearable again by Mathias Lachal.
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My favourite member of the group used to be Karl with his impish good looks and funky drumbeats, but over time I’ve come to appreciate Florian Schneider because of his mysteriousness and obvious sense of humour. Both he and Ralf Hutter have come across as cold and humourless in recent years because of the minimal interviews and stilted language used, all this stuff about ‘musical workers’ and the machines operating themselves. It wasn’t always so…
Check out this performance of ‘Pocket Calculator’ from Italian show Discoring in 1981. Aside from the Italian language version of the song (I think) check the little humorous interactions between Ralf and Karl on the left at 2.24 and 4.40. Best of all are the closing seconds as the presenter says goodbye, watch Florian on the right.
Did you see that? He made the rabbit ears sign behind the presenter’s head! You can see him getting ready too, he knows he going to do it and lines himself up for the moment.
Another performance of the same song in New York yields more playful antics from Schneider too. Along with letting members of the audience press buttons on the calculator he mugs to camera, miming electronic letters ‘a’ and ‘o’ and pretends to be electrified when pressing the calculator.
In Rio de Janeiro back in 1998 Florian endured this quick non-interview in which he’s clearly enjoying giving away as little as possible in order for it to be over with.
And who could forget the closing shot of their Tomorrows World performance of ‘Autobahn’?
But the prize goes to Ralf Hutter for his casual lyrical amendment to the last verse of ‘The Model’ at an Edinburgh soundcheck in 1991.
Click >>>The Model – Edinburgh soundcheck ’91
WARNING! Lots of Strobe action!
I was lucky enough to see an early version of this a few weeks back, it had more colour then but it’s been scaled back and is all the better for it. This is Melt Yourself Down‘s second single on the Leaf label with a great video by Morgan Beringer
Love these posters that are appearing for Danny Boyle‘s new film, ‘Trance’. In fact, any poster featuring Rosario Dawson and some Op-Art is a winner with me. *update: I had to go in and remove the Facebook logos, they are just too horrible, the posters are so much better without them.
Now that’s how to use archive footage, truly stunning, if that doesn’t win video of the year there’s no justice.
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Andy Votel presents: Kleksploitation – 17 March 2013
A homage to Pan Kleks, a Polish trilogy of films for children from the 1980s, loved by Poland’s children from that era. Electronic musician, DJ and music producer Andy Votel draws on images, music and sound from the original films, selecting and subverting, to coax their darker side to the surface and create something wholly original, unsettling and – at times – weirdly humorous.
The Pan Kleks trilogy was scored by Andrzej Korzyński, a Warsaw composer whose unearthed catalogue Votel is currently releasing on his Finders Keepers label, including music written for Andrzej Żuławski’s incredible Possesion.
Want to go to this, tickets available here
Starting this year at Birmingham’s Think Tank Science Museum is Dome Club, run by the Planetarium manager Mario Di Maggio. Named after a random remark I made to Mario after a 2 hour screening session (“the only rule of Dome Club is: Everyone must talk about Dome Club”) he’s gone ahead and set one up. His site has wisely used a different motto:
‘No-one can be told what Dome Club is. You have to see it for yourself’
This isn’t hyperbole as anyone who has been to a planetarium will tell you, you can’t put this on YouTube, it doesn’t work like that, instead of looking through the window you’re inside the room with a dome film.
Every Dome Club evening will begin with a variety of fulldome shorts, followed by one of three main performances:
• Chaos & Order – forty scientific visualisations set to superb original music in four movements
• Fractals! – the record-breaking fulldome spectacular by the Fractal Foundation (you may think fractals are old hat, you won’t think that once you’ve seen them shown on a dome)
• The Search Engine – the first fulldome music production by London’s DJ Food (*cough* – this won’t begin until April though)
They also have two special performances of Dark Side of the Moon scheduled for Thu 7th and Fri 8th March. Additionally, supporting the Birmingham Art Gallery exhibition Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City (23 March – 23 June 2013), they will be screening tempus ruhr weekly at 5.30PM over that period. Dome Club ticket holders who arrive early can see tempus ruhr for free.
Tickets are now available for weekly Dome Club evenings – every Thursday – for all scheduled performances up to 20th June: They have allocated seating available with seats in the rear three rows (the sweet spot in any dome showing) costing £6.00 and the front three rows £5.00 (£1.50 and £1.00 for tempus ruhr).
It all happens at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, Millennium Point, Curzon St, B4 7XG, UK.
This may well be sold out by the time you read this *SOLD OUT* but what a great teaser poster for the film ‘A Field in England’ from Luke Insect and Kenn Goodall. The film is Ben Wheatley’s follow-up to ‘Sightseers’ and the poster is available as a limited print from Rook Films.
I could probably watch these for a while… from my favourite gif site gifmovie.
Very funny and not always SFW
The first trailer drops on Dec 10th but here’s a look at the Gipsy Danger monster-fighting Jaeger bot from Guillermo Del Toro’s forthcoming Pacific Rim film, due out next July. The silhouette of a human at the bottom shows the scale of it.
And now there’s a second one, a Russian ‘Cherno Alpha‘ bot, there are also a couple of teaser films doing the rounds and ‘leaked documents’ relating to these blueprints.
And then there were four five: 
that’s some BIG robot action next year
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Just saw this, beautiful music and video on Erased Tapes.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”380″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lYFO_tKlE&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
I’m not going to comment on the recent Disney buys Lucasfilm story or the current media scramble to find out who will be starring and directing because… honestly, I don’t give a shit. As I posted the other day, the other SW franchise hook up is with Angry Birds and I have to say, this is very well done. My kids play the game and if the new films failed to sell it to a new generation then this is a good start on the next one.
Wow, this is right up my street. A video collage for The Simonsound remix of Beta Hector‘s ‘Trust Me‘, featuring clips from Psychomania, Mala Morska Vila mixed with oil projections performed on overhead projector. The original song, featuring Rosi Lalor on vocals, is re-imagined by The Simonsound as mythical adventure story, told using analogue synthesisers, Optigan orchestra, home made percussion, pre recorded flute replayed and performed on reel to reel tape machine, and a scattering of voices plucked from the ether.
Available as a free download from Tru Thoughts Records
Love this tumblr of Olly Moss-inspired minimal movie posters. You’ll need a while to go through them but I’ve picked some that caught my eye, I seem to be obsessing over circular designs at the moment.
Happy Halloween from those lovely Sculpture chaps, I could look at this all day.
Just in time for Halloween The Herbaliser premiere the video for their next single, ‘March of The Dead Things (Night Of The Necromantics)‘ featuring Canadian duo Teenburger.
Directed by Caley Maclenan and shot on location in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this year it sees the zombie apocalypse happen right in the middle of their new video shoot. Damn! The group sent out a message to fans in the city to sign up for the shoot and gain entry to an exclusive gig whilst they were in town.
You can grab the new album, ‘There Were Seven’ from their online store on vinyl or download (Hit the red ‘shop’ tab, top right). If you want CD it’s available in all good stores, distributed by Kudos.
Jealous of all those in the vicinity of Glasgow tomorrow for this event.
Nice way to start the day 