All Things Art & Photography
The Robots are coming and it’s not pretty…. Vincent Fournier spends his time thinking about technology, tweaked nature and how humans interface with this new world order. His series on Robots titled The Man Machine is wonderful and a bit frighting….
Don”t miss his new series Post Natural History
All Image via the artist web site
The Robot Photographs of Vincent Fournier
Check out Sean Hayes playing this sweet version of his of Powerful Stuff live.
Music Break: Sean Hayes Sings Powerful Stuff (Live)
Jun Miyake is a Japanese composer and trumpeter of some renown who composed this tune for a Wim Wenders documentary on Pina Bausch. But this anonymous video is a really interesting mashup of old dance routines, slightly off the beat which gives it a tension you can’t take your eyes off of. (Even more interesting as a visual comment to Bausch’s work). A very rare find and a work of art in itself. It seems to be an act of love as no credit for the person that put this together except linkszumliebhaben.
Video Mashup: Jun Miyake – Lillies of the Valley
Obviously influenced by the conceptual photographic artist John Baldessari and his ever present dots, Julie Cockburn takes it another step further and proves the more time you spend on your work the better you can see it. By stitching or collaging directly onto found photographs she makes them all her own. See her current exhibition at Yossi Milo.
The Altered Found Photographs of Julie Cockburn
Let’s start out the year in a simple fashion. John Legend needs only an old piano and a crowed office to sound amazing. A sweet 15 minute Tiny Desk Concert from the folks at NPR who have gotten just about everyone to sing in their office.
And a few of my favorite women musical artists of 2013 with Buika who’s emotional/vocal chops are mind blowing and Laura Mvula (coming in at a tie for first) gets two as her cover of Michael Jackson’s song is incredible. (There are two even better live Mvula videos on this blog here.)
Happy New Year Music