New Showreel : Maxim Zhestkov 2012

Fresh showreel from the Russian wonder kid of Motion Graphs Maxim Zhestkov, doesn't show any new works but its always a pleasure to revisit his stunning work.

Reel 2012 / Maxim Zhestkov from Maxim Zhestkov on Vimeo.

Vladislav Solovjov - Stellar

Magnificent motion graphics by Saint-Petersburg based Vladislav Solovjov, the short piece is a stunning view of the planet Earth and the Universe in its complete wonder that easily could be the intro to a epic sci-fi film. Vladislav Solovjov work is a serious reminder of another amazing Russian artist, the Ulyanovsk based motion graphics mega talent Maxim Zhestkov.

STELLAR from Vladislav Solovjov on Vimeo.

Maxim Zhestkov - Signal

СИГНАЛ / SIGNAL from Maxim Zhestkov on Vimeo.

New sci-fi short by the Russian motion graphs genius Maxim Zhestkov!!!!!!!

Resonance

"Resonance is the vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers / studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.

Animators and Audio Designers were paired up at the beginning of the project and were given the guidelines to create a piece between 12 and 20 seconds and in HD quality, the rest was up to them."

Watch | Resonance

Reinterpreted Title Sequence for 'Pi'

Reinterpreted Title Sequence for 'Pi' from Break Pixel on Vimeo.

Excelent reinterpretation title sequence from the classic movie 'Pi' by Darren Aronofsky

Sleazefest, Blu vs Os Gemeos Lisbon, Emeralds, Adele Blanc-Sec, Margherita Premuroso, Ruben Brulat, Blockhead, Menno Fokma, Our last talk, Mixtape

Sleazefest 26 June
Beach Pavilion Timboektoe
Wijk Ann Zee North Pier, North Holland

One of my favorite events in the festival calendar, it all started in 2000 in a farm near Amsterdam when a bunch of friends decided to invite some bands to jam, Sleazefest took roots and become an established event around Amsterdam.
Sleazefest means dirty, noisy, vulgar, cheap but in reality is a kick ass party where Rock N Roll, Punk Rock and Garage rules and its a great place to listen and discover great new bands bands. Sleazefest is organized by the one and only zZz from Amsterdam





Stop Motion film from the Blu vs Os Gemeos collaboration in Lisbon

Watch | Blu and Os Gemeos in Lisbon



Emeralds the Cosmic Cleveland drone/synth trio return with a new full-length on Editions Mego. "Does It Look Like I’m Here?" guitar synthesizers and analog synthesizers makes you come back to Blade Runner and think about christian fennesz flourished guitar and Gavin Russom psychedelic drones.

Watch | Emeralds - Genetic



"Les Aventures Extrodinaire d'Adele Blanc-Sec" adaptacion to cinema by Luc Besson.
“The adventures, set in Paris in the years before and after World War I, revolve around the protagonist Adèle Blanc-Sec. A cynical heroine, she is initially a novelist of popular fiction, who turns to investigative journalism as her research and subsequent adventures reveal further details of the mystical world of crime. Themes of the occult, corruption, official incompetence, and the dangers of patriotism suffuse the series.”

Watch | Adele Blanc-Sec



Delicious animation by Margherita Premuroso, an adorabel dreamer kid making a paper plane.

Watch | Paper Plane





Incredible work from French photographer Ruben Brulat, 21 and bought his camera only two years ago. "Immaculate" is a self-portrait series.

"When i started taking photographs of myself, it became obvious that it was easier to understand the malaise i had in these places, by getting naked i was feeling in total symbiosis. The more i was taking shots, the more i was understanding. Because, creating a fiction, may bring you closer to reality."



Awesome animated music video, Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.

"An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule."

Watch | Blockhead - The Music Scene



Mindblowing reel by Menno Fokma, Dutch creative based in Utrecht.

Watch | Menno Fokma 2010 Reel



Two friends of mine in Portugal got together for this short.
"Our Last Talk" Directed by Miguel Peres with Hugo Costa Ramos, long time apart father and soon have one last conversation.

Watch | A nossa última conversa / Our last talk


Audiopleasures Mixtape

Mp3 | Arch M - 21st union
Mp3 | Bath - ♥ [ Daedelus Remix ]
Mp3 | Crystal Castles - Suffocation [ Memory Tapes Remix ]
Mp3 | Delphic - Doubt
Mp3 | Exray's - Everything Goes
Mp3 | Moullinex - 1st Track Love
Mp3 | Pantha du Prince - Welt am Draht [ Animal Collective remix ]
Mp3 | TJ Kong & Nuno dos Santos - Emerald Bay feat.Edward Capel
Mp3 | Washed Out - You and I feat. Caroline Polachek
Mp3 | Wavves - Post Acid
Mp3 | We Are Wolves - Vague Frigid [ Beatbox remix ]
Mp3 | Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure

Off Center, Alma, Ellen Allien, Dani Brubaker, Toro y Moi, Graffiti Analysis, Bad Tits, Something In Construction, !!! , One Dot Zero, mY Indie Soul

Off Center Festival 26-29 May
@ Melkweg Amsterdam

This week starts in Amsterdam the first edition of the Off Center festival, the organization proposes to bring to this great city, innovative cutting edge electronic music, contemporary dance, visual art and film.



Gorgeous animation by Pixar Spanish Director Rodrigo Blaas.
Alma (Soul), a young girl becomes intrigued with a mysterious toy shop.

Watch | Alma



Bpitch label owner and fashion designer has releases a new album and a new video. With "Dust" Ellen Allien is reaching for a broader audience with some very fine Indie electronic tunes.

Mp3 | Ellen Allien - Sun the Rain (Edit)
Watch | Ellen Allien - Our Utopie





Part Choctaw Indian and part Californian, Dani Brubaker grew up by the code of the American Native Indian which venerates children and embraces freedom of self-expression, Its impossible not to be touched by her photography, the simplicity, depth and naturalite of the children comes from her roots and then developed while working for more than a decade with a award winning advertisement art director.



Bedroom pop multi instrumentalist Chaz Bundick aka Toro y Moi have released a new music video and a new free track called "Leave Everywhere"

Watch | Toro y Moi - You Hid
Mp3 | Toro y Moi - Leave Everywhere





"Graffiti Analysis 2.0 is a openFrameworks application that tracks motion of a graffiti tag and represents it digitally in three dimensions, accompanied by particle effects, somewhat stylised generative animations are generated,a project by Evan Roth with software development by Chris Sugrue, "

Watch | Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook



Death from Above 1979 dance-punk duo were finished 4 years ago, Bassist Jesse Keeler achieved great success with MSTRKRFT, drummer Sebastien Grainger announces the release of his new project "Bad Tits" with Josh Reichmann, the first insight comes with the music video Bankok Hilton taken from the Ep Garbage Night, Sebastien and Josh met during a Toronto garbage workers strike.

Watch | Bad Tits - Bankok Hilton



London label Something In Construction is offering a massive collecting of summer indie tunes called Better Pop Music including Washed Out, Phoenix, Air France, Caribou, Memory Tapes and Class Actress. Download



Dance-Punk collective !!! (chk chk chk) have anounce the release of a new album, "Strange Weather, Isn't It?" is will come later this summmer on Warp Records. The first singel AM/FM is availabel for listening Here



Onedotzero are seeking innovative short films, installations, interactive work and live audiovisual performances to showcase at the bfi southbank, london, uk, 10-14 november 2010. the five-day festival is the first stop on onedotzero's extensive worldwide network of events.

onedotzero_adventures in motion has been the largest dedicated digital short film festival in the world since 1999. over fourteen years the programme has expanded to embrace a wide range of digital motion arts and is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industries alike for providing a platform to explore new ideas and fresh innovation through curated compilation screenings, features, exhibitions, live av performances, club nights, presentations and panel discussions.

submit now ! this is your chance to showcase your work on an international platform and it is completely free to enter!


mY Indie Soul # 33
Electronic, Indie, Alternative, Electro, Electroclash, Industrial, Electropunk

Fresh new music from 2010 : Librarians, Jahcoozi, Ellen Allien, Lcd Soundsystem and Holy Fuck
Bombay Bicycle Club had a great album last year and my radar missed it
R.I.P. Poney Poney, Probably their best remix, now called Jamaica
The first track i ever heard from Warren Suicide
kick asssssssss Le Tigre, Chicks on Speed and T.Raumschmiere
and the always "EPIC" Kap Banbino

Download and Listen

Librarians - Present Passed
Jahcoozi - Barricaded feat. Barbara Panther
Ellen Allien - you
Lcd Soundsystem - All I Want
Holy Fuck - Red Lights
Bombay Bicycle Club - lamplight
Ryskee - Leave Me Amor [ Poney Poney Remix ]
Warren Suicide - The Girl Stood There
Benny Benassi vs Iggy Pop - Electro Sixteen [ The Japanese Popstars mix ]
T.Raumschmiere - Brenner
Le Tigre - FYR
Chicks on Speed - The Floating Pyramid over Frankfurt that the taxi Driver Saw when he was Landing
Kap Banbino - Hunger Texas

Compost Records 15, Noisia, Dan Oara, Maxim Zhestkov, Chateau Marmont,The Vader Project,Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose,Jose James,Bomb It,Sperber,Mixtape

Compost Records 15 Years Tour , Amsterdam 04 June Melkweg
Rainer Trüby (Compost) / Shahrokh (Shahrokh Sound of k. Compost-Black) / Roland Appel (Compost-black / sonar kollektiv)

The electronic Munich label founded by Michael Reinboth in 1994 had also a major importance in my first years while exploring electronic music.
It all started with early Ninja Tune, i was really drown to Jazz and beats, Trip Hop, Downtempo and then the German broken beats arrived, it was a very importante and logic shift in what i was listening at the time.
The Compost Legacy as an unbelivebel roster of talented people and some of my favroites were, Jazzanova, Beanfield, Native Force, Fauna Flash, Les Gammas, Forest Mighty Black, Rainer Truby Trio and Michael Rütten etc...

Listen | Compost 15 years



I was waiting for this video for some time and this week the collaboration between the Kick Ass Dutch drum n bass trio Noisia and German filmmaker Alexander Lehmann finally was released, lucky me that i have a beamer home and can watch this the way it should be seen, big screen loud sound.

Watch | Noisia & Mayhem ft. KRS One - Exodus





London based fashion photographer Dan Oara



The new masterpiece of Maxim Zhestkov Russian based creative director. It gives you time and space to imagine your place inside a 1960's Sci Fi Thriller, very elegant and the sound design is delicious.

Watch | Recursion



Great return from Parisiann space-disco quartet Chateau Marmont, since they remixed Midnight Juggernauts track Into the Galaxy in such a kick ass away that ive been a huge fan. The second EP, Nibiru will come also with a awesome remix from the DFA "Wizzard" Gavin Russom.

Mp3 | Chateau Marmont - Nibiru
Mp3 | Chateau Marmont - Monodrama [ Gavin Russom Remix ]



"The Vader Project originally premiered at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles in May 2007. From there it traveled to Star Wars Celebration Europe in London in June 2007. July 2007 brought 10 new helmets to the Star Wars Pavilion at the famed San Diego Comi-Con International. Then in July 2008, 13 Japanese artists joined forces with the existing Vader Project when their helmets premiered at Star Wars Celebration Japan.

Dov Kelemer & Sarah Jo Marks are Co-Curators The Vader Project and Co-Founders of DKE Toys, one of the largest designer vinyl and art-toy distributors in the world, exclusively representing over 100 companies, artists, and designers. Kelemer started the business selling Star Wars memorabilia more than 15 years ago. With The Vader Project he has finally found a way to meld both his passions. Marks divides her time between managing DKE art exhibitions and all DKE promotions including STUFFED."



Gorgeous music video, Boreas Borealis is taken from Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose 2010 album "Bridge Carols", drone folk.

Watch | Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose - Boreas Borealis



One of the voices that i like the most since i've heard it for the first time, in the collaboration between Fly Lo and Jose James on the track "Vision of Violet".
Jose second album "Blackmagic" is produced with the help of Flying Lotus and is out on Gilles Peterson Brownswood Recordings.
"Blackmagic" and "Made for Love" are sensational.

Mp3 | Jose James - Blackmagic
Listen | Jose James - Made for Love



"Bomb It is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.
Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70's and 80's, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today's most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You'll never look at public space the same way again.
BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo"

Watch | Bomb It





From the German based Illustrator/Graphic Designer Sperber Illustrationen


Audiopleasures Mixtape

Mp3 | Burns - Kiss N' Hold
Mp3 | Crookers feat. Soulwax & Mixhell - We Love Animals [The Love Supreme mix ]
Mp3 | Danton Eeprom - Thanks For Nothing [ Etienne Jaumet mix]
Mp3 | Double Dagger - Pillow Talk
Mp3 | Elite Gymnastics - We Fly High
Mp3 | Golden Silvers - True Romance [ Penguin Prison mix ]
Mp3 | Holy Ghost! - Say My Name
Mp3 | Marina And The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot [ Lovers & Gamblers Precious Little Diamond mix ]
Mp3 | Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt [ Dan Deacon mix ]
Mp3 | Sid Le Rock - Still Life
Mp3 | The Pony - Check The Door
Mp3 | To Rococo Rot - Horses

Download full Audiopleasures Mixtape

Amsterdam Street Art, How to Destroy Angels, BLU at Deitch Gallery, Flying Lotus,Up There,Lazer Crystal,Cherri Wood,The Fall, Born Free, The American

The line-up from the first Amsterdam Street Art festival in June: Flying Förtress, Orticanoodles, Dale Grimshaw, Pez, Recal One, The London Police, Faunagraphic, Nol, Kosher 74, FAKE, Farkfk, Ives.One, Galo, Indigo, Chase, Bue the Warrior and Hugo Kaagman.



First full track from the new Trent Reznor project How to Destroy Angels,
collaboration with his wife, former West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig.

Listen "A Drowning" via Pitchfork



This week found another awesome BLU mural

Watch | BLU at Deitch Gallery - New York - September 2009



Free track taken from the new Fly Lo Album 'Cosmogramma' out now on Warp Records.

Mp3 | Flying Lotus - Do the Astral Plane



A wonderful documentary about a lost art and a group of painters who put advertising way up on the side of buildings.

" I wrote this documentary along with my friends Malcolm and Christine, as part of The Ritual Project sponsored by Stella Artois " Up There

Watch | Up There



Great track and video from Lazer Crystal, ‘Love Rhombus’ is taken from their debut album ‘MCMLXXX’ on Thrill Jockey

Watch | Lazer Crystal – Love Rhombus
Mp3 | Lazer Crystal – Love Rhombus





" Cherri Wood is a young illustrator based in Minnesota. Her watercolor and ink studies explore the complex subtleties of the human form, roving the depths of feminine distress and despair. Describing her pieces as “a cluster of ink explosions,” she splashes the paper and canvas with diet coke and tea and smudges it with willow charcoal and graphite. Artwork frequently contains quotes and dialogue culled from a plethora of classic plays and short stories, narrating each work in their own special way. "



new music video taken from the new album from Manchester legendary Post-Punk band THE FALL !!! "Your Future Our Clutter" is out on Domino Records

"Your Future Our Clutter is The Fall at their most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best. With nine tracks that rock like raw fury, we see The Fall heading into their next decade with the same intensity with which they started."

Watch | The Fall - Bury! PTS 2 + 4



New campaign by the foundation "Born Free" against homeless animals.

Born Free believes wild animals need their wild habitats; their home, nothing can compare. Habitat loss is caused by deforestation, war, expansion of human populations and agriculture, climate change and much more. Where habitat loss occurs, species (whether large carnivore or amphibian) are forced into ever-decreasing, fragmented areas which in turn decreases prey numbers, water availability and species’ range. Additionally, human-wildlife conflict increases as encroachment occurs resulting in major problems for wildlife and local communities. Ultimately, habitat loss leads to wildlife population decline and extinction. Born Free



" The American" new movie from acclaimed Dutch director and photographer Anton Corbijn.

" Alone Among Assassins, a master craftsman Jack. When a job in Sweden ends Than Expected more harshly for this American abroad, he vows to touch His next assignment historian Larry That Will Be His Last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, Where he holes up in a small town and relishes Being away from death for a spell"

Watch | The American