happy late turkey day

Hope everyone had a swell Turkey day with friends and family. Those are different coloured feathers, not little trees on the back of the turkey hand fellow. Don't be alarmed, this did not take a long time to compose...or did it. hehe.

Spoon - "Jealously"

As many of you may know, (the three or two, possibly just one that reads this) I am graduating next month. I am not one for excuses but pardon the lack of posts recently–you would think since I am on the computer more it would equal more posts. Not so my friends.

During the crazy hours of working on the portfolio, many tunes are played in my speakers and some of them stay in my head for hours, on non-stop rotation. This is one of them; its not a bad thing at all, its one of my favourite songs and its from one of my favourite eps, from one of my all time favourite bands--Spoon-"Love Ways-EP". Enjoy the video for "Jealousy" and if you can get a hold of the ep, I highly recommend it.


Spoon - Jealousy

Spoon
Merge Records

Alice - Jan Svankmajer

In keeping with my long stretch of other folk's work I like to introduce Jan Svankmajer's film Alice, the original absurdly amazing 1988 interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. This stop-action, animation, live action, creepy, fun, film mixes all of those afore mentioned words into a visual adventure only Svankmajer can tell. At one time the whole feature was available on youtube but thanks in part to proper copy right restricitons only bits and pieces are now streamable. If you have a netflicks or blockbuster account put it on your cue yo. Enjoy the clip below and see you down the rabbit hole.



IMDB
First Run Films
Jan Svankmajer

Helvetica - dvd release date

"Due to some unavoidable manufacturing delays, the release date of the retail DVD of Helvetica has been pushed back two weeks to November 20th. The DVD will not be available in stores worldwide until that date. If you’ve pre-ordered the DVD from our site (or the limited-edition box set) your copy will be shipped one week prior to the new date. Institutional orders are still shipping and are not affected. Our apologies on this, sorry for any inconvenience." (helveticafilm.com/blog/)

To get in the spirit of the forthcoming dvd release here are two clips that I am sure everyone has seen more than five times. Why not make it a sixth or tenth time. Did I just post a blog from a blog? Yes! Yes, I did. I also gave credit to whom deserves credit. Below are the clips of Experimental Jetset and Erik Spiekermann. If you are not familiar with their them or their work, go explore the links below.


Erik Spiekermann


Experimental Jetset

Helvetica Film
SpiekermannPartners
Experimental Jetset