“Todd Bieber was skiing in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and found a roll of film. After having the film developed, and enjoying what he saw, he is now on a quest to return the film to it’s rightful owner.
There's something mesmerizing about a steel ball on a track. It's the anticipation, I suppose. In Thinking Machine by Martin Riches and Masahiro Miwa the artists have cleverly implemented a ternary computer with levers and tracks that constantly cycle steel balls down internal structures towards three chimes that ring out a computed melody.
Words by Kallie Markle.
Music: “Window” - The Album Leaf
Jesse Rosten says: I have a deep affection for the Redwood forests of Northern California. This is my best attempt to capture the reverence I feel when in the presence of these giants.
Every New Year’s Eve, half of all Germans plunk down in front of their televisions to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One. Walk into any bar in Bavaria and shout the film’s refrain: “The same procedure as last year, madam?” The whole crowd will shout back in automatic, if stilted, English: “The same procedure as every year, James.” Even though Dinner for One is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most frequently repeated TV program ever, it has never been aired in the United Kingdom or the United States, and most of the English-speaking world is ignorant of its existence. When Der Spiegel probed the mystery last New Year’s, it found that the BBC had not only never contemplated broadcasting this veddy British nugget in the United Kingdom, the BBC’s spokesperson had never even heard of it.
Director and DP Alex Fischer employs a simple technique to generate a powerfully memorable result in this video for Apollo Run for the single Stars off of their EP Here Be Dragons Vol. 1. Simple and beautiful both in song and image.
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by Nathan Krämer
on 12/30/2010
