BEST, JUST BEST

I came across Carl Burgess' video for Ratatat's Drugs via The Art Fag and can't get over how wonderfully weird it is for a music-video. I wasn't that familiar with Burgess' work, but I'm now hooked (and on another note, his website is amazing too). Such a subtle and seemingly simple way to play with stock images. The strange Getty collection of zombie smiles and creepy Santas is made weirder against the electro-beats of Ratatat. Moreso, that lighting, the outfits and the backdrop is just all so hyper-generic against the synthetic sounds. Here is an interview with Burgess from Fast Code Design if you want to read more (image courtesy of Fast Code's site).

PS: I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye for my first time and just kept thinking of Holden Caulfield spouting about these phonies.

GIF REAL

I've always wanted to organize an exhibition of the best GIFs. Or maybe something more theoretical and curated, but involving GIFs. It'd be a costly endeavour, but I'd love to walk around a room of flashing digital images. How happy was I then to find Pierre le Hors' GIF CASTLE, a more economical way to present the little moving images?

Here, le Hors translated a collection of demon GIFs onto sticky-notes that were then built into this sort-of castle. The installation reinvents the historical gargoyle as architectural element. It's an interesting process to print the changing images onto a stack of sticky notes. I wonder if he lets you pick them up and flip through them...