Video: Sigur Rós: Varúð
Kind of a left field post here, but the video below is artfully done, as is most of Sigur Ros' videos, and the music is hypnotic, much like the visuals. I enjoy the fact that they don't use stereotypes of model girls and other cliche video props and try to illustrate the music with more poetic grace. By the end of the shoot, the girl probably had to get a tetanus shot from the barefoot skipping, but it looks nice!
Sigur Rós: Varúð from
Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on
Vimeo.
LAURENCE DEMAISON
I am a big fan of dark art, but not everything dark, as some of it is too "ham fisted" and obvious. However, the work of
Laurence Demaison seems to carry the darkness through more creative territory, somewhere between surrealism and fashion photography. I enjoy the distorted faces and bodies and mostly black and white images that he churns out. Check out his work below and see how to push the boundaries of shadow and light with photographs.
MOTHER NATURE: AN OLDY BUT GOODY
This is an old photograph but still amazes me when I look at it. Look closer, and you may be able to make it out, that yes, this is a photograph, not a painting. As
National Geographic remarks of the photograph taken in Namibia,
"Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park."
The power of nature combined with right time, right place-ism! Even if it ever turns out to be Photoshopped, which NG claims it is not, it still looks awesome.
