While social distancing, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down rehearsed for 5 hours before filming a synchronized Zoom video for their new song, Phenom. Fantastic.
Art
80 PostsFleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) and his poems Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil).
The definitive online edition of this masterpiece of French literature, the site contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations.
9-Eyes, artist Jon Rafman's blog of images from Google maps is back after resting for 5+ years.
Pocket is a short film meant to be watched on your phone using headphones. It has mature themes and is excellent. 18 minutes. Directed by Mishka Kornai.
Ripple is a short film by Connor Griffith. "It's a flurry of frame-by-frame images, mostly from Google Earth and Wikipedia, that depict the many developed and undeveloped surfaces on the planet." — the Atlantic
Hamburg's garbage men portray their city in the Trashcam Project — with their garbage containers. Standard 1.100 litre containers are transformed to giant pinhole cameras. With these cameras the binmen take pictures of their favourite places to show the beauty and the changes of the city they keep clean every day.
And here's a shot of one of the men positioning the camera:
The entire set is on the project's Flickr page.
"As long as something creates a reaction it’s alive," says Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian born artist from the city of Loano. Known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits.
More of Anzeri's work can be seen in this Yatzer profile:
Check out her web site.
Mike Stilkey paints on books.
More on his official website:
Jeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters and then reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures and other sculptures. He does not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together — the process is entirely cold assembly.
His guiding principles:
Emulation is beautiful.
Sustainability is crucial.
Patience is paramount.
Abundance abides.
These principles are expanded on on Mayer's website: