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Category Archives: Dance
USPE candidate support by gender via Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.
Steve writes:
Remove the male franchise anyone??
MORE: Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump (FiveThirtyEight)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABz2m0olmPg
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this viral commercial for KENZO perfume – directed by the mighty Spike Jonze and starring apparently possessed actress Margaret Qualley – has very little to do with perfume.
You may recall Spike Jonze’ video for Fatboy Slim’s ‘Weapon of Choice’ featuring Chistopher Walken.
This one has a similarly spacious interior set, subtle camerawork and a rather excellent original track by Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums feat. Assassin – Mutant Brain.
Full screen and volume up highly recommended.
It’s good and twitchy.
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Edvard Munch’s The Scream action figure from Japanese manufacturer Figma.
Previously: Vitruvian Action Man
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Fanous painter socks from Chattytfeet by designers Sam Green, Mónica Monteiro, and Ciğdem ‘Chi’ Michalski.
Above: ‘Frida Callus’ and ‘Feetasso’, ‘David Sock-Knee’, ‘Vincent Van Toe’ and, God forgive them, ‘Andy Sock-Hole’.
Niall Gubbins writes:
Spotted in Fields Supervalu in Skibb at the weekend. The dancing in the music video is only glorious.
Portraits of Bolshoi ballerina Olga Kuraeva by Alexander Yakolev.
MORE: Ballerina Expresses Raw Emotions through Portraits of Delicate Dance Movements (My Modern Met
Wood burring stoves by Burned By Design (€400 – €875 (ex P+P) for a range of designs including storm trooper, Boba Fett, R2D2 and the two mutually antagonistic xenomorphs above.)
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‘Soul In Feet’ – Images from the portfolio of St. Petersburg based Russian ballet photographer and professional ballerina Darian Volkova.
A rather excellent video for Disco by composer Ralf Hildenbeutel directed by Boris Seewald and featuring impressionistic visions of real life dancers Althea Corlett and Simone Schmidt.
The technique (best known in the video for A-Ha’s ‘Take on Me’) is called rotoscoping and involves the painstaking animation of drawings and paintings created, in this case, from photo transparencies.