Lost Bubbles...

Video of a 1936 modernistic soap ad by Karel Dodal and Irena Dodalova.

John Baldessari in 6 minutes...

The History of John Baldessari, in 6 minutes. Tom Waits touches on the life and accomplishments of artist John Baldessari in this entertaining little video.

(Top image by me with apologies to John Baldessari)

Book Thugs...

"Read So Hard- Got Paper Cuts..." A great little rap about living the book life!  Take a look.

Watch Your Dubstep...

Incredible 'dubstep' robotic dancing video.

Time Travel...

A cool music video made with the use of a vintage animated film about "The Story of Oil".

Statuesque Moves...

Great video by Spanish street artist Sam 3 that mixes classic sculpture with dance music.

Rescued Letters...

Video made from old slides of ABC logos that were found in storage boxes lying around near the art dept. of ABC Studios.

Neon Noir...

A captivating video( and song) by Radiohead featuring the neon and other the lights found in NYC.

Ring, Ring...

An incredibly fun and eye-catching promo (?) video from Kansas City based design studio MK12. Via Public School.

Video For The People...

A very inspiring version of Michael Jackson's Beat It sponsored by the State Administration of Video Propaganda, and KFC.

Rave Heart...

A great 'gothic noir' video (á la Tim Burton) for The Raveonettes' Heart of Stone, directed and animated by Chris Do.

Graphic Noir...

A cool little black and white animated movie by designer/illustrator Richard McGuire.

The Heart of Vegas...

I've always liked Coppola's One From the Heart and I finally found a decent quality clip of this memorable scene that features Natassja Kinski  dancing in a neon wasteland outside of Vegas.

Check out some authentic vintage Vegas signage here. 

Nighthawks...

A nice little typographic video of the Tom Waits song "Nighthawks at the Diner".

Elevator Going Up...

An amazing video made by artist Marco Brambilla for the elevators of the Standard Hotel in NYC. Heaven shows while going up, and Hell on the way back down- to the streets of New York.

As great as New York City is, sometimes it really is a 'Hell of a Town'.

Here's an amusing New York/Hell comparison by actor/comedian Roberto Benigni from New Yorker magazine.

An Infographic Tale...

I found this great vid posted on a friend's Facebook page. It's an updated version of Little Red Riding Hood using infographics,with added details like the nutritional value of Granny etc. The concept comes from a Royksopp music video that also uses information graphics.

Pulp Fiction

One of my hobbies is collecting "Good Girl Art" paperbacks. Above are a couple of new additions to that collection that I snatched up on a recent book excursion to Charlottesville VA.

The term Good Girl Art (G.G.A. for short) is collector's lingo referring to the art rather than the seductive and often 'bad' girls illustrated on the covers of these pocket sized pulps, which were churned out by publishers during the 40's - late 60's.

Also attached is a video I made with some of my covers showing the variety of great illustrations and varied genres of these covers. Enjoy.
( I'd never tried iMovie before, but had fun learning the basics while creating this)