Posts Tagged ‘shardcore’
30-05-10
Korsakoff’s Psychosis by Return to Netley Things Have Changed
Revisiting some footage of atomic tests. Explosions often feature in my videos. Some of this was used previously in Queens of the Stone Age – In My Head. Read into it what you will, but I find these explosions to be very seductive.
The song is by shardcore with whom I recently saw Philip Glass perform Koyaanisqatsi live. It might have influenced this video a bit.
I’ve been busy recently, with work and my guitar, but it’s nice to have an afternoon to give to FCP.
77 views on youtube.
13-05-10
Awesome birthday card from shardcore
An awesome birthday card from shardcore perhaps influenced by my gift to myself of a Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amp. I’m 41.
28-04-10
The State of Punk
I grew up on the King’s Road in the 70s and as such have a fondness for the punk movement, even though I recognise it was always an extremely middle class movement (The King’s Road is in Chelsea, after all). It was always clear that the hairstyles and clothing required to look as if one didn’t care took hours to prepare and maintain. It was for punks, not Farrah Fawcett clones that those half-metre cans of hairspray were made.
But by 1980, to paraphrase Withnail, they were selling Mohawk wigs in Woolworths and now the whole style of the movement has been adopted by hipsters born in the 90s who think they’re terribly clever to have discovered it for themselves. But Hipsters get it wrong. They latch onto the irony of the movement but pull up short of the subversive offensiveness that gave punk it’s teeth.
The question haunts me: To what extent is a punk attitude even possible any more? Read more…
26-03-10
Manners by Return to Netley Things Have Changed
It’s nice to use music to which I have the rights, or at least whose rights belong to a friend (shardcore) who is unlikely to complain.
I’m not sure why I was so fixated on spanking for this video -- it’s not a fetish, but I’ve always associated *manners* with parental punishment and I had Catholic discipline in my mind, for some odd reason, and they love that stuff. Using footage from *Drugs are Like That (1979)*, *The Innocents (1961)*, *The Bad Seed (1956)* & *Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)*.
164 views on youtube.
26-02-10
Hominid by Return To Netley Things Have Changed
I made a video for the song Hominid by Return To Netley Things Have Changed (onetime project of shardcore), with footage from some odd behavioural experiments with a child and a chimp that I found on archive.org.
It does not come as a surprise to me that while I was using twitter and other *social* networks, my productivity dropped to nothing. Deleting my online accounts suddenly returned the time and focus that had been consumed by irrelevancies. I’m just saying… ymmv.
270 views on youtube.
12-07-09
Zabriskie LaLaLa
Footage from Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point cut to Shardcore’s LaLaLa.
110 views on youtube.