Floria Sigismondi

Well know. Pretty good. Here's some. Enough said.

Turn the volume down and this one shouldn't upset you too much

Leonard Cohen's "In My Secret Life"

(Another amazing Leonard Cohen vid, although not Sigismondi is First We Take Manhattan, it is a little dated though)

If androgynous men in frilly knickers and leg braces are your kinda bag..

I blame this video for my phobia of Robert Smith

The birdman from 1.39 is enough to make this one of my favourite music vids ever

The release of Burton's much awaited adaptation of Alice reminded me of Jan Švankmajer's surreal and nightmarish rendition, which I was shown during one of the many inspiring and bizarrely eclectic lectures of my Foundation year.

Švankmajer is a Czech surrealist who's influence has percolated thought to many of todays animators and directors, few more so than Tim Burton.

Introduction to the white rabbit;

And one more I discovered today; this has to be one of the best films to show his trademark style; exaggerated sound effects, the

personification of inanimate objects and surreal nightmarish humor

Emilie Simon

Words fail me.

There isn't one thing I dislike about this video.

...except that I didn't make it. Does that count?

Nor can I find out who did make it... Working on it though...

Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa

Sigur Rós create some of the best 'thinking' music of all time.

That's just a fact.

So every now and then, when neither Jeremy Kyle nor Snog Marry Avoid is on, I will sit down and feign deep thought. It is best to set a performance like this to a suitably cerebral soundtrack, and Sigur Rós is perfect for this.

In other news, they apparently do quite nice videos too

Cibo Matto

I think this is universally renowned as one of Gondrys best music videos, but being a music video philistine (I blame my MTV starved youth), I had never seen it before.

I love the layout of the split screen, and the reversed footage of one of the characters works so well. Typically, Warner Bro's have had embedding disabled, but check it out here.

Although you really need to see the movement to get it, these stills are a poor attempt at summarizing the vid..

Final Major What?

Shit. I am officially well into Final Major Project (don't ask me HOW far in, I'm no scientist..) and I have so far spent X amount of weeks, lazing around reading poetry/watching Snog Marry Avoid (I'm a strong believer in cultural balance in ones life) instead of, well, working.

So today, after rigorously tidying/dusting/vacuuming/disinfecting my entire room (any student knows this is an essential prelude to any attempt at work), I have decided the best way to proceed is to revive the sketchblog.

Well, it passes the time, doesn't it?

There will be tears and tantrums unless I win the lottery ASAP

I'm reasonably sure that every fashion student, particuarly those stuck in the medway- arsehole of the world, spend a fair amount of time constructing their 'dream life'. Let's be honest, nobody can spend that much time around beautiful things and not think that they would like to maybe, own something thats not from primark.
While I'm sure this is a perfectly common and valid pastime, I may be pushing it a bit far; for example, I have a list of things that I will have in the chic little two bedroom Kensington flat (which I will own, not rent) ranging from Biba wallpaper and Ligne Rose lounger to a pornographicly huge range of pornographically expensive shoes (to be displayed on a single wall on perspex shelves) and a lazy yet personable siamese cat. So, in the interests of dream-world safety, I will be dream-world investing in a Ruby Atelier helmet for my dream-world Vespa.
I hope everyone will follow suit!


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