Big hair 6
Video for Patrick Wolf’s Hard Times.
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China Girl!
Anja Rubik photographed by Sølve Sundsbø – and Zhang Ziyi photographed by Yu Tsai – for the always incredible Muse magazine.
Iggy Pop: China Girl
Electric Barbarella
Video for Duran Duran’s Electric Barbarella.
Vertigogo
Video for Combustible Edison’s Vertigogo. From the film Four Rooms (1995).
C’mon, sing along . . .
Do yah dot’n duy ba da dot’n duy yah oo-ee dot’n duy. Oo-ee zabba duy do yah zabba dot’n doo-ee dot’n duy. Zoo-ee bah,dabba do yah da da dwee-a-dabba da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada! buh-dee,buh-die, buh-doy,buh-dot’n duy buh-dee,buh-dot’n duy. Buh-dee,buh-die, buh-doy,buh-dot’n duy buh-dee,buh-dot’n duy. Zoo-ee bah,dabba do yah da da dwee-a-dabba da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada! Aaaaaaaaah. aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah. aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah. Ooh, ooh . . . Oooooooooooh. Do yah dot’n duy ba da dot’n duy yah oo-ee dot’n duy. Oo-ee zabba duy do yah zabba dabba doo-ee dot’n duy. Zoo-ee bah dabba do yah da da do-yah dabba da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada! da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada! AAAIIII!!
April in Paris
‘one more time’
BBC bird-filled animated version of Count Basie’s version of April in Paris (1957) – the song that just wouldn’t end.
El Lissitzky: ‘Frankreich’
Cover design by El Lissitzky for Roget Ginzburger’s Frankreich (France) 1929.
From Neues Bauen in der Welt, a book series on modern architecture published in Vienna.
Below, recent release by Brooklyn-based Dream Diary, El Lissitzky.
Dream Diary: El Lissitzky
Antònia Font: Robot
‘video del robot madison de antonia font’
Elektro: The robot that smokes!
‘Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons and move his head and arms.’
Westinghouse’s Elektro from his appearance at the 1939 World’s Fair.
More info (and construction diagram) here.
Meat Beat Manifesto: I am Electro, feat. Elektro
1940s London in colour
‘These photographs were taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949.’
Click on the images for larger images/zoom features/jump.
DJ Munoz/London Calling: You Drive Me Crazy (Yellow Drill Remix)
Images found via Peter Serafinowicz
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