Art + Architecture + Music posted on August 23rd, 2010

TRISA VONNA MICHELL is an artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection.

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David Byrne is a musician and artist most associated with his role as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction.

Nineteen Eighty Four posted on August 23rd, 2010

The exhibition entitled Nineteen Eighty Four at Austrian Cultura Centre in New York city, “examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which clearly reflected the historical background of totalitarianism, this exhibition attempts to distance itself from this source by considering forms of surveillance and control today, where an all-powerful apparatus as described in Orwell’s work appears overly simplistic.” more…

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Ridley Scott’s 1984 commercial for Apple.

The Dangerous Book Four Boys posted on August 23rd, 2010

The actor James Franco is making his New York debut with “The Dangerous Book Four Boys,” an exhibition of video, drawings, sculptures and installations at the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan.

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A stunning journey through canyons posted on August 16th, 2010

Rococo by Marco posted on August 9th, 2010

Here is the director’s cut of Kanye West’s “POWER” by Marco Brambilla. Artist Bloc’s very own Beau Dickson worked on this outstanding teaser which was inspired by Marco’s earlier work “CIVILIZATION“.

See full credit list for “POWER” here
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Be My KILLER posted on July 27th, 2010

DOUGLAS COUPLAND’s DIGITAL ORCA

BJORK & THE DIRTY PROJECTORS

Legacy posted on July 25th, 2010

The legendary electronic dance music duo Daft Punk are creating the soundtrack for the reboot of Disney’s TRON Legacy. Here is a taste of six instrumental bits they composed for the film.

The music is EPIC!

reckoner posted on July 22nd, 2010

Meet Me In The Basement posted on July 16th, 2010

This video was made as a response to the G20 Summit in Toronto June, 2010.
The rest speaks for itself.
It was sent to BSS by a lover of their music who wants to remain anonymous.

BSS is very proud to share this mash-up with you.
-Broken Social Scene

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nuff said posted on July 13th, 2010

The Cinematic Orchestra’s “To Build A Home” featuring Patrick Watson Live @ The Barbican in London, 2007