I promised myself at some point in the past year or so that I’d stop forgetting the Paleofuture blog I love so much. (Yeah, that worked out.) While I wasn’t watching this time, the creator decided to start putting together video montages on specific topics related to the world of tomorrow. Upshot to just realizing this now: not one but two videos to get started – one on food, one on the apocalypse.
(Did anyone else hear Orson Welles say “nuke-u-ler”?)
David Herbert’s 2005 sculpture/monolith VHS is an 8-foot-tall video cassette copy of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. What does this piece mean? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m just going to assume it’s an audacious statement against Betamax.
Imagine if Siouxsie had performed in the Galleria à la Tiffany or Debbie Gibson. Don’t stretch your imagination too far, though, because it would have looked something like this:
I love it when BMW goes to the movies. I’m sure you remember their 2001-2002 films starring Clive Owen – most notably “Star” with Madonna in the backseat of an M5. Proving what a difference a decade makes, the newest series of BMW videos, “Wherever You Want To Go,” will be focusing on the future of mobility. From really expensive productions about the BMW lifestyle…to basically the same thing but about green technology and human scale transportation solutions. Anyway, it should be a lot of fun and the videos will be released all throughout February, beginning on the 1st.
Made famous by BMW, the concept of the art car has picked up another German manufacturer as participant: Mercedes-Benz. MB sponsored a four car installation entitled Recollection Quartett which places iconic models from the marque inside of sculptures conceived by Frederik Heyman and styled by a trio of fashion designers. All a part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin (where else?).
Rock group Angels & Airwaves’ Tom DeLonge (formerly of Blink 182) produced and created the music for the spacey film Love. The movie’s about a astronaut stuck alone on a space station, and the visuals are remarkable.
Plus, the music is pretty gripping (something I was earlier dreading when I first read of A&A’s involvement, I was wrong it’s lovely).
And it is…and I did, too. I really don’t like Angels & Airwaves all that much (though the visuals for their first single, “The Adventure” – oddly, set in space – did allow me to partake for a viewing or two) but this soundtrack (if the trailer is to be believed) is sublime.
I wish I could set my blog posts to remind me about things because I want to remember to see this movie. Perhaps a new plugin to research? I also really should finish Moon, I’m realizing…
We need more high-end hot hatches to change our perceptional relationship between size and value, or someday we’ll all be driving performance-chipped diesel pickups…
Over at Jalopnik, Mike Spinelli takes the Audi RS3 on a forbidden North American test drive and comes away with Ten Reasons America Needs the Audi RS3 Sportback. I could add a dozen other hot hatch models to that list, half of which don’t even stray out of the VW empire!
After a solid nine hours of travel, a delirious trip to the grocery store and then unpacking before crashing hard, I have recovered enough to bring you these images of my trip to Detroit (which is kind of like a Robocop theme park):
Of particular note in the set are is the casino photo which pretty much captures the blurry state of mind leaving Nero’s and the creepy pictures of the “indoctrinate an autoworker” Detroit Science Center.
