Pacific! — “Love Isn’t Always On Time”
You’re familiar with the myth: an angel falls from heaven because of his love affair with a beautiful earth girl, well, change ‘angel’ to ‘alien’ and you have the storyline behind the pacific!. At least, that’s the plot that accompanies my fantasies while listening to this track.
Harold Lloyd was known as a true movie daredevil, most of his films had him performing some thrilling stunts, which kept his audiences in a sweat. Here is one of his famous stunts involved walking on skyscrapers and hanging from a clock tower in Safety Last.
Beach House — “Walk In The House”
Here’s a track from Beach House’s forthcoming record, “Teen Dream”, to be released by the oh so wonderful Sub Pop Records, their new label. Check out “Walk In The Park” below. Who knew such dreamy sounds could come from Maryland ?
Here is a collection of some of the most architecturally interesting subway stations. No one in France.
Vynil Fever — “The Prophet”
The Prophet uses some hard drums that make it seem like eery single hihat hit is backed by a bass drum. I mean these drums literally explode in your ears, but isn’t that what we all love?
To make “Synchromy” in 1971, Norman McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the piano rhythms of the soundtrack. The film’s soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.
After just 20 minutes in a helicopter above the Manhattan skyline, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire was ready to re-create a city that took hundreds of years to build. Wonderful work. More pictures here.
Christopher Hewitt is a self taught Director, Designer, Photographer in East London. With 9 years commercial experience his clients include EMI Records, BBC & Discovery Channel. Here’s his 2008 Dstrukt Showreel, the soundtrack has been made by HECQ exclusively for this video and it’s a choon.
Fantom — “Faithfull”
Released back in 1997 on Source Records, “Faithfull” is a forgotten french house classic. This was Fantoms only release. Driving bass, great phasing and train horns make this track a winner.
Previously known for his fashion exploits, Hedi Slimane and his photographic work has become his latest calling as the one-time Dior Homme designer has seen his role as a visual communicator take place over a different medium. Slimane photo-graphs landscapes, statues, sleepy girls and thin white boys perfectly. Have a look on his photodiary.
