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Anything is possible, if you set your mind to it, work hard, and have your heart in the right place.
Little Mix, an awesome all-female vocal group and winner of The X Factor, reinforces these ideas in their new song "Little Me." The next time you're feeling down on yourself, turn this song on and remind yourself that the possibilities are endless, and that you can be anything you want to be.
Kudos to Rachel Crow! Recognize her from The X-Factor? This powerful 14-year-old singer released her first EP earlier this summer. We're really digging the first track, Mean Girls, which Rachel co-wrote. Check out the video, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Have you ever been bullied? How did you deal with it?
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School’s out, I’m no longer sick, and the blog is no longer down! In honor of the evolving focus of this column, I’ve changed its title and broadened my scope. But don’t worry; I’ll still be trolling the various databases for hard-hitting research, too. The first month of summer is usually the busy one, in which students are still finishing school, are already in summer school, or have begun to embark on busy summer adventures, like camp and travel. So the ideas I’m offering you are a bit more low-key or focused on the librarian, rather than the patron, since I gather that your patrons are not exactly in the mood yet for anything that requires a lot of commitment.
Last weekend, PostSecret put up a (trigger warning) postcard from someone who dislikes being labeled intolerant for saying that certain types of people are, maybe, hypocritical about oppression. That made me think of a tumblr I found once upon a time called Oppressed Brown Girls Doing Things, whose tagline, “Because we’re still oppressed,” is awesomely readable in a multitude of ways. You might just find this fun to read when there’s a lull in your day, but I know I’d love to see some of these posts find their way into a collage on a library wall, a bookmarks list on a library computer, or into the meeting of any group that meets in your teen room. While the content ranges from NSFW language to sarcastic gifs, the blog also brings up a lot of pertinent points about what it means to be a woman of color.
While definitely NSFW, I have to share this music video based on a Jay-Z and Kanye West song whose title I won’t put here. Two Brooklynites re-set the song to be all about how hard it is to be a cool, reading girl who can’t find a guy to keep up with her tastes or pronounce Proust correctly. If you have an advisory group or teen book club that meets, you might show the video to spark a conversation about what it means to be “nerdy,” who the video is aimed at, or what it means to take a genre so known for its subculture and turn it on its head by making it about something usually so “uncool.”
Judith Butler is widely known for her groundbreaking works on gender identity and the idea that gender is a social construct that is performed by members of society, not a biological, unchangeable aspect of a person like eye color. It is Butler’s ideas that so many feminists, media critics, psychologists, and other professionals grapple with when trying to understand how images and stereotypes in the media affect self image and self performance, as well as how damaging it can be to force someone to perform normatively. But in a fascinating ethnographic study, Olga Ivashkevich discovered that young pre-teen girls are much more willing to play with body representation, drag, and non-normative physical ideals than many researchers think. The girls Isvashkevich studied drew each other as various vegetables, allowing them to skew various parts of their bodies, and other anecdotes in the article reveal how even something as obviously “damaging” as a Barbie doll can lead girls to experiment in cross dressing, mutilation, and more. If you and your children’s librarian colleagues have been searching for a way to reach tweens, as well as younger teens, this might be your in. Try leaving a box of Barbies, paper dolls, fashion magazines, or other objects that support alteration and creation on the body, as well as relevant clothing items and art supplies, with a note explaining that patrons are welcome to experiment with the box and maybe even reflect on what they’ve done by taking a digital photo and writing about it for the library’s blog, or s
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It's a glum time of year, so I am drawn to more lively music to motivate me. Some of the most energetic I know of comes from Great Big Sea:
(shown here with the Chieftains. from the fabulous 1998 'Fire in the Kitchen' CD which was my first exposure to GBS)(Ah, The Chieftains.. I love them so. And miss Derek Bell terribly...) Wikipedia describes Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) as "a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage. The band also performs original material"
They are apparently 'more fun than a barrel of monkeys' in concert, although I'm yet to experience this for myself. I've had tickets to go see them *twice* now, and both times I've had to miss it. Third time is bound to be a charm! Waiting anxiously for them to come this way again...
7 Comments on Music Monday - Great Big Sea, last added: 2/4/2010
Neat! I remember Fire In The Kitchen happening in Halifax and Cape Breton. In Halifax we'd wonder into a bar and find GBS all the time. Now they're recording with Russel Crowe.
Hi! Andrea (just over your border) sent me this link http://thetanglednest.com/ You may already know it, but, if not I thought you'd like it.
And favourite energetic group? Not a formal one, but a mix of guys in London, 'way back in the 70s. We had steel drums, guitars and some brass.A sort of international folk-rock, heavy on the jazz. We were goood!
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In keeping with the TV-music theme, today I will share with you one of my favorite impressively-put-to-music scenes from the start of the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (This scene bookends the finale of season one - artistic carnage put to Johny Cash's "The Man Comes Around".) The combination of music, vocals and mostly wordless action packs a more poignant punch to the stories they are telling:
Samson and Delilah, sung by Shirley Manson, the Scottish-born lead singer of Garbage, who also played a main character in season 2.
I will also rhapsodize about the wonder that is the composer for this series, Bear McCreary, (who also did the amazing soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica) but that is another post, another day...
3 Comments on Music Monday - TSCC, last added: 1/13/2010
Well done I guess, but I have zero interest in seeing more. I don't really get the attraction, which is why I watch so little TV/movies. My stomach knots, my pulse races, and I know that's normal. It's what is supposed to happen. But it doesn't FEEL good. When I tune in to my body it isn't happy.
I understand what you are saying Hayden. And I feel more that way in 'normal' life -but when I work this much, this kind of thing actually feels cathartic to me.
And feel free to ignore the visuals, the song is still fabulous....
I just found your website and so your blog also! WOW!! I love your art... I like to make a post about it on my blog, with a link to your blog of course, if thats oké with you? you can find me here...
You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by a smooth criminal … and so, I was. My initial curiosity to see the last footage of Michael Jackson’s final concert rehearsals became utter fascination and inspiration within seconds after the film began.
Throughout my life, I hadn’t ever gotten overwhelmed with fandom for Michael’s music, even if it played in the backdrop to many of my formative years. This Is It has changed that and offers the same potential to others like me who never thought they’d fall under Michael’s spell.
Never-ending streams and pulses of dance energy shoot, pop and break out from Michael Jackson’s lithe frame with every breakbeat and syncopated rhythm. For a neophyte like me, it would have been easy to think he couldn’t contain his energy or, rather, what was so integral to his artistic depth: his chi and vital source of creativity. The truth is he contained and channeled his artistic creativity in measured and tempered song filled with long-drawn breaths, shouts, polished musicality and the art of motion.
This Is It provides such a complex view of Michael and all his talents: the film has a multidimensional focus, much like a faceted cube. There's a 3-D effect this documentary achieves and captures as MJ works, performs, directs and perfects what was so uniquely his—his own art form represented in the marriage of dance, song and feeling.
The viewer should pay a keen eye to his dance ticks and highly-tuned ear. Michael Bearden, credited as Michael’s music director, states, “Michael knows all the tempos, key signatures, key changes of each of his songs.” Michael could hear when the pitch and rhythm were off, too fast, and notes were thudded or being ham-fisted.
Directed by Kenny Ortega, Michael was given regal control while rehearsals went on. It didn’t end there. Michael’s own music seemed to never fail in inspiring him or translating into the infectious calls and responses his dancers carried through in moves and shouts while offstage. In every measured beat and note landed, one can hear a delicacy achieved and seamlessly delivered.
Ortega nurtured tremendous verve among the tour cast, resulting in sets where Michael powered through rehearsals with unstoppable skip and free-form dancing. Astoundingly, Michael mostly held his singing back during each rehearsal—a feat attributable to years spent mastering his music and from raw, unending depth of feeling. Michael said, “It’s all for love.” I finally believed him.
A studious understanding of his anthology of hits and his eras of cumulative success is lacking in my review. However, This Is It takes on a reprise to the indicting and unforgettable Martin Beshear interviews. With each hit performed in the film, it’s palpable how personal Michael intended to be with his fans. Each song is sung for you. So, when he opens with the softly-landed lyrics, “You and I must make a pact,” that artistic pact is most definitely alive with fans in every dance burst, extended vocals, and political message.
Michael certainly was on a different plane of creativity. The heightened sense he had for every performance detail amaze
0 Comments on Michael Jackson’s This Is It as of 1/1/1900
Illustration collective Watermark Ltd. recently collaborated on a music video for New Zealand singer Greg Johnson. I Got Opinions is a down-the-rabbit-hole journey into various strange worlds, each the work one of eight different illustrators.
It’s a fun video, but in this Age of YouTube and Vimeo, it seemed to take an incredibly loooong time to load, and then doesn’t offer any playback controls. First World problems, I know.
There’s an interactive game as well, but I can’t link to it outside of the video’s Flash.
Cool–this was shown at TypeCon last month along with a bunch of others. They were all done by design students. I wonder if any of the others have been posted online.
That was excellent. I suppose it helps that the song was good too, but the concept and art made the song that much better.
Mike C said, on 8/9/2009 10:16:00 PM
I really love Joel Trussell’s animations but unfortunately didn’t particularly care for that vid clip :(
Just think Joel’s past music clips have been far, far, far more interesting. I was watching this one waiting for some sort of clever twist or some sort of intriguing interpretation or anything really but nothing seemed to happen.
Did I miss something ? All I got from this was balloons with faces that cheat with other balloons.
Got nothing against the Gossip and I still love Joel Trussell ! Just felt this one missed the mark.
Durtin said, on 8/10/2009 9:24:00 PM
I guess you’re right Mike. Joel’s other animations burnt Gossip’s music video to a krisp. However, on the other hand, music videos are a collaborative effort and, in many (I’d argue most) collaborations an artist isn’t given all that much leeway in terms of creative license.
I know nothing of what went on behind the scenes but, it’s a good bet that a studio exec for the record label put their foot down and claimed that the music should read louder than the video. The roller rink & balloons just SCREAM nostalgia; which is great because, this simple concept works great with Gossip’s 80’s pop inspired sound.
I totally agree that without the sound the animation just doesn’t hold any magic, oomph, get up and go, or what have you but, the fact remains, this is a good music video.
Of course, nothing could change my opinion (and hopefully yours) that had Joel Trussell been given free artistic reign with possible direction/inspiration from the band that the music video would have been MUCH MUCH better. After all, as poppy as the song is, the lyrics are fairly deep.
[p.s.It would be very difficult but, I'd even argue that the concept he was given could have been improved upon; some of the concept is just filler and, it feels like JT didn't have more than a 20 min. conversation with the band.]
p.p.s.I’ve thought about this WAY TOO MUCH
Mike C said, on 8/10/2009 10:06:00 PM
Hey, I appreciate the extra thought you put into it Durtin :)
And that makes a lot of sense to me, I hadn’t considered how much flexibility they would have given Joel.
A real big shame, seems like a waste of his awesomeness.
John Martz said, on 8/11/2009 10:01:00 AM
While it may not be as animation-heavy as you’d like, from what I gather Joel was responsible for directing the live action as well as the animation. And if you’ve seen the work he’s done with fruit, this video seems to fall right in line with that.
Durtin said, on 8/11/2009 7:59:00 PM
That’s good to know John. Now we just have to go out and find whichever punk decided to put the emphasis on live action vs. animation and give them a piece of your minds… Five bucks says that they were also the ones who opted for the idea of a roller rink over a carnival/theme-park location too.
Super talents David OReilly and Jon Klassen teamed up to produce this jewel of a video for U2’s new single, “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. Beautiful!
This music video for Wood by Dead Pirates fuses 3D animation with Mcbess’s signature old timey style. It’s as if the Gorillaz were animated by Max Fleischer.
Check out Moray McLaren’s “We Got Time” video, with animation drawn and created by director David Wilson:
Using the 19th century technology of the praxinoscope, Wilson was able to create wonderful bits of animation with no assisting from the computer (well, no animation from the computer). The description from the YouTube page:
Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.
Curious? I was. Here’s a fascinating making-of video, explaining how Wilson created the video:
2 Comments on Moray McLaren’s We Got Time Video, last added: 6/15/2009
I haven’t seen such a cool, creative video in a long time. Fun to see some old-school animation revived. Good work, and thanks for the post!
monolithcreative said, on 6/8/2009 3:45:00 PM
it’s really cool to see a video of the artist explaining the work. we just don’t get enough of that nowadays. in some ways it ruins the illusion and magic but is a valuable resource for other artists and animators.
I have no idea who created this video, but it’s lovely. Rather like Little Nemo comics as seen through the filter of 80s video games, set to the new Pet Shop Boys single.
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I keep playing this video for Human Highway’s Moody Motorycle. Partly because it’s such a damn catchy song, but also I love the slightly eerie collage look to it all.
And that’s just the traditional video. Animator Olivier Groulx also created an interactive version, similar to what he did for The Arcade Fire’s Black Mirror.
1 Comments on Human Highway: Moody Motorcycle, last added: 3/19/2009
I hear you. It’s so simple, yet I don’t feel like I’m missing anything visually. I especially like the bauhausesque clock segment with the mildly strobing lights about three fourth of the way into the video. I guess I’m a sucker for geometric shapes juxtaposed with photorealism. (www.ramondeslauriers.com)
If I’m not mistaken, it’s only a post-production technique when you’re faking it in Photoshop with blurs. This looks like it may have been done with an actual tilt-shift lens.
Most of the charm is that it’s a simple optical trick. My favourite part was the GI Joe helicopter pad.
bredlo said, on 3/17/2009 6:07:00 PM
“it may have been done with an actual tilt-shift lens.”
However it was done, I love it! I could watch a feature-length film done that way. (Well, maybe not.) The second video samples from Knight Rider… worth the click through just for that!
dzalcman said, on 3/25/2009 1:54:00 PM
It’s not post-production work. This was almost certainly shot with a Canon SLR body and a tilt-shift lens.
brett said, on 3/26/2009 7:01:00 PM
Hey there,
The Frontier Brothers (full disclosure: I am their keyboardist) did a tilt-shift music video a few months back- http://vimeo.com/2925475
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awesome video, but the second i hear someone mispronounce guillotine, it kills all interest i have in what they're saying.
One of my favourite aussie musicians.
I was hoping one of his filmclips would get this treatment after i saw the beatiful album artwork.
Ridiculously beautiful, the songs ok too.
nice video. this video is very interesting. thanks for sharing this video. God Bless!