what a lovely video by Beirut, the Santa Fe vid. just makes me cry….both are just a little too close to my heart.
Monday escapism hardly gets better than this: Official video for Beirut’s title track from their excellent 2011 album The Rip Tide. Wait for the real whimsy to unfold at 2:50.
On April 25, somewhere in the ocean off Great Britain, a remotely operated video camera near a deep sea oil rig caught a glimpse — at first it was just a glimpse — of an astonishing looking sea creature. It was a green-gray blob of gelatinous muscle, covered with a finely mesh-like textured skin, no eyes, no tentacles, no front, no back. It moved constantly, floating up to the camera, then it backed off and disappeared. The camera operator tried to find it, and then, suddenly, out of the darkness, back it came.
An Investigation Into The Invisible World.
2002 documentary by French director Jean-Michel Roux.
In Towns like Hafnarfjörður and Reykjavik, Iceland a large percent of the population believe in elves, ghosts and other paranormal entities. In fact, many claim to have seen them, and some even claim to engage in frequent contact with them. This rare documentary is the first outside look at the strange, but seemingly common events that take place on this small, remote island country.
this is for you idancewithmary
reblogged from my all time favourite blessedwildapplegirl
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Nouvelle Vague - Dance with me
Ginger & the Ghost
Where Wolf
oh wow, check out my freak folk sisters from Australia
killer video & beautiful visuals, right up my alley of the Forest.
love it!
The Fire in the Eyes
“Nomerz” Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 2011
Shooting and edited by Nikita Nomerz
Music by edIT - Dex
The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
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So tomorrow will Florida once again drags us down into election despair by crowning King Mitt? Excuse me, but Fuck That. The man and all his rivals in the GOP hopefully do not represent what America stands for. Anyway, here is a classic twist on elections.
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New World
From the Harry Blackstone Jr. TV Special - 1983
plus John and Exene 2011 in store performance of See How We Are
and The Knitters 2011 Long Chain On
ok this is rad and um…surreal
*something* @ the UK Kinetic Art Faire made by VJ Robotkid
everything we use or call our own, in reality, is just borrowed for a brief moment
Andy Goldsworthy 1987 Grizedale
It’s vintage Goldsworthy. I’d love to do what he does. Create something from nature and then have nature destroy it again. It’s humble and unpretentious, take note installators.
BBC Life - Seadragons Dance
also file under…truly inspiring parent
those little ones are so lucky to have such an awesome mom
FILE UNDER: Awesome people.
Lulu is a single mom who’d gone back to school and didn’t have the time or interest in working full-time to pay for rent. So when she had to move out of her more conventional home, she decided to move herself and her daughter into a shipping container.
With no building experience, Lulu spent just one month cutting windows and a door and installing insulation and a basic kitchen (complete with propane-powered campstove and on-demand water heater).
Then she and her daughter moved into the 8 by 20 foot square foot home, fitting a bed, couch, bookshelf and kitchen cabinets into the 160 square foot box.
When Lulu decided they needed a bit more space, she went from shipping to trucking waste and began to build their bedroom on a used flatbed trailer.
“It’s really mostly built like a shed. It’s a nice looking shed, but it’s really an 8 by 16 shed with windows in it.”
Using only recycled building materials- including used floorboards, windows, cabinets, doors, bathtub, toilet and sinks- she built the entire thing for about $4,000 (trailer included).
