July 2009

Woodshop Films is just great

Woodshop Films is a Philadelphia based production company.  They make lots of web shows. Mein Haus is one of them. In these shows they go to interesting people's houses and document them. 

 Here they go to Lord Whimsy's House

 

Here they visit a punk house

Petra Mrzyk & Jean Francois Moriceau

  

 

 

French illustrators Mrzyk & Moriceau have been working together since the late nineties on music videos and an identity for AIR's Record Makers label, however, their most prolific work comes in the form of a calendar for the year 2009, Ephemeride 2009.

Images sourced from Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Air De Paris, and Ritter/Zamet

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Essential Records - Edgard Varêse and Le Corbusier - Poême Electronique (1958)

 

     

Edgard Varese (1883-1965) was a French-born composer who was an innovator in the use of electronic music equipment. Varese's chaotic musical style has influenced later composers (John Cage & Karlheinz Stockhausen) and rock musicians (Frank Zappa & Chicago) alike.

 

 

Video sourced from mjsebit
Varese image sourced from Randall Packer
Zappa & Varese photomontage sourced from Victor Rebullida
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The Tube - A Day In The Night of New York

Jools Holland & Leslie Ash give you a glimpse of post-disco NYC, visiting the pivotal places and players of the downtown dance club scene. The Roxy, Danceteria, Arthur Baker, NYC Peech Boys, Klaus Nomi are given their proper due on this edition of BBC's The Tube.

Sourced from Sktrachworx

The New Italian Look

The light blue and chestnut - a smart departure from the classic Azzurri. If they kept the 2008 away digits, it would have been drop dead.

 

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