FUCK YEAH! Björk includes a tesla coil in her instruments for Biophilia!

Posted on 6 March 2012

Love or hate Björk you cannot deny she’s an innovative performer. She has used all kinds of weird and wonderful objects as instruments in her songs over the years. Check out this video of her performing ‘Thunderbolt’ from Biophilia using a tesla coil as an instrument! That’s right, a muthafuckin’ tesla coil!!

↷		björk: thunderbolt live on Björk‘s YouTube channel, 2 November 2011.
♥		via Nick Evershed‘s Facebook wall.
★		Björk presents Biophilia – Harnessing the Tesla Coil on Will Orchard‘s YouTube channel.

Categories: !Fuck Yeah!, Creativity & content

Tagged: *music, Biophilia (2011), Björk, Nick Evershed, tesla coil, Will Orchard

Clipster: Walk the line

Posted on 9 September 2008

I remember a couple of years ago when I was still living the Fortitude Valley, I was walking down Brunswick Street Mall and a stranger stopped me and asked if I always walked like I was in a film clip. Even now I think back to that moment and smile. I wish I could walk around in my own little film clip all the time. I suppose Kylie in Michel Gondry‘s clip for Come into my World starts to blur the real-world line a little (albeit in a somewhat Groundhog Day way). Kylie Minogue – Come into my World, Directed by Michel Gondry But Björk’s It’s Oh So Quiet does it better! Björk – It’s Oh So Quiet, Directed by Spike Jonze But really, I’d much more…

Categories: I'll filter this later

Tagged: Beck, Björk, clipster, Kylie Minogue, Michel Gondry, Shynola, Spike Jonze

Pictures came, broke your [he]art

Posted on 18 February 2004

The Saturday morning Rage ritual is no longer the pass time of music fanatics and visual arts students looking for ideas. The Queensland Art Gallery has taken the video clip from the weekend viewing time slots and hung it on the wall with Video Hits, an exhibition of film clips and art exploring the rich and complex relationship between music, film and art. “There has been a recognition of video clips as an art form for sometime.” Nicholas Chambers, co-curator of Video Hits told me during a curratorial walk through of the exhibition. “The exhibition includes artists who are accustomed to working in a gallery context and music video directors whose work is rarely seen outside of the distribution network of mainstream television. Video Hits…