New video for channel 4 following the last remaining dinosaur. Super shots and editing including footage on tour and in the studio. Featuring casual chats and new tracks from the forthcoming album.

Greymatter gets the visual treatment again with a new video for ‘Give It To Me Slow’ by Colour Club. Animated black & white wonders of retro bitmap graphics with some modern three dimensional twists. Previously John Malcolm Moore directed/produced and animated the video for ‘Tesla’. A similar neutral aesthetic, but with projections captured on film. Two truly visual treats!

Video by Charles Bergquist for Matthew Dear’s Slowdance. Layers and ladies, luscious and lovely.

The Expressionist is a short film from Intel’s highly impressive Visual Life series.

In this documentary, designer and co-founder of Wolff Olins Agency, Michael Wolff explans  how “Seeing is a muscual exercise” and goes on to give us his thoughts behind the idea that curiosity, appreciation, and imagination are all important “Musles”.

Megunica is the latest film from director Loremzo Fonda  which documents his travels with Italian street artist  Blu and their two friends as they make their way across South America through Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Argentina (hence the acronym Megunica).

From the outset, the aim of the film was to capture how different cultures and lifestyles would inspire Blu’s work.

While filming Blu paint the crew meet a host of colourful locals, tour guides and artists.

With the characters we meet along the way often having their own stories to tell, the completely unscripted film ends up being a blend between a road-trip and a cultural exchange movie which you can watch in it’s entirety for free right HERE

Today Radiohead announced the release of their 8th studio album, The King of Limbs. Here’s the official video from the albums first single “Lotus Flower” featuring a warm creeping bass, a loose drum beat and as always, beautiful vocals.

To coinside with the albums release Stanley Donwood, the bands official artist, is holding a solo exhibition entitled “Work On Paper” at The Outsiders gallery in Soho. The exhibition features rare print editions, originals and brand new screen prints. Here’s what the artist had to say about the show:

“Work on paper, I thought… work on paper. The forthcoming show at Mr Lazarides’ earliest gallery acquisition, once an emporium of sadomasochistic paraphenalia called ‘Swish’ and now a sort of shop-cum-gallery called ‘The Outsiders’ is to be an exhibition of various marks that I’ve made on paper. And the thing is, I’m not actually in my studio, but in a kind of no-man’s-land in the crumbling edifice that houses it… It’s at times like this that I wonder why I didn’t listen to my teachers when I was younger, why I laughed at those careers-advice people.”

The exhibition will run until the 12th of march, for more information check out the official gallery websiteHERE

Rubber is a new film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux (AKA Mr Oizo) which tells the tale of Robert, a tire who inexplicitly wakes up in the desert to find he possess telepathic powers. Featuring and all star soundtrack inclunding the likes of Gaspard Auge (Justice), SebastiAn and Mr Oizo, the film is set to sound as good as it looks. Here’s the trailer:

Rubber will be  released on the 1st of April.

Critics are already calling her one of the greatest street photographers of the 20th century. Here’s the amazing story of how former estate agent John Maloof discovered the extraordinary work of Vivian Maier

For one week only Pitchfork.tv are screening the full version of ‘Speaking In Code‘, a new documentary about electronic music. More than what it says on the tin, it features intimate character stories, interviews and parties from around the world. For more information and extras visit the film website.

Here’s a fantastic film from Ovation TV’s Art or Not series. In this video we hear the views of  Mat Gleason, art critic and author of the book “Most Art Sucks” who was dubbed “the National Enquirer of the Art World” by the New York Post.

What I love about Mat is how incisive he is, whether it’s his recognition of our fast food culture and how that translates to the current state of the art world: “We live in a culture of immediacy, we want it delivered to us right now, we want the answer” or his comparisons to the art industry and other industries such as film and music: ”The art world is full of people who try to get real cleaver in order to have real quick success it’s like when one movie’s popular all of a sudden there’s a bunch of knock-off’s”

All this leads to some well thought out opinions of artists he likes, dislikes and in some cases absolutely hates. Whether you love him or hate him this short film is well worth a watch:

It is predicted that today will be the busiest shopping day of the year with credit company Visa predicting a £1.2 billion spend by UK shoppers. So as is the tradition at this time of year, there have been a bucket load of new products unleashed on the consumer buying public, tempting you to part with your hard earned cash. Here’s a quick post containing three of the best books  released this holiday season.

Dran – I Love My World

Here’s the new promo video for “I Love My World”, the 6th book by French artist Dran.

A great looking publication featuring satirical parody’s of everyday life in the form of beautiful illustrations. It’s no wonder why Pictures On Walls have giving the artist so much attention recently.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGPqW9hBqmk

The book is available now through http://www.editionpopulaire.com/blog/ priced at £15

Rop Van Mierlo – Wild Animals

“Wild Animals” is the new book by Rop Van Mierlo. Featuring 14 water colour animals in 40 pages. Here’s how the artist describes his latest work:

“The Snake rattles, the Lion yawns and man makes a book. A wild book for civilized people. a sophisticated book for wild people. A beautiful book with wild animals for civilized people. a book with beautiful animals for wild people”

Wild Animals is available now through Rop’s Website, priced at € 30.

Phlegm – Issue 10

Phlegm latest comic has been available for a couple of weeks now and is arguably his best self-publication to date. Featuring a three colour screen printed cover and 20 litho printed pages, the book has been made in an edition of 1000 and is a steal at £3.

Also for a limited time you pick up issues 7-10 of phlegm for £10 with each issue hand wrapped in a screen print!

For more infomation check out his official web Here

Satisfying audio and visuals from White Car

Metropolis 2 is the latest installation piece by Chris Burden. The genius large scale kenetic sculpture is currently being constructed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and will feature 1200 Hot Wheels cars.

Amazing to watch and what every little boy will be asking for this Christmas.

Legacy of Letter is a short video from calligrapher Luca Barcellona, showing the artist at work in his studio.

One thing that really impressed me about this film is the speed at which the artist works, completing a flawless piece of typography in just under 5 minutes.  A true professional.

Art Support is hand drawn, surrealist animation from 1994 by the 54 year old Dutch artist Lars Nørgård featuring a well executed sound track composed by Vagn E. Olsson.

The ultra fast pacing in the film makes for some really compelling viewing, with every occurrence moving the story on to another subject (which is not dissimilar to Blu’s recent animations). Unpredictable and brilliant:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNfGsaOYSQ

To view more work from Lars please visit his website HERE

At the risk of posting two non-current (and incredably self indulgent) video posts in quick succession, Here is a little gem taken from a 1985 documentary based on the life and works of Francis Bacon.

In this interview clip we get an interesting in-site into Bacon’s take on Life, Death and Gambling:

Despite passing away 20 years before the invention of the world wide web, you may be surprised to find that there are a good number of Picasso videos currently floating around youtube. My current favorite is a live painting clip taken from the Paul Haesaert documentary “Visit To Picasso” which uses footage of the artist painting on glass.

Once you get over how strange it is to see a the artist in action, I hope you’ll find the film as beautiful and mesmerizing as i did. Enjoy:

After some time since the songs original appearance a video has been produced to accompany it’s forthcoming single release, which will later feature on a debut album. Slow, dark and magical!

Here’s two awesome new videos from Mad Decent. First up is Ben Read’s fruity offering for Mumdance’s latest track, Don’t Forget Me Now (Feat. Esser):

Next we have everyone’s favorite DJ duo, Major Lazer with their remix of Cajmere “Percolator”.  A  real visual treat:

Here is a little masterpiece by El Guicho. It may take a couple of watches before you actually listen to the song, but the video is awesome.

It reminds me of an old outer space documentary meets an Alejandro Jodorowsky film. Funkydoodledoo.

Crazy homemade video from Laid Back for their new track ‘Cocaine Cool’.. “is more than music, words and visuals.. it’s a way of thinking, a way of living.”

With two and a half million hits on Youtube and counting, I’m betting there’s a good chance that alot of our readers have already seen Banksy’s controversial intro to Sundays episode of The Simpsons.

Following reports that 20th Century Fox have begun to outsource some of it’s animation in Asia, the artist intelligently high lights some of the issues faced by the work force on the continent.  Featuring shocking imagery of  appalling working conditions and the use of child labour (153 million children under the age of 18 are predicted to be working in Asia), the sequence has hit a nerve with show owners Fox who have  now begun to pull the intro videos from youtube.

So for those of you who haven’t seen it…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo

Sound sculptures and installations by Zimoun. Playful, provocative, phenomenal!