Willow’s “Sweater” is a perfect trick of one 8’ x 10’ stage, one treadmill, and three HD projectors, and it’s really the coolest music video I’ve seen in a long time. He’s sitting in a room in space! He’s sitting in a room on a subway! He’s sitting in a room that’s actually 3D water with hairy pale 3D legs! Willow is not-going everywhere. 

And then, to wander off from Wednesday work, here’s a dark generic Hump Day thought for those of us who viewed this only as a cool visual pleasure piece: how are these awesome 3D tricks anything but a mirror to our own stuck-in-a-bag-of-bones experience of being a human being?  We can walk the whole world and change our scenery and subway seat partners a hundred times over, but we’re still forever stuck schlepping around inside the dark room of our own singular conscious experience. So that’s nice and morose! But not really, in its own way. Alternatively: brains in a Matrix vat! (Or shadows on the wall, the less anxiety-inducing classic). Bodies and brains! Oh, boy. Stuck apart, together. 

Pop culture: keepin’ us fresh! 

- Maggie

Andy Baker brings to life the lone single “All That We’ve Become” from a new band named Society - known only by one mysteriously barren soundcloud page. In any case, “All That We’ve Become” has a great sound, and Baker’s sketchy black and white pencil animation fits perfectly with the song’s tone of isolation and unrefined teenage angst. I love the animation’s use of shadow, the movement of its character through shafts of light and darkness. Here’s hoping we’ll see/hear more from Society soon. 

See more of Andy Baker’s work here.

- Maggie

Apache by Danger Beach. A brilliant little peek into a brilliantly giant world.

(An interview with the director and a bit of making of here).

- Maggie