Yesterday, our favorite band Late Of The Pier uploaded their two new videos on youtube. One for Focker and one for Space And The Woods.
The video for Focker is my favorite. It contains a robotic monster, some crazy dancing and melting faces. How can this be bad?
The other video, for Space and the Woods, is more arty. If you want to do some namedropping about the influences of that video, just ask Gerlin. She’d be happy to write you an essay about all the influences.
That’s it for now. Enjoy the videos.
Filed under: music | Tagged: focker, Late Of The Pier, space and the woods
Christ, I’m watching this at work and even without music it makes my heart want to explode! Oh no, it’s not just the hormones…
Don’t overdo it Hermie, I can only guess (Escher is obvious though) plus I totally dislike essays. As a matter of fact, I should be writing one right now.
Love the videos though and love Potter’s cute little mouth.
Gerlin, “Potter’s cute little mouth” is not A-okay my baby.
But indeed, I second you on that, the video clip constantly reminded me of Escher, and even though his works remind me of maths books back in the high school days, I adore the clip.
Come on Gerrie, I’m sure you can come up with more than Escher. What about Keith Harring:the bloodred chaps maybe aren’t exactly the same style, but look at the movements of the figures.
Some bits remind me of the old black and white Frankenstein movie and other old movies and cartoons.
And Dali, aren’t there many references to Dali aswell?
Yeah indeed, I didn’t directly think of Keith Haring (one R by the way) but I can see it in those red men now. A lot of things remind me of Magritte and all those rectangular shapes are a bit De Stijl like (Mondriaan especially). It reminds me of all kind of old stuff like vintage comicbooks.
I’m sure there’s much more behind all this or perhaps they were just playing around. It’s a delicious video anyway.
Oh yes by the way: not very sure about Dalí, nothing here reminded me of him, his work is less geometric (fuck I have no idea if some of these words are correct English but you get the picture anyway, right) and much more precise and detailed (well his paintings are).
I knew you would come up with loads!
I was thinking about Dali from 0:10 til 0:17… I don’t think that’s typically Margritte so maybe we’re looking past some other surrealistic artist?
I wouldn’t worry about the right terms in English, I get the picture indeed, and I don’t think many others will actually care about the influences. Who made this clip anyway?
Oh yes the eyes.. It reminded me of the end of Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events (when the names appear etc and when it are all drawings)
Haha, now you mention it. Which reminds me, I’ve still got your DVD in my fridge. Oh, and in case you would be interested: the clip is made by Ian Emes. I was impressed by his biography, but hey, that’s nothing compared to Lust of the Pier.
I’m loving this whole *what influence fits where* thingy,
I just think It’s all about some lovely imagination, and crazy hallucinations, love the big eye,
I’m into Focker more though…getting your ass kicked by a music megalorobot, what’s better….?
It somehow reminds me of Klaxons’s Magick video, the terror of the neon yellow liquid equals the being afraid of the music monster…facial expressions in both vids are great
oh, yes, the eyes! definitely Dalí!
jizzy is RIGHT!!
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2007a/SalvadorDaliSpellbound.jpg
You’re right Jackie, nice one!
I discovered yet another: from 2:24 to 2:28, those white things that are flying through space really remind me of ‘Guernica’ by Picasso actually. They look a bit like furniture though which isn’t the case in Picasso’s painting but still, I think I have a point.
If anyone discovers other references, speak up!
Watch this Gerrie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVWHZuftnw
Makes sense now, it makes sense…
Yes indeed, very much so.