Chris Beckman
oops, 2009
digital video art
concept by Billy Rennekamp

Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, "oops"-a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera drops-serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube ( Read more... )

 ...but this just struck me as surreal.

You know that Seal song, "Kiss from a Rose"? Someone used it for their solo last night on So You Think You Can Dance Canada, and I idly started wondering why I'd never seen it vidded (granted, it's 15 years old, so maybe it was overvidded in Highlander or Xena or X-Files fandom back in the day...), and in ( Read more... )

Via Art Fag City: "What does an orgy require? If Christodoulos Panayiotou’s video Guysgocrazy is any indication, a fuck of a lot of condoms. Made in cooperation with a Czech porn company specializing in orgies, Panayiotou shot the set right before and right after the group sex takes place.  Not surprisingly, the party leftovers are a little messy."

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Okay, a year old, but new to me: Japanese turntablist DJ Baku's "Akbah Attack": brilliant music, mesmerizing video.