May 15, 2007 • 2:34 pm 0
I am busy, honest. Here is a video I just made for the Swiss company Co-op, all shot in Second Life. The quality of the youtube version is a lot less than the original, but let me know what you think, I am really happy with it.
It’s hard to tell a story when your character is limited to about three facial expressions, now I know how fashion photographers must feel.
March 7, 2007 • 10:55 am 0
Upon reading this article on the ease with which we accept the medium of stereotype, I will attempt to make my comments less all encompassing and more precise.
For example, I would say that the vast majority of German pop music shown on the main television channels is an uninspired and clumsy pastiche on the worst of American culture (see here for the worst rap I have ever heard. “I won’t share a tear”.)
I will however NOT proclaim that German pop music is terrible, and patiently attempt to absorb each piece of information as an individual work and not a collective abomination.
These guys have an office not far from when I live. A Berlin hip hop collective, Aggro Berlin are revered and appear to be serious about what they are doing. I get the impression that main man Sido fancies himself in the Eminem role (with an MF Doom mask) as the stray dog turned devoted father, but ignoring a few quirks these guys seem to capture something in the air around here. I should also mention Killa Hakan, the Turkish MC who filmed this video on my street and has the gang chant “Kottbussser Torrrrrr”; the local underground station and leisure centre for the homeless.
