First Post in a Year!

Ciao interwebs! Can't believe its been so long, and that so many of you have stuck around. Thanks for all the notes! I have a new goal to update Tyranny every other day at the very least. To start it out, please view this AMAZING video on night photography. Enjoy!

Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.

[video] 50 People, One Question: "PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God"

I love these videos so much. Based in Brooklyn. Such simple insight into the human mind. The video is produced in tandem with PostSecret, which is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

"What is your secret?"

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

Dirty Projectors - "When The World Comes to an End" (Jimmy Fallon 9/28)

"The vocals on this song are batshit insane" - Danny Fraser. WORD. So ridiculous.

Hooves on the Dirt: Motel Motel's Super Secret Garden

Secret Garden Series: Motel Motel from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo.

Hi-definition, black and white, Motel Motel; swoon. Raw, unfiltered music like this is so deliriously satisfying!

See the rest of the Secret Garden Series here. Previously freatures: Tallest Man on Earth, Olof Arnalds and Middle Distance Runner (a band, not the song by Sea Wolf).

Take Away Show: Tallest Man on Earth ("These Days" Cover + "The Gardener")

Tallest Man on Earth - The Gardener - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.


Tallest man on earth - These Days (Nico Cover) - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

VIDEO PREMIERE - "Actor Out of Work" by St. Vincent

Weird, interesting, odd and fun! I'm so glad that St. Vincent is back!

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Tallest Man On Earth: covers the traditional song Stepstone (and that good 'ol Fleet Fox cover)

The Tallest Man On Earth: Stepstone (Traditional) from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.

Lovely.

And, to reminisce, this is still one of my favorite videos on the internet right now!

Video Monday!

Fiume Nights _ Tokyo _ the Pascals, live part3, march 2009 from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

So, I've seen this video popping up under my "suggested viewings" area over at vimeo.com for a few days now, but something about the title never enticed me enough to click on it... until today! Oh, and it's pretty, really truly pretty. I suggest you give it a try as well (and don't let the title fool you). If you'd like, you can close your eyes and click on it, and therefore not even know you did it yourself!

HAPPY MONDAY!

Department of Eagles, MoMA video "No One Does It Like You"

The Department of Eagles screened their new music video for their song, No One Does It Like You, at MoMA on March 24th 2008, produced by the Directors Bureau, directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama, and featuring costumes and sets designed by Dzama, and it is LOVELY in all it's simplicity. I love that MoMA has the balls to acknowledge the modern day music videos can be held up as art, because music IS art, and the bands/songs I gravitate towards seem even more enticing when they embody the ideals of the modern (and post-modern) era as much as a painting, or sculpture, or photograph ever could. And honestly, this video is pure art to me. It seems to elude back to the first incarnation of film, or early stop-animation, and even the art of surrealism, like Bunuel or Fritz Lang, yet it still plays with me and makes me smile. In total, very, very smart and well done. Really, really wonderful.

Want to know more about Department of Eagles?
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SxSW Coverage @ BV

I would like to know where they got their name from...

Video Monday!! {Marnie Stern, Thao w GDSD, King Khan, and Sigur Ros (Take Away Show)} + SHDL update!

Marnie Stern live on Radio K from Radio K on Vimeo.


WOXY presents Thao with The Get Down Stay Down from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.


King Khan and the Shrines - outta harms way - Live at Sonic Boom Records from Graeme Phillips on Vimeo.


Sigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.


STUFF HIPSTERS DON'T LIKE!

Video Monday: Thunderstorms w/ Holly Throsby

Holly Throsby: A Shoot The Player Film from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.

Very cool with the approaching storm in the background.

Videos: Frightened Rabbits, Daniel Martin Moore (x2) and Horse Feathers

Dear readers,

My life has gotten shaken up recently, so posting will be a bit chaotic until next week (at the earliest). Music, though, will forever be a comforting factor in my life, so I have decided to share some videos with you that I have been watching lately, from some amazing artists. As always, thanks for reading and take care.

Frightened Rabbit - Poke (Live @ (Le) Poisson Rouge) from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.


Daniel Martin Moore - Smile from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.


Daniel Martin Moore - Stray Age from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.


Horse Feathers perform live at Portia and Slim Moon's BBQ from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

Video Monday: St. Vincent, Sea Wolf, and The Depreciation Guild

Sorry, sorry, sorry, but here's another St. Vincent video. It's from Other Music!! (I love that store), and I've never heard Annie Clark sing this first song before :)


ST. VINCENT from Dig For Fire on Vimeo.


Backstage Sessions : Sea Wolf - Middle Distance Runner from Hard to Find a Friend on Vimeo.


The Depreciation Guild // Blip Festival 2007: The Videos from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.

And a lil' Motel Motel. I love these guys.



Happy Monday!

'Anti-Oxidant' Video Salon @ Northeast Kingdom

Marissa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat from Greg Eggebeen on Vimeo.

In my little corner of Bushwick, we have this wonderful restaurant called Northeast Kingdom, and for awhile now, it was the only reason that young, hip adults of Brooklyn to venture over to the Jefferson stop on the L. Like a little bubble in this otherwise fairly non-gentrified neighborhood, Northeast Kingdom serves a variety of exquisitely produced comfort foods, all compiled from local and organic farms. They also have lovely beers on tap (like Allagash, a personal favorite for the summer). It takes all of 3 minutes to settle into Northeast Kingdom and feel like you are in a wooden lodge somewhere far away from Brooklyn, eating food cooked by your cheek-pinching grandmother as you converse with long-lost friends.

So, how does this relate to Greg Eggebeen's video done to Marissa Nadler's cover of Famous Blue Raincoat? Well, according to BushwickBK (my fav Bushwick website), Northeast Kingdom hosts (randomly, really) an event called the 'Anti-Oxidant' video salon, and it has only been getting better and better. The event has really taken shape since local artist Christina Medina has taken over, and this weeks videos were all centered around local music (hence Marissa Nadler!) Man, oh man, if Eggebeen's video is any representation of the caliber of art being show at these events, I will NOT miss the next one on February 11th. It's beautiful, flowing and haunting yet still lovingly nostalgic. Eggebeen did an amazing job of capturing the subtle emotions at play behind Nadler's cover.

Other videos/artists showcased that night:
Opening video by Fritz Donnely.
Drew and the Medicinal Pens (who performed live afterwards!)
Matthew Dunehoo (formally of Baby Teardrops)
A/D
Ryan Power of Burlington, Vermont
Worm