Showing posts with label Colbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colbert. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Dance mixxx for the edge of the apocalypse

Here is Beck's video for his new song "Timebomb":

Sounds pretty good; got a B52's, Talking Heads/"Love for Sale" kinda groove. Wouldn't hurt if he sounded as animated as his "Mellowgold" days though...
Anyway, the photos are from artist Chris Jordan, a photographer documenting the "Intolerable Beauty" of our "slow-motion apocalypse in progress" (see his "Portraits of American Mass Consumption" here).


Chris Jordan getting the Colbert Bump
Personally, I think the photo-mosaics are a little kitschy, but I suppose sometimes it takes a gimmick to get mass attention.
However, his Katrina series has some absolutely beautiful images...
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"Photos on a refrigerator New Orleans East" an image from Jordan's book "In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss From an Unnatural Disaster"