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Devendra Banhart – A Sight to Behold

Really digging the sounds from this psychedelic folk maestro, Devendra Banhart.

The Acorn – Flood Pt. 1

Flood Pt. 1 is a modern fable with many hidden meanings in the video’s several twists and turns.

A penny falls from the sky and begins a cataclysmic chain of events.

A glacier falls from a subarctic cliff and wakes a giant who sleeps beneath the sea.

The angry giant unleashes his fury in the form of a Tsunami which forms into evil storm clouds that spew rain storms of treasure and gold into a bucolic river, where our hero (and heroine) are picking snails.

The two escape the storm in their small boat, and are carried on this current of disaster. Joined by a wise old snail, they witnesss burning carnivals, Escaped zoo animals, and trashed trailer parks, and other such melee as they make their way to the shore.

They dance with lions, and cross a desert, cluttered with dinosaur bones and hidden treasures, and climb on board a flying turtle who takes them on a harrowing journey into the sky, through the carnival, and to a safe place in the grass.

They plant a snail and are catapulted into outer space, saved by a forgotten satellite.

As they peer down towards the earth, a penny falls from our heroine’s pocket, starting the chain all over again.

The video was largely hand-crafted in the winter of 2007 / 08 by a dedicated team of welders, illustrators, dancers, model makers and animators. The story is told using a bizarre range of life-sized dancing drawings, to raw archival video footage, to puppets made of foam to glaciers made out of wedding cake.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Acorn

India Poised

Icons of India rallying a new generation to rise up and make a difference.

I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend

Black Kids – I’m not going to teach you boyfriend how to dance (MySpace page)

LINGO KID

Amazing video of a street kid in Mumbai who has picked up at least a half dozen languages by selling peacock feathers to tourists.

Rishikesh

I’ve been thinking about going on a North Indian retreat for a while now and I finally might get a chance to do it over the next couple of months. Found some incredible pictures from Rishikesh while researching:

Anyone want to join?

Voice in my head

Picture via http://postsecret.blogspot.com

“And there I was in my white tuxedo, serving pink martinis to the guests. Q and Mistique waltz in, do a dance, and the curtains come down. They’re gone quicker than it took them to arrive on stage. My phone beeps.

I think I read a text message in my sleep.”

 

Heavenly Toast to Heath Ledger

A fan remembers Heath Ledger on Oscar night and raises a toast to Heath and director Shekhar Kapur for their collaboration on Four Feathers:

After seeing all of Heath Ledger’s roles, what stays in my mind is the pivotal scene in the desert. The first time I saw this film I broke down and cried after this scene. I watched the entire film again a couple of days ago. Watching this scene again, I realized that Ledger was not becoming great, he was great and I am thankful his body of work exists. This scene goes way beyond the organic basic need to survive against all odds to a place that is born from total physical and spiritual anguish. The roar that Heath brings up from somewhere deep, deep down to conquer his assailant is raw primal power and expresses a language of soul that can not be adequately articulated.

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I Drink Your Milkshake

Check out this hilarious parody of some of the Oscar nominated films, There Will be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and Juno. Kudos to Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem for their brilliant performances.