We spent a few hours beneath the Empty Bottle during Ghostly International’s Chicago 10 Year Event. Among other things, we had the chance to sit down with Mux Mool and ask him a few questions about the internet, music equipment and health insurance. Hailing from a small town in Minnesota, he’s a hell of a nice guy and a genuine character to boot.
First, this song has a wonderfully nostalgic quality that reminds me of the 1990’s. I had a hell of a lot of fun in the 90’s, I remember it well, and really a lot of good stuff came out of the 90’s. I’m happy to notice more and more 90’s influence creeping its way into contemporary work of all sorts. I am glad that the 80’s influence is beginning to wane—it was becoming irritable.
So the past continues to influence the present, tell me something I don’t know Mr. Kingsley!
Anyway, the beginning of this video cracks me up. The girl reminds me of my little sister or something. It would be enjoyable to hang around these three for an afternoon.
The Watch Listen Tell video series is produced by Dave Tree. I heard of it over at It’s Nice That (where i hear of so many wonderful things every day).
Enjoy!
These kids’ smiles are contagious!
So here’s how it works…
A while back, a fella named Al Gore invents something called “Internet”. Then, a website going by the name of “Youtube” makes everyone including your mom go bananas for reality TV and this “aesthetic” subsequently creeps its way into every facet of film/video media.
A young man in Paris, France named Vincent Moon, recognizing the honest authenticity of this new “reality” trend, begins to follow his friends around as they play music while walking through the streets of Paris. Vincent Moon does such a damn-good job that he eventually follows around all the greatest bands in the world—much to the glee of hipsters across the globe. This success inadvertently invites imitation, because imitation is the highest form of flattery and who doesn’t want to flatter Mr. Moon.
Then a global recession hits! Pro-level microphones and HD video camera prices drop to the realm of obtain-ability (relative to college graduates with wealthy parents). New internet-stars form out of The Cloud, and so here we are, enjoying the very very wonderful work of Mr. David Tree, a guy with an ear and an eye.
Don’t you just love the way the world turns!?
“The fires here North of Los Angeles are still raging, it’s starting to look a lot like Mount Doom, in fact. The other day Matt mentioned that it would be cool to see a time-lapse video of the smoke from the fires. As crazy scary and horrible as the fires are, watching the smoke can be pretty beautiful and amazing. The video is pretty surreal, I never really knew how smoke reacted on such a large scale.”
Reprinted here from Kitsune Noir