Ryan Trecartin: “A Family Finds Entertainment”

Judging by 24-year-old artist Ryan Trecartin's infectious, semi-hallucinogenic debut, "A Family Finds Entertainment," reports of video art's demise have been greatly exaggerated. With nods to Jack Smith and very early John Waters, the 40 minute piece—packed with refreshingly raw computer graphics and a manic soundtrack—loosely follows the story of an unstable gay boy who comes out to his parents, gets hit by a car and …

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You’ll notice at the bottom of each post we’ve added a list of tags. Led by sites like Flickr and Delicious, tagging is rapidly becoming a replacement for more traditional and general categorization. Considering our categories are 3 years old and have always been a bit odd, we felt adopting tags would be a useful evolution. To use them just click on a tag to …

Cool Hunting Video – Bajofondo

Cool Hunting and Missing Pieces Bajofondo Remixed A conversation with visual artist Veronica Loza who performs live imagery as a member of the band, Bajofondo Tango Club, the South American electro-tango collective assembled by Juan Campodonico and Gustavo Santaolalla. Both won a Latin grammy in 2003 for the first Bajofondo release and Santaolalla has been nominated for an Oscar this year for composing the score …