Rachel Baran - Surrealistic Selfies

Rachel Baran is only 20 years old yet her pictures already conquered a lot of blogs, news sites, galleries etc. There is a very strange, surreal feel to them yet they are all very conceptual and beautifully composed.

Check out her tumblr and flickr page for more images.

The Backwater Gospel

The Blackwater Gospel is an animated short from 2011 directed by Bo Mathorne and produced by the Animation Workshop (www.animwork.dk). It's in 3D but the characters, backgrounds are very artistic, almost watercolor looking, really cool animated short with a bizarre story. Check it out:

Kanye West - Black Skinhead Music Video

Here is a really weird music video from Kanye West. I believe it's 100 percent animation, the movements are done with motion capture but they are exaggerated to the point where the whole thing becomes surreal. Very nice light and shadow play and plus point for not giving a shit about making it look perfect, there are a lot of "bugs" and visual mishaps in it, but hey, if everything would be perfect, nothing would be really... but that's already philosophy. Enjoy.

Mini Next

Here is a strange and very unique commercial for used! Mini cars. It reminds of  Matthew Barney's Cremaster movies. Nice symbolism, a lot of irony and a bold approach. Check it out:

Weird Music Videos

I have two kind of weird music videos for today, none of them are new and they didn't make a big stir back in their time, but I still love them... and the music too.

The first one is from Hella, the title is Try Dis and it was released around 2005. The video is about a down-syndrome guy flying through basically everything with a lots of weird shit happening around him. Lot of people mind find the state of the guy or the nature of the video offensive, but I think it's all positive and I'm sure for him the shooting and seeing the final video was the experience of his life.

The second video is from Horse the Band, a band playing nintendo-core... I'm not sure if there's such a thing but if there is then for sure it's what they are playing. This video goes into absurdity after a few seconds and it's just a total downhill from there. They must have had fun with it. A Million Exploding Suns. Enjoy.