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BnB Mix no.3
  1. Grom Moss of Aura
  2. Quick Canal (w/Laetitia Sadier) Atlas Sound
  3. Magic Spells Crystal Castles
  4. Driverunserver Kool DJ Dust
  5. Aces High Ladytron
  6. Dark Bloom Pink Playground
  7. Disaronno Brain Feed Betamaxx
  8. Daydream Youth Lagoon
  9. Hours Tycho
  10. Puttgarden The Embassy
  11. Soft Washed Out

EyesDown (Drum Machine Remix) Video

If you’ve been keeping track with us on what’s BOSS & notBOSS, then you know that Anthony F Schepperd is muy BOSS. The man did this little number in a month which is amazing! I love how he makes the fabrication of a ‘human’ fluid and mechanical at the same time. And, of course, keep an eye out for a couple of those AFS phych-warp loops that make me love Anthony more than I could ever describe in a single post (perhaps that’s why this is the 3rd post featuring his work).

ps :: does that ’architect’ remind anyone else of Omar Rodríguez-López?

(I wanna see) Linotype:
The Film

The Linotype looks like one of the craziest and most ambitious machines I’ve ever laid eyes on (after the 234 other machines that exist today and fall into those two categories).

From what I can tell, the damned thing makes metal molds as you type for each line-o-type you type (called a slug). I wonder if you can look around on the ground where newspaper publishers once stood and find slugs much like you could find arrow heads. Although slugs were probably melted down and reused making them extra rare and special. Prob see some hipsters with slugs on a necklace any day now :\

Hit this Wiki to learn more about the machine and hit the film’s site to learn more about the doc and when it’ll be touring to a city near you (see you in Seattle on Mar 7th, fellas!)

Magic Trip’s Kinetic Type

Magic Trip is documentary that used the 16 mm color footage shot by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
during their 1964 cross-country bus trip in the “Furthur” bus. You
know, THE hippie-dippy bus! And while this documentary is remastered
to perfection and totally worth watching for the whole story… there’s
a particular scene that I am captivated by! Ken Kesey’s voice on tape
while participating in an early LSD study brought to life with new
visuals & kinetic type!

The hand drawn type drags you deeper as Kesey’s voice becomes more and
more weary. They tell his crazy acid stories like you’re there, in
fact, after a while you feel like you’re on drugs too! Fun!

Magic Trip is currently on Netflix instant, but you should watch this scene now!

The Whale Story

Originally I wasn’t going to have a post for today, but now at the last possible second, I see this animation and recognize a few of the frames with the whale all tied up and it was driving me mad for about 20 seconds thinking about where’d I’d seen it before, because I knew I hadn’t seen this vid ever. Then I remembered I’d seen it here in Seattle at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. WHAAA

So I wanted to share some sweet sweet local talent with you BossnotBossers. Let this be a lesson to you: if you throw your talent up on a wall in Seattle, I might see it and I might post about it :)

Big shout to Tess Martin and everyone who helped out on this animation!!!

Two Against One

Right when I started watching this animation, I saw this had Anthony F Schepperd written all over it’s smelly face. Anthony was not animating alone though; with Chris Milk was also at his side (I wonder how often he has to hear “…how about a tall glass of you”) while working on the video for this track, off the album, Rome, by Danger Moues & Daniele Luppi with Jack White and Norah Jones laying down some smooth vox.

If you caught our post on Anthony Schepperd, then you also probably noticed his tripped out psychideli soup style as quickly at I did.

(I wanna see) Jiro Dreams of Sushi

I decided to kick my day off with a sweet Front Row session and sift through some trailers and I found a sweet sweet nugget due this March.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a documentary about a little sushi restaurant tucked into a japanese subway, but it also happens to be the home of the most amazing sushi on the planet, brought to life by Jiro, who may be one of the most amazing people on the planet. Granted I’ve never met the man, or seen beyond the trailer for this doc, but a man who says he’s still working towards perfection, while others boast how he’s surpassed it……. Jiro never settles and that is BOSS.

As much as I’d like to taste the sushi in my mouth, I still can’t get over how it looks! I love those black plates, the food looks so beautiful on those plates. I think I might just have to do a whole post on those plates just to get it all outta my system.

ps. In the trailer it says that Japan has declaired Jiro a national treasure! I hope that’s all it says on Jiro’s resume, ‘National Treasure’ in 7pt type, courier.

Semiconductor

Semiconductor is Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. They create a combination of conceptual audio, motion and installation work with lots of science. In their own words they “explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe.”

!!!!????

The atmosphere they create using motion, sound, and physical space is amazing. Their film, 20 Hz, uses radio array data to create sound and visualize a magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Another film, Heliocentric, attempts to visualize the earth moving around the sun by creating a time lapse that is centered on the sun.

Anyway, definitely check out more of their work on their vimeo page and website

Fleet Foxes: The Shrine / An Argument

This vid just dropped yesterday and t0 say it’s amazingly amazing is an understatement. Are you seeing these colors?! forget about it.

It’s one of those rare times when the audio and the video go so well together that you have to stop everything you’re doing and really soak it in. Then you have to watch it 5 more times to soak it in again. Then watch it 6 more times just because it’s awesome.

There’s so many little things that happen which hint at this great story that’s going on, but nothing blindingly obvious shows up to ruin it (well maybe the story is obvious to you, but I’m still coming up with theories). I’d love to hear your thoughts on what’s going on in this masterpiece. Who was that dude that got pushed off the cliff in the beginning? The owner of the beast? Why is he dead? Who’s that dude just chillin inside the beast this whole time playing music? Why are there animal heads on sticks? Did those Tribal dancers put them there? I have so many questions I never want to learn the answer to.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is that some genuine stop motion in there? I pray to a thousand lords that it is.

ps. you can find that track off Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues album :)

pps. Yes, Stacey Rozich did the character design; feel free to find you jaw on the floor now, please.

Marcell the Shell with Shoes On 2

For whatever reason, I wasn’t able to get too into the first one, but this one had me crackin’ up!

I love the bit where Marcell’s on the keyboard and there’s all these Zs repeating in the background; I’m all about little details like that.

ps Peep the first one in the post :)

pps Snoozin’ ‘n’ treats

I’m Here by Spike Jonze

Our friend Dane reminded us of this short by the good ole’ Spike Jonze. It is a surprising bit of film featuring the two small lives of some lonely robots finding love, and giving everything they have for one another til the very end. You will definitely sigh a few times from despairing sweetness. Very reminiscent of his film, Where the Wild Things Are, this is another beautifully shot film with a simple, yet endearing plot. Definitely watch with a close friend or two, and go here for more info.