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Hush, the babies are sleeping...

Christ, what an asshole — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:53:34 -0800

Justine Dream Experiment (NSFW)

By: knowles

knowles — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:57:06 -0800

Pretty good, pretty good.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:58:09 -0800

Pretty good at what? I don't get it. At all.

By: johannahdeschanel

johannahdeschanel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:01:57 -0800

postrawk

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:04:27 -0800

Yeah somewhat trippy, and sure she is a pretty girl, but context is king.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:04:41 -0800

Interesting. Will any of the "digital photo frames" on the market play looped video. There could be some great art options.

By: Tw33z

Tw33z — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:11:39 -0800

Certainly Justine Joli is beautiful, but for a real blow-your-mind experience, listen to Sir Richard Burton read all of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood here: http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html Put on a set of headphones, close your eyes, and have a real mind movie. ...To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

By: Democritus

Democritus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:19:00 -0800

I don't understand what it is other than a blurry, half-naked hottie spinning back and forth. Maybe I'm missing something here.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:21:35 -0800

half naked chick? Check. annoying pop up ad? Check. Just another day on the internet.

By: Exchequer

Exchequer — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:22:02 -0800

Clayton Cubitt, the artist, is a pretty incredible person. His family was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and he's been chronicling the ongoing aftermath.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:35:57 -0800

I'm with Democritus, it just looks like a very blurry video of a skinny half naked model. Am I missing something.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:37:05 -0800

Veoh is no longer available in BULGARIA. If you are not in BULGARIA or you think you have received this message in error, please report the issue below. What's with the "or"? Yeah, I am here, but this is in error because it sucks you are blocking the fine viewers of BULGARIA.

By: geekhorde

geekhorde — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:47:38 -0800

That was fucking beautiful. Transcendent even.

By: treepour

treepour — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:50:20 -0800

Not bad at all, but it makes me think of David Lynch's Gucci commerical, which I find far more compelling.

By: nosila

nosila — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:57:00 -0800

Compelling? Really? I really hope my sarcasm detector has just shorted out.

By: Forktine

Forktine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:18 -0800

Add me to the "don't get it" camp. Blurry naked girl, irritating popup ad, random voice reading something or other over some elevator music? Doesn't add up to anything for me, sorry.

By: spilon

spilon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:01:34 -0800

She's wearing underpants. Whatever.

By: Ian A.T.

Ian A.T. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:05:40 -0800

Thurston.. I think it's 10:30.. we're callin' from Providence, Rhode Island. Did you find your shit? You gotta watch the mota, Thurston.. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window...

By: Justinian

Justinian — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:05:53 -0800

That was fucking beautiful. Transcendent even. What the hell am I missing? Someone please hope me.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:11:11 -0800

There is no hope.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:12:35 -0800

Justine Joli bills herself as the worlds hottest geek, but I think I've met some hotter ones.

By: BobsterLobster

BobsterLobster — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:12:50 -0800

If you are not in INDONESIA or you think you have received this message in error, please report the issue below. A link to a version that most people in the world can see should surely come with a single video post?

By: treepour

treepour — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:13:15 -0800

Yep, sorry nosila. I've watched that commercial many, many times. Of course, this comes down to any Lynch love-hate argument, but the questions I find compelling are ones like: who are these people? why are they in the isolated-but-elegant surroundings they're in? am I supposed to be attracted to or repulsed by that one model's rather anorexic arms, especially as emphasized by framing them in high-contrast against a very dark background? what's the tunnel we're moving through? why does look so disgustingly biological, even though I'm pretty sure it's fabric? why does the image of the city-from-above come back? why do things get blurry after it does? what are the women feeling when they cease moving and close their eyes? is it something internal or is it something being done to them? The commercial hints at so much sinister stuff, just off-screen, and that sinister stuff isn't at all incongruent with the glamorous world being depicted. And yet, there's the innocence -- the way the girls are able to lose themselves in the moment . . . classic Lynch. As for the linked video, what I love about it is the attention it draws to the medium. You're never allowed to forget that you're watching something heavily manipulated, and yet you feel something is revealed by those visual manipulations. It's a very good video, but I just think it's intended impact depends upon being confronted by the juxtaposition of glamor and its relation to darker aspects of life, and this is where I think Lynch sets the bar very high, almost impossibly high.

By: vertigo25

vertigo25 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:25:20 -0800

That girl needs a sandwich, stat.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:34:02 -0800

That girl needs a sandwich, stat. Maybe some beef, if you see what I'm say... [knock] What? Nothing is going on in here! I'll be out in a second! Don't come in! It's art! What? No! My zipper is stuck. No way! I'd never! Where are you...? Not the clothespin!

By: rokusan

rokusan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:39:24 -0800

What is this popup people are complaining about? I saw no popup. (Firefox. Mac.)

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:43:12 -0800

Well, since some of you seem to think that this art, I watched it again with the sound on this time. Fucking Richard Burton reciting Dylan Thomas?!? It was sort of pointless without sound but with a pretentious dead Shakespearian actor intoning very serious poetry, it's pretty damn ludicrous.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:47:39 -0800

Good if you like it, bad if you don't. I don't.

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:02:07 -0800

Anyone else feel they were mixing in Cliff Martinez's Solaris score at the end of that?

By: Belle O'Cosity

Belle O'Cosity — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:05:04 -0800

And why is this FPP? Pepsi blurry naked, or something.

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:15:57 -0800

Man, it takes real talent to make a video of a decent-looking (who the fuck knows?) naked woman lame and boring and seemingly an hour long, but there ya go. Thanks for that.

By: facetious

facetious — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:19:10 -0800

was that like the preview clip for something that actually makes sense? i experienced a strong sensation of irritation and nothing more. maybe that's just a sign of aging.

By: Mid

Mid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:23:22 -0800

Made me think of Infinite Jest, which, as I recall, involved a film of a beautiful woman somehow rotating or perhaps walking around in a revolving door. That, and tennis.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:48:59 -0800

Man, it takes real talent to make a video of a decent-looking (who the fuck knows?) The model is Justine Joli, who is some internet porn person. She's pretty good looking, but I disagree with her cosmetics strategy.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:51:19 -0800

Is this how they scramble the Spice channel now?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:54:19 -0800

The clockwise vs counter-clockwise spinning dancer animation is far more interesting on every level than this silly video.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:09:28 -0800

The clockwise vs counter-clockwise spinning dancer animation is far more interesting on every level than this silly video. I've seen that animation before, but I've never seen it depicted as 'left brained' vs. 'right brained', frankly trying to make that determination based on the animation is idiotic. For one thing, whether she is rotating 'clockwise' or 'counterclockwise' depends on the orientation of the clock relative to her. If you see her as moving left as she approaches the screen then she's moving clockwise relative to a clock facing up, and counterclockwise relative to a clock facing down. but either way turning that into a 'right brained' vs. 'left brained' thing is ridiculous.

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:26:39 -0800

Blurry boobs and Dylan Thomas. Yup, just another Friday night in Portland.

By: meowzilla

meowzilla — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:30:09 -0800

MetaFilter: good if you like it, bad if you don't.

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:44:52 -0800

The model is Justine Joli, who is some internet porn person. When porn stars get pretentious, it's like we've turned some horrible corner.

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:58:08 -0800

Thanks to the ability to open multiple background tabs in Firefox, I managed to launch this movie and the video from this thread at the same time, and I can tell you that watching the latter while listening to the former is a much-improved experience all around.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:04:47 -0800

So.... did we ever get an explanation of why this was worth posting? To me it looks like a regular art school video, perhaps not even as good....

By: yath

yath — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:28:52 -0800

All you people upping the comment count tricked me into thinking the video was worth watching.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:23:57 -0800

Now if you could get me some recordings of Richard Burton, the explorer, reciting poetry, that would rock!

By: ninebelow

ninebelow — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:28:27 -0800

When porn stars get pretentious, it's like we've turned some horrible corner. See also Sasha Grey.

By: DU

DU — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:55:30 -0800

Made me think of Infinite Jest I agree, it was stupid and overlong.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:54:39 -0800

Anyone else feel they were mixing in Cliff Martinez's Solaris score at the end of that? posted by hototogisu at 9:02 PM on June 27 [+] [!] It was the soundtrack for the entire clip.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:54:39 -0800

Anyone else feel they were mixing in Cliff Martinez's Solaris score at the end of that? posted by hototogisu at 9:02 PM on June 27 [+] [!] It was the soundtrack for the entire clip.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:55:19 -0800

what the... sorry about that.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:36:35 -0800

Actually, it's a demo to illustrate one man's mastery of digitizing something out of a sequence -- in this case, the pole.

By: TrinaSelwyn

TrinaSelwyn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:27:22 -0800

Treepour, I'm curious. If you had no idea that commercial was directed by David Lynch, do you think you would read it the same way? I'll never understand the so-called "genius" that Lynch fans project onto anything he does. Sometimes a dude in a rabbit suit is just a dude in a rabbit suit. I saw nothing sinister or even remotely interesting about some unhealthy rich chicks and blurry camera views. And what the hell is Lynch doing directing Gucci commercials, anyway? ((Sorry, but I didn't watch the OP video. I'm at work.))

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:24:26 -0800

The technique here seems a bit simplistic and not used effectively, IMHO. I mean, I like blurry images as much as the next guy, but this seemed like a very art-school juxtaposition of picture and sound without much intention behind it.

By: xod

xod — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:16:10 -0800

Needs unicorn.

By: progosk

progosk — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:04:09 -0800

too similar to this other "experiment" (by vincent gallo).

By: OrangeDrink

OrangeDrink — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:51:44 -0800

beat me to it, progosk.

By: treepour

treepour — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:03:27 -0800

If you had no idea that commercial was directed by David Lynch, do you think you would read it the same way? I'll never understand the so-called "genius" that Lynch fans project onto anything he does. How could I possibly answer that with any certainty? If you're familiar with an artist's work, you tend to read any particular piece in light of his or her other pieces. Whether that's good or bad, I'm pretty sure it's inevitable. If you want to debate about the merits (or lack thereof) of the commercial, then let's do so -- but saying "I don't get it" and "you're just a fanboy" doesn't constitute a critique.

By: Mil

Mil — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:51:07 -0800

This exact combination of Dylan Thomas and Martinez was used in a VW commercial by Noam Murro last year.

By: Phalene

Phalene — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:42:30 -0800

It's a spinny, blurry naked woman. I don't think I feel like squinting.