Wednesday, March 19, 2008

short circuit

my friend just lent me ghost in the shell 1 & 2 and while watching the second one... i realized that there’s some idea borrowing back and forth.... most notably... the robots.

1. hans bellmer is an artist from germany who crafted dolls in very surreal ways...
to read more : refer to link below to of course... wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bellmer

chris cunningham’s video for bjork’s song is amazing. since then, i’ve seen it on i-robot and some vodka ads.... and then when i watched i am legend... the zombies in that also looked like the same robots except with skin. not too inventive... oh well.

ALL IS FULL OF LOVE - bjork







GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 : INNOCENCE

you can fast forward to about 4:30 seconds into it when they finally go visit a crime lab for robots i think... and then the woman who talks is haraway... which i believe is based after philosopher donna haraway who writes about cyborgs, anamatrons, gender issues and other crazy interesting stuff. you can def youtube her if you’re interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnA8WmPk__g







I-ROBOT

i thought this movie sucked.... but i don’t remember half the things that happened. i need to rewatch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLlHerOMXSI







TABO’S DOLLS

just something i found while youtubing all this stuff. japanese people are CRAZY inventive. demure on the outside, freaky on the inside!

i don’t have an issue with this besides the fact that the translator’s voice is super creepie... making tabo sound creepie... but he doesn’t sound that creepie in japanese...





1 comment:

LUKE said...

That's probably one of my favorite Chris Cunningham videos (Bjork). Wrote a paper in college referencing 'Ghost in the Shell' on that subject and Hans Belmer is one of my favs as well. You should either be here or I in LA. Miss ya, LS