Respeito (Respect): Her Morning Elegance - Oren Lavie

Frame by Frame this video was placed together... beautiful!

Who said cool, innovative videos didn't exist any longer?  My best buddy Ryan showed me this video and I was actually in awe.  I heard the DYLAN video has been out for a while now (a year even garnering a nomination at the Grammy's for Best Short Form Music Video), but last night was the first time I saw it.  Of course I had to share it with my blog readers because this is your one-stop place for everything DYLAN!! Call me belated but this is definitely something worth seeing!!

Her Morning Elegance has become a pop-art phenomena and the most successful stop motion video ever.
It earned a nomination in the 52nd Grammy Awards and has been screened at film festivals around the world. The video was created from 2096 still photographs that were shot and sequenced to create the sense of movement.

The lyrics of the song are quite simple but the message is definitely presented in the very cool music video which serves as nothing share of attention gripping.  A bed serves as the setting for an entire journey through life and a relationship.  Carefully placed pillows and socks serve as not on rocks, but also clouds and fishes respectively.  



Her Morning Elegance Lyrics

Sun been down for days
A pretty flower in a vase
A slipper by the fireplace
A cello lying in it's case

Soon she's down the stairs
Her morning elegance she wears
The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows

Sun been down for days
A winter melody she plays
The thunder makes her contemplate
She hears a noise behind the gate
Perhaps a letter with a dove
Perhaps a stranger she could love

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows

And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
Where people are pleasently strange
And counting the change
And She goes...
Nobody knows

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Respeito (Respect): Sarah Frost's "Arsenal"

The entire Gun Registry is represented here it seems...

This image was just visually arresting, I love artistic pieces like this that do nothing more than beg a hearty discussion upon leaving such an exhibit.  Sarah Frost manages to capture the fascination we as a modern society seem to have with guns.

"P.P.O.W will host Sarah Frost’s first solo exhibition from April 14 to May 14, 2011 in New York City. Frost’s installations focus on a new found interest in paper gun making – the artist having recently discovered an online community of paper craftsmen (mostly boys) through Youtube. With this basis, Frost creates environments that fully immerse the viewer in her monumental arsenal."


Thoroughly engrossing,  this exhibit is a definite must-see especially because the intricate, realistic guns were actually made with paper! Its almost as if they seem like they are made of cold steel with a hot temper buried deep inside.  I love how they are suspended their too in organized chaos.  I mean in a time when we can't seem to avoid going to war this exhibit is highly relevant.  

What are your thoughts on the images?


Via: Selectism 


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Respeito (Respect): Mesa in Spain

Man this blew me away, how else could you reclaim a derelict, forlorn building?  Easy, by painting these haunting faces as a tribute to the days when actual souls roamed through this once house that was a home!  Artist Mesa decided to take his talent to Spain!!

Imagine walking upon this one day while browsing the Spanish countryside.  My first inkling would be awe, then slowly a cold chill would creep up and over the fine grooves of my spine!  Its almost as if the faces are emerging from the decaying facade of the abandoned house. 

Via: Curated

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Respeito (Respect): Vogue Italia's Oil Spill Photographs

You know the old saying, a picture speaks a thousand words? Well these set of images shot by famed photographer Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia hammer the message home as it marries the idea of fashion and the impact of the BP oil spill on not only the southern American coastline but the world.  I have to give all props and respect to provocative, haunting images like this one; that not only achieve the magazine's message of fashion forward photography but also reminds BP about the impact of its careless endeavors on the rest of the world.

The series entitled 'Water and Oil' features Kristen McMemany's oil clad body is strewn lifelessly across a beach.  Clearly the environmental impact on the ecosystem is what we're supposed to take away here as in several images Kristen is either coughing up water or has a feather perched precariously in her lips.  The oil has been plugged but the impact on the environment remains to be seen. A special round of applause to the team over at Vogue for tackling this issue and for refusing to allow BP to get off the hook for THEIR disaster.

What are your thoughts on the images??

Via: Pursuitist 

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