I Am Still Alive

I really dig the simplicity of the effects for this video. Just a good idea executed well.

Edgy, monochromatic music video for Friendly Fires, directed by Clemens Habicht. The band [was] transformed into Skeleton Boys as a nod to the track’s title, with the aid of double-sided sticky tape, fans and trillions of bean bag balls.

I am moving up to San Francisco on Monday and am going to experiment with not getting a television for a bit. I have the suspicion that I can squeeze all the screen-based entertainment I need out the internet. PBS just put streams of a lot of their shows online and it promises to get me most of the way there (along w/Netflix for streaming & DVD and Hulu).

I reckon I’ll watch sports with friends at their places. And even though these services make it easy and I have a really nice monitor there is still considerable rooting around for programming and almost no equivalent to flipping channels to find something new or just interesting enough to waste some time on.

I’ll see how it goes and whether I miss the television “experience.”

From Francois Girard’s 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould with Colm Feore as Glen Gould.