Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Battles - Parisian Exclusive - "Wall Street"
For days we were searching for hangars, warehouses and big empty loft spaces. We got the opposite along with the immoderate enthusiasm of Agnes, who works with the city’s cinematography association and wanted to see “what it would be like, a Blogothèque concert at the city hall”. It was incongruous, it was bloody exciting. We were going to shoot Battles in a rococo style lounge in The Hotel de Ville, the magnificent city hall and mayor’s office in the centre of Paris.
We decided to go all out and take as much equipment possible, dragging huge boxes, running dozens of cables across the ancient and noisy wooden floor. Constructing a wall of amps under a fresco of glorious and triumphant agriculture, preparing a wall of sound that would, we were later told, make the several floors above us shake.
We couldn’t say what was further from their comfort zone - the angular futurism of Battles, or the heavily detailed painted walls of the ’Bertrand Salon’. With the housekeepers flitting between anxiety and amusement, the three band members roamed around the space, eyeing up the chandeliers, dumbfounded. As their sound engineer secured several wires to the ground, Ian had trouble reducing his tension.
You know, we never play live without an audience like this. We need the excitement... do you think we could have some beer?
Beer, here? Surely we ought to have some good wine...
Ha why not. But we’d need real glasses wouldn’t we?
The accessories were found. The wine glass almost linking the two worlds.
Next, the machine was launched. We were in an environment as different as the group themselves - their mathematical music, cut to the extreme, long sections with boxes within boxes - we couldn’t possibly film on just one camera. Nat found himself directing five cameras, trying to not miss even a microsecond of what was happening. The result is like nothing we’ve ever created before. Blogothèque, Battles, Bertrand : three B’s who have together embarked on a twisted mission.
The result:
http://www.blogotheque.net/Battles,6030
We decided to go all out and take as much equipment possible, dragging huge boxes, running dozens of cables across the ancient and noisy wooden floor. Constructing a wall of amps under a fresco of glorious and triumphant agriculture, preparing a wall of sound that would, we were later told, make the several floors above us shake.
We couldn’t say what was further from their comfort zone - the angular futurism of Battles, or the heavily detailed painted walls of the ’Bertrand Salon’. With the housekeepers flitting between anxiety and amusement, the three band members roamed around the space, eyeing up the chandeliers, dumbfounded. As their sound engineer secured several wires to the ground, Ian had trouble reducing his tension.
You know, we never play live without an audience like this. We need the excitement... do you think we could have some beer?
Beer, here? Surely we ought to have some good wine...
Ha why not. But we’d need real glasses wouldn’t we?
The accessories were found. The wine glass almost linking the two worlds.
Next, the machine was launched. We were in an environment as different as the group themselves - their mathematical music, cut to the extreme, long sections with boxes within boxes - we couldn’t possibly film on just one camera. Nat found himself directing five cameras, trying to not miss even a microsecond of what was happening. The result is like nothing we’ve ever created before. Blogothèque, Battles, Bertrand : three B’s who have together embarked on a twisted mission.
The result:
Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
http://www.blogotheque.net/Battles,6030
Monday, 23 May 2011
Ashrita Furman
Ashrita has set - 342 - official Guinness Records since 1979 and currently holds - 124 - standing records including the official record for the most records held at the same time by an individual.
He currently holds the title for records such as:
Largest Popcorn Sculpture
Most Pancakes Caught In A Minute
Largest Pencil
Most Star Jumps In A Minute
And the most interesting for me:
Quickest time to peel and eat a lemon (currently standing at 8.25 seconds.
I'd actually love to break this record, I might have to practise an awful lot but it's possible, lemon is the nicest taste!
Ashrita has broken a Guinness record on every continent including hula hooping for the fastest mile at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in the Australian bush and completing the fastest mile on a pogo stick in Antarctica. Ashrita has also set records at many famous landmarks around the world including standing on a Swiss Ball for the longest time at Stonehenge in England, balancing a pool cue while walking the longest distance at the Pyramids in Egypt, skipping rope the most times in a minute while jumping on a pogo stick at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and bouncing the fastest mile on a kangaroo ball along the Great Wall of China.
I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves,"
He currently holds the title for records such as:
Largest Popcorn Sculpture
Most Pancakes Caught In A Minute
Largest Pencil
Most Star Jumps In A Minute
And the most interesting for me:
Quickest time to peel and eat a lemon (currently standing at 8.25 seconds.
I'd actually love to break this record, I might have to practise an awful lot but it's possible, lemon is the nicest taste!
Ashrita has broken a Guinness record on every continent including hula hooping for the fastest mile at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in the Australian bush and completing the fastest mile on a pogo stick in Antarctica. Ashrita has also set records at many famous landmarks around the world including standing on a Swiss Ball for the longest time at Stonehenge in England, balancing a pool cue while walking the longest distance at the Pyramids in Egypt, skipping rope the most times in a minute while jumping on a pogo stick at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and bouncing the fastest mile on a kangaroo ball along the Great Wall of China.
I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves,"
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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