Showing posts with label oneohtrix point never. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oneohtrix point never. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Video Kiddos 2020 #2: Oneohtrix Point Never "Lost But Never Alone"

Mom and Dad say, "The green hair. Why'd you do it son?" Son says, "cause Fuck you that's why." Mom and Dad say, "well that's just your opinion son." Son responds with a shred solo on grandma's Iron Maiden guitar.

Josh Safdie says: “Nostalgia is both warming and deeply depressing. It’s a love/hate relationship. Emotions themselves are haunting. ‘LBNA’ is a haunted piece of surfing — a screen-capture of our desire to pull meaning from the past at all times and the triumph of breaking through it with something else. When the pandemic hit, Dan and I sat around sharing airchecks from mid-level radio dials from yesteryear. Cut up and edited so as to evade copyright problems playing entire songs. The results are these 40 min streams of time captured with snippets of radio-songs. Aptly, one station in particular was known as "Beautiful Music." As the album took shape and I’d hear pieces of tracks, cut ups a la Steve Reich, the ghosts of upper and lower dial radio started to haunt me, I loved the feeling. I love the album and this song in particular fills me with a deep sense of sadness, angst, loneliness, creativity and of course triumph. We’re all lost but never alone.”

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Vid Kids 2015 #3: Oneohtrix Point Never "Sticky Drama"

Is this the future of LARPing? Back in the day, kids used to play capture the flag. Now they play Game Of Thrones on molly, incorporating drones, texting devices, tamagotchis and gooey Nickelodeon products like Floam and Gak. Princess AOL Start-Up Disc rules from her bed throne next to her OneDirection shrine. Seems like the backstory is intensely intricate and incomprehensible. What will happen to their universe once they go off to college? Will they reunite for ongoing adventures during Thanksgiving Breaks and Winter Sessions? Or will new young recruits carry their legacy?