Jean Painlevé - La Quatrième dimension (1937)

Musica by La Big Vic

Here's a track to listen to while you have multiple dimensions described to you in french. The images in this little documentary by Jean Painlevé are incredible. It's also available with subtitles from Criterion.

The Sorcerer

Summer Update

I recently got back from a trip to milwaukee and new york. work on the heavens episode 5 has picked up now that peter and I went through the new soundtrack material. above, the debrie parvo at the museum of the moving image, where I like to go whenever i'm visiting astoria. below that, a photo from a shoot for the crystal stilts' music video for "sycamore tree" taken in cooper park, brooklyn. below, a michael jackson piñata that I moved from the top bunk in order to get some sleep in bay view, milwaukee.

Cat and Mouse

An early Jim Henson animated short film

La Big Vic - Actually

Toshio, Emily, and Peter's band, La Big Vic, has just released "Actually"--- a really super album that you can order here. Toshio and Peter did most of the soundtrack for The Heavens. La Big Vic's music is bright, dreamy, and curious. Looks like they've got some shows lined up in Brooklyn, where they live, this summer so if you live there check them out!

Pinball Machines

I took some photographs of pinball machines last Sunday and recently posted them on my flickr page. It seemed like there were all these little nocturnal worlds under glass, composed of disco freeways and giddy, exuberant characters. To see them all, click here.

Birds