This fantastic video was posted on thecomeup recently, but the excellentness doesn’t end there. Check out what was posted in the comments:

Attention thecomeupbmx.net

This is Sue Miller with the IWF (Internet Watchdog Foundation). The mother of a 12 year old frequenter of your website witnessed her son watching this and immediately reported it to us. Seeing as there is no age warning or verification on your site, we must demand you remove this video and any other age-inappropriate material (we are currently reviewing all content on the website) within 48 hours or face being shutdown.

http://www.thecomeupmx.net
ip adress: 75.119.202.143
flag: inappropriate content without age verification
complaint logged: 9:03 pm pst

It’s bullshit (and she links herself to the Independent Women’s Forum), but the furor it caused in the comments is funny. Well played, anon poster, well played.

How you have failed me, invisible lines that pull image onto my screen. Those lines that trawl information from afar. Friends had to scoop them up and mail them before you find the nugget bytes first. Like links to whorecraft real-life porn via a girl in korea (nsfw). or a dope music blog via a giffer in Vancouver (#gifgang). yes, whorecraft to music blogs. the world is a perilous place.

here’s another that took a year for the lines to find. History of Our World – one of the most compelling image and text blogs I have come across in a while. Most blogs consist of image and text, but this one’s really really good at image and text. Particularly the jpgs.

Also, Anour Brahem was born on October 20th 1957. Happy birthday yesterday fifty two years ago Brahem! It’s crazy it took that long before his music graced my headphones. I recommend hitting up this dope post on the greatest conversation to hear and read for yourself.

I made hainanese chicken rice today for the first time. the end result was average due to my not so very good skills but the experience was amazing (nothing tastes like food from home). My hands still smell of garlic and ginger. Mmmmmm.

School is going interestingly. Taking a film studies 100 class which has been blowing my mind a bit. In an art history / archeology of China class, our prof told us about an emperor who had a pool built where the reflection (or illusion) of the moon could be seen during the day. I think it’s supposed to be in or near a cave and there are seven holes around the pool and if any of them were blocked, the reflection would not work.

It’s a mystery to everyone how the reflection works. Apparently when the Japanese occupied the area they built an exact replica of the set-up but were still unable to replicate the illusion. Our prof explained that it was created with an entirely different philosophy and technology to ours, which is why it baffles us so much. I find this incredible fascinating, but cannot find any more information on this reflection pool. It’s supposed to be located at Bishu Shanzhuang in Chengde. If you do know anything more about this and would like to share the knowledge, I’ll hug you for an email!

Travel-wise, I’m a bit shocked at how many air miles I’ve put in. For work I’ve visited toronto six times this year, montreal four times, and a host of other Canadian cities a bunch (I should be in the ‘air canada top tier’ section soon. It means free scotch in the airport lounge, looking forward to this). Considering I hadn’t really been out of BC before this year, I feely very grateful to have seen this much of canada (even halifax!) and learnt more about this incredible country. Overall, photographing the flying lotus tour is still one of my favourite gigs ever. thank you kenny mac for that.

Am shooting a job in toronto next month, and will be flying from there to new york for a job later that week. Never been to new york, really excited for it.

On the internet front, I’m not entirely sure what to do with We Mine Deeper anymore. I’ve got quite a few blogs going right now and as has been said, ‘dude you’re spreading your blogging thin.’ WMD has always been a nice place for me to spew out whatever I wanted though. Imagine if I posted all the random nsfw stuff on my ‘proper’ photo blog…. Or maybe I should.

Whatever it is, a new david lang photo is in the works by andy chung who just started a new blog. I might be keeping with my usual URestlessL behaviour on this revamp. Other stuff in photography… Am procrastinating on a print requested by Day 19 which is dumb of me because they are incredible photographers and this is an honour. Speaking of day 19, harrison boyce went to visit them recently and came back with this fantastic photo.

Bloggingly, there is an interview that needs to be transcribed for some blogging news happening soon. On the work front, I sort of agreed to take a job that happens over my birthday, as I had a momentary lapse of memory on which day I was born on. For whatever reason, I’ve always wanted this to happen.

Really liked Where the Wild Things Are. It’s fucking good, but I must admit it’s a film that is sometimes more groundbreaking than it is pure fun to watch. There is a lot of love and certainly a lot of hate for this movie. I want to watch it in cinemas again, and this time round with a note pad to jot some writing down and maybe try to defend these waves of hatred. A salute to spike jonze for sticking to his path and somehow managing to put this film on our screens.

“He has developed an extraordinary sense of meaningful whimsy as in such music videos as [etc. etc.] where psychological tension is conveyed through original, iconoclastic scenography. Jonze’s sensibility is an authentic development of the music-video era’s generational split—which is also an aesthetic split. He doesn’t exploit pop rebellion but has a counter-intuitive slant on what’s funny, sad, universal.” – armond white in a review of the film.

I think jonze is doing something incredible with wild things, but how people take influence from it remains to be seen – which is a bit scary. This direction has so much potential but will look particularly stupid if used in the wrong hands. I think we’re in for a lot of face-value meandering filmmaking and photography soon; you can imagine how interpretations of the aesthetics and narrational style can be utterly dreadful (yes I know some of you already think this is bad). Whatever it is, the new kanye X jonze video We Were Once a Fairytale Where the Kanye’s Are -a.c. is dope, and you know it.

To finish – am actually falling for that Glee tv show, I have no reservations about playing with a sony psp on the bus and the vancouver locals can continue to look at me strange all they want, chicken rice is the best, and yup.

Brian Park:
ooooh, I created a new genre of poetry!

David Lang:
… what?

Brian Park:
stemming from that “manunkine” thing I was being silly about
its called anti-semanticism
and you write something, and then you replace most of the words with similar sounding words that mean totally different things
eg. I just had textual intercourse

So today I learnt how to turn a video clip into a GIFs from Tom Chung, brother of Andy Chung and founder of Original Gifs tumblr which has been gaining a certain amount of infamy on the net recently.

As you can see, my first attempt was not so brilliant. It’s a pretty big file, has one thousand invisible frames and a few subliminal glitches. Hopefully my next few attempts will be less sketchy. Right now it’s sketchier than four people fucking on motorbikes while riding around the forest.

#gifgang

the above image wasn’t part of the exhibit, but it’s lovely and important so it’s here

Yesterday and today I visited the Vancouver Art Gallery to pay homage to the Andreas Gursky exhibition that was on. It’s really fucked me up quite a bit. I relate to his work more strongly than anything I’ve seen in years… the vantage points, the magnitude, the details within that magnitude, his attitude (and lack of)… and looking at the progression in his style and philosophy really makes me question my own and where I’m going with things.

One of the biggest topics in my head concerned the perception of photography and its moral boundaries both in the industry and to a general audience. Gursky’s disregard for ‘normal’ photographic conventions (especially on the ethics of manipulation) give his work such a powerful voice that I find so lacking in much work out there now, and this includes my own. But I’m still not entirely sure if this is a good thing. Should I continue to strive for the honest depiction as so-valued in the reportage world, or can I manipulate it in order to represent it? And even then, do I represent it with visual accuracy or focus on the feeling? I feel like this is an issue that I should be over by now, but it seems to be a huge roadblock in my path. Gursky just brought the issue up and instead of being sympathetic, fired it back in my face.

Then there is his play on visual tricks. They’re fascinating and make so much of the current work we produce look dated. Gursky has broken down the communication that occurs between the eye and the brain and reconstructed this exercise in his work in ways that I’ve never even thought possible.

There is also the attractiveness of Gursky’s work. It definitely pushes boundaries from a photographic and art-world sense, but is also something that joe-public can understand. I respect an artists’ ability to achieve this immensely.

If there is at least one thing that I do know for sure after seeing that exhibition, it’s that I am for the first time convinced by the following paragraph, and that really changes how things move on from here.

This is also true of Rhein. I wasn’t interested in an unusual, possibly picturesque view of the Rhine, but in the most contemporary possible view of it. Paradoxically, this view of the Rhine cannot be obtained in situ, a fictitious construction was required to provide an accurate image of a modern river. The same thing happened when I visited over 70 world-famous industrial companies. Most of them had a socio-romantic air I hadn’t expected. I was looking for visual proof of what I thought would be antiseptic industrial zones. If these companies had been systematically documented one would have had the feeling one was back in the days of the Industrial Revolution. After this experience I realized that photography is no longer credible, and therefore found it that much easier to legitimize digital picture processing.

Another thing I do know for sure after seeing this exhibit? I haven’t lost hope in contemporary art, which is nice because I’ve been quite the cynical fucker so far.

This is the last story in Fear(s) of the Dark (Peur(s) de Noir) – a French animation horror compilation released in 2007. Richard McGuire directed this particular piece and it is stunning. I am also fond of the rest of the movie too, definitely enjoyed watching.

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Anonymous, on Sep 18, 2009 wrote: could those photos be any worse? sweet red eye and shitty focus terry
	poozer, on Sep 17, 2009 wrote: all for not eating his dinner. i feel ya, max.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: This is a very nice interview on the vice magazine. I enjoy!
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: spike jonze and vice is a marriage made in my penis.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: VICE is the best and Spike is GOD.Thank you Shane!
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: godammit, spike. you look ready for a lead role in a romantic comedy in the second photo. i thought you were aaron eckhart at first. thank you for not being a jackass.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: Hey dickweeds, shut it. Or better yet, watch this -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: you don’t see enough RED EYEZ these days. good photos. good interview.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: hmmmmm ok. there’s like, what, a dozen interviews with a cross section of the greatest directors of all time and you’re complaining? jeez i’d had to be your spouse/parents and think of what a failure i am for being associated with a useless turd such as yourself.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: God, this site sucks. Get better material please.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: whats the phrase about arguing on the internet? thinks about retardation which these comments clearly indicate. best to just take comments off.
	rufiomania, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: i think benecio del toro is one of the wild things. how fucking perfect is that match? i can’t wait to see this!
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: wait dont they make cameras that take the red out
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: who wants to eat mushrooms and see this with me opening night?
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: anyone see the girl epicly laterd with spike in it? man shit looked fun.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: boner-rific
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: i wish they had gotten harry benson to shoot the photos…
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: Right on about the Coen Bros. I love most of their stuff too but you can tell strictly by the dialogue (which is what makes their films great, IMO) that they vary little from the script.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: I read an article somewhere years ago about Sendak maybe thinking about making it into a film but I thought he was hesitant. I guess he wanted it and was pitching to people he liked for a while now. I guess that’s cool, and the money certainly wouldn’t be bad, but I had a totally different concept of how this all went down.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: i love how he managed to transition from skate vids > music vids > big time movies.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: shit guys, i know i’m not the only one that’s stoked about dave eggers co-writing the screenplay! fucking eggers!
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: Too often people overlook one of Spike’s best weapons — the people he surrounds himself with. Art directors, writers, etc. He builds teams that make his movies what they are. And what they are is amazing.
	Fuck Russia, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: Two things…1 – This movie is going to blow minds. Period. 2 – The interview is between friends and no matter how jokey or buddy buddy they are it’s still better than normal pre-release shit you see out. Can’t wait for this flick. Just hope I can see it before I hear all about it from friends.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: I don’t know if I can trust or take seriously anyone that hates Wild Things. First of all, it’s probably the best children’s book of all time. Secondly, if you happen to not like it (a completely different rant) then why the disgust with people that do? I wasn’t crazy about the Neverending Story but you don’t see me namecalling on its message boards.
Anonymous, on Sep 16, 2009 wrote: less we forget spike also was the man behind jackass and so so many great music videos. the man has changed the way people think of music videos and has now done the same for feature length films.
Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2009 wrote: I like this site! I would never know about it if it weren’t for Spike Jonze. Thanks Spike.
Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2009 wrote: I found this article via Defamer. Nice read and funny, biting comentary by Defamer. Man I love the internet.
Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2009 wrote: Shane Smith: The original WILD THING
Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2009 wrote: Can’t wait for the movie now. I didn’t even know about it. Is this a publicity trick? If so, nice one!
Anonymous, on Sep 15, 2009 wrote: they refer to shane not asking “gotcha” questions. um he isn’t interviewing a big tobacco exec or something. it’s fucking spike jonze talking about A KIDS MOVIE.
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So the first episode of the new season of Office opens with a ‘parkour sequence.’

Yes. So indescribably happy right now.