Neave.tv is like that part in movies where the character channel surfs in an aimless dreamlike meaningless void, except perhaps there is meaning in there somewhere. Neave streams VHS lo-fi style videos, and a mouse click or phone tap moves on to the next one with no possibility of rewind. They are weird, creepy, surreal, transitory, silly and maybe addictive. I find them most compelling without sound in a random browser tab. I do work or other browsing and hop over every now and then to see what’s weird.
Category: Video
Internal: Brain dance
Oh my, graphic visualizations are among my favorite ways to lose myself in a screen, like watching the ballet of synapses in my brain. And this one is exceptional: Trust – Max Cooper feat. Kathrin deBoer & Tom Hodge
I recommend watching that first and then exploring this browser-interactive environment-version that utilizes motion, sound and form from your mic, camera and keyboard: https://epok.tech/work/tendrils/
You can thank me later.
Feast: For your ears and eyes
Vimeo is Youtube with integrity, and their evolving playlist Eye Candy is worth saving to your bookmarks for those moments when you need to let your brain wander into beauty and weirdness.
Here you’ll find the sorbet of Vimeo v
ideos, cleansing your eyes with state-of-the-art, top quality visuals.
eye candy homepage
Balls: Pinball explained
In Seattle we have several supremely psychedelicly dark black-light-glowing strobe-blinking bar backrooms chock full of obnoxiously-loud pinball machines (most impressively: Shorty’s). The addictive scene reeks of chaos, but pinball wizard Roger Sharpe tells how the game isn’t as random as it seems.
Zoom: Inside a painting
I’m not sure how far into infinity this goes, but Zoom Quilt is for those moments when you want to swim inside an animation forever. It did get me dizzy but it’ll also take you to fantastical distant lands.
Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson on Letterman
The next reporter has been called the least factual and most accurate reporter working today.
David Letterman
Here are a couple videos where gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson appeared on David Letterman, 1987 and 1998. These interviews are wacky and unpredictable. The website Open Culture writes: “Do we find our current crop of journalists lacking in moral courage, righteous fury, death-defying risk-taking, gallows humor, literary reach, thoroughgoing independence of thought? The failing industry may be to blame, one might argue, and with good reason.”
Time: “Distortion” stop motion
Stop motion videos are super captivating to watch and even more so when you understand how they are made. This one, “Distortion” by Guldies was entirely molded in clay and took 2500 still shots to create. One user comment suggests slowing it down “to .25x speed to appreciate the effort that went into the animation.”
Revolution: Trigger Warning with Killer Mike S1E4
“Because I was raised in a Christian culture, I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.”
James Baldwin
Trigger Warning is a Netflix show featuring rapper Killer Mike. Although many of the episodes could be described as controversial, Episode 4 jumps all in challenging religion and creating a new one in an effort to explore this oppressive subversion that is deeply ingrained in our culture.
Killer Mike’s episode-ending narration: “When black people can see God in themselves we are reminded we are special, we are connected and we are hope. 500 years of oppression and conditioning tried to convince Black people that we need a master in the sky.”