Tag: David Bowie
David Bowie and Mick Jagger “Dancing in the Street” is a true classic of bromance and whimsy in the original form. But this “musicless musicvideo” from Mario Wienerroither sans music and singing plus folly effects is something else. It really brings out the nuances of their gangly gyrations, coordinated butt wiggling and, of course, David Bowie descending […]
Former LCD Soundsystem main man James Murphy created this 10-minute remix of David Bowie’s “Love Is Lost” for a forthcoming deluxe edition of The Next Day, and oh fuck is it good. The track takes Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music,” an iconic piece of minimalist music, as a point of departure, using that work’s gradually shifting accents […]
David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” has been enjoying an unlikely second life as an advertising jingle in recent years, featuring both in traditional TV spots and big interactive spectacles. One of those ads, for Sony’s Xperia line of smartphones, featured a skeletal remix of the original track, stripping it down to just its vocals and adding a […]
The acclaimed London “David Bowie is” retrospective all Bowie everything exhibit is touring and going to Canada first. “Spanning five decades and featuring more than 300 objects from Bowie’s personal archive, this totally immersive multimedia show celebrates the groundbreaking artist’s collaborations in the fields of fashion, sound, theatre, art and film” and it’s… a lot of stuff […]
When I called up the director Vincent Morisset Tuesday morning, he was in recovery. “Reflektor,” his ambitious new interactive video for Arcade Fire, had debuted the day before as the first official taste of their new album of the same name, and the band had celebrated by playing a small show in their native Montreal. […]
Attempting to successfully cover a legend like David Bowie can be risky business. Looks like everyone’s favorite astronaut Chris Hadfield did! After spending the last five months aboard the ISS, the Commander will be returning to Earth today — which means no more awesome videos of zero-gravity experiments or poetically captioned photos of earth from […]
Catholic League president Bill Donahue is putting on his art critic hat once again. The man who once made a really shitty parody of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ is now taking aim at David Bowie, whose latest music video featured a whole ton of not-very-nice Christian imagery. Donahue calls Bowie a “switch-hitting, bisexual, senior citizen from London” […]
David Bowie is opened last week at the V&A Museum, gracing Londonites with the ultimate, long-awaited treasure trove of all things Bowie. Oh good. Good for you, friends across the pond who get to bask in vast psychedelic projections of Bowie throughout his life, gape at personal knickknacks like his prized Diamond Dogs-era coke spoon, […]
As you may have heard, Morrissey approached David Bowie about using a photograph of the two artists together for the cover of a reissued single. Bowie apparently declined, and now the “Last of the International Playboys” cover will feature the above photo of Moz with none other than Mr. Richard Paul “Rick” Astley himself. More […]
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum commissioned Mark Blamire to create a poster in honor of everyone’s favorite returning musical hero, David Bowie. And in recognition of the man’s “chameleon-like persona” Blamire wrangled no less than 100 other designers to contribute a typographic tribute. The result–101 Bowies done up in various fonts and hand-lettered styles–is a […]
