Brian Teifer and a friend have created this humourous educational video regarding the (swine) flu and proper hygiene: Wash your hands. And if it wasn't cool enough because it features my most popular song ever (Glacier), it also has a talking pig (maybe a swine would be more appropriate?). It can't get any better!

Have a look, it's pretty short :-)

As promised (albeit a little late, but that’s life and business for you) here’s the exact clip from Camille, Andrew, Katrina & Co where my song Glacier was featured.

15 – Hurricane names list from CamilleAndrewKatrinaCo on Vimeo.

The song enters at about minute 1:30. Of course, it all makes more sense if you watch the whole film :-D

Meanwhile, Mr. Daniel Dugas has not been idle. His new project, talk mainstream , combines Google Trends, MAX and Apple Script to post strange gibberish to Twitter, each minute. As one could expect, results range from humourous to absurd. Have a look!

Jonas Drotner has just released a nice short ambient movie featuring spiky things inspired by radiolarians, which are a group of zooplankton thingies that Ernst Haeckel studied early on. More on radiolarians and Haeckel in the mighty Wikipedia, of course.

The reason why I’m telling you about this is because Jonas decided to use a song of mine to add some eerie tension to the short. And the winner song is… have a go at guessing… Glacier

Yeah!

I quite liked the movie, it’s a pity it is that short. Hopefully he’ll be able to come back to the project and create a longer version so that we can see more synthetic plankton, which is always cool!

Almost a year ago Daniel Datugas from Canada contacted me, asking me for permission to use an excerpt of a song of mine in a video project he was working on, Camille, Andrew, Katrina et Cie

Of course, I couldn’t but say yes!

The song was —you guess it— Glacier again. I must have done something really well with it! :D

In return for using the song, he kindly sent me a DVD when the project was finished. For some strange reason, getting a physical DVD instead of downloading an ISO image and mounting it virtually was SO exciting. There was a “thank you” letter inside, and the DVD box itself. The cover is what you see above, then you have the DVD disk:

which is simple but has the nice detail of Mr. Dugas name being nicely aligned with the last A of Katrina. And finally here comes the best part, the egopumping part:

TOTALLY UPPERCASE SUPERSOLE! Yeah!

Vanity highs apart, and back to the project itself, it seems it is a project with multiple readings. It is a video, but it is also an installation —which unfortunately I’m not able to experiment. The video is being published to vimeo (a new sequence every day). I watched it with the sound effects + voice channel, plus the English subtitles on, since my French isn’t that good to understand everything. It is all narrated and performed by Daniel, a bit in the style of old radio serials. The format suits him well, since there were very few actors & actresses in this production, so each one of them play several roles in the movie (disguised, of course!).

Regarding the story, it really hooked me. I was totally interested in knowing how would it end, and I was even thinking about the movie some days after watching it, so it really made an impact on me. So good work, Daniel et Cie! Well done! :-)

At this point the sequence which features my song hasn’t been published yet, I’ll update this post when it is.

This is a bit old news, but news nevertheless. Astharoth contacted me a few months ago and (as usual XD) asked me for a song with guitars. I told him that I didn’t have any (as usual too XD), but I had some dark songs that maybe would fit his ideas: something moody, slightly gothic in a certain way. He finally decided he liked Glacier and did an experimental piece with it. We’re not quite sure it can be called a demo, it’s more in the realms of visual poetry or something like that. Anyway, watch it!

I think he was about to make an english version but I haven’t heard again about it.

As an interesting note, the typewriter machine noises are not from my song. He added them dynamically, “on the fly”. There’s a making of too.