NINJA INTERVIEW - CHAPPIE

Die Antwoord´s Ninja in a very honest and relaxed interview with Boing Boing´s Xeni Jardin.

They discuss the experience of acting in the upcoming film CHAPPIE, what it means to be "real" and how he enjoyed being an "adorable asshole".

NEVERSLEEP - As An Animal (Music Video)

The latest NEVERSLEEP single 'As An Animal' is accompanied by this post-human-world music-video in which a philosophical cockroach is chased by a serial-killer pig (both are in anthropomorphic guise) and fights for its existence.

The entire video was created purely with a sequence of photographs and purposely left unstabilised in order to retain the restless aesthetic.

The Berlin Electro-Pop duo NEVERSLEEP released their album 'In Ten City' in November 2013.

Philosophical Cockroach – Oskar Brown
Killer Pig – Dirk Pogrzeba

Directed, Shot and Edited by Niels Bouman
Story by Dirk Pogrzeba, Niels Bouman and expanded by Oskar Brown

Planet of the Apes - Robert Novakovic

'Planet of the Apes'
by Robert Novakovic

Digital Drawing

DIE ANTWOORD - PITBULL TERRIER

PITBULL TERRIER, the new DIE ANTWOORD video from the upcoming album
DONKER MAG to be released on June 3. 

Directed by NINJA
Music as always by DJ HI-TEK

Kraftwerk Rockpalast 1970

Soest, Germany in the winter of 1970.

0. Intro
1. Stratovarius
2. Ruckzuck
3. Heavy Metal Kids
4. Improvisation 1

Der letzte Kontakt (english subtitles)

A journalist interviews an astronaut about his one-way mission to mars 
and questions the motivation behind taking on the mission.
www.panicmaker.com

Laibach - The Whistleblowers

“The Whistleblowers” is a dark-pop music video serving as a visual manifest for the Slovenian group, who also co-founded the art collective NSK (Neue Slovenische Kunst).
The song is from the forthcoming Laibach album  “Spectre” and was inspired by by people like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.

from laibach.org

"The Whistleblowers music video was directed by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik. Video was shot in Riga (Latvia) using a LOMO soviet camera lens.

Morten: The lens creates both the unique texture of the images and the extreme widescreen format, much like a three-stripe national flag with the video as the middle stripe."

Philipp Geist - Light Installation

The award-winning Berlin artist Philipp Geist briefly displayed a lightshow in the art space GEBAEUDE 501 at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin on January 13.

It was a once off event that took place at:
Flughafen Tempelhof
Tempelhofer Damm 9
12101 Berlin

further information about the art-space and upcoming events at gebaeude501.de

Nelson Mandela - 1961 Interview

In this 1961 clip Brian Widlake interviews the 42 year old lawyer Nelson Mandela, who was living in the underground at the time and organizing the resistance to the apartheid regime.

Apparently this is the first ever TV interview that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ever gave.

It also features in the 2013 Film about Mandela´s life Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

MAJOR LAZER ft. Laidback Luke & Ms. Dynamite - SWEAT

 MAJOR LAZER just released their newest video to their high-energy song SWEAT.

it features moody neon visual effects with UV lights and obviously lots of sexy dancing.

NEVERSLEEP - THE END OF THE WORLD II

NEVERSLEEP, the urban-electro-pop duo based in Berlin, recently released their album In Ten City.

"The End Of The World II" is the first single from the record. The music video that was published along with the song was constructed with original footage from the 8mm Black and White era and was edited down to suit the beat-driven track.

In a way the narrative of the video is loosely based on the story of Frankenstein and his monster but in this case a crazy german professor obsesses over the creation of a robot.

RODNEY - a very short short film

a cute and slightly nasty 34 second short, shot with an iPad Mini.

RODNEY was written, directed, shot, animated and edited
by Pawel Sobolewski and Niels Bouman

Lorde - Royals

Lorde, a teenager from Auckland, New Zealand is about to mix things up in a big way. With fresh yet contemplative lyrics Ella Yelich-O´Connor (her real name) manages to hit a spot  that is uncomfortable but familiar.

this is what she adds to the video:

"lately i've been waking up at 4 or 5 a.m., turning things over in my head. so much to think about, so much to break down and process and decide. i'm only at the beginning, but it has always been important to me that everything feels cool, feels right. this song means a hell of a lot to me, and to others, and i guess what i tried to do is make something you could understand. a lot of people think teenagers live in this world like 'skins' every weekend or whatever, but truth is, half the time we aren't doing anything cooler than playing with lighters, or waiting at some shitty stop. that's why this had to be real. and i'm at that particular train station every week. those boys are my friends. callum's wearing a sweater that used to belong to me. so it all feels right, and i can sleep. thanks for being with me all the way so far -- so much to come, such great heights. i'm just getting started. enjoy xx"

here is a remix of another great Lorde song with a free download link.

‪Die Antwoord - Cookie Thumper‬

The new Die Antwoord song and video.
including explicit south african prison gang references, upskirts and buttslapping.

Ninja directed the clip and features very briefly as the whistling police officer.

The Punk Music Scene in China

a short documentary about Punk in China.
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten formerly of the Sex Pistols and currently Public Image Ltd. (PIL) makes a brief appearance.

via theguardian

David Lynch on Photography

David Lynch speaks about some his favourite photographs and his love for flesh and organs as a phenomenon as well as the way light plays an own role in the creation of an image.

Zoster - Budi svoj

Cymbal - at 1000 frames per second

This cymbal from a regular drum kit was filmed at 1000 frames per second, giving it a rubber-like quality.

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

At a lecture, the american Science-Fiction (amongst other things) writer Kurt Vonnegut creates a visual representation of the way stories work.
The curves in his graph, representing the wellbeing of the hero in the story, are more reminiscent of a math lesson, than would classically be expected in literature class.

William Kentridge on his Animation Process

South African artist William Kentridge talks about his charcoal animations and how he goes about creating them.

Kentridge is well known for his thought provoking and sometimes playful prints, drawings, sculptures, animations and other art, created in various media.