Blog entries from Jeben Berg

ToneMatrix

jeben@youtube.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:05:18 +0100

The sounds of science, the tones of touch, 4 square and several sounds ago our fingers clicked the mix in the nick of time. A creation from #laboratory Andre Michelle

You will love this and it will reward your eardrums with sonic sweetness. ToneMatrix.

You cannot possibly keep up with The Jones

jeben@youtube.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:13:18 +0100

The reason - The Jones don't exist.

Sure they have a fixed place on the horizon, but even through Mr. Furley's binoculars you never get a clear view of them. Their homes cast a skyscrapers shadow, their cars are the futures vision of the future, their flat screens are the walls of the Grand Canyon, their children all Einsteins, Beckhams, and Suries, their everything alllll sooooooo desireable. They are unicorns and Nessies and they they look good when they hit the drive-thru's and supeRead More...

Art through the ages - Hold Your Horses - 70 Million

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:11:03 +0100

Timeless treasures of art: transcending politics and war, drought and disease, zeitgeists and the du jour dilemma. The work of the master painters has been usurped and exploited, and coveted and loved, and keenly slips without effort into any point in the continuum as a center piece. It fulfills itself as national treasure and is a benchmark for the aspirations of artists worldwide. Its draw is what makes it a piece of the forever important and as source material it has no sibling that rivalsRead More...

Resize this Window.

jeben@youtube.com — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:46 +0100

Anything having to do with middle school sex funny guy shit is.....well..... fun.

The 51st state of DecAsia

jeben@youtube.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:56:50 +0100

Welcome to DecAsia. Home to the bones of a good time.

Its a family affair, a string of promises bolted and built with the best of intention. Fantasy and Fun, like building a new fake paradise in the lot paradise is already parked in. I'm sure the vision was of endless joy amidst the jungle, with cotton candy and American hotdogs, but this reality is one of rusted lunacy and a failure to lure the imagination. The coasters and Ferris wheels are always the the spines that break the horizoRead More...

Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom

jeben@youtube.com — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:48:35 +0100

I think I know why I experience a bit of inner cringe when I see a video that's 5:34 in length. I simply see too much, as we all do, and anything asking for over 2 minutes of my time often just hits the skids at some point and becomes tedious. Even when I like something that is lengthy I still resist sharing it, not wishing to burden anyone with my bulky videosnack of this or that.

That said, this is a really good one. The technique is visual storytelling via a forensic path movinRead More...

How to report the news........

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:17:34 +0100

It just says it all in...... 1:59. done. On with your day. See you tonight at 11 for the same thing. Done.

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Console* yourself for the next hour.

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:09:09 +0100

Every console you have ever wanted to see, all lined up and ready for you to geekoff to.

Michel Gondry and MC Paul Barman

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:34:11 +0100

A quiet, sensitive, calculated, descent into a tale of values. Its a process-amputation in prose and animation, lead by Paul Barman's voice and accompanied by Michel Gondry. Its lovely and is 3:33 in length. Simplicity almost always wins, but it must be coupled with concept, and this film has a foot in both shoes, until......that shoe is lost on its way down the stairs.

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Altered States - The Silencing of Las Vegas as Artists Re-imagine the Book.

jeben@youtube.com — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:50:59 +0100

Days before the new decade began I took a short trip with my 9 year old daughter to Las Vegas NV. For most of us Las Vegas trips include the typical stream of debauchery, financial jeopardy, binges on unlimited king crab legs, 1,000's of menthols, roller coasters, porn, Mignon's (fillet and otherwise), drugs, lies, and spinning out-of-control. With this journey and the company I kept while there, it was distinctly altered from that well known course of decline. I had a 9 year old with me, we Read More...

When all in the present feels less than....look back.

jeben@youtube.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:32:27 +0100

The lie of the future never holds up to the truths of the past.

To make this point clearer I present Jeff Altmans one man crusade to take a long and deep series of inherited footage shot by his Grandfather in the mid to late 1950's. It is an exquisite time travel and it looks to be mainly from California. It is Kodachrome (RIP), it is ghostly and sincere, it is a fleeting moment captured and wrangled and brought back to life. I love these moments that otherwise get undulated and Read More...

For the expanse of the sky, now only the Universe will suffice.

jeben@youtube.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:05:28 +0100

Not long ago I got my first tattoo. A quote in MissEllen font with a bit of edwardian script. It is a quote from Paul Claudel.

"for the flight of a single butterfly the entire sky is needed"

It is just exquisite to me and summarized such a broad looming concept in such a sweet bumpersticker of a verse. Now this has happened. Monarchs butterflies in space.

Damn, its like I broke up with poetry after getting it inked to me, and now need to work the endless Read More...

Your Name is substantial.

jeben@youtube.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:51:22 +0100

Why do we have names?

We want to be able to identify and separate each other from all the people in the world whose paths we cross. We want to endow our children with a place from which they can advance themselves. We want to give them a good start with a great name and set them adrift. We want to honor our ancestry.

As we age, we do a lot of crazy things to our name. We grant it powers, we put it in quotations, we carve it in granite, we drag it through the gutter. We lose letteRead More...

Sincerity, earnestness, fishing and being a bit dense.

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:49:41 +0100

Okay - so it is just a video of bloopers. BUT, these are bloopers made from the hard work of one man who wants the world to enjoy fishing. He tries sooo gotdam hard to make a good video, but these are really too funny to not share. Besides, when dirty looking water is involved you know fools are going in.And it's what he says when things go funky that this video gets all of its charm.

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Sweatpants paints Obama as William Shatner tells us "it hasn't happened yet."

jeben@youtube.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:49:51 +0100

Lets argue about Obama. Lets argue about Shatner. Lets not argue, lets just bask.

I have a special love for William Shatner. He reminds me of Weird Al Yankovic, an entertainer that has reinvented himself three decades and running. Always timely, always iconic. William Shatner, known by most as a TV and movie actor, has also had a psychedelic and indelible footprint in spoken word in the late 60's. Need proof?

When my friend Sweatpants approached me about doing a One Hour RRead More...

If Heaven Can Wait, so can you.

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:59 +0100

If Heaven has a VIP line, this is what I want them to be playing as I sit there waiting to get denied entry.

And having just recently been denied entry into the whole country of Canada for writing on walls back in the day, I can only wish they had some surrealist video for me to watch as I was marched back to the US. Pancake heads, lumberjacks axes chasing me across softball fields, cheeseburger sidewalks. The filling of dream pie.

The artist is Charlotte Gainsbourg, in duoRead More...

No Mas hits a grand slam, and Dock Ellis eats acid and pitches a No-No

jeben@youtube.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:05:28 +0100

Superb animated rendering of Dock Ellis making history - not just sports history, but making history of several hits of LSD and some Bennys. No Mas is a a design group that sits at the corner of beloved childhood sports idols, and fierce New York design culture thuggery. They are one of those rare gem coalitions that hit nerves like the sting of defeat and deliver hard knocks like encyclopedia salesmen. You should pinch hit them next time yer looking for the come up. Thanks to Andrew BRead More...

An Exquisite Beauty, as told by Land of Talk

jeben@youtube.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:22:58 +0100

Ah yes, in our lives the beauty that steals breath is an exquisite find. Sublime and subtle, striking against the corruption of the mind that the internet imposes like a force of myth, we prevail. In the Land of Talk, hushes of hair flowing and of worlds come undone by their sheer weight, blow by blow when gravity releases the locks holding it shackled like mounds of mass and rock set free after being crystallized in place by the heat of infinite friction. Wolves and trees, tornadoes anRead More...

The Greatest underground RapStar of all time is.......

jeben@youtube.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:28:41 +0100

.....TOPR.

You will cherish this entertainment morsel of delectable BAY AREA HELLAFUKN GOODNESS!

PRODUCED BY DICK NASTY!

SIREN SONG, featuring some artwork by Alex Pardee, a cameo (or two) by me, and Maggie Mayhem flaunting her tig ol' bitties.

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THIS LOOKS HARD AS HELL

jeben@youtube.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:48:30 +0100

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