Triangles, a tribute to Ray, the bad city, aerial antics, garage subversion, overhead projections, and a man and his town.
Tag: Guy Tichborne
December 2008: Arms Reach, Cobra Khan, Crashpolitic, Cut Off Your Hands, Doppler, False Start
Dance your cares away, the old colonel’s last feast, everyone else is having more fun, bring out the bedsheets, a totally mental hospital, and coming in like a wrecking yard.
June 2007: Brutally Frank, Cyphanetik, Daniel Munro, Dukes, Ethical, False Start
Juicy fruits, Plan 9 from inner space, furry monsters, musical fears, a grave issue and an ethical conundrum.
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August 2006: The Decoders, The Madison Press, The Rabble, Tourist, Tyree, Voom, Young Sid
The four corners of punk, a fantasy marionette world, a dystopian landscape, cruisin’ down a country road, and a minimalist bellboy.
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April 2006: Elemeno P, Falter, Fast Crew, Friends From Sweden, Goldenhorse
The perils and/or benefits of pot, horse party, the act of it getting better, VCR intrigue, and rock.
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Videos from December 2005 – part 1
The magic of CGI takes us to beaches, romantic parks, and noirish cities. The magic of IRL takes us on a car journey and into an old church.
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Aerial “Come Around Again”
We last saw Aerial in the mundane setting of the Huapai takeaway shop, but things get more glam with “Come Around Again”. The video is like a scrapbook of travel mementos from the mid-20th century, back when air travel was fancy and exciting.
To ground things in reality, the video is bookended live action scenes of the duo singing in a recording studio. It’s deep in the mixing desk that the travel adventure begins, with the cables and plugs echoing images of power lines and a manual telephone exchange.
The rest of the video is animated, but not in a cartoony way. There are lots of still shots and layers of travel icons and other symbols of the era – maps, air mail letters, rotary phones and telegrams. And as the NZ On Screen description notes, it is a very rewarding video, with layers of delight to uncover.
The issue for me is that the song itself isn’t especially remarkable, a pretty forgettable MOR love song. The video ends up being way more interesting than the song. I’d rather print out screenshots and enjoy the visuals as a series of postcards than in music video form.
Director: Guy Tichborne
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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