GRUMPY SAILOR

When it comes to music videos, it really is difficult to carve out a niche. Difficult it may be, but these guys are possibly the coolest young team directing videos at the moment. They are Megaforce and by god are they cool video makers. If you get a spare minute peruse their work at riffrafffilms or at their Vimeo page. My personal take on them is that they aren't flashy or wasteful, they aren't caught up in the ego of creating film, from the look of it they are just grassroots filmakers having fun with the medium. True artistic visionaries. Big ups. 

Making things fascinates me. In fact when I think about what I actually want to do most with my time it almost certainly returns to doing something creative with my hands. Creating something lasting. Creating something other people might like. Creating something I will enjoy. All to often we look at people who are making things as second-class citizens, people doing menial tasks, working with their hands. It seems to be a popular modern snooty attitude to look down on people who do things that often a machine can do faster, but at a lower quality. Handmade represents pure beauty to me. It's almost always blemished or flawed in one way or another, but I think as humans tend to love those objects more because we can associate better with something that is beautiful with imperfections. Kind of the same way we do with Humans. 

A rather ridiculous way to convice people to learn CPR. I suppose it is lowest common denominator though. I am always annoyed when creatives take the lazy way out. To me this is lazy, but hey I suppose it is engaging. 

Very cool photographic essay from some talented filmmakers in Melbourne.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.