Busy busy busy month getting the radio show up and running. We ended up deciding to start a series of interviews, which proved way more time consuming than I imagined, but also incredibly rewarding.
I have nearly finished a patchwork scrabble thing I started about a year ago, though, which is great.
I just found these two videos on youtube yesterday. They are both incredible.
This is Ted Gardestad singing for Sweden in the 1979 eurovision song contest. I don't know WHAT they were thinking when they made the idents for the different countries participating. The strange mixture of cartoon backdrops, string puppets and mime artists used to depict a wide range of national stereotypes are beyond surreal. Also Gardestad's (dreadful) song and rather unnerving continued eye contact with the viewer, not to mention the giant rotating sculpture behind him, make this a rather hypnotic sequence.
And Pierre Bastien's Paper Organs. I find them somehow endearing.