#Wagnerian Black Metal Art

[triste-guillotine]

LIMBONIC ART "Moon in the Scorpio" LP 1996 ('...Release my spirit, unleash my soul. From the darkest dungeon, oblivion call. In the phallic halls of ancient forlorn, A cold sanctuary in doom is born. Fire walk with me...')

1. Beneath the Burial Surface 2. Moon in the Scorpio 3. Through gleams of Death 4. Overture : Nocturne 5. In Mourning Mystique 6. Beyond the Candles Burning 7. The Dark Rivers of the Heart 8. Darkzone Martyrium

"Darkness Grant me thy sacred gifts Bestow my soul thy offerings

Let ancient forces of nature rule

Take my blood as the sacrifice A symbolic faithful bond of truth I kneel in front of thy altar black

Take my blood as the sacrifice

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you

Tonight I enter, Into obscure dreams In darkness shelter, I am unseen

With the esoteric, Gifts I possess I bring damnation, By enforcing death

In the beginning of the storm I'll come forth

An arrival into a twilight reverb As just a shadow of the former self Sorrow is my name My true essence is pain

Hear the mourning of the mendacious From the empty halls and shafts Of false blinding light Prepare the last sacrifice (on the altar) In the temple of decay Please spare me from the final agony of shame

I am evil from the moment of conception

Human dreams are such fertile ground for sowing the seeds of torment"

[skistarmovies]

The LOSt  (Legs of Steel 2013)

SkiStar Movies Rating: 4.3/5 Stars

Bene Mayr, Paddy Graham, Tobi Reindl, Thomas Hlawitschka, Sven Kueenle, Fabio Studer, Sebi Geiger, Max Hill, Lolo Favre, Tobi Tritscher, Oscar Scherlin, Antii Ollila, Tom Leitner, Teddy Berr, KC Deane, Sam Smoothy, Ferdl Winter, Frej Jonsson, Sven Kueenle

 Directed by Andre Nutini and Daniel Trenkle

  The Legs of Steel crew remind me of the 80s band The Scorpions.  The Scorpions were metal and they complied with the general rules of the metal world: virtuoso ability and big, bombastic songs (in a nutshell) but they had their own spin on things.  Being German, there was a natural tendency to go hugely operatic, practically Wagnerian in scale.  There was nothing subtle about them, sometimes they were so over the top with their crescendos in their performances that it seemed embarrassing to us North American metal heads (who were more attuned to the Black Sabbath way of doing things) but they knew how to handle their audience and they delivered a rousing good time.

 LOS, too, do things their own way.  This (mostly) European crew of virtuoso skiers, deliver a string of breathtaking segments in The LOSt, shot largely in British Columbia and Austria with some urban skiing shot in Ukraine.  The secret weapon here is the combination of the brilliance of Canadian director Andre Nutini, who has helmed the previous LOS outings paired with filmmaker Daniel Trenkle and their use of remote control helicopter cameras.  The result is simply stunning as the skiers are shot from angles only hinted at by regular helicopter mounted cameras.   The close proximity afforded by the drone cameras highlights the technical skill of the skier crew as they attack big mountain lines, quarter pipe booters and pillow runs.  The segments often turn dreamily mesmerizing when rendered in slow motion and the beauty of the mountain vistas and the skill of the athletes is shown in full glory.

 Nutini hinted at what he could do with the RC helicopter cameras at the end of last year’s LOS movie Hurt So Good, but The LOSt is something else again.  These cameras really are the future of sports action films and in the right hands, there’s a new wave of art being delivered to us.  Watch the segment filmed in BC in the Monashee Powdercats territory where the LOS crew ski with their fathers.  There’s a clear touch from co-director Trenkle in this segment where he reprises his vision of towering vertical lines that seem so unreal they could be rendered in CG.  But instead of the city skyscapers he showcased in his short film “Shift” (see it on Vimeo) he gives us beautiful snow and frost covered evergreen trees shot in a way I’m pretty much sure you have never seen before.

 With The LOSt you get a double dose of virtuosity with both the skiers and the filmmakers throwing down.  So, what about the bombast and the over the top shots that make you say “you’re kidding me, are you for real”.  Well, you get two such bits.  First is the Ukraine urban skiing with Max Hill, Frej Jonsson, Antti Ollila and Lolo Favre, part of which is shot at Chernobyl (yeah, I know, right?).  They walk around brick alleyways with flaming torches looking like they’re part of the mob out to get the Frankenstein monster and then Max jibs a Soviet tank with his jeans down below his ass making it one of those things you can’t unsee.   Second up is the faux rock band performance at the tail end of the movie where subtlety gets tossed out window. Why just throw dub 1080s off the huge Nine Kings kickers when you can also add in a heavy metal light show and a rock and roll pyrotechnic display.  And, with what is becoming an LOS standard, there’s the, dare I say it, “Wagnerian” scale scene where multiple skiers hit the jump simultaneously for one wam, bam thank you ma’am finish to the movie.

 The LOSt is the best work the LOS guys have made to date.  Whether it will be their “Rock You Like A Hurricane” remains to be seen because I expect they are going to continue to step it up for the foreseeable future.   By Mark “The Attorney General” Quail

 Watch the Trailer for The LOSt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVE1L6EwX1E

[patrickbaeddman]

I’VE NAMED THIS SPRING/SUMMER MEN’S COLLECTION ‘DIRT’ AS A COUNTERPOINT TO LAST SEASON’S ‘GLITTER’ AND TO EVOKE A REDUCTIVE, ETERNAL AND BLUNT ANSWER TO OUR TEMPORARY CHAOTIC HUMAN CONDITION. MY RECENT ABSORPTION IN LAND ART — ARCHITECTURE UNLEASHED — IS ABOUT THE HUMAN NEED TO TRY TO FIND ORDER IN WILDERNESS... MAYBE AS A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO PUT A MARK ON IT AS A STAB AT IMMORTALITY, OR SIMPLY AS A CHANCE TO CREATE A BEAUTIFUL, PHYSICAL MAN/PLANET UNION. ...AND I ALWAYS THINK OF THE EXPRESSION OF BEAUTY AS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH. IT COMFORTS ME TO THINK IN BROAD, CRUDE STROKES LIKE THIS... I’VE FOCUSED ON THE SUIT JACKET AS RESPECTFUL UNIFORM, AS A SYMBOL OF CIVILIZATION, AS ELEGANT LUGGAGE, AS PERSONAL ASPIRATIONAL ARCHITECTURE. JACKETS HERE ARE IN A DRY NYLON COTTON THAT HAS THE DULL SHEEN OF SILK DUCHESSE AND THE RUGGEDNESS OF A BACKPACK. SOME BLAZERS ARE CUT LARGE AND ROOMY WITH POCKETS BIG ENOUGH FOR A SANDWICH (ONE OF MY PERSONAL CRITERIA), AND OTHERS ARE CUT TIGHT AND HIGH TO LIFT THE TORSO AND ANY SPIRITUAL ZONE UP AND AT THE READY. TOPS ARE LIKE HAPHAZARDLY DRAPED PLASTIC TARPS WRAPPED AROUND HALF-FINISHED CONSTRUCTIONS... SLICK, SHINY, AND REFLECTIVE BUT CHEAP AND RAW. PANTS ARE HIGH-WAISTED AND FULL IN THE LEG TO DRAG LUXURIOUSLY ON THE GROUND LIKE A BALL GOWN OR HIKED UP TO REVEAL DIRT HIKING BOOTS WITH TRACTOR-TURBO TREAD. CUSTOM DEVELOPED FABRICS INCLUDE: LACQUERED 12OZ DENIM IN INDUSTRIAL BLACK, BLUE, AND GREEN. SUGAR TWILL GERMAN PAPER YARN WOVEN WITH A POLYAMIDE YARN ON A JACQUARD LOOM TO CREATE A DEEPLY TEXTURED, BRITTLE GAZAR TWILL. MATTE CANVAS HIGH TWIST ELASTANE YARN WOVEN ON A NARROW ARTISANAL LOOM WITH MINIMAL FINISHING FOR A DRY, CHALKY HAND. PLASTIC TARP LUREX TAPE WOVEN ON A METAL WARP AND USED IN ITS OFF-LOOM UNFINISHED AND UNSTRETCHED STATE TO CREATE A STIFF, BURNT PLASTIC TEXTURE. SHEER WOOL GAZAR MADE FROM WOOL AND RAW SILK FILAMENT YARN, WASHED AND SUN DRIED. THE PALAIS DE TOKYO, MY FAVORITE BUILDING IN PARIS, FEELS LIKE AN ART DECO WAGNERIAN VALHALLA... I LOVE THE GRAND SYMMETRY OF THE PARVIS WITH THE WINGS OF THE BUILDING STRETCHING AROUND TO EMBRACE THE POOL... I HAVE INSTALLED CONSTRUCTIVIST SCAFFOLDING TO SERVE AS A MONUMENTAL WALKWAY TO TOUR THE FULL HEIGHT AND WIDTH OF IT... IT’S KIND OF A WAY OF CARESSING ITS INNER WALLS AND LICKING EVERY INCH OF A BUILDING THAT’S ONLY PURPOSE IS AS A TEMPLE TO BEAUTY. I WAS THINKING OF VLADIMIR TATLIN’S TOWER SET TO LED ZEPPELIN’S ‘STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN’.... BUT THE SOUNDTRACK I KNEW I REALLY WANTED TO USE WAS EGYPTIAN LOVER’S ‘I NEED A FREAK’, ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANTHEMS FROM 1984 LA.... KURTIS BLOW MEETS KRAFTWERK MEETS CAMP. ‘I NEED A FREAK’ — MY TRANSLATION; IN THESE TIMES OF PETTY DISCORD AND ANXIETY I’M LOOKING FOR TRANSGRESSIVE INSPIRATION AND IMAGINATION... MAKEUP MAC COSMETICS AND SAMMY MOURABIT HAIR DUFFY (STREETERS) PRODUCTION LA MODE EN IMAGES MUSIC I NEED A FREAK BY EGYPTIAN LOVER (REMIXED BY JEFF JUDD)