Jacob Collier's hand-painted rhapsody, the Frisian Islands suck you in, and FVCKRENDER magics up your street corner. A/V for the soul
Our occasional Sunday-timed journey around the endless, free commons of audio-visual creativity that’s available, if only someone would curate it for us… well…
Above is the new video from pop-and-jazz musical wunderkind Jacob Collier, “He Won’t Hold You”, which comprises of 1200 paintings done in isolation during the 2020 pandemic. (Here's a breakdown of the animation process: vimeo.com/451111852). It’s also a swooningly embracing and calming piece of music.
Your moment of sheer biophilia this week, from Aeon:
The Frisian Islands (or Wadden Islands) off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark form the planet’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mudflats. The 300-mile archipelago in the North Sea is notable not only for its scale, but for its continuous eastward drift due to sand erosion. On a geological scale, the islands move at a sprinter’s pace, having forced many a human settlement into the sea over the centuries.
In this short documentary, the Dutch filmmaker Paul Klaver chronicles the circle of life within the islands’ rich ecosystem, capturing their flora, fauna and perpetual drift via a combination of observational and time-lapse filmmaking. For more of Klaver’s dazzling nature filmmaking, watch Alaska: The Nutrient Cycle and Winter.
This is the epiphanal work of FVCKRENDER, otherwise known as Frederic Duquette, a self-taught Canadian digital artist whose work is currently entrancing the fashion world (more from this Creative Review piece). Frederic likes to digitally play around with street reality, as you see - but his creative animus comes from making mind-shattering background video material for dance clubs and artists (see below).