Mar. 2nd, 2004

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When can a music video be considered "art"? Rather, how long will it be before the MFA has a video wing? I've heard that much of the Art Establishment doesn't even consider photography to be fine art, which would mean the only things that can be fine art are sculpture and painting. That seems so weird.

This is what I thought to myself while I was watching the Chris Cunningham video compilation. There is Bjork's "All is Full Of Love" which is the sexiest thing I have ever seen in my life. I'm not kidding, I could feel my body temperature rise by several degrees over the course of the video. It gave me an uncomfortable desire to intimately interact with constructs of electric servos and white hydroformed plastic, a desire that I'm sure will someday end in my ecstatic and blissful dismemberment

Chris Cunningham also did the Madonna's "Frozen", that legendary "Oh my god Madonna is goth" video; there have been no fewer that three Fantasy Factory performances set to that song, I'm pretty sure I've been in all of them. The video is of course exquisitely beautiful and the effects are gorgeous and the editing is flawless and somewhere in the world there's a music video missing all of its blues and grays because Chris Cunningham used them all up that day.

I wouldn't think that a music video that is used as a showcase exploration of just one combination of motion and lighting effect could hold my attention, but the Portishead "Only You" video proves me wrong.

Aphex Twin "Windowlicker". What can one possibly say? I so want one of those umbrellas.

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