Great Astaire-Charisse Dance Duet

HAKUSANRISE

DJ Chris dawn set at Rainbow2000's Hakusan party back in the late 20th century.

I have been told many times that this was one of my more inspiring sets, so I think it's a good thing to offer for Xmas listening. Lots of simultaneous playing of 2 or more tracks... I'd place it in a genre I'd
call Energetic Chillout...

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Ghibli- The Miyazaki Temple

Best of Autotune The News - 3 Mixes

ANIBOOM Animation Collection

An excellent collection of CGI animated shorts

Auto-Tune The News

Here's a mix I made by sampling the first 13 episodes of the ingeniously hilarious and infectiously musical viral video series "Auto-Tune The News".

Ida Saki: an amazing young dancer

Hang Drum Shpongled

This is the kind of performance for which the term "sui generis" is reserved...

Manu Delago performs with seemingly endless rhythmic inventiveness on the Hang drum with Shpongle at a concert in London's Roundhouse .

2012: The Movie (FX Highlights)

Boiling 2012 (The John Cusack film of 2009) down to its FX essentials. The version I used had subtitles; I've left in only one, my favourite line from the film. See if you spot it.

DANCES from ASHES AND SNOW

Here's a clip of the dance sequences from Ashes And Snow, made for VJ use with the music of your choice..
(View the Complete Film)

"If My Verses Had Wings"

Here's a short video clip I made to accompany Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Hahn's setting of a Victor Hugo poem "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" . The lyrics are below...

Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles, Vers votre jardin si beau, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, Comme l'oiseau. Ils voleraient, étincelles, Vers votre foyer qui rit, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, Comme l'esprit. Près de vous, purs et fidèles, Ils accourraient, nuit et jour, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, Comme l'amour!

My verses would flee, sweet and frail, To your garden so fair, If my verses had wings, Like a bird. They would fly, like sparks, To your smiling hearth, If my verses had wings, Like the mind. Pure and faithful, to your side They'd hasten night and day, If my verses had wings, Like love!

WALLACE & GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH

How could anyone not love Wallace and Gromit?  Here's their latest short adventure...

Hand Painting

i have come across some of these images before,  and made a gallery of them, but I still don't know whose work they are...

Photorealistic Computer Art

Here's a large selection of some of the best computer graphics photorealistic art I could find....please note that, although all the pics are credited by the software to Chris Case,  I am just the one who collected them. To access them individually, go HERE

Suggestion: right-click on the photo wall and select Full Screen. Choose a starting pic and select the Slide Show icon at the bottom..

My Dinner WIth Andre

The movie consists of a conversation between Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, both of whom were active in New York theater at the time of the movie. Two themes tie the entire dialog together: (1) should we live spontaneously in the moment, disconnecting ourselves from the purposes of our actions (a la Hindu Karma Yoga), and (2) what is the purpose of the theater.

[In Waiting for Guffman, Corky St. Clair, played by Christopher Guest, shows off his My Dinner with Andre action figures during the tour of his shop.]

Liquid Crystal Vision Finale - Fire Dance

My favourite part of old friend Torsten's video about the trance dance scene, Liquid Crystal Vision, well worth watching in its entirety. I wish I knew the name of the track the beautiful firedancer is synched with....

Watch the entire documentary
 

Alice in Wonderland Seeks Guy DeBord

An amusing intro to the Situationist Guy DeBord's  ideas about the world as Spectacle,  which anticipated the virtual world in which so many live today...