We have been hibernating for the last few days without warning. However, we are back now and hope to be as regular as we normally are with the posts. With the festive season already in our midst, a kid Santa of the kind shown in the video shown above seems to be the most appropriate way to start the proceedings. I loved the video and the song and hope you enjoy them too.
A little bit about the band Camera2: ‘Brooklyn foursome Camera2 is made up of producer-songwriter-vocalist — Andy Chase (Tahiti 80/Juliana Hatfield/Smashing Pumpkins), guitarist — Michael Jurin (Stellastarr*), bassist — Aric Gillis (Teenage Kick) and drummer — Mike Williams (Teddybears). The band came together in mid-2012 and soon after completed an album Andy wrote and produced in his home studio with co-production by Blondfire’s Bruce Driscoll. Camera2 is a decidedly new direction and a departure from the sounds of the previous projects for all the members who have now stepped into a harder hitting, darker, upbeat and more electronically driven indie-universe’
If you like what you here you could follow them on soundcloud after invoking your inner Sherlock to cleverly decrypt the link below:
Or if video has already killed your radio star, they also have a youtube channel.
Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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