Well we have been away for a while. Part of it has to do with us being really busy for a few days. Not once did we lose sight of our committment to bringing you guys the great music that a lot of underrated but brilliant musicians have been coming up with. And partially it has to with bugs in smartphone apps which somehow made us miss this gorgeous video to a gorgeous track by new artiste Floridas’. I logged into facebook on a laptop after ages and discovered that the Facebook Pages app has been malfunctioning sometimes. Anyways, better late than never!
One viewing of this video makes you realise how well the sound and the visuals combine and create this uplifting/east vs west/colourful/fresh/sunny/relaxing/refreshing/seaside experience. The guys behind the track ‘Another Day’ are caled Floridas’ and the video has been created by a film collective called Room. As you can imagine googling combinations of Floridas’, Room, Another Day can bring you a plethora of unnecessary results, I haven’t been so lucky with sifting through the piles of internet trash and get more information about these guys. I hope to hear from them soon again, so till then enjoy this great video which can be watched endlessly and then some more.. Cheers!
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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