7/5/2011 0 Comments An Explosive BandI was super excited to post this video for you, because it is evidently a great four minutes of artistic expression, not only by the music but by the visual arts as well. :)
Coldplay is one of my favorite bands as I have always admired them for their musical charisma and talent--their sound is like that of no other band. But I feel like this music video has taken them from being a band to a band of artists! As you are hit by the song's first strums of guitar, the Sun rises behind a row of quietly standing, deep blue-toned skyscrapers, as this bright light fills the clear morning sky with life. And as the song goes on, colors fill the camera and are splattering in all directions, as they sometimes blend and explode into fusions greater and more vivid than you can imagine. These colors seem to follow and surround the members of the band throughout the music video, as if the band is trying to say that wherever they go, they carry their passion for music with them as they will use their brushes and palettes to share that passion with the world around them. This is what I admire about Coldplay--they are not afraid to spell out their feeling for music to the world. Some bands may try to tone things down a bit before displaying their tracks and videos for all to see, but Coldplay seems to hold nothing back--it's as if, instead of spending time making and erasing pencil outlines on the canvas before adding the paint, they throw all the paint on with the entire possible range of colors showing up! Their full potential practically explodes within their lyrics and music videos! So I hope you enjoy this wildly explosive, colorfully talent-filled piece of work as much as I have. :) ~~MC
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6/13/2011 0 Comments I Found My Clone!!...Not really. Sorry to disappoint your hopes. :) But I did find what could be MC's mascot!
I took this picture of the lovely, colorful, and spazzy (I don't know what that word means, but just the sound of it goes well with this picture!) pig sculpture as my family and I walked along Queen Anne on our way to eat our very late lunch (to see pictures of the delicious lunch, see today's posting of Foods for Fantasizing...). Seeing the pig made my brother and I exclaim and jump with overflowing excitement (well, I guess I'm slightly exaggerating on the jumping part), and I ended up taking pictures of my brother striking poses with it...And as embarrassed as I am to admit it, I was more excited than my little brother was to stand in the presence of a polka-dot pig! None of us expected to see this work of art sitting on a sidewalk, but that doesn't mean that we weren't happy to see it or didn't appreciate it. I guess this goes to show that you never know when you are going to run into something so worthy of belonging to the artistic eye...That sometimes you don't have to travel to an art museum or look online for pictures in order to see art, but that all you have to do is take a casual stroll in the city! And, as Mademoiselle Cochon, I must say I was very proud to see this vibrantly colored animal. ;) ~~MC |
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