If you, like me, have seen the Michael Landy posters all over the Tube asking for people’s accounts of the ‘Acts of Kindness’ they’ve experienced on the Underground, then you’ll be as delighted and touched by the results as I was.

Random Acts

The link of the day is clearly Crystalline: Bjork’s new video with Michel Gondry.  What can you say? It’s very Bjork, very Gondry, very beautiful stop frame animation. It’s lovely, but I’m not so sure about her Bjorkness jiggling about inside the disco glitter ball.

The Awl’s take on it was typically wry:

“This takes me back to a simpler time! It is pleasant to see two people—Björk and Michel Gondry!—have fun in a form they know and like so much. Miss you, the 90s.”

Here’s an article on Billboard about the making of Crystalline.

Gondry:

“We shot it frame by frame, and we shot it by recranking the camera and re-exposing the film many times,” Gondry says. “I decided for this that the shower of meteorite would hit the ground and produce a sound . . . The idea that a beam of light can have the impact to make these things move is something that intrigued me. Later on, they create some ripples-like rain. At the third verse, they create bubbles in which the metallic objects appear. All of those are the result of multiple conversations with [Björk] that were going in many directions.”

If that’s not enough Biophilia for you, here’s the new Wired feature:

How Björk’s ‘Biophilia’ album fuses music with iPad apps

That’s my evening’s reading sorted then. Now, if only I could read it on an iPad. Hmmm…

This is a gorgeous, sumptuous and, dare I say it, rather majestic animated film on photography and architecture. Revel in these extraordinary colours, spaces, structures and the amazing light. It blew my tiny mind and then made me a bit weepy. Thanks to @alexhaw for sharing.

You are under strict instructions to full screen it when watching - nothing less will do.

The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman

Here’s an interview with Roman on Motionographer from 2009 about his film.

“I think architecture is sculpting with light most of the time. There’s neither volume nor colors and materials without light and shadow.

Like Kahn said once: ‘In the old buildings, the columns were an expression of light. Light, no light, light, no light, light, you see…’”