ZOE CROSHER

Zoe Crosher's work is so wonderfully varied while remaining defiantly hers. See more of her work HERE.




Links:
Zoe Crosher
Zoe Crosher Wiki

The Strange Case of HOT CHIP

Having discovered the video for Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" at Ticklebooth, I rummaged through their back catalogue and found a clever little collection of videos. I Feel Better is a real sucker punch that gets stranger and stranger. See it HERE.

Also, check out the videos for Ready for the Floor, Over and Over, Arrest Yourself, One Life Stand, and One Pure Thought. They remind me of our friend Bobby Conn.

Links:
Hot Chip
Hot Chip (MySpace)

Hot Chip (LastFM)

HUGLEIKUR DAGSSON

Hugleikur Dagsson's raw comics are sprinkled with moments of genius among the carnage and full frontal assaults on political correctness. He has two books currently available in english from Penguin, Should You Be Laughing At This? and Is This Some Kind of Joke?





Links:
Dagsson.com
Hugleikur Dagsson (Penguin Books)
Hugleikur Dagsson (MySpace)

Featurette: ANDREW CRANSTON

I find Andrew Cranstons' dense, often literary and historical works haunting.




Links:
Andrew Cranston (Culturehall)
Andrew Cranston (Guardian)
Andrew Cranston (Hamish Morrisson)
Andrew Cranston (ArtReview)

STEVEN MOFFAT & MARK GATISS' "Sherlock"

Premiering on BBC1 in the UK, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' excellent adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is both modern and strangely more atune to the source material than Guy Ritchie's kinetic big screen version.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson, the series is set in compemporary times to great effect. While Holmes is contemplating the scene of a crime, we are brilliantly clued into his thoughts(and text messages) via some pleasing fontography.

Unfortunately, the series has one of the most off-the-mark trailers I've seen in a long time. To give you more of a flavour, here are two clips from the BBC on the making of the program. Highly recommended

Links:
Sherlock (BBC)
Sherlock Wiki