"AS ABOVE, SO BELOW", NEW VIDEO WORK by AARON RIETZ
A psychedelic audiovisual journey into a mindscape known as "California", this piece traverses the city, the desert, the coast, and the synaptic highways that connect them, treating them all equally as sites of revelation and discovery. The primary theme is the relationship of landscape to consciousness, or, physical to mental, exterior to interior. Starring birds, turbines, a giant alien boulder, city lights, and mother ocean.
http://aaronrietz.blogspot.com/
A COLLECTION OF MUSIC VIDEOS by BOB THAYER
Bob Thayer is a producer and a musician who resides in San Francisco. He has been making films for over ten years that deal with themes of music, war and most recently, the beach. Bob works with both super 8 mm film as well as digital video and he finds creativity where these two worlds meet. The collection of films put together for ATA is a compilation of music videos (for Little Wings, The Dedications, & Rad Cloud) that are very surf-y, california-y, and most importantly entertaining. Bob's work is always rhythmic, musical, and doused with humor. Currently, Bob plays music in a surf band called Rad Cloud that you can find playing house parties and clubs in the bay area.
http://californiabobby.blogspot.com/
+ LIVE APPEARANCE from GRAND LAKE !!!
Grand Lake is Jameson Swanagon (guitar), Caleb Nichols (vocals, bass), Ryan Parks (drum(s), guitar) and Erika Pipkin (rhodes, organ, vocals). Comprised of three California natives, and one southern belle from Birmingham, Alabama. This exciting new indie quartet came together in October 2008, began rehearsals at home soon after, and recorded a dynamic, dramatic, and infectious 8 song EP in only 3 days. Mainly penned by Nichols (formerly of Port O'Brien & The Bloody Heads), this first collection of tunes deal with themes of love and loss, but not from the typical hetero-male perspective of most indie bands. Augmented by a pair of haunting instrumental compositions by Swanagon, sparkling, smoky pop vocals by Pipkin, and minimal, deconstructed rhythms by Parks, the tentatively titled "Nevermint EP" is a dazzling debut from this adventurous new Bay Area group.
http://www.myspace.com/grandlakemusic/
