Kanye West's blog is one day going to be in the dictionary next to the word 'vapid'. Maybe it already is, I'm not sure. If there's a alien beings somewhere in the universe with serious Wi-Fi reach, they need only log on to
Kanye University Blog to see how misguidedly important the human race thinks it is.
HAVING SAID THAT - Kanye (or minions in his employ) recently
posted up the new clip for Newcastle band
Firekites. Yes, the Australian band who last year released their debut
The Bowery on Spunk records and whose members have seeds in some of the best post-rockisms to come out of this patch of land. (Though shockingly not - as Kanye's post insists - a band consisting of members made from 1910 pieces of paper.) The reason for the blog from the man who only writes in capitals, is that Firekites have a new video, one that is spectacular in it's simplicity.
As the blurb on Kanye's post eloquently reads:
Australian band Firekites consists of 1910 individual chalk drawings.
It took co-directors Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg six-months
to complete the project from start to finish.
It looks like it. The six months part, that is. Not the human paper band.
Firekites AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Yanni Kronenberg on Vimeo.