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Happy Pills by Gabriella Campbell

September 4th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Happy Pills
Gabriella Campbell
Editorial Alea Blanca

Gabriella Campbell is a modern woman, a bold voice and a sharp pen, stright to the point. So her first poetry book reading stings and attracts at the same time. Happy Pills was created like a record or a cassette, with two sides: A and B,

Shall we die together in this souls’ drain?

Side A, Serotonin, talks about pain, sadness and insanity. Beauty is no longer in conventional or safe places. We’re the lost generation between duty and truth. We’re told about rules but they are not useful anymore letting us rambling on empty roads listing to our inner own fears.

Don’t commit any sin with her, but with me.

Side B, the Maidens’ consent, is the feminity and sex bold images. It’s a journey accross the desire where silhouettes and empty beds’ devastations are in display. Forgotten passion’s echo are like ghosts in old polaroids. I’m afraid that Eros was devoured by Syphilis.

The poetry book by Gabriella can remind us many voices (singers, forecasters, celebrities on TV shops shows, fashion magazines, sick poets, preachers and voiceless mimes) but it wouldn’t be like hers. She is not selling or teaching anything, it’s more like she was telling us her secret in the middle of the night. If I had to describe Happy Pills, I would say that its the female answer to Bukowski’s poetry.

There is nothing else that we can do but running away from our own hand-made monsters.
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Formats III

May 22nd, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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This is the third post that I write about the new formats used to tell a story. If in the previous two posts, I talked about the blogs that become books and the books that inspired their own soundtrack; now I would like to talk about when music and image merge together to tell a story. If the musical theatre or movies are very old, I mean its shorter version: music videos. In about five minutes or even less, they introduce some characters, a plot and a surprising ending. The structure is similar to microfiction’s. These microfictions are very popular now because they are the best option for Internet. Nevertheless, both cases are not new, they started in their late sixties or early seventies.

I’ve chosen three music videos with very different music, subject and narrative form.

1. A-ha: Take on me
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The story is simple, it’s just a romantic love story with a tragic ending: two young people from two different worlds, met and fell in love. A bad guy tried to avoid their runaway together. Maybe it’s full with cliches but it’s easy, nice and when it was created, it was the best music video together with Thriller by Michael Jackson.

2. Rammstein: Du hast
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Between A-ha’s and Rammstein’s music videos, there had been many different more music videos with better tecniques and special effects. I’ve chosen this one because I like the song (quite different from A-ha’s one) and Rammstein is a band who makes very interesting videos with a story on it. They are quite polemic and transgressor. Du Hast and Engel are influenced by Quentin Tarantino and his movies Reservoir Dogs and From Dusk till dawn.

3. Nine inch nails: Pinion
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Last, this short video (just 1.23 minutes) without lyrics, almost without music shows us a sick nightmare that makes us wonder why is that man (or woman) there? How did s/he get there? Why this punishment? It’s a whole story by itself but it could a beginning or even an end of a longer story.

These three example are just a sample of what was done and is being done at the moment but there will be more and they will be different in all the possible ways. I suppose that one of the most insteresting option will be two or more art forms merged in just new, reloaded futuristic one. Always searching for the moment, the brevity and the impact in just few seconds. Where Internet is becoming vast and huge, the quality should stand up on its way.

 

When could we order art á la carte? Just focused on one consumer?
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Closer by NIN

May 16th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Closer by Nine Inch Nails: A provocative sick song with a video even more disturbing. I can’t take them out of my mind.

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Chasing Dorothy Gale

March 27th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Now I´m starting a new section in my blog named Dark Muses and here I will write about the women who has influenced me most and why not? the ones who obsessed me. It starts with Dorothy Gale, from Kansas.

Picture by Lara Jade

Picture taken from Vogue.

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