Three of a perfect pair, King Crimson Vs BTBAM

Hello! I have a pretty simple question for you guys, whose version of "Three of a perfect pair" do you like better? The King Crimson original or progressive metal band, Between the Buried and Me's cover?

King Crimson

BTBAM

And just for fun, the two songs combined

RYAN MCGINLEY - PHOTOGRAPHER

Many of you are probably familiar with the Levi's Jeans Go Forth advertisements which started airing last year. Personally I thought they were awesome, and I'm usually pretty critical of corporate ad campaigns. I was so taken by the ads that I actually decided to look up who was involved in making them, and I am quite glad I did.
Ryan McGinley is the photographer behind the print ads of that campaign as well as numerous others, If you are familiar with the Sigur Ros album "With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly" then you've seen his work adorning the front cover.
His photography explores the wild side of humanity, not by way of the grit of vices but instead by capturing jovial romps through the wilderness, youthfulness to its most extreme. There is a mystical quality to his photographs, especially the Moonmilk series which is pure magic.
Marcus brought up the debate of whether or not photography is art in his last post, I think that Ryan McGinley's work reinforces that it is most certainly art.

A little warning: Basically all of his pictures contain nudity.
RYAN MCGINLEY

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

It's been a while since I've posted so expect several more posts from me within the week.

Canada has a long tradition of promoting and protecting their arts. The National Film Board of Canada is the Canadian Government's public film producer and distributor (Those Socialists!). Since its beginning in 1939, the films produced by NFB have won over 5000 awards. The films range from Stop Animation to Documentaries and there's really quite a few cool films in every category.
Their website hosts many of these films and I suggest going there and digging around.

Several Films I recommend checking out: The Necktie, This Is a Recorded Message, and Subservience

National Film Board

Peter Funch - Photographer

I don't really have a lot to say about this except for that I think this man has some very interesting work. It has been a long debate on whether or not photography should be considered art, and I think that Peter Funch has made a case defending what photography is capable of expressing. In my humble opinion, his most interesting collection is "Babel Tales". If these photographs were not staged, they have impeccable timing.

DISCLAIMER: The selection "CRASH" has photos of death that could be a bit disturbing, so keep that in mind.

Peter Funch's Website

Essay: Ethnocide, or the Death of Language and Conversation

To coincide with one direction that I think would be beneficial for the Heap to head in, I'm posting an essay I wrote last semester for my Composition class. The essay is on Eugene Ionesco's Absurdist play, "The Bald Soprano" (a personal favorite of mine). I hope everyone will take a few minutes to read it and then leave some thoughts, it certainly would be appreciated.

Here's a performance of a scene from the play (a little hard to hear, but the best adaptation I could find on youtube).

The essay can be found here.

*Picture is from a visual treatment of the play by Robert Massin. Others are worth looking at, and can be found here. Sorry, its in French.

-Jordan C. Ozubko

Natalie Bush- Artist

Since it's late, and I have tendencies to ramble, I'll keep this first post of mine short and simple.

Natalie Bush, college senior, is a painter, poet, and photographer. She has a talent for blending these art-forms, as well as others, together to create beauty. Her pieces reach an achievement many artists' works fall short of doing, they spark something in you and cause you to think about things other than exactly what is right in front of you. She's something different, and something brilliant.

Check out her website

-Emily

POST #22

I'm taking a break from doing the band of the week this week, instead I'm just going to post a bunch of links to artists that I've discovered over the past month or so and you can check them out without any pretext.
The reason that I'm forgoing the usual fare this week is because I feel Heap has grown a little stale and only rooted in music related posts, I'm working on introducing some new things soon to remedy that.
Of course, I'm kicking that off with this post, which is music related...

Bombadil

Bowerbirds

Megafaun

Rocky Votolato

Two Door Cinema Club

Danger

Fanfarlo

Andrew Morgan

Matt Pond PA

Dawes