tis the season: A Krampus Carol by Anthony Bourdain

Krampus is Santa Claus' whip-toting Christmas sidekick. According to legend, Krampus joins Santa where he tends to the children on Santa's naughty list. No coal here though. Instead, Krampus whips and licks children into shape or carries them off in his sack.

Leave it to anthony bourdain to come up with this sinister little christmas tale. I've chosen this vid as one of my instant christmas classics.

MGMT covers classic Bauhaus -- wonderfully (VIDEO)

MGMT - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything from oneedo on Vimeo.

MGMT present some visuals for “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything”, a track off the band’s latest Late Night Tales release. A cover of the classic Bauhaus tune, “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” features a fully animated look, directed by Ned Wenlock, with production from Georgiana Taylor and animation by Rodney Selby. Enjoy! - (via hypebeast)

tis the season: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

Alex Mallis' Short Film re: #OWS: Right Here All Over

- inspiring

Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) from Alex Mallis on Vimeo.

delightful animated short: Light up by David Duvieusart

Light up from David Duvieusart on Vimeo.

Malou, a little girl with a passion for astronomy, lives in a world without any stars. One evening something does finally appear and it will change her life forever... 
Light up is a short film made by Aveline Stoquart and David Duvieusart, students at the Haute École Albert Jacquard in Namur, Belgium.

charming & clever: 'A Slice of Life' by Terry Border (VIDEO)

Mr. P.B. O'Bread searches for his other half - an animation from Terry Border of Bent Objects.

'This animation was inspired by a photo in my new book ( and it's on the cover, actually)... '

A quick look at Terry Border's second Bent Object book- Bent Object of My Affection; The Twists and Turns of Love. This one is all about relationships:

'What The Water Gave Me' - Florence & The Machine's New SIngle (VIDEO)

Florence and the Machine‘s second album is set to drop in November, and here is the first track called “What the Water Gave Me“. It's available now via her website and iTunes.

It’s a song for the water… Because in music and art what I’m really interested in are the things that are overwhelming. The ocean seems to me to be nature’s great overwhelmer. When I was writing this song I was thinking a lot about all those people who’ve lost their lives in vain attempts to save their loved ones from drowning. It’s about water in all forms and all bodies. It’s about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frieda Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title.

The song is exciting & intense and something of a new direction -- here's to hoping there's more of this on the new album.

Animal Collective - "Lion in a Coma" (VIDEO) - by ori toor

Animal Collective - "Lion in a Coma" from ori toor on Vimeo. My final project at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design - Illustration department. A stream of consciousness animation for the song "Lion in a Coma" by Animal collective (taken from the awesome "Merriweather Post Pavilion" album). Frame by frame animation in flash

everything is perfect with this: Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner & Nico Muhly feat. New Trombone Collective and strings (VIDEO)

(Sufjan) Stevens, composer Nico Muhly, and the National member Bryce Dessner have been commissioned by the Dutch concert hall Muziekgebouw Eindhoven to write a song cycle for seven trombones and a string quartet. The resulting music will be performed on April 7, 2012 in the venue.

- via Pitchfork

simply remarkable: Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)

- reminds me that soon i'll be in l.a.

A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden's studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled.  The installation opens fall 2011.

Chris Burden is one of our favorite artists of all time. For more about him and his work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/chris-burden/

Directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Edited by Max Joseph
Cinemtography by Schulman, Joost & Van Neistat
Music by Tortoise (Ten-Day interval) & Mahogany (Windmill International A)

Special Thanks to Zak Cook and everyone at the Burden studio...Tortoise, Mahogany, Jaclyn Slimm & Andrew Prinz.