Last year we were briefly introduced to Dpony, the psychedelic outtake of Hooray For Earth's Noel Heroux and Zambri's Seth Kasper, together with Johnny Woods and Josh Ascalon, whom released the tracks of their video album Movie for free download back in November. Today, the breathtaking visuals are finally available in full stream, after only having been available on VHS limited to 100 editions, directed by Dpony's own Johnny Woods. He says:
"My original plan was to shoot a whole bunch of original material, and make a crazy narrative out of it all, and then rip it to shreds with the video synthesizer and other processing techniques. (…) And I really don't like using "found footage". It's not any kind of ethical thing, I would just be horrified if I spent a month on something, and then someone else used the same "found footage" for another video.
Right around that time, my video partner and studio-mate Bec Stupak unearthed a box of VHS tapes she had shot in high school and college. She asked if I could digitize them, and to be honest, I was pretty curious and excited to watch them. Bec was the person who inspired me to start making videos in the first place, so to me, it was sort of a treasure chest. She just gave me one warning: "you will probably see me naked". There were probably 60 tapes total. So, I started digitizing the tapes, and immediately was jaw-dropped. The tape that eventually became "Desert of Calculations" was the first one I popped in, and it was just unreal: in 1992, this sixteen year-old girl is making Richard Kern/Jack Smith/Warhol style underground films in her bedroom in Princeton, NJ. It was just too good. I really like my videos to have a sense of timelessness, or at least weird-time-confusion, to them, and this was perfect. It felt like a lot of underground films from the 60s-80s, was shot in the 90s, and would now be re-processed and edited in 2011 using 70s era technology. I think I was listening to the Dpony rough mixes as I was digitizing, fretting about how to pull off the album-length video, and well, the obvious answer occurred to me."
Don't forget to download the album here, or alternatively (for US residents only) snatch a physical copy of the video via their website.
Last year we were briefly introduced to Dpony, the psychedelic outtake of Hooray For Earth's Noel Heroux and Zambri's Seth Kasper, together with Johnny Woods and Josh Ascalon, whom released the tracks of their video album Movie for free download back in November. Today, the breathtaking visuals are finally available in full stream, after only having been available on VHS limited to 100 editions, directed by Dpony's own Johnny Woods. He says:
"My original plan was to shoot a whole bunch of original material, and make a crazy narrative out of it all, and then rip it to shreds with the video synthesizer and other processing techniques. (…) And I really don't like using "found footage". It's not any kind of ethical thing, I would just be horrified if I spent a month on something, and then someone else used the same "found footage" for another video.
Right around that time, my video partner and studio-mate Bec Stupak unearthed a box of VHS tapes she had shot in high school and college. She asked if I could digitize them, and to be honest, I was pretty curious and excited to watch them. Bec was the person who inspired me to start making videos in the first place, so to me, it was sort of a treasure chest. She just gave me one warning: "you will probably see me naked". There were probably 60 tapes total. So, I started digitizing the tapes, and immediately was jaw-dropped. The tape that eventually became "Desert of Calculations" was the first one I popped in, and it was just unreal: in 1992, this sixteen year-old girl is making Richard Kern/Jack Smith/Warhol style underground films in her bedroom in Princeton, NJ. It was just too good. I really like my videos to have a sense of timelessness, or at least weird-time-confusion, to them, and this was perfect. It felt like a lot of underground films from the 60s-80s, was shot in the 90s, and would now be re-processed and edited in 2011 using 70s era technology. I think I was listening to the Dpony rough mixes as I was digitizing, fretting about how to pull off the album-length video, and well, the obvious answer occurred to me."
Don't forget to download the album here, or alternatively (for US residents only) snatch a physical copy of the video via their website.