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this is... weird.

weird unmusical song, odd/intriguing enough camerawork/direction, pretty good edit (but: no white frames, please!).

the guy's a bit too much of a milquetoast (also: what's with his guttural stops?), plus rule #12: never show the artwork of a fictional artist.

re: white frames: yes, however they have been used to death. it registers as a cliché device to keep things more "interesting". your video (i'm presuming you made it) had no need for that.

re: rule #12: though the #'s irony, i do hold this to be the case: never ever show fake artwork. its inevitably blatant fakeness always works against the piece.

re: filmmaker: ianad (but i am a producer).

appropriation is, to some extent, physiological. it all depends on how you play it. and, though it doesn't seem to address the white frames thing, it's as you say: if you choose...

i'm not sure cliché's a question of belief - but who'm i to say.

(oh, and: to answer your other question: produce. fresh produce. we've won awards for our artichokes. i've had to take them down to save my bandwidth.)

and, monsieur acosta?

were they any good then? (asks martin niggemann)

They were green and leafy, might taste good with a butter sauce. Julian Acosta

what you really want to do with artichokes (the non-spiky and non-hairy sort): open them up a little, and then throw them in a pot of boiling oil. the outside leaves get crunchy, the inside perfectly tender. salt and serve.

ah, the mediterranean style … i only know them canned.