I thought I would start my blog with something relevant, current and ultimately something that combines a number of my passions/interests.
This is a song by Gotye featuring the female vocalist Kimbra, it is something that I'm seeing and hearing everywhere at the moment and is a constant post from someone each day on my Facebook news feed. It's melodic and full of emotion providing many aspects that I personally, and I'm sure many others of you can relate to in some way or another.
I am one of those people who tend to find music a while before most, with my incessant need to discover new music to add to my ever expanding iTunes library and take great pleasure in playing someone a song they've never heard before for the first time. There is something inspirational about new music. Whether newly made or just new to the individual.
However, what initially drew me to the song was the video. I saw a brief clip of it on a music channel many months ago and the creative use of body art caught my eye. Again, body art is something that is becoming more popular and being linked with music, especially something that is being so widely discussed is only bound to increase its creative uses.
With meaningful lyrics and such intense emotion throughout it is clear that the use of bodypaint is symbolic from a conceptual point of view. I'm still trying to figure out the exact intended purpose of the video, but I guess that's something that is open to each persons interpretation. To me, the reversal of the females bodypaint is symbolic of a removal of identity, no longer being the person 'he used to know'. I could sit and delve into the possible meanings forever but perhaps it's not definitive.
From a design point of view (I study Hair and Makeup design for music, film and photography), I wonder why they left the hair free of paint. Perhaps to specify that identity was not to be entirely lost within the background? or perhaps there is no deeper meaning at all.
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This is a song by Gotye featuring the female vocalist Kimbra, it is something that I'm seeing and hearing everywhere at the moment and is a constant post from someone each day on my Facebook news feed. It's melodic and full of emotion providing many aspects that I personally, and I'm sure many others of you can relate to in some way or another.
I am one of those people who tend to find music a while before most, with my incessant need to discover new music to add to my ever expanding iTunes library and take great pleasure in playing someone a song they've never heard before for the first time. There is something inspirational about new music. Whether newly made or just new to the individual.
However, what initially drew me to the song was the video. I saw a brief clip of it on a music channel many months ago and the creative use of body art caught my eye. Again, body art is something that is becoming more popular and being linked with music, especially something that is being so widely discussed is only bound to increase its creative uses.
With meaningful lyrics and such intense emotion throughout it is clear that the use of bodypaint is symbolic from a conceptual point of view. I'm still trying to figure out the exact intended purpose of the video, but I guess that's something that is open to each persons interpretation. To me, the reversal of the females bodypaint is symbolic of a removal of identity, no longer being the person 'he used to know'. I could sit and delve into the possible meanings forever but perhaps it's not definitive.
From a design point of view (I study Hair and Makeup design for music, film and photography), I wonder why they left the hair free of paint. Perhaps to specify that identity was not to be entirely lost within the background? or perhaps there is no deeper meaning at all.
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