Kazaky– Love

Strangest obsession of my life.  On Sunday I was at a chapter meeting and one of the girls decided to show us a little video at the end of the meeting just for kicks.  Basically, Kazaky is a Ukrainian dance group composed of four presumably gay men.  The best part of this video?  They’re all dancing in stilettos.  Oh, and they’re extremely hot (and European).

People have described them as on the level of Lady Gaga in terms of the art to it.  But, I prefer Kazaky to Gaga.

As far as I can tell, the scruffy one is Oleh, Artur has the lips, Stas has earrings, and Kyryll is the young-looking one with the curly hair.  I’m probably mixing some of them up though.  Aaaaanyways, I’m torn between being fascinated by their actual dancing and just them.  The dancing is amazing even if they weren’t men.  Because, I will never ever be able to move like that much less with heels on.  It’s impressive.

Maybe I’m imagining it, but I can practically see their accents when they’re singing.  And that’s just sexy.  But, maybe I’m being affected by the fact their faces are beautiful anyways.  Best thing about the close-ups of them singing?  They just can’t stay still and you can just manage to see how they’re still sensually moving beyond the camera.  And those expressions, it’s so very you-totally-want-me-I-know-I’m-sex-in-human-form-everyone-wants-me-and-you’re-lucky-I’m-even-addressing-you, right amount of smile, the right amount of aloof.  Sooo hot.  Ok, will I stop drooling?  Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll stop playing the video on repeat for hours at a time. (No seriously, I’ve never clicked repeat on youtube before this video.)

On a side note, the song is probably rubbish.  I mean, “I wanna fucking you,” is definitely not grammatically correct, but I’ve ceased to care.

Her morning elegance

This is by far my favorite stop-motion video I have seen, ever.

I found it by way of iTunes.  It was the last free music video, although I didn’t actually download it because the laptop with my iTunes is sort of not working right now.

But, onto the actual video/song itself.  I really like the song, I like the feel of it and I like Oren Lavie’s voice.  It’s very soothing.  My favorite line is probably this one… “And she fights for her life / Where people are pleasantly strange.”  I think everyone has that in them, something that’s pleasantly strange, a quirk I guess.  But, at the same time, it also makes me think of friendly monsters….  Monsters are people too, you know.  I also like this pair of lines, “She pours a daydream in a cup / A spoon of sugar sweetens up”

:36- The girl is ducking under the cello and the cello piece is playing in the song.  When it zooms in on her face and she turns toward the cellos and smiles a little, it makes me believe she’s having a nice dream or thought and she’s leaning into it like you would lean into the warmth of a fire.

1:12- It took me a couple takes to realize she was supposed to be riding a train here, and then that she’s looking out the window into the storm.  But, once I sorted it all out, it looked nice and I could see it being a train.

2:07- She’s jumping from pillow to pillow.  The actual mechanics of it is amazing.  Each frame flows so smoothly into one another to make it look like she’s actually jumping.  Her arms and legs are placed just so, and even her hair flounces along with the natural movement of a leap.

2:18- I love the water scene.  The sock fish, shawl-type jellyfish, and the bubbles that float upward as she plunges in.  And again, it looks like she’s actually underwater, her hair undulates in the ‘water’ and her arms and legs mimic swimming motions.

2:49- I just really like the dancing.

Thanks Frak

I thought I’d post one of my youtube videos because I like it. It’s a reply to Friday’s PotterCast Vlog in which Frankie treated everyone to a little lesson on drawing owls. I had a little fun with it and did a sort of quick and silly animation. Please excuse the not so excellent quality…. And Enjoy!

And, if you are a fan of Harry Potter you really need to listen to PotterCast, the most awesome HP podcast around. And, of course they also vlog on youtube.