Ryohei Hase, Hort, Digital Club, Severed Heads + Field

Written in Aug 2009 by Anthony Stonehouse
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A selection of work that I’ve recently discovered that has impressed.

Surreal digital art of Japanese artist Ryohei Hase:

Ryohei Hase

Ryohei Hase

Ryohei Hase

Ryohei Hase

Typographic work from Hort:

Hort

Hort

Hort

Hort

Mare Street video by Digital Club:

Severed Heads — an Australian electronic band that formed in 1979 and ended up really being just Tom Ellard, released this video clip of the song Choose Evil in 1998 at the Homebake festival in Sydney (which I attended). The song takes some great quotes from famous horror books like the mysterious case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Tom proved one person and a computer could create the music and video and went on to distribute his work himself via the Internet.

Choose Evil

And of course my friends over at field who introduced me to some of the work presented here and do some pretty inspirational work themselves:

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