New Video: Shuttlecocks + Revolving Cocks: Mashup of a Great Kansas City Sculpture and an Industrial Band Singing a Rod Stewart Cover.

Earlier this year I took a trip to Kansas City (and wrote about it here). I didn't get around to writing about the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which is really stunningly good.  I have a huge cache of pics from the trip here, including images I took in and around the museum.

One of the best pieces is outside the museum itself— "Shuttlecocks", by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen. Here's how the artists describe it:

Aluminum and fiber-reinforced plastic; painted with polyurethane enamel
Four shuttlecocks, each 17 ft. 11 in. (5. 5 m) high x 15 ft. 1 in. (4.6 m) crown diameter and 4 ft. (1.2 m) nose cone diameter, sited in different positions on the grounds of the museum

Amazing. I took a bunch of photos of the installation and did nothing with them until this week.

I had to clean out my computer (of raw video, mainly), because it was getting down to zero space. One of the video projects I had in iMovie was one about this piece.

"Shuttlecock" is an odd word. Compound. British, in a Fawlty Towers sort of way. Funny, in a juvenile way. So when I was thinking about how to present it in video, the natural thought was to double down on the language and mash it up with the Revolting Cocks.

Anyone in Chicago in the late 80s (or anyone in the industrial/ noise scene) knows and loves the Revolting Cocks.

So here's my mashup of two great artists