<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shape+colour]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/author/shapeandcolour/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[the american dollar: anything you&nbsp;synthesize.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>This video is so fucking beautiful it makes me ache. Slightly reminiscent of Björk and Michel Gondry&#8217;s legendary vid for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYP9lA-g1_I&amp;fmt=18"><span style="color:#ff6600;">&#8220;Jóga&#8221;</span></a>, Dutch creative studio <a href="http://www.onesize.nl/"><span style="color:#00ff00;">Onesize</span></a> and director Kasper Verweij have created a simply mind-numbingly gorgeous glimpse of sand, earth, and sky for experimental U.S. duo <a href="http://theamericandollar.info/"><span style="color:#808000;">The American Dollar</span></a>&#8216;s &#8220;Anything You Synthesize.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Languid and immersive, the video scrolls in one long, looping slope through time and space without any shots of the band or any other human being. Constantly moving, it&#8217;s earthy and ethereal vibe cycles through nature in one of the most  exciting visual landscapes I&#8217;ve ever seen: teeming and florid, decayed and hopeless. In a world So barren it&#8217;s lush, so dark it shines. It&#8217;s like drugs for your eyes. The visual are grainy and aged, like a memory, and give the whole thing the feeling of re-visiting a place you&#8217;d forgotten you&#8217;d been. The ultimate déja vu.</p>
<p>Shut the door, dim the lights, turn off your phone, and give yourself four minutes to do nothing but behold&#8230;</p>
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<p>From Onesize&#8217;s website:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;After hearing work from &#8216;The American Dollar&#8217; we really felt the urge to create a music video for one of their new songs. Inspired by the music we had the idea of making a decaying world. One single cameramovement from left to right, showing a landscape, looping 9 times. Day becomes night and even the seasons go by. After we finished the production, we decided to reverse the whole video. This gives you a seamingly happy end, but you know what&#8217;s going to happen. There are no lyrics and we did not pay attention to the title of the song, we just felt this was the right thing to do.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Via <a href="http://www.motionographer.com"><span style="color:#800000;">Motionographer </span></a><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="color:#000000;">+ <a href="http://www.ventilate.ca"><span style="color:#800080;">Ventilate</span></a></span></span></p>
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