New video by Jon Clark and Spencer Longo for Los Angeles band LA Vampires’ (in collab with Matrix Metals) catchy number “So Unreal” combines all the things I love most about 80s/90s video aesthetics: head wraps, odd mystic paraphernalia, soft glows, and of course a healthy helping of neon. Jon and Spencer sacrificed their living room to set up this dark lair for a whole month! Spencer Longo currently has an installation up at the Pacific Design Center as a part of MAN, SUCH AS WE KNOW HIM, IS A COMPUTER. Jon is currently working on completing a 30 minute short called ‘Spectrum Hunter’. Watch the full video after the jump.

"Just in Time, or A Short History of Production"

Xavier Antin is a recent grad of Royal College of Art currently based in London. His piece “Just in Time, or A Short History of Production” is a clever recycling of old technologies to make something new. A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history. The final piece is a product created from a very strange offset printing process and doesn’t quite look how you would expect it to! Check out more pictures of “Just in Time” and other works by Xavier after the jump.

"Just in Time, or A Short History of Production"

"Just in Time, or A Short History of Production"

"Centre Aéré: Survival Reading House"

"Centre Aéré: Survival Reading House"

Amazingly clever short from London collective This Is It. It’s easy to forget that the only props being used are cardboard, people, and a lot of ingenuity.

"Forever Bicycles"

Beijing-based activist-critic-curator-artist Ai Weiwei has survived internal bleeding just last year from police brutality for uncovering scandals circling the Sichuan earthquake student casualties (but really, China isn’t that scary, until you try to do something they don’t like), and unveiled his new installation at the Tate Modern. Entitled “Sunflower Seeds,” the piece is a corner to corner spread of porcelain sunflower seeds all individually hand-fired hand-painted, and all one of a kind. View the rest of the post to see the installation along with other works by Ai Weiwei.

"Sunflower Seeds"

"Template" installation, swept down by a thunderstorm

"Fuck Off" in front of Tiananmen Square

"Fuck Off" in front of Documenta

London photographer Jasper James has visited some international meccas: New York, London and Beijing, trying “to get as high up in the city as possible to give [him] an overview and a sense of scale to the size of the city,” and to to combine the micro with the macro- the individual and the cityscape into one shot. Even though I’m in China right now, I’ve yet to see the beautiful same view as he’s managed to capture in these shots.

As far as I know, this 9-minute black and white instance is the first in its kind: modern Chinese film-maker Yang Fudong has collaborated with the huge international fashion brand PRADA to produce a beautiful and dreamlike look book that evokes timeless-ness despite (or because of) it’s old Shanghai setting. First Spring is inspired by a Chinese proverb: “The whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring,” lending itself perfectly for the Mens Spring/Summer line. Yang Fudong works predominantly with 35mm black and white film, harking to black-and-white prewar films of the 1930s and 1940s and postwar avant-garde film noir.