The first single from Dubbel Dutch’s upcoming EP, Self Help Riddims, landed in late October on Mixpak, and now has a brand new video from artist Kari Altmann that premiered on FACT Magazine yesterday, along with an exclusive Q&A with Dubbel Dutch. Altmann, who also furnished us with the cover art, says she
took inspiration from “Mind Movies ™” culled from Youtube and promo clips for Olialia’s Blonde Island in the shape of a high heel. The result appears to be some kind of mistranslated app for your smartphone that is simultaneously bringing you customized visual mantras while advertising pyramid scheming investment shares in a faraway island resort.
These Mind Movies are user-made slide show animations full of images that inspire that particular person toward wealth and success. A lot of times they are full of default Googled images of houses, cars, or more abstract ideas like love and travel. Each user’s sequence of imagery has its own personal logic and is meant to be viewed daily as a kind of audiovisual mantra.
Mind Movie has totally been trademarked by this company that provides you an interface to make these animations with. The genre of ‘wealth attraction’ graphics is a deep, deep k-hole on Youtube, highly recommended. I actually found this Olialia Blonde Island ad because they use mp3s that a friend and I made in high school. One of my brothers also lives in Lithuania, which he describes as ‘like living on a Florida beach’, and this discovery feels like fate.
