Above: I was interested to see this picture in The Guardian yesterday where one of their writers has recreated a painting by Van Gogh. Not sure why this sort of thing has an effect on me, but it does. You can see other echoes of great art elsewhere in the media.
Above: for instance, a recent TV commercial for Benylyn cough mixture showed a man in bed with an incubus on his chest. It seems to echo Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare. It's very effective.
Above: And the video for Aviici's Levels (a remix of Flo Rider's Good Feeling) shows an office worker pushing a rock up a mountain in an echo of Titian's Sisyphus in the Prado (copyright on this picture has expired).
Good Feeling is one of those songs that just goes round and round in my mind. Not sure how it got there. It's not the sort of thing I would choose to listen to.
The Levels video is fascinating (I think so anyway). A bored office clerk in a sort of "living death in the Buying Department" existence begins to behave erratically and is eventually tasered by Security. Hospitalised in a sort of Quincy MD facility, he vomits foam in the shape of a white flower. Two hospital attendants become contaminated by this foam and infected by the disorder. The infection spreads to a nurse who appears absolutely terrified (this is great acting!). Senior consultants literally run for their lives along the drab 1970s corridors.
It's a classic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovdm2yX4MA&ob=av2e
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