Thus far, Google Glass has often been stigmatized as an invasive tool reserved for the Silicon Valley elite—users have been affectionately referred to as Glassholes. But there’s no denying that wearable tech devices, like smartphones before them, will offer an abundance of new ways to create.
Sure, there are those that will abuse these new toys. But it’s all worth it when someone like FKA Twigs gets a hold of Glass.
Her latest video, created for Google and titled “#throughglass,” utilizes but doesn’t fixate on the technology. Using little more than a full-length mirror and Glass, the London singer/producer/director/dancer has put together two minutes of some seriously impressive footwork. Twigs was a backup dancer before she made it with her own music, and she cites her influences by watching their work in the top right Glass corner, then expanding on the videos with her own moves.
Twigs is joined by doppelgängers who slowly multiply and spin around the endless white space with her. There are many different pigtails. It’s a beautiful piece of filmmaking (directed, of course, by the artist herself) that uses her songs “Video Girl” and “Glass & Patron” as a soundtrack. Twigs also goes big with the eyelid art, painting herself an extra pair of eyes that will stay with you for a while.
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