The sight of Dinklage and Stewart discussing the writing speed of an author who has been beloved in the science fiction and fantasy community for decades but who only broke out into the mainstream relatively recently, is surreal, to say the least, for those who have known Martin for years.
Fairly quick and relatively painless for me, but oh so surreal.
My life is relatively quiet, with a little higher frequency of surreal events.
At times satiric and surreal, always graphic, they reveal a relatively unknown side of the Catalan artist.
But on a Sunday morning in early December, it was a relatively easy and, for two Easterners, overdressed in turtlenecks, slightly surreal drive.
Unlike Blackstar – a sprawling 10-minute mini-epic which presented the musician in full, surreal, dream logic stride – this new video has a relatively more simplistic storyline, with Bowie trapped amid a fraught, feverish nightmare.
His surreal photo manipulations, which capture qualities of photography and film, seem to float in the relatively unexplored space between the two art forms.
Barney's relatively straightforward high-colour, high-gloss photographs of her own wealthy circle are in stark contrast to Marclay's surreal soundscapes, record cover patchworks and film montages.
Her work, which ranges from heavily-manipulated to relatively un-retouched, presents a young artist with a promising eye for decisive moments, and a penchant for the surreal.
