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Skate or Die: GoPro
Skateboarding's probably pretty close to porn when it comes to using advances in film technology. Check out this quick how-to about mounting a mini GoPro HD camera under a skateboard, from @RideChannel's excellent In Focus series.
22nd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Blind Date
Great short film up from Abigail Blackmore - Blind Date.
18th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Beyond The Black Rainbow
about time someone picked up that Cronenberg video-terror / mad scientist ball and ran with it... (bonus points for the VHS poster here)
17th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Cabin In The Woods
It was delayed for a few years due to the collapse of MGM, but this meta-horror from Drew "Cloverfield" Goddard and producer Joss Whedon is opening at SXSW this April
17th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
"Our local policeman was a sweet, nice man, and the idea of shouting, "Fuck the police!" at him seemed so totally absurd."
Matt Herbert plays 5-10-15-20 over at @Pitchforkmedia
17th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wayne's World - Partying On for 20 Years
It's the 20th Anniversary of the Wayne's World movie. Ouch. Here's a then/now comparison of the cast. And while you're there, check out the cast of Dazed & Confused ....though Wooderson is cheating a bit thanks to that recent Black Widow promo.
16th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vintage Movie Posters
Hold on to that old movie poster rolled up on top of your wardrobe, as in case you didn't already know these things can be worth a lot of money.
Love seeing the alternate marketing vision for some of these movies. The Alien teaser poster is a million miles from the graphic identity that pretty much shaped the whole series.
Via Vintage Seekers via Uncrate.
15th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Giorgio Moroder's Disco Battlestar Galactica
wish there was a whole show of this
14th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
World Press 2012 Photos of the Year
@Big_Picture has the deatils on their website.
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11th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or Die: Chris Pastras
Always been a big fan of Stereo, since way back before Jason Lee started popping up in the movies. Thanks to the newly launched Ride Channel, here we have a two part (1 / 2) interview with Pastras, discussing the history behind him and Jason Lee's Stereo Skates.
10th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Iron Sky
New trailer for the "Nazis from the dark side of the moon" film that's been "coming soon" for ages. Looks a lot more Top Secret/Hot Shots! with that new President Palin character
10th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gorillaz, James Murphy & Andre 3000 Want to sell you some shoes
Do Ya Thing coming 23 Feb
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No Dude, "Scary Staring Guy" Is My Thing That I Do
Seven Psychopaths, starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. It's about a dog thief
10th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Lilyhammer
Sopranos/E Street star Steve "Silvio - wait - was it Sal?" Van Zandt is back in Lilyhammer. This time he's a gangster in witness protection who asks to be sent to Norway (big fan of the 1994 Winter Olympics). Culture-clash comedy action to follow. It's a Netflix-only show in the US, which could be a sign of things to come; in the UK it's on BBC4
9th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Bourne Legacy
Bourne is back. Except he's not called Bourne, and he's played by Jeremy Renner. Could be OK, unless Ed Norton spoils it. The Bourne Legacy opens Summer 2012.
8th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Breaking Bad S1-5 RPG
what if Breaking Bad looked like Pokemon? (via @thecoldvein)
(ONLY WATCH IF YOU'RE UP TO DATE WITH BREAKING BAD)
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(IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'RE NOT: STOP EVERYTHING AND COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE)
6th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
60s Japanese Graphic Design
Lovely selection of graphic design from 60s Japan over at the iso50 website.
4th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Ben Gazzara
RIP Ben Gazzara, improv acting legend from the Cassavettes era ....and better known to us as the bad guy from Roadhouse, or Jackie Treehorn from The Big Lebowski.
81. Good innings dude.
Via The Guardian.
4th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
David Sylvian - A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012
New two-disc best-of David Sylvian on the way, covering his solo stuff from 1982-2012. Still hold up Ghosts as one of the most original singles to ever chart in the top ten ...
CD 1
1. Ghosts (Remix)
2. Bamboo Houses (Remix)
3. Bamboo Music
4. Forbidden Colours
5. Red Guitar
6. The Ink In The Well
7. Pulling Punches
8. Taking The Veil
9. Silver Moon
10. Let The Happiness In
11. Orpheus
12. Waterfront
13. Pop Song
14. Backwaters
15. Every Colour You Are (Live)
16. Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To The Womb (Remix)
CD 2
1. Jean The Birdman
2. Alphabet Angel
3. I Surrender
4. Darkest Dreaming
5. A Fire In The Forest
6. The Only Daughter (Original)
7. Late Night Shopping
8. Wonderful World
9. The Banality Of Evil
10. Darkest Birds
11. Snow White In Appalachia
12. Small Metal Gods
13. I Should Not Dare
14. Manafon
15. Where's Your Gravity? (previously unreleased)
3rd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tony Hawk's Ride Channel
@YouTube have been setting up some new content partnerships recently and @RIDEChannel is one such offering, from Tony Hawk's 900 Films. The idea is to push channels with regular, programmed content - as YouTube attempst to push itself as a TV replacement.
Ride Channel features a number of skateboard-related shows, such as Jamie Thomas' Let The Good Times Roll, Trick-a-day, Hand in Hand - which features interviews with musicians who have inspired skating (Thurston Moore, for example), Free Lunch which rolls down memory lane with famous skaters and In Focus, which provies great technical tips on making your own skate movies.
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2nd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
Bit more tune, less noise from @sleighbells
2nd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: WTF!? Star Wars Update
OK, here's Volkwagen's full Star Wars themed Superbowl ad. WTF!? Probably the worst use of Star Wars ever ...even worse than the Yodafone spot. Did Lucas give the major brands 3 minutes to come up with a concept if they wanted to cash in on his assets or something? Abominable.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Ferris vs Star Wars - Superbowl Special
Another stupid Star Wars/Advertising tie-in .....though this one's for Volkswagen, who nailed that ad with the kid using the force at the last Superbowl. The Bark Side is an ad for an ad that will show at the Superbowl this Sunday. I remain to be convinced.
Next up, the tepid return of Ferris Bueller, in an underwhelming Honda ad. Bah.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Abandoned Futurist Pod Village In Taiwan
love these shots of abandoned futurist resorts in Taiwan (via @voicesofanglia)
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Beardski
Looking for a foot long insulated beard to keep you warm on the slopes this season? No problem. Beardski has you covered.
31st Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Cassette
Kickstarter doc about cassette culture. More at cassettemovie.com/
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31st Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Side By Side
Side by Side finds Keanu Reeves putting on his producer hat for this documentary about the decline of film and the rise of digital. Looks pretty geeky, so I'm thoroughly looking forward to it - and Keanu has pulled out his address book to interview a who's who of film makers.
30th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth Enlarged
Amazing 64 Megapixel image of Earth up over at Flickr, courtesy of NASA's new Earth-observing Suomi NPP satellite.
28th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
J Mascis: Bobblehead edition
Dinosaur Jr guitar legend now available in replica form
27th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wilco vs Popeye
Animated promo up for WIlco's track "Dawned on Me" .....starring the band and Popeye himself. Directed by Darren Romanelli
26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Indie Game - The Movie
doc about independent video game producers, showing at Sundance this year
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26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Wish You Were Here
Good looking trailer from @bluetonguefilms - our favourite Australian Collective - for Wish You Were Here. Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith and starring Barry Brown from Animal Kingdom AKA Joel Edgerton. No man gets left behind.
25th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Kon-Tiki
Film based on the adventures of explorer Thor Heyderdahl who was so convinced that Polynesian people had sailed the Pacific before Europeans that he built his own balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki and sailed off on a 8000 km trip with a tiny crew for 101 days. No sat-nav, no iPod. Loved the idea of this guy when I was a kid
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25th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wooderson is back in business
Dazed and Confused legend Wooderson is back in business, for this promo for the Butch Walker and the Black Widow's track - Synthesizers. Quite the coup.
He's looking a little out of shape since his epic slow-motion entrance to Hurricane, but it's good to have him back. I get older ....he stays the same age.
Via AICN
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24th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Year Of The Dragon
Kung hei fat choi … to celebrate Chinese New Year, here's Mickey Rourke busting heads, cleaning up the streets, caring too much back in 1985
23rd Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Coldplay - Paradise
NIce promo up from Shynola for the Coldplay track 'Paradise'. They don't make them like this anymore. Nice to see Shynola still on form.
20th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Safe
If nothing else, Jason Statham's latest movie Safe has a couple of tough looking posters. Lionsgate love this guy.
Via AICN.
19th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Saul Bass Video Pitch for Bell Systems
Have a look at this fascinating video made by Saul Bass in the 1970's, as his pitch to redesign the identity of Bell System ....now AT&T.
The first half is all about identity design, the second half is the actual pitch. Amazing that anyone was making a video pitch in the 1970s.
Via Brand New.
From the AT&T Archives:
Bass' work in logo design and movie title credit sequences spanned the latter half of the 20th century, with prominent work in each field. He worked closely with AT&T, designing not only the 1970 "bell" logo that was ubiquitous for a decade, but also, upon the divestiture of AT&T, he designed the original "death star" logo, unveiled in 1984.
One reason for this bell logo's ubiquity? That redesign was the largest corporate re-identity program in the U.S., ever. The redesign covered:
* 135,000 Bell system vehicles
* 22,000 buildings
* 1,250,000 phone booths
* 170,000,000 telephone directories
This film was made by his company as a presentation to AT&T executives. It would have extended to be shown to the public, but a number of his ideas in the film were not ultimately adopted, like his phone booth designs, and men's and women's uniforms. But a great many were—including, most memorably, the telephone vans and hardhat designs of the 1970s. He designed down to the details, showcasing in this film a myriad of ideas, right down to the yellow pages book designs, cufflinks for executives, and flags.
Bass' other very recognizable logo designs that persist today include those for Minolta, Girl Scouts of America, Avery International, Geffen Records, Warner Int'l, and many more. Bass' design for AT&T was the foundation for the logo that the company has today, redesigned in 2005 by Interbrand.
Produced by Saul Bass
Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ
18th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Wedding Present Album: Valentina
Chimp heros The Wedding Present are back with a new album in March. Valentina will be released through the band's own Scopitones label in the UK on March 17th. Other labels around teh world in the days after that.
The band will be at SXSW to launch the album and then on tour in America, Europe, The World. Can't wait.
Via Scopitones.
18th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Girls
Just stumbled accross these two old promos for Girls: Hellhole Ratrace and Lust For Life. Both provide a peek into Girls' world (so to speak) and it's exactly what I expected.
17th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Custom Caps
Attention gang members! You can now have your favourite team in your own gang colours, thanks to New Era's New Era By You service. Any logo, any colour, any stitching. That's the chimp-certified edition above.
16th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Dragon Tattoo - 8 Min Version
8 minute trailer for Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake. Makes more sense, but is less cool than the Immigrant Song-infested power cut.
15th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
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