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Tron 1.5

I haven't seen Tron 2 - but if reports are to be believed it's as lacking as the original. On that note, here's a short film that features on the blu-Ray disc and Bridges (get it?) the gap between the two films, as well as unfortunately signalling that more may be coming.

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16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: David Lynch Directs Duran Duran

weird. this is like the time Andy Warhol directed a video for Curiosity Killed The Cat

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16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Big Screen TV

I'm struggling to send video from iPad to Apple TV, but this guy has his own solution. iPhone > Times Square. Wireless.

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15th Mar 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Super 8

Full trailer up for Super 8, from JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg. Looks to combine the best of both. 

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14th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Professor Dude

I think the original slacker dude needs a status update. Say hello to Professor Dude.

Several Shades of Why arrives Monday.

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12th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The National - Conversation 16

The National, John "Roger Sterling" Slattery and Kristen "Conchords" Schaal all together in a Secret Service/ President of the US video? if we were on Facebook this would probably qualify as LIKE

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10th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Day V Lately

Anyone who remembers J.R. Hartley from 1983 will get the joke with Yell's mildly nauseating updated commercial, but the campaign goes beyond the TV ad. Check out Day V Lately's website, in all in 1996-era glory. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.

Strange to only aim an ad at the over 28's, but at least Yellow Pages seem to be becoming aware of who might actually use them these days. We have Ask Jeeves now after all.

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9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

MPFree: Solo Fox Tracks

Robin Pecknold has dropped three acoustic tracks via @fleetfoxes :

"One is a duet with my friend Ed Droste from the amazing band Grizzly Bear, one is just a new solo jam, and one is a cover."

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9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Controlled Explosions

With new album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care released on April 18th on Bella Union, Chimpomatic favourites Explosions in the Sky have released their first preview of the album. The track Trembling Hands is more direct than much of the band's previous work ...and provides a taster of what to expect next month. I for one, cannot wait.

Listen here. Download here.

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8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Nazi 3D Films Discovered

I thought this was an Onion spoof when I first saw it, but apparently the Nazis were shooting in 3D as far back as 1936 - 16 years before Hollywood first started its tedious flirtation with the gimmick.

They probably invented it so they could shoot Iron Sky in the format.

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8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Skate or die: The Get By - Skating NYC

In support of last year's New York-set dramedy How To Make It In America, HBO made this nice little film The Get By - documenting the New York skate scene.

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The show also features references to a supposed New York skate 'legend' - Wilfredo Gomez ... a film about whom you can see above.

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7th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New J Mascis: Is It Done

ever since I spent three days thinking I'd finally blown my hearing after standing a bit too near the speakers at a Dinosaur Jr gig, I've kind of preferred it when J Mascis keeps things quiet... so I'm looking forward to this acoustic-ish album he's got coming out, with loads of guests (Kurt Vile, A Silver Mount Zion’s Sophie Trudeau, Kevin Drew, Ben Bridwell, Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins, Matt Valentine etc). great primer track over at PFork and if you hand over your email Sub Pop will give you another

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5th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New My Morning Jacket: Circuital

"I want it to sound like we're Cuban or Cambodian kids, and we're wearing berets and we're walking through an alley and we stumble upon this band, and it explodes into this crazy sing-along."

My Morning Jacket have a new album - Circuital - out this spring. Make of that what you will. The good news:

"We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."

Via Rolling Stone

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4th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Muppets do LCD

DIY take on Dance Yrself Clean

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4th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet