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Princefest
@ICAlondon R going through a purple patch 4 U, 14-15 Dec @PrinceFestICA
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Skate or Die: Bake And Destroy
Forget the well-managed PR of #PrettySweet, skateboarding showed it's still got balls at the recent riot-inducing LA premiere of the new Baker video Bake and Destroy (see above).
And now the whole enchilada is online and available for viewing/download via Thrasher Magazine. Enjoy.
22nd Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Video Games Data Map
(via @reddit) graph showing changes in game style and platforms played since 1975
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Trailer Park: Beautiful Noise
Kickstarter for a doc about the influence of Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And Mary Chain, featuring loads more shoegazey types - Ride, Curve, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Chapterhouse, Pale Saints, Lush, AR Kane - and interviews with Kevin Shields, Jim Reid, Robin Guthrie, Bobby Gillespie, Douglas Hart, Colm O’Ciosoig, Debbie Googe, Simon Raymonde, Alan Moulder, Ivo Watts-Russell, Alan McGee, Sonic Boom, Robert Smith, Trent Reznor, Wayne Coyne etc
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19th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Apple 15th Anniversary Smug Video
Jony Ive has been knocking out self-congratulatory videos for a full 15 years now.
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Nice Work
RT @bandofhorses Jimmy Page watching BoH perform on last nights Jools Holland #hero pic.twitter.com/Cm9wpDwX - catch it on iPlayer here
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Promo Promo: Merz - Goodbye My Chimera
First single from Merz's Xynthia EP, looking forward to the rest of this. More details here
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It's Solo Life, Yim, But Not As We Know It
My Morning Jacket's Jim James is benching his Yim Yames persona for next solo outing Regions Of Light And Sound Of God. First track Know Til Know is up at Pitchfork. No capes spotted so far.
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Promo Promo: Rowdy Superstar - Breathe
Someone needs help with their Freeview tuner... New Rowdy Superstar album Battery out on Accidental today
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Skate Or Die: Blue Line
Nice cruising in this San Pedro short from Brian Lotti and Nathan Factor Sacharow
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Trailer Park: Warm Bodies
It's all zombies, zombies, zombies at the moment. Next: a teen romzom with Nicholas "Skins" Hoult as a zombie who falls for a human (Teresa Palmer - good in Wish You Were Here) and then starts to come back to life... 50/50 director Jonathan Levine is behind it, might be alright. Alternatively, here's the NMA version...
9th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: World War Z
Brad Pitt's turn to take on a zombie horde. He's got Mireille "The Killing" Enos to help out.
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City Maps Remix
Armelle Caron's city maps, reordering the components (via @DougCoupland). From top to bottom: Berlin, Istanbul, New York, Paris
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Roger Deakins on Skyfall
Interesting interview with the cinematographer talking about digital, Skyfall's pre-production and working with Sam Mendes
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Trailer Park: Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome
A new BSG prequel - now premiering online this Friday via MachinimaPrime. For more details on what the frak is going on in the ever-evolving world of "TV that's not on TV" here's a good EW link
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Trailer Park: Jimmy's End
First look at Alan Moore's neo-noir film, plus a pro-Occupy single The Decline Of English Murder.
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5th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Star Wars Episode VII
(as imagineered by Next Media)
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2nd Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
3D in 2D: Supercut
Daft compilation of all those bits in 3D films where they chuck stuff at the camera.
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Promo Promo: The Invisible - Generational
New Invisible vid directed by Th13teen. Bonus Post War Years remix here
"Taken from The Invisible's new single Generational which includes a 15 minute Theo Parrish Remix & Anna Calvi cover of The Wall. Released 22 October 2012 on Ninja Tune."
1st Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Decay
What happens when you let physics students shoot a zombie film in the maintenance tunnels at CERN? Wired has more.
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Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4BN. Star Wars VII coming in 2015
I thought this was an April fool at first.
30th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wally Pfister On Camera Placement
Interesting piece looking at cinematographer Wally (Dark Knight, Inception) Pfister's arguments about camera placement and the idea of "cheating space" in rival blockbusters like Avengers.
"What's really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn't support the story. I thought "The Avengers" was an appalling film. They'd shoot from some odd angle and I'd think, why is the camera there? Oh, I see, because they spent half a million on the set and they have to show it off. It took me completely out of the movie. I was driven bonkers by that illogical form of storytelling."
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RIP Terry Callier
The soul, folk, jazz legend died in Chicago yesterday. Here's two great tracks that showcase his talent for setting a mood and taking it as far as it can go: I'm A Drifter from 1968's The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier and Lazarus Man from Timepiece, his 1998 comeback.
29th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Good Day To Die Hard
This time, he's brought his son along, so yes, it is personal. Thanks for asking.
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The Fourth Dimension
Full-length new compendium movie up on YouTube- first up, Harmony Korine directs Val Kilmer. On a BMX... Looks like a Vice/Grolsch team up.
via Indiewire:
Synopsis: The Fourth Dimension: where fawns are the miscreants of nature, time travel only applies to ants, and velvet is evil. Channeling the spirit of Tristan Tzara in his manifesto to deliver magic and other things, Eddy Moretti—aka the General of this cinematic synecdoche, and in other dimensions known as one of the masterminds behind Vice magazine—deploys a troika of strange and talented-as-hell directors to carry out his orders to form a more perfect union of space and time. The journey begins with Harmony Korine's new age brainchild "The Lotus Community Workshop," starring Val Kilmer as "Val Kilmer." Alexey Fedorchenko comes next with "Chronoeye," the story of a Russian time traveler whose expectations for seeing the past stifle his ability to live in the present. Fittingly, we end with the quasi-apocalyptic and ominously allegorical "Fawns," directed by Polish newcomer Jan Kwiecinski. All three directors transcend convention by challenging themselves and audiences to find something new in cinema. Together, the triptych of pieces crash but don't clash in a fashion that would make both Einstein and Eisenstein beam. [Synopsis courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival.]
26th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spotted: All Of Hitchcock's Cameos
Fun compilation of all 37 of Alfred's cameos. via Open Culture
25th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Bones Brigade - An Autobiography
trailer up for the new Stacy Peralta doc looking at the early days of skating
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25th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Ceefax 1974-2012
With the final digital switch off taking place today, Ceefax is a thing of the past.
Via BBC
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23rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
ISS Startrails - TRONized
footage from the International Space Station rendered to look like Tron light-trails
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Giorgio Moroder On Soundcloud
Just an excuse to put this picture up really (always what springs to mind whenever someone talks about being in the studio "GIMME MORE BASS!"), but if you like 70s synths, Giorgio Moroder's Soundcloud page is pretty entertaining
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Plot Device
beware snap online purchasing decisions... Magic Bullet promo from Red Giant
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This Is Coffee!
A handy guide to one of our top three drinks from 1961. via @brainpickings
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Promo Promo: Death Grips - True Vulture
Animator Galen Pehrson teams up with Death Grips and Jena Malone here
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Short Attention Span Theatre: True Skin
Bangkok-set sci-fi short that's drawn big studio attention for director Stephan Zlotescu. Shot on Canon 5D Mark II, good use of on-location detail to make a convincing calling card. More details at Wired:
Six months after a trailer appeared on Vimeo, aspiring feature filmmaker Stephan Zlotescu‘s six-minute short achieved viral lift-off last week after the director’s manager spread the word about the work. “Industry response has been insane,” said manager Scott Glassgold in an e-mail to Wired, citing 230,000 views in five days for the True Skin video (embedded above). “Within hours of release, we were receiving calls from major studios and financiers.”
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19th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Another interesting-looking family drama from the prolific @Edward_Burns. Variety review here
17th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Les Maitres Du Temps
Stumbled across this Moebius-designed, Rene Laloux-directed French animation from 1982 about a metaphysical rescue operation. There's a Eureka edition out on DVD, more on the making of here at Twitch
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Promo Promo: The Rolling Stones - Doom And Gloom
In which Mick notices that "plane" and "insane"; "dirt" and "hurt"; "doom" and "boom" rhyyyyyyyyyyyyyme
11th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Hitchcock
Anthony Hopkins fat-suits up for this biopic looking at the period when Hitchcock made Psycho. Helen Mirren plays his partner Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson gets shower duties. Like a lot of those (entertaining and generally well done) BBC4 dramas based on classic TV shows, it's a bit hard to know exactly what we'll be getting out of this that a good documentary wouldn't show. Well-made tail-chasing?
10th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Happy!
After directing The Man With The Iron Fists, RZA is lining up to adapt Grant Morrison's graphic novel Happy! according to THR:
Happy! centers on Nick Sax, a scummy corrupt ex-cop and hit man. After a hit goes bad and Sax is left gravely injured, he is suddenly able to see Happy, a cheerful little blue horse who won’t give in to adversity, no matter what unpleasant obstacles are in the way. Days before Christmas, Sax teams up with the saccharine horse to save the life of a troubled kid and maybe find redemption amid the squalor of his city.
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After Dark: Remastered
Listened to this "Italo Disco, Krautrock, Electro, Giallo Cinema" compilation from Chromatics man Johnny Jewel non-stop when it came out in 2007; here it is in remastered form blended together, with news of a new movie soundtrack and vol 2 on the way
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New Murakami Covers
Vintage selection of reprints for Murakami's excellent back catalogue from Noma Bar
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Skate Or Die: Boards BBQ Beer Blackscore
Team @BlackScore_ hanging with the Red Kite Ramp boys for some slo-mo summer backyard skate magic. Get the look.
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5th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Birdwalk Empire
Nucky Ducky Thompson, Clucky Luciano and Agent van Cuckoo fight it out on the Birdwalk in another great Sesame Street sketch. Beaking Bad next please.
4th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Trailer War
a trailer for a film made up of trailers...
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The Beauty Inside
Lovely short film from Sundance winner Drake Doremus about a person who wakes up differently every day. Beautifully shot, with a great performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
30 mins, split over 6 episodes. Ignore the fact it's funded by The Man.
3rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hi-Yo, Poster!
Intrigued to see what direction this new Lone Ranger film is going to take the masked man. Trailer coming soon up at Apple now Kemosabe. Looks very much like a film from the Pirates Of The Caribbean team, could be fun if they manage to stop if bloating over two hours...
3rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
Title says it all really, except that @JerrySeinfeld is the man behind this interview/comedy web series. Kramer and Jerry in the final episode alone makes it worthwhile.
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