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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)

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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.

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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.

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15th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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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

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10th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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

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10th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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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.

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1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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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

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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

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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.

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18th 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.

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16th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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fIREHOSE rEUNION

More info on that fIREHOSE reunion: Consequence of Sound are reporting that as well as playing at Coachella, the band will reunite after 18 years for a US tour. Which makes me 18+ years older than I thought, as me and Cnrth saw them at the Marquee in 1991-ish.

Needless Natas Kaupas plug below.

fIREHOSE 2012 Tour Dates:
04/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
04/06 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
04/07 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
04/09 – Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo House of Music
04/10 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
04/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Historic Coconut Grove Ballroom *
04/13 – Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55
04/14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
04/18 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre *
04/19 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush
04/20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival

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13th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Strictly Underground: The Secret World Of Burlington

A peek inside Burlington, the UK's secret underground nuclear bunker/town in Wiltshire built during the second world war. Comes with its own railway station, pub, BBC studio and lots of desks so you can keep up with all that post-apocalyse paper work

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12th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Themes For An Imaginary Film (That In No Way Would Be Called Drive)

Symmetry (aka Johnny Jewel, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire and Mirage) have released a two-hour album (iTunes / Soundcloud) of tracks from an "imaginary soundtrack" (ie the stuff Drive probably didn't want, as Pitchfork hints). Same highways John Carpenter and Giorgio Moroder once drove...

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30th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Prometheus

Here's that Prometheus trailer. Looks good to me ....and not the same as the shakey-cam bootleg, which must have been an earlier edit or something.

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22nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New / Vintage GBV

Guided By Voices' new LP "Let's Go Eat The Factory" arrives on Jan 16th (Jan 17th in the US via Rockathon or NOW via US iTunes), but you can listen to the whole thing today over at NPR.

The record is the first to feature the 'classic' line-up of the band since 1996. That's the classic line-up pictured in 1995 above. And the vintage version of the classic line-up below.

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22nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: LCD Soundsystem vs Franz Ferdinand

Promo up for LCD Soundsystem's cover of Franz Ferdinand's Live Alone. Must have been payback for that All My Friends version Franz Ferdinand put out.

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20th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Prometheus Trailer Trailer

It's probably that same trailer that was leaked in flakey-cam a few days back, but according to this trailer trailer, iTunes will have the official verison of Ridley Scott's Prometheus trailer on Thursday. The trailer trailer has some epic looking shots in, and my say I'm looking forward to this one.

Some other iinteresting stuff: Wrath of The Titans, Act of Valor and Jack the Giant Killer.

Talking of trailer trailers, it looks like their might be a trailer for The Hobbit materialising tomorrow night (Via AICN).

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19th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Christmas In Hollis: Emoji Version

It's not their fault that the intro is a bit dull .....but this emoji promo picks up once the song gets going.

Go to Settings> General> Keyboard> International Keyboards> Add Keyboard> Emoji to add Apple's extensive Emoji collection to your iPhone.

Via Gizmodo

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19th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet