many of the tunes on the new radiohead album are not new but have just taken time to render themselves onto an album. one of my favorites is many years old. this is not the best quality but here’s where it premiered: in london at the ether festival: = c
Category: sight and sound
all things cinematic
AngryAlien
This has been around for awhile but it’s a keeper! The funny folks over at AngryAlien have been making parsed remakes of popular films starring bunnies: = c
The Man Who Knew Too Much
While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can’t talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made…
Videotape
In Rainbows has occupied most of my weekend as i’ve finally had a chance to sit down with it and listen intimately without interruption. i’ve listened to it dozens of times. It’s had me simultaneously dancing around, in tears, open and grateful the way I like to feel whenever I experience great art. Reviews among…
All I Need
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Viva BitTorrent!!!
NBC’s withdrawal from iTunes leaves millions without a legitimate way to purchase and watch NBC content. Is this the push that brings easy-to-use ‘piracy’ to the masses? With Apple’s falling out with NBC in the headlines, it’s a good opportunity to examine the state of online TV downloads. The end result of the dispute between…
Anton Karas
A friend of mine turned me on to this yesterday while we were sitting around plucking on my measly 4-string guitar. Anton Karas played this song at the end of the famous film The Third Man. we are in awe of Anton here: = c
Google Screws : Beta?
The great idea that WAS Google Video has died. Google contacted customers late last week to tell them that the video store was closing. The e-mail declared, “In an effort to improve all Google services, we will no longer offer the ability to buy or rent videos for download from Google Video, ending the DTO/DTR…
The return of analog
Tired of all the GFX in everything these days? Me too! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! = c
Farewell : Antonioni
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as “Blow-Up” and “L’Avventura“, has died at the age of 94. Antonioni depicted alienation in the modern world through sparse dialogue and long takes. Along with Federico Fellini, he helped turn post-war Italian film away from the…
Dontcha love it when the tables turn…
give it up for the underdogs: = c
Docu on the Salton Sea
yep, that’s John Waters narrating. = c
Blade Runner turns 25
Twenty-five years ago, the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner became an instant science fiction classic. Set in a sodden, squalid Los Angeles of 2019, the neo-noir masterpiece influenced a generation of filmmakers and video-game designers. Scott’s cyberpunk gem almost instantly became the most important film in the canon of movies people like me love. Admittedly,…
YouTube and You [sharing ad $$$]
YouTube will share ad revenue with 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher. Thus the stage is set for a flood of copycat bum-rushers who will no doubt lay siege to the YouTube/Googleplex armed with nothing but their media and their Gen-Y audacity. “The deal is basically sharing ad money,†Brandon says. “They place banners on my video pages…
48 Hour Film Project
This past weekend some pals and I made our first film for the 48 Hour Film Project here in Minneapolis where a whopping 85 teams competed! Here’s how it works: Last Friday evening at 7pm each of the 85 teams drew a genre out of a hat, along with a character, prop and line of…
Flatland
This is one of my favorite books of all time! Edwin Abbott wrote the story in 1884 and it stands as a great epic to this day. I first read it while living in Chapel Hill and recently discovered it on YouTube recreated as a somewhat crude animation: = c