Handy Six Degrees reference if you want to get from The Centurions to Johnny Depp or something.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
Monday, 6 June 2011
Can we have the future now?
A child on video chat in the year 2011
The year is 2011 and by my estimation, we should either be living on Mars or fighting robots in a post-apocalyptic world. I say this because where I'm freelancing, I often find myself hanging around the really nice coffee machine with a man who had a hand in creating the graphics for Minority Report and The Matrix. Yes, The Architect likes a cappuccino and swears you can froth soy milk to make a good one.
He really is Mr Future in the way he talks and dresses – it's a very singular and futuristic look and the complete antithesis of most styles. Pretty much everyone (including me), has adopted a style that's an affectation of an idealised past.
Recently, the two things to excite me the most have been the live stream of the Endeavour launch and the film made of photos from the Cassini launch. I also got quite cheered up from reading this article about Mars in yesterday's Observer. Should we spend billions of dollars to investigate the solar system? Oh yeah. Call me an idealist, but I think we've blown quite enough developing bombs that can fly windows to blow up the wrong people.
Yesterday I chatted to Spike using video chat and it struck me that this is the only thing from the film 2001 that's now a proper everyday reality. Unless you count the retro suits. But one of the interesting things about video chat that 2001 nailed absolutely, is the way kids just can't sit still in front of a moving image of themselves.
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Friday, 3 June 2011
Beautiful film shot by the Cassini spacecraft
Nicely put together by Chris Abbas.
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Writing Soundtrack May 31 - June 3
Tin Can & Twine - Tortoise - Tortoise
Covers - The Sea and Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly
Just Can't Leave It Alone - Neon Jung - Just Can't Leave It Alone
Ibhithi Five - Jumping Back Slash - Ibhithi
Wish You Were Here - Deadboy - Here - EP
Fallen Arches - Tokimonsta - Creature Dreams
Mumma Deed Family Clone - Jonas Reinhardt - Power of Audition
Noon Hill Wood - Richard Skelton - Landings
Windy Blues - Jef Gilson - French Blue Jazz
It's All Around You - Tortoise - It's All Around You
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Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Pass The Bucket by Vans
Even though these films yank a little too hard on the heartstrings, I still really like them; beautifully filmed and edited, plus both subjects are genuine and open. Funny how you never see Gary Oldman and Tony Alva in the same room though...
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Friday, 27 May 2011
The films of Louis CK
In an interview, American stand up and filmmaker Louis CK described a film he tried for a few years to get made. 'It's about a beautiful, but obnoxious Hollywood PA. One day she's driving through LA, talking on her cell, not paying attention, when she hits something with her car. She gets out to see what it is; she's hit and killed a little girl, with a full grown beard.'
The PA is eventually sentenced, not to jail, but to have a beard grafted on her face for ten years.
Let's watch the films he has made. This playlist should work: 'Hi How Are You?', 'Brunch' and 'Ice Cream'.
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Life As An Independent Astronaut
Great idea, and I love the homemade quality of his suit. Nice one David Wilson!
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Writing Soundtrack May 23-27
Other Side - Family Portrait- Family Portrait
Honest James - Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Nobody Knows - The Feelies - Here Before
Echo Lady - Wet Hair - In Vogue Spirit
Biddies - Mo Kolours - EP1: Drum Talking
Terra - Julian Lynch - Terra
257 - NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo
Birdhouse 1 - Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
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Friday, 20 May 2011
Writing Soundtrack May 16-20
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Departing - Quiet Evenings - Transending Spheres
The Axiom (Andy Stott remix) - Badawi - The Axiom EP
Tangled - Hideousmen - Tangled/Sirens
Loudest Shop Vac In The World - Don Caballero - Pungasm
Albatross - Wild Beasts - Albatross
House Jam - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Mediumship - No Joy - Ghost Blonde
Short People - Randy Newman - Rhino Hi-Five: Randy Newman
Fog Hammers - Quiet Evenings - Transcending Spheres
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Roy's Jeans documentary
There seems to be a bit of a trend for short documentaries about artisan producers. So far, I've watched chocolatiers, a luthier and an angry pizza chef talk about what they do, but my favourite by far is this film about Roy Slaper, of Roy Denim. Each pair is handmade by the man himself. You can read more about Roy on the excellent Grain and Gram site.
There are so many cool things about this film: the way it's shot, graded, edited, and the choice of music. It fairly zips along as we watch Roy craft apair of jeans. But that's also part of the problem. I wanted to know more! Why does he make his jeans? How did he get into it? Is he really into denim? How long did it take him to train?
Who knows, maybe he's the strong silent type and didn't want to talk. It's still a great piece of film.
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Healthcare: Hidden Voices documentary
This is superbly shot, edited and sensitively depicts its stories. Raises a whole bunch of questions like any good doc and it'll probably make you angry too - and it should. What would we do without the NHS eh? Nice grade n'all!
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Monday, 16 May 2011
Good stuff from NFB
The NFB is concerned with all things documentary, animation, interactive and film from Canada. There's some really great stuff there.
Like this colourful doc about plastics. The script is out there as well, I can't imagine anything like this getting to shoot stage now. Shame because it's got a great rhythm. "Plastics Ben, plastics."
What do you do with William Shatner in a studio? Make him sing "O Canada."
"Shatner Ben, Shatner."
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Monday, 9 May 2011
I don't like Ice Cream (new Battles video)
It's a bit too Mike Mills in the AD department and a massive nod to the El Guincho "Bombay" video. I quite like the song, well, I really liked it when they played it at ATP and one of them introduced it in a funny voice. But that's another story...
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Amazing Skydiving video
Beautifully shot on a GoPro. Must be a high spec model with some After Effects plugin jiggery pokery going on there - hence the no landing shot. If you watch the ground you can see some inneresting blurring going on too. But that's all by the by, this is a great video and it even makes me want to throw myself out of a plane. My only grumble is I wanted more close ups. They were easily the best bits.
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Monday, 18 April 2011
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