tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33736502011-10-04T04:30:43.258-07:00a dust bin of links, thoughts, and whatever else comes to mind.norbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854535757865887278noreply@blogger.comBlogger1041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373650.post-86873186600166327702011-03-10T13:12:00.000-08:002011-03-10T13:24:37.021-08:00

For those who have been looking to find Fei Mu's film as long as I have, it's been uploaded to archive.org along with subtitles.Spring in a Small Town is a Chinese film released in 1948 and directed by Fei Mu. The film was based on a short story by Li Tianji, and was produced by the Wenhua Film Company.Though its reputation suffered after 1949 in the mainland after the Communist revolution,

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A bit late on picking this story up but...The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (台北金馬影展) has announced the results of its survey of the "100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films".122 industry professionals took part in the survey, including film scholars, festival programmers, film directors, actors and producers. However the majority of the voters orginate from Taiwan, which likely skewed the results

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Kansas City Confidential (USA, 1952) - Dir. Phil KarlsonInspiration for both Reservoir Dogs (USA, 1982, Dir. Quentin Taratino) and City of Fire (Lung fu fong wan, Hong Kong, 1987, Dir. Ringo Lam)????archive.org: DOWNLOAD.Revisiting an old idea for a film watching blog. Search tag "100cigs" for more.

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Jia Zhang Ke's short for an omnibus compilation, STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS (2008).

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The Simpsons (2010/Groening/USA) Season 21, Episode #19Werckmeister Harmonies (2000/Tarr/Hungary)(via unspoken cinema.)

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"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the

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"Chaplin es un putrefacto sentimental" - Albert SerraCuatro interpretaciones muy diferentes del cine de Chaplin. ¿Por qué este homenaje?En mi caso, por amistad con los programadores del ciclo. Nada más. No me interesa Chaplin y mi trabajo es una burla de su cine.¿Qué queda del cine de Chaplin en las nuevas generaciones?Curiosamente lo peor de su cine, su narrativa y sus moralejas populistas.¿Cuál

norbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854535757865887278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373650.post-58392211752068698242009-05-19T03:44:00.001-07:002009-05-19T03:51:45.014-07:00

Sharunas Bartas short for the "Visions of Europe" (2004) omnibus. This made my day.

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SL52., originally uploaded by norb..saddleback butte, ca.

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101., originally uploaded by norb.."manhattan skyline"

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102., originally uploaded by norb..coney island blues.

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16., originally uploaded by norb.."the lonesome crowded west."

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SL11, originally uploaded by norb..red rock canyon park. mojave desert.shooting landscapes series.

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51a, originally uploaded by norb.."waves, waves, waves"

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44a, originally uploaded by norb.."oceans will rise."

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Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production

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, originally uploaded by norb..they use to teach swimming around here.

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10., originally uploaded by norb..another green world.

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9., originally uploaded by norb..kind of lighter blue.

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042a, originally uploaded by norb..he writes a story.

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4a, originally uploaded by norb..right then...everything seemed to make sense.

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10a, originally uploaded by norb..

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10., originally uploaded by norb..january 5th, 200911am at lake tahoe.re: light leaks...strange things happen in the cold.

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9., originally uploaded by norb..january 2nd, 20093pm at san francisco.

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don't panic.

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GUILLAUME DANCING IN SECOND LIFE. Checkout the rest of the post for Marker's new projects on youtube.PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION.GUILLAUME MOVIE.Be sure to also check out LEILA ATTACKS. For more info about his work with SECOND LIFE.

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the first time i caught radiohead was 10 years ago at the universal amphitheater (setlist). it was a year after OKC had been released. their music video for "paranoid android" was still being looped on mtv (120 minutes for life!). saw them again on monday at hollywood bowl (setlist). could've asked for my jam, "wolf at the door," but that's ok. thom played "cymbal rush" solo on the piano.man

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Sooo good... & because I'm on a text trip right now.

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40 YEARS LATERArchival news footage of the May 1968 student protests.

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Geeky cool. A low budget music video (spec?) for The Bird and The Bee" song, "Again & Again" via Mac OSX... Daniel Liu : website.

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In a sense, fear is the daughter of God, redeemed on Good Friday night. She's not beautiful; mocked, cursed and disowned by all. But don't get it wrong: she watches over all mortal agony, she intercedes for mankind. For there's a rule and an exception. Culture is the rule, and art is the exception. Everybody speaks the rule: cigarette, computer, t-shirt, television, tourism, war. Nobody speaks

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Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of

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The animator Ollie Johnston, the last of the Disney "nine old men," as the studio's core group of senior animators was called, died on Monday in Sequim, Wash. The AP. Youtube. Ben and Me: Part 2Wikipedia: Ollie JohnstonWikipedia: Disney's Nine Old Men

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And... 10 years later when Bristol meets Lo-Fi... new Portishead album Three gets released on April 28th.

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Tuesday ThrowbacksOne of the only few videos I could find on youtube from Young Marble Giants. A "minimalist/lo-fi/post-punk" UK band that formed in the late 70s and broke up quickly after their debut album Colossal Youth. From wikipedia:Nirvana singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain, said in a 1992 Melody Maker interview, that Colossal Youth was one of the five most influential records he had ever

norbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854535757865887278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373650.post-22729538681387706452008-04-02T01:21:00.000-07:002008-04-02T01:32:18.296-07:00

Tuesday Throwbacks...This one goes to The Outfield and the meta music video for "Your Love."Josie's on a vacation far awayCome around and talk it overSo many things that I wanna sayYou know I like my girls a little bit olderI just wanna use your love tonightI don't wanna lose your love tonightThat guitar riff... Too Good.

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Short but great clip of John Cassavetes discussing a crazy handheld shot.

norbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854535757865887278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373650.post-6499481123432354482008-03-28T01:02:00.000-07:002008-03-28T01:16:01.844-07:00

Two musical scenes from one of the BESTest films out in the last 20 years.If you're in LA today (FRIDAY APRIL 28th) checkout Bela Tarr's latest film The Man From London at LACMA 7:30 PM.

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WKW's latest opens in LA at the Landmark April 4th.In Wong Kar Wai's debut English language feature, the internationally acclaimed director of In the Mood for Love takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough break-up, Elizabeth (songstress Norah Jones in her screen debut) sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind a

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LACMA ScreeningApril 5 (7:30 PM)Commissioned by the Musée d'Orsay, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien's first French-language film stars Juliette Binoche, in "perhaps the best and certainly the most eccentric performance of her career" (Dennis Lim), as a single mother so absorbed in her work as a puppeteer that she hires a young film student to help care for her seven-year old son. Though partly

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The latest film project from Tochka, an Osaka-based duo (Nagata Takeshi and Monno Kazue) best known for their flashlight animation aka Lightning Doodle Projects... Or the inspiration for the latest Sprint commercials. For more light doodles. http://tochka.jp/pikapika/

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I'm behind on my WKW and I'm scrapping for any news besides bad reviews for My Blueberry Nights when it gets released later this year. Found a commercial that was shot for Phillips in 2007. Very reminiscent of 2046... an operatic Alphaville full of saturated colors. Here's a few stills.Checkout the full movie at the website: www.seductionbylight.com.Or skip the advertising and download directly

norbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854535757865887278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373650.post-61149245451587117742008-03-02T23:39:00.000-08:002008-03-03T01:55:59.821-08:00

Jason Rohrer's gem of a game submitted for Kokoromi's Gamma 256 event explores momento mori in ways that makes me cry. Life and death told in 100 by 16 pixels, walk around find love and treasure chests too!Here's a helpful hint, you can also move up and down. Also, the game only lasts 5 minutes, so give it a try. Here's a quote from Rohrer's statement:[Passage] presents an entire life, from

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Seems like SNL got a fresh start after the WGA strike.

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Bela Tarr's entry for Visions of Europe. The idea is simple:Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal vision of current or future life in this coming cultural melting pot.The conditions are equally simple:Absolute freedom of expression. Tarr has a series

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"the world's first iphone band."more at: iband.at

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"This is the anguished tale of a sensible straight line who falls in love with a dot. The dot, however, finding the line stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. The story ends with a punning moral: "To the vector belong the spoils.""

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Jack Black stars in Be Kind Rewind, a one-of-a-kind comedy from the mind of writer/director Michel Gondry (Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Black stars as a loveable loser stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's

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On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.No streets were

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“A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.”

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Quiet City, Aaron Katz's second feature comes out on DVD early this week via Benten Films."As an extra, the DVD features Joe Swanberg’s Quiet City, a cute “short film prank” concocted by Swanberg (who stars) and his key collaborator Kevin Bewersdorf (who directed). It’s a six-minute lark, hilariously lo-fi and shot on a dime, and it manages to poke some gentle fun at all the key style points of

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"In NECROLOGY, a 12-minute film, in one continuous shot he films the faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave. It's hard to believe that these faces belong to people today. The film is one of the strongest and

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Digitalism - "Pogo"Dir. Daniel Askill.Still compiling the full list but check out what's made it so far.Bat For Lashes - "What's a Girl To Do?"Dir. Dougal WilsonEleni Mandell - "Girls"Battles - "Tonto"Collaboration with UVA (United Visual Artists)Blonde Redhead - "23"Dir. Melodie McDaniel Blonde Redhead - "Silently"+ Five interpretations by Mike MillsJustice - "D.A.N.C.E."Dir. Jonas&FrançoisSome

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Sex, drugs, and rock & roll. At least that's what's standard in Hollywood biopic's these days. The only thing missing from Corbijn's biopic about Joy Division would be the dance numbers. Writing this, Ian Curtis sings the lines "Where would it end?" which strikes a funny chord. If there's anything left for a mystery, it would be the death of whom the film is about. Curtis's fate was sealed

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Bloodthirsty New Book Incites a Bidding WarBy ROBERT ITOPublished: August 11, 2007LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 — The item up for bidding was, at first blush, unremarkable. It was an unfinished manuscript, 397 pages long, less than half of the planned book, as well as an outline detailing story arcs and plot points to come. The writer? Someone named Jordan Ainsley, whom no one had ever heard of — not

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Some respect for two filmmakers who passed away last week. BTW: The New York Times articles will require registration (well worth it IMO!).LINKS:AntonioniNew York Times's Antonioni Obit.Via R. Ebert. "In Memory: Antonioni."UK Gaurdian: Antonioni's Best Scenes.BergmanNew York Times's Bergman Obit.Via R. Ebert. "In Memory: Bergman."Via R. Ebert. "Artists Paying Tribute to Bergman." UK Gaurdian:

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"I always wanted to do a covers album, but I didn't really feel I had the range to do the kind of album I wanted to do," Smith told Spinner. "As the project evolved, a lot of the songs on the [original] list didn't make the final cut, and a lot of songs that I didn't plan on doing wound up being the ones I chose. They're all special to me for different reasons. But Nirvana was the most emotional

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blog co-started by my friend paz in argentina right now.Well when Paz first arrived she said ¨Tracy, did you notice how all the guys in Argentina have the same hair cut? Kind of like the mullet?¨No in fact, I had not noticed this phenomenom. But how right she was... here are some examples of the many mullets Buenos Aires has to offer. It is quite an array. They call them chapas. Please keep in

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"We have certain principles that we adhere to, and we are up-front about them," Schlafly writes in his mission statement. "Beyond that we welcome the facts."Conservapedia defines environmentalists as "people who profess concern about the environment" and notes that some would want to impose legal limits on the use of toilet paper.Femininity? The quality of being "childlike, gentle, pretty,

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This one floors me everytime.

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In New York Times (Sept. 20th, 2006)By WINTER MILLERLike Will Oldham, another indie-folk rocker who is currently starring in the film “Old Joy,” Ms. Marshall is considering a foray into acting. She said that the cult director Wong Kar-wai invited her to play Jude Law’s ex-lover in the movie he is now shooting. Mr. Wong, she said, told her he was in the habit of playing “The Greatest” for his

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Oscar-winning Swedish filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, has died after a long illness, his son said. He was 83. Nykvist died Wednesday in his bed at a Swedish nursing home where he was being treated for aphasia, a form of dementia, said his son, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist. The exact cause of death was not immediately known. Nykvist won

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Le Notti Bianche (1957) - Luchino Visconti

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Butterfield 8 (1960) - Daniel Mann

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Carrie Brownstein plays as Cindy Overton in a strange & bizzare interview with Saddam Hussein (Fred Armisen) on the cable access show, "Boink!"(Via Pitchfork)

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Andrew Bujalski's latest film Mutual Appreciation is starting a theatrical run later this month and will be playing throughout September. Some of you might have heard me raving about this film earlier this year (I bought the dvd via their website, which was loaned and then horribly snapped into a billion pieces). This film nails the twenty-something period so well, I'm jealous. As I can go on

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I hate showing up late to the Ironic Hipster party. Combining Busby Berkeley, West Side Story and well dressed boys in a dance off. OK GO's "A Million Ways" music video has been out for a year, plenty of time for people to perform their own versions of the dance out in public and now finally... YouTube. The band caught on and decided to throw a contest for the best version of the dance. If

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"The Scene" travels to Hong Kong to meet acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and hears how his adopted city has inspired him in his work.(Thanks Via Sean!!)

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Bugcrush (2006) - Carter Smith2006 Sundance Short Filmmaking Awardwww.bugcrush.net

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George Washington (2000) - David Gordon Green

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Cigarette #1 out of 100.Rushmore (1998) - Wes Anderson This will be fun. 100 Cigarettes in 100 Days.We hope that you choke.

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The Beautiful GameJuly 10, 2006In this Episode of CH Video we explore 'The Beautiful Game' (soccer that is) and its correlation with contemporary art by spotlighting a recent New York City wide exhibition of the same name curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Franklin Sirmans. In a recent tour of Roebling Hall Art Gallery, co-curator Sirmans explains the motivations and ideas of contributing artists

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Google Video of Chris Marker's La Jetee. It's without subtitles, so here's a copy of the script.(via pas au-dela)

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Michel Gondry's latest film The Science of Sleep premiered earlier this year at Sundance. The film's production company, Gaumont, has just put the trailer online. The Science of Sleep is slated to be released stateside in NYC and LA on 4 August (my birthday!) via Warner Independent Pictures. also see:additional film clips on Gaumont(Via director-file)

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Friday, June 23, 2006 - Sunday, September 17, 2006SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this full-scale survey, the first to gather together Matthew Barney’s entire DRAWING RESTRAINT series. Spanning almost 20 years, DRAWING RESTRAINT is an ongoing, performance-based project exploring the notion that form emerges through struggle against resistance. A site-specific installation designed by the

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A complete set of lego figurines made for The Life Aquatic is out on flickr. Not bad I say! Checkout the rest of the brothers brick for other minifigs and lego projects. My personal favorite is the Musical Minifigs featuring Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab, U2 & Rilo Kiley. (via Brian & the brothers brick)

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American Apparel, the non descript, tight-fitting, sweat-shop free clothing brand (ie. "cool, but hip Gap") ventured onto the virtual world of Second Life. Users now can sleep easy knowing that their avatars wear clothes that are sweat-shop free. What they won't catch though are those wage slaves that work for nothing to get your characters up to level 30 in World of Warcraft.also see:wikipedia

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Sam Brown (of explodingdog.com) says goodbye to his Titanium G4 Power book.at least three or four of the times that my powerbook has been declared dead the expert making the declaration was an Apple Genius and the Apple store. each time they would declare it dead, then offer to sell me a nice new computer.i would decline and then buy a new battery or a new power supply or whatever i thought was

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Ranging from A-ha to Bone Thugs to Til Tuesday, the Pitchfork's staff choose an eclectic mix of classics and guilty pleasures for their list of "100 Awesome Music Videos."When selecting the following vids we decided to chuck anything from the Director's Label Series-- virtually everything on those collections would be obvious candidates for a list like this-- and stick to clips roughly from the

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New Radiohead CD=2007.But SOLO Thom Yorke=July?!"The Eraser" : Thom Yorke01 the eraser02 analyse03 the clock04 black swan05 skip divided06 atoms for peace07 and it rained all night08 harrowdown hill09 cymbal rushAlbum WebsiteVideo Interview w/ThomAlso, a bonus extra. NEW RADIOHEAD TRACK "Videotape"

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Claire Carre is on to something here... I'm a sucker for found footage (especially super 8), but toss in Sufjan Stevens, well that's even better. Carre's music video for Sufjan digs through old education videos, 50's melodramas, and some found footage to piece together a rather tough hitting video. Also look at her other spec, "Cripple and the Starfish," for Antony and the Johnsons."John Wayne

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Duncan Shepherd takes this week's SD Reader Movie Section to review Hou Hsiao Hsien's Cafe Lumiere via DVD. I've been really anti watching stuff on TV lately, but this was the only way to watch it in San Diego. I liked Cafe Lumiere a lot, more so than HHH's other contemporary projects of late. Compared to Three Times and Millennium Mambo, nothing really happens in this film (although nothing

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Checkout this insane flickr set spanning ten years of the world's fastest growing city. Dubai has $90 Billion U.S. dollars invested in the city and about 15% of the world's cranes are operating there (and I thought San Diego had a lot of cranes). It is also home to both The World and The Palms, man-made island (aka land reclaimation) projects off the coast. For $7 million you can own your own

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For those of you in the UK, Maximo Park just released a live concert DVD with their performances from earlier this year along with music videos and a Super 8 documentary."Shot entirely on Kodak Vision 200T and 500T the 32 minute film follows the band on tour and is described by band's official website as being 'beautifully shot.' The DVD release is initially being sold as a special edition deluxe

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Also new in Super 8, Flicker LA just started a podcast.Cut 'n Paste this link to your favorite podcast viewer.http://www.flickerla.com/films/FlickerLA.xml There's only two videos so far, but one's from Norwood Cheek himself.(via onsuper8.org)

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If you thought Skype was pretty neat, checkout Peanut Gallery. The program hosts videos in a virtual theater which avatars can chat or interact with each other. There are ways to introduce pre-roll reels or intermission videos, as well as setting up playlists. I'm quite interested in the communal aspects that this program presents over the internet. Although the program limits users to 8

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Found a neat link to performance artist/student, Elke Veltman's blog, where she spends an entire day in an elevator. Veltman has another blog treinproject, documenting her stroll through a train station with an oversized dress (perfect for parties!)... Can't read any Dutch, anyone care to translate?(via rocketboom)http://liftproject.blogspot.com/

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Two posts with this update.A One.Wong Kar Wai's "Big Girl's Don't Cry"WKW's dialogue remixed?A Two.Wes Anderson's American Express Commercialvia TransbuddhaWatching this made me want to bury myself in a Truffaut film.

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A trailer for Matthew Barney's latest project Drawing Restraint 9 has been released online. The film features a collaboration between Barney and my favorite Icelander, Bjork. She released a soundtrack for the film a few months back that was neither hit nor miss. If anything, watching the film in a theater is going to be a headtrip.trailer link.

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So I guess this blog is becoming more of a dumping ground for video links that I run across on the web. This link is sorta related to what's been going on lately.I watched Jem Cohen's latest film Chain at Redcat (meow!) Monday. Enjoyed it, but not as much as say those critics that champion "top ten of 2005." I thought it was an interesting to compare it to Jennifer Reeve's latest film, The

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Unreleased Spike Jonze documentary on Al Gore, pre-2000 election.

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A link below to an interesting NYT's article. Highlights below."More than a few business pundits have drawn parallels between the flat, decentralized "corporation of the future" and the ad-hoc collection of actors, producers and technicians that come together around a film and disband once it is finished. In the Hollywood model, the energy and investment revolves around the big idea — the script

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The 18th century runs head first into New Order?Sofia Coppola's trailer for her new biopic Marie-Antoinette has been out for a while now, but I just caught it today. If you thought that A Knight's Tale was pretty bad, this looks even worse. This trailer makes my head sink low and want to implode.

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Here's a snip from another filmmaker's blog (filmmaking for the poor) that's something anyone with a decent dayjob can do.Here's the simple strategy:Put $20 away in a piggy bank or a bank account or a treasure chest buried in your back yard EVERY DAY THIS YEAR. By 1/1/07 you should have about $7300.$7300 is plenty to shoot a no-budget/ultra-low budget indie DV feature with. If you need tips on

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Criticstop10.net is at it again with this years collection of top 10 movie lists. I'd like to watch some more movies first before I sit down and write one myself.As to what else is going on...I've recieved both the K3 and Beaulieu 4008 now. The cameras are both cosmetically clean and pretty to look at, but I haven't gotten the chance to run test film yet. The Beaulieu still needs a battery/

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So in the midst of traffic Friday, I think I came up with something that might work to shoot. I'm still working out the details, story & script, but at least I have something on paper... The project isn't a sci-fi (not yet), nor found footage stuff, but something else. I guess I'll come back to those projects later. Earlier today, I drove out on the 8-East past Julian and did some initial

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