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. 
Friday, June 23, 2006 - Sunday, September 17, 2006SFMOMA
SFMOMA 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 artist, the exhibition occupies the Museum’s entire fourth floor, which has been reconfigured to eliminate the gallery walls and so encourage a nonlinear experience of the art. The presentation includes DRAWING RESTRAINT 9, a recent project comprising a feature-length film and related photography, drawing, video, and sculpture. DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 is shown daily in the Phyllis Wattis Theater.
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. 
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 think it's cute that the scratched up bottom of the computer looks similar to his drawings. Anyways, take a look at his art, they're magnificent!
i would decline and then buy a new battery or a new power supply or whatever i thought was the problem. and when i would get it home it would work again. the apple geniuses did not believe in my powerbook, but i did.
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 MTV era. Crucially, they also all had to be on YouTube-- we prefer giving you the chance to see a clip to simply talking about one. Best to check these out early and often, then-- it is possible that some record label funcrusher could come around and wrinkle his nose at us pointing you all to a commercial for his company's product.Seems that RIAA is looking for blood.
New Radiohead CD=2007.
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. 
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. 
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 private little island. Wee!
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.
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. 
