Lonely Dear: I Was Only Going Out [Polyvinyl]

It is always humbling to make new friends and then see them make gorgeous work. This is not surprising from Ron Eyal (Director) and Amy Seimetz (Actress). I love the new video they collaborated on for Lonely Dear.



Ron and his directing partner Eleanor Burke were just honored in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM" article. Their film Stranger Things is a must for your short list of upcoming films to see.

The Lonely Dear music video features the talented Amy Seimetz, actress and director of City on a Hill.

Great work guys!

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop)

I posted on BLU before. @KDFindley passed this on. It is incredible to watch these life size stop motion graffiti art animations. Who knows how many hours went into this, gallons of paint. Glad they have the patience to create such amazing work.

Working with the Coen Brothers: The Intolerable Cruelty title sequence

I wrote a story for the Walker Art Center Blog about my experience working with the Coen Brothers on Intolerable Cruelty. Read it here.

TRON 2

I am geeked up for Tron 2. Last time I saw the original was nearly ten years ago on a 16mm print at MCAD. Jeff Bridges is back and looks bad ass.

Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy'

Check out this film by Simon Tofield.

Synopsis:
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to catch a housefly.

I love this. The kitty animation is brilliant. If you have cats you'll know this little guy or maybe.. he's yours.

Encyclopedia Pictura

Was talking film the other night with a friend and was reminded of the group Encyclopedia Pictura so thought I'd post on it. They make some of the most trippy artistic music videos.

There work is usually a hybrid of rich graphics, nature themes, and mixture of live action and vfx.

One of my favorites is the video Wanderlust they did for Bjork. You can see the making of here. Pretty epic stuff.

Encyclopedia Pictura is represented by Ghost Robot where you can check out a lot of kick-ass work as well.

Check out the videos Grizzly Bear - Knife and Seventeen Evergreen - Haven't been yourself below.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Woodfriend

Found this video by Houses in Motion

Such a simple concept and executed beautifully. I love all the illustration styles.


Credits:
Kim Bunce- Live Action Direction of Photography
Ian Foster- Apartment Set Creator+Set Animator
Bryan Brinkman- Production Assistant
Carolyn London- Producer
Andy London- Producer

Billie Tweets

The guys at 9Astronauts put out this Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson. What is interesting about this experience is that they are using our tweets to sing out the lyrics to Billie Jean. It is also amazing how many of the tweets are about Michael Jackson or Billie Jean the song in general.



So check it out: http://billietweets.com/ >> It will be interesting to see how long this lives on the web as well. Could we be viewing this tribute 10years from now? I also like to see a thrillertweets, abctweets, rockwithyoutweets... you?

an iPhone ap for Hard Times brought to us by @zefrank

For those of you who don't know Ze Frank you should. I first met him at Flashbelt. He is witty, charming, and and an all around likable guy. He's so great he even created an iPhone app for us and it's free. Thank you Ze!

HardTimes :: iFingrU from ze frank on Vimeo. This is a re-post from BuzzFeed.

Eclecticmethod.net : Tarantino Mixtape

Check out Eclectic Method .net
I hadn't heard of them before now but I can guarantee we've all seen their work. Their latest video remix of Quintin Tarantino's films is pretty awesome! You will have to check it our for yourself. Great Job guys! Visit their site for more ...


May 4 2009 Tarantino Mixtape

The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Here is a little background info on Eclectic Method (from their biography):
Eclectic Method – featuring London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – helped pioneer the emerging art of audio-visual mixing since first cutting U2’s Mysterious Ways music video with the Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic as an experiment back in 2002.The trio’s audio-visual mash-ups feature television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance floor events. It’s a cyclone of music and images mashed together in a world where Kill Bill fight scenes and Dave Chappelle’s Rick James rants are ingeniously cut and looped over bootleg samples, DVD scratches and pumped-up dance anthems. It’s a real-time subversion of technology and media performed live on video turntables for what LA Weekly called a “mesmerizing” sensory overload.

I wonder what a live show would be like? Probably righteous. Thank you to Twitter and @alba for leading me to this clip!