Incredible time lapse videos shot by Dustin Farrell. I’ve lost count of how many time lapse videos I’ve posted, and I’m okay with that. Here are the first two videos of his intended trilogy.
You can read more about the making of these videos here.
Internationally renowned photographers Tim Navis + Kim Høltermand have started a new project with film collective Scenic Studio and composer Deru. They’ll set out on a journey to explore the remote and beautiful countryside of Iceland to document their experiences with the landscape, residents and traditions. The end result, a beautifully packaged box set of the film and companion soundtrack, will be released to backers of the project as a physical artifact of the unique and awe-inspiring experience.
Tim + Kim will film at various locations throughout the island, inspired by moments of discovery and chance occurrence.. Scenic will edit the series into short films, featuring an original score by Deru and a full-length soundtrack (the first single is available now) featuring contributions from select musicians and contemporary composers.
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
‘Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere’ by Jamie Harley.
Part of the SHOWstudio.com project ‘Editing Kate’ - showstudio.com/project/editing_kate
Soundtrack: ‘Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere’ by Evan Voytas, Cascine
Keep it dreamy on this beautiful Sunday morning.
I feel like these sorts of videos will be the metaphor for my generation one day. For remix culture, the group of folks addicted to music, art, design, film and of course re tooling something already existing into something new, these videos stand as a perfect snapshot of the zeitgeist being created today.
And now for the best thing I’ve seen and heard all week, this trimmed, ripped and maximized blockbuster incarnation of Flames. This video, shot entirely macro is high energy and makes me want to dance and film and make art all day long. I might set this song as my alarm, this sounds like the perfect way to inspire a day.
There’s a lot of striking moments in Andrew S. Allen‘s “The Thomas Beale Cipher“, a film based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code.
The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters’ secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult requiring a genius mind to decrypt. Delicious textures—herringbone fabric and washed-out wood—mixed with grainy whisps of wrapping light, I get lost in the motion of the movie and at times drop out of the storyline. Don’t take that the wrong way, it’s not that the story doesn’t work for it, trying to undress the process is always something I let get in the way of a plot line, leaving me often lost and somewhat uncertain at the end of a lot of movies.
Presented by Short of the Week as part of their new “Short of the Week Presents” program, featuring short films that have never been online before and help to coordinate their digital launch.
Based on the 1985 book by Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was claimed to be unfilmable. The author reportedly thought that only Stanley Kubrick and Miloš Forman could do the book justice and refused to let anyone else make a film adaptation of it.
The story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an olfactory genius on his homicidal quest for the perfect scent translates as a gorgeous movie that, despite many challenges and limitations—imagine trying to build an entire movie around the sense of smell—triumphs over nearly all of them. Using high-energy visuals and impeccable set design to convey every type of smell conceivable, the director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) is no novice when it comes to quick cuts and expressive film-making. Tykwer said that to him Perfume “was much more a film about the importance of smell in our life than a film that tries to be smelly.”
In only 12 or so hours, losing both Irvin Kershner (Director of The Empire Strikes Back) and Leslie Nielson (The great Canadian comedian) can be qualified a tragedy to both the world of film and art in general. Both men brilliant, this clip taken from 1998s Wrongfully Accused (where Nielson’s character is clobbered by a coffee table in a manner mimicing Han Solo when he’s frozen in carbonite) is a nod to Kershner’s Empire. It may explain things better to say that Wrongfully Accused is a spoof of 1993s The Fugitive, also starring Harrison Ford.
The Limits of Control is a 2009 film by Jim Jarmusch (whose recent credits include Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, & Broken Flowers) and is worth checking out. This movie is an example of a perfect harmony of music and film. Jarmusch’s films often carry the intention of creating a form of world cinema that synthesizes European and Japanese film with that of Hollywood. This slow-burn aesthetic takes its time getting where it’s going but oozes stimulating visuals all along the way.
It should come as no surprise then that Jarmusch is and has been a musician on the side when you learn who all he’s collaborated with (Tom Waits, Neil Young, RZA, GZA, Iggy Pop, the White Stripes…) and hear the soundtracks from his film. He’s even committed his own psychedelic ambient landscape to The Limits of Control through Bad Rabbit, a band he and two others created for the movie.
La Boca is an independent design circus based in Portobello, West London. They specializing in art & design for the film, music and fashion industries, all industries I’m really excited about but it’s their work on limited edition vinyl record sleeves that I have especially enjoyed.
Cannot wait to see A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford. It looks like one, long Tom Ford commercial but I’m okay with that. He’s an artist in the nth degree and an inspiration to me.
