street trash.

Dinosaurs: Big, Awesome, And Really Know How To Party

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I want to become a film studies teacher, then conduct seminars on dinosaur movies of the 1990's.

Taste The Waters Of Freedom

narrated by Orson Welles

Charles and Ray Eames On Youtube

Here are some corporate commissions by the husband and wife design team Charles and Ray Eames.

The concluding statement in the commercial for the polaroid SX 70 by Phillip Morrison manages to summarize the ideals that inform all the Eames' design work. It stresses an optimistic and humane take on modernism, in which technology is seen as the ultimate creative enterprise.

I find this attitude especially moving since it comes from a era reeling from the recent discovery of the destructive power of atomic weapons, and a technophobic skepticism of applied science could be so easily justified.

I'm definitely looking forward to visiting the Eames Office, and some of their buildings when I'm in LA.

Jean Rouch on Youtube

The Mad Masters, documents a 1954 Hauka ritual in Accra, Ghana.

Hauka was developed by migrants of rural west African communities as they settled in larger urban areas. The migrants with different cultural and religious backgrounds found common ground in their shared possession cult traditions, and created new rituals based on their new experiences in urban colonial Africa.

While in a trance state, the participants literally exorcise the psychic demons of state control, intentionally breaking taboos and allowing themselves to become living effigies of the occupying military force.

When the ritual is over the participants get into taxis and go to their regular jobs the next day.

I've only seen this before on 16mm really with distorted sound,and no subtitles.
It was pretty rare for awhile, now there's a few of Rouch's anthropological films on youtube, there must be a dvd box set somewhere...

Marlin Watson on Youtube

http://www.archinect.com/
TheMarlin

Martin Arnold on youtube

There's suddenly a bunch of Martin Arnold clips on youtube now....







here's one more that has ebedding disabled

The company that put the DVD out is called Index their catalog is pretty excellent, their website is worth checking out

WOW... this is perfect... it really is... so i in turn will post it... and be inspired towards future postyness.

my friend julie (who is in her own right amazing) swung through town recently and whilst here told me some tall tales about a series of pee-wee videos a friend of hers had produced... now ideally they sounded fantabulous... but things have a tendancy of seeming way awesome when described through the all praising, easily excitable mouth of a friend. (as many of you will no doubt understand through experience with countless shows featuring shit mediocre jam/punk/folk/electro/glitch/rap groups you've been dragged to because somebody says"this is the best band ever, and i'm not just saying that because i'm dating the douchebag who fronts it")
...but really... this nearly brought a tear to my eye... (the phillip glass helped...)

...ya see?
damn.

Resistance To Witchcraft

no one wants to play dick cheney

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Oliver Stone has landed a distribution deal with independent studio Lionsgate to get an upcoming film about President George W. Bush into U.S. theaters in October, shortly before the presidential election.

The political biography, to be called "W" and featuring "No Country for Old Men" star Josh Brolin as Bush, is slated to begin shooting in Louisiana on Monday, Lionsgate said on Friday.

Lionsgate is the distributor behind director Michael Moore's commercially successful political documentaries "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko."

The film will open on October 17 in North America, said Lionsgate, which also will distribute the movie in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Brolin's father James Brolin, who is married to leading Hollywood Democratic activist Barbra Streisand, played another two-term Republican president in the controversial TV movie "The Reagans" in 2003.

In addition to Brolin, the film stars Elizabeth Banks ("Seabiscuit") as first lady Laura Bush; James Cromwell ("The Queen") as former President George H.W. Bush; and Ellen Burstyn ("Requiem for a Dream") as his wife, Barbara Bush.

Rounding out the cast are Thandie Newton ("Crash") as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Jeffrey Wright ("Syriana") as former Secretary of State Colin Powell; Scott Glenn ("The Bourne Ultimatum") as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; and Ioan Gruffud ("Fantastic Four") as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Still to be cast are the roles of Vice President Dick Cheney and former White House political adviser Karl Rove.

"Despite a meteoric, almost illogical rise to power, and a tremendous influence on the world, we don't really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we've been allowed to see on TV," Stone said in a statement. "This movie's taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain."

Stone's earlier political movies included "Nixon" and a highly controversial film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, "JFK," both of which earned him Oscar nominations. He won Oscars for directing Vietnam War dramas "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July."

But he suggested in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine that his big-screen take on Bush may be more comical than those movies.

"This movie can be funnier because Bush is funny," he was quoted as saying. "He's awkward and goofy and makes faces all the time. He's not your average president. So let's have some fun with it."

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and David Storey)

New Edit With Sound

Thanks everyone,

Scenes From Blue Acid City

Blackness, sound of bong rip, fade in:

Stoned Woman in Red) Do you think Baudelaire ever wrote about extra terrestrials?

Stoned Woman in White ) (annoyed) Charles Baudelaire didn’t write about aliens.

Stoned Woman in Red) I know, but he smoked hash, I think he should have tried smoking through an Alien Bong,

Stoned Woman Behind Couch)I guess………maybe…….

maybe he might not have found hashish as ‘troubling’.

or such a ‘chaotic demon’ if he had smoked it through an alien bong.
(get's up and goes to window...continues talking)

I think that by placing an absolutely alien object at the center…

where you actually consume the hash….

That would have tempered the suspension of his smoking and knowing subject.


Stoned Woman in Red) His alienated self would have a external substitute … in his field of vision.

Stoned Woman in White) (annoyed) well I don't know..... I never had that problem.

Nathalie Djurberg!

This is some installation video of Nathalie Djurberg 's new show at Fondazione Prada, which I guess just opened.

The first time I saw her stuff was a couple years ago now. I was pretty spun.

After my friends and me did a puppet show for this one gallery, I got stoned at the afterparty, then got ushered through a series of increasingly psycho techno parties, and we all had to take e to stay awake.

As I was leaving the last party one of the people I was with, ran into her friend on the way to the Berlin Bienalle, so we tagged along and I had the benefit of being shown around the place by a gentle, sober, serious-artist type.

I saw an animation called Tiger Licking Girl's Butt by Nathalie Djurberg and have always wanted see some more.

Now my favorite tech/design/fashion art blog we make money, not art has a piece on her.

I'm not really into tech, design, fashion or art which is why I think this blog is so rad.

It was started by Regine Debatty and for a long time she was the only one writing it. She has so much enthusiasm, insight, and writing skill that often I suddenly start caring about stuff I didn't think I cared about.

I saw lots of totally excellent work at that Bienalle and unusually for big shows like it,
I can remember it all, I credit the drugs.

Dark Star

Here's a scene from John Carpenter's Dark Star where a crew member defuses a bomb using phenomenology.

Phenomenology as defined by Edmund Husserl is 'the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.'
But, I think the clip from dark star sums it up much better.

It was explored with increasing intensity by thinkers of the twentieth century, I think partly because of development of photography, sound recording and cinema, which are all types of disembodied sensory data.

Anybody who's thinking about being in my movie(you know who you are) this scene is kind of what I'm going for.

Super Mario Bros. Movie

Cory Arcangel and paper rad 2005




Cory Arcangel re-works entertainment technology

I saw a couple of his hacked NES consoles in Zurich last February.

If you still have an NES console, a copy of this is available on a Nintendo cartridge from his website

HOLY SHITBALLS OF AWESOME!!!

there is to be a new pee-wee movie... PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE:THE MOVIE. like woah... fer serious... release date 2009.
theres not much info out as of yet... but i'm both intrigued and excited. (thanx fer the heads up anne.)

pete seeger rocks balls.

everyone should make movies

from here to awesome is trying to teach people how to be their own machine. fuck festivals. fuck distributors.

more movies.

shortbus

babydoll


secret of nimh