Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, has been called one of the great soul music records of all time. The album was showcased at a 1972 concert at the Kennedy Center in Marvin’s hometown of Washington DC. 40 years later, the Kennedy Center commemorated that live performance, and asked select musicians to re-imagine “What’s Going On” [...]
The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light.
A look at the Brooklyn Brainery.
Apple’s AirPlay could become a threat to cable giants, since it gives lets users port a broad range of content to their televisions. But apparently that’s news to Time Warner’s chief exec. The NY Times’ Bits blog reports that Glenn A. Britt said in a group interview that there’s no simple way to get web [...]
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
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This takes “ladies free before 10″ social engineering to a whole new, and creepy, level. And by this, we mean a new app that dozens of San Francisco bars will cooperate with by placing facial recognition cameras inside their establishments. Here’s the lowdown from SF Weekly, which points out that this follows a similarly alarming [...]
It’s hard to imagine two parts of American culture– mixed martial arts and Christianity– that on the surface are more incompatible. Jesus is known for telling his followers to turn the other cheek. MMA fighters are known for turning their opponents’ cheeks for them, with their fists, elbows, and knees. If there’s one existential truth it’s this: humans, especially American humans, are hideously complex. Yet the existence of ministries that embrace MMA still surprises.
The New York based comedy group Olde English, facing a parting of ways, decided to go out with a bang on one last big project together. Taking a cue from the surrealist technique known as “the exquisite corpse”, the challenge for the troupe was for each member to write 15 pages of a feature, knowing only what the previous five pages of the script were.
The latest podcast from our friends at State of the Re:Union begins their “audio obituary” series.
With just a ten millimeter wrench and a screwdriver, Brian Simmons has built and sold more than 100 motorized bicycles in Oakland, CA, under the label Rebelbikes. The company has been around for three years. The two-man shop based out of the comfort of his living room.
Simmons’ two wheeled creations are motorized pedal assisted bicycles that can go up to 35 mph. His ultimate goal is to see bicycles replace cars, and while he knows it’s a stretch, he is taking his dream on one bike at a time.
Yesterday there was a bit of a hubbub about a Forbes article that made HBO co-president Eric Kessler seem woefully out of touch with the Internet age. Turns out that the Forbes article was a distortion– shame on you, Forbes– and that the reality on the ground (in the cloud?) is more complicated than Forbes’ Erik Kain would link-bait us to believe.
A recent study in Britain shows that women are twice as likely to consult Google for a health diagnosis than a real doctor. In addition, one in four women misdiagnoses themselves based on what they find on the internet, according to Week Magazine.
Is Isaiah Seret [VIMEO] the best music video director working today? Our own Noah Nelson [Hey, that's me!] thinks so… and his argument got backed up last weekend when his video for Raphael Saadiq’s ‘Good Man’ won Best Narrative Video at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival.
Earlier this morning, with just seven hours left on the clock, the campaign for Republique reached its half-million dollar goal.
The stunning “Peace or Violence” for the artist Stromae took home the Best Non-Narrative Award at the Second Annual LAMVF. Directed by Raf Reyntjens & Joris Rabijns, this video strings together a series of vignettes on the song’s theme.
“Be data driven, not data drowning,” is the slogan for Kickboard for Teachers — an educational software, designed to help teachers and administrators collect data regarding their students’ academic and behavioral performance in one place.
2012 feels like it is the year that indie games are finally having their moment. Indie Game: The Movie was a Sundance smash, game funding has exploded on Kickstarter, and indie game developer Jonathan Blow was the subject of an in-depth profile in the most recent issue of The Atlantic. Stephanie Barish, the CEO of IndieCade, the international festival of independent games, sees things a little differently.
Can we turn a Kickstarter campaign into an event?
We’ve been following the crowdfunding campaign for Camoflaj’s Repubique from the beginning, and now Ryan Payton and company are in the last stretch.
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
It’s hard to imagine two parts of American culture– mixed martial arts and Christianity– that on the surface are more incompatible. Jesus is known for telling his followers to turn the other cheek. MMA fighters are known for turning their opponents’ cheeks for them, with their fists, elbows, and knees. If there’s one existential truth it’s this: humans, especially American humans, are hideously complex. Yet the existence of ministries that embrace MMA still surprises.
The New York based comedy group Olde English, facing a parting of ways, decided to go out with a bang on one last big project together. Taking a cue from the surrealist technique known as “the exquisite corpse”, the challenge for the troupe was for each member to write 15 pages of a feature, knowing only what the previous five pages of the script were.
There’s a moment in HILL, the most recent installment of the This Must Be the Place series of shorts, that strikes me hard in the gut: Allan Hill, the film’s central character, looking out at the decrepit Packard plant in Detroit he calls home. The trees have no leaves, the landscape is one of cement and steel, of rust and garbage; a stray animal wanders around piles of refuse in the background.
How a small Kickstarter project worked the grind to cross the finish line.
In terms of proven storytelling talent The Canyons might just be the biggest project to plant a banner at Kickstarter yet. Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) has written and Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Auto Focus) will direct this thriller about the quest for love, sex, success and power in contemporary Hollywood. The film is scheduled to go in front of the lens this summer.
I have a saying I trot out every so often that goes something like this: “If everything is great, then nothing is great”. It’s a variant on the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Basically, if all we do is say nice things about people, it gets really hard to tell when something is actually worth checking out. And not just that, but how will we ever learn from our mistakes if we don’t think we made any?
WATCH THIS is a weekly column which highlights films and filmmakers from around the Web. Not too long ago, a young woman who I’d met less not a minute prior, told me that I’m “the bad guy” when I mentioned I am a film critic. She went on to tell me that critics are overly [...]
Now those of you who weren’t able to make it to some of the road show screenings in the past few months will be able to see Indie Game: The Movie when it hits theaters starting on May 18th.
Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling’s Sound of My Voice has left me in a bit of a bind. I cannot say without reservation that this is a great film, or that I left the screening room completely satisfied. However I need to use this review in order to convince you to see the movie, because I need Batmanglij and Marling to tell more of this story.
