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.
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
The “Best Comedy Video” award at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival went to Nashville, TN based Marshall Josh Burnette [VIMEO] for “Mind Control” from the band The Kernal. If you’ve ever had the fantasy of wreaking a grocery store… well, just watch.
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.
The student category prize went to Emily Wormley for this beautifully animated video for Andrew Belle’s “The Ladder”.
How a small Kickstarter project worked the grind to cross the finish line.
This podcast features writer Katherine Catmull, talking about her creative space. Catmull’s novel Summer and Bird will be published by Dutton Juvenile (Penguin) in October 2012. She is also an actor and playwright
Animator Matt Stone’s video for Deadmau5, “Head Games”, took home the trophy for Best Unofficial Music Video, at this year’s LAMVF.
Festival founder Sami Kriegstein swings by the green room to tell us who won this year’s Los Angeles Music Vide Festival and do a little celebrating as the wrap-party rolls.
You’ve heard Grouplove’s “Tounge Tied” everywhere. The director of the band’s brilliant video, Jordan Bahat, stops by the green room at the LAMVF to talk to Turnstyle about his history with the band and his origins as a filmmaker.
Matt Stone [VIMEO] made a brilliant short blast of awesome with a video for Deadmau5 that competed in the Unoffical Video category at this year’s LAMVF. Check out the video and listen in on our talk about how he quit his job to pull this together, and his connection to that other Matt Stone.
Leah McKissock was the winner in the student category at last year’s LAMVF. This year she’s back with a video competing in the non-narrative category. She stops by the green room to talk to Turnstyle about her new work and what drew her to making music videos.
The director of the visually stunning video Other Lives for the band Tamer Animals, Hank Friedman stops by to get all cinephile with us. We bust out the deep cinema geek terms on this blast from the LAMVF. Take a look at this video!
Dennis Roberts [VIMEO], whose video for the band Icewater’s song I Know That Dream has some nifty stage trickery, stops by the table to talk about the making of his video.
Director Arms Race (secret identity: Evan Weinerman) stopped by the table to talk about his post-apocalyptic, one-take tour de force video for the band We Barbarians. The conversation naturally devolved into chatting about Alfonso Cuarón, comic books, and the dystiopian Russian science-fiction novel “We”. Sorry, that’s just how I roll.
Director Roman Makush stops by the green room to talk with us about his video for b.LaY, “Murda Murda”, a visually arresting piece featuring visual artist Dim’s work. Makush talks about the meaning of the video, which he sees as a commentary about how society is holding back human evolution.
Jesse Lamar High and Nik Harper are the directing duo LAMAR + NIK [VIMEO], who sort of buried the lead in our conversation. These two guys drove all the way from Oklahoma starting at 8PM on Thursday night to make it to the first day of the LAMVF. They even slept in the car.
Tim Hendrix [VIMEO], who comes from an animation background, directed a striking video for the song Promises Are Never Far From Lies, from Am & Shawn Lee. Tim’s video screened as part of the student section at this year’s fest.
The Trayvon Martin case has monopolized the nation’s attention both online and off for months now. As with nearly every topic these days, aside from the opinions present in the professional media, the conversation has spilled over into the world of social media. Bloggers of all stripes have added fuel to the fire by creating [...]
Just a few minutes ago we talked with Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, Tom Goes To The Mayor), who in addition to being part of the comedy duo known as Tim & Eric is a seriously accomplished music video director. Eric stops by the Turnstyle table for a brief chat about when he knows he has a collaborator for life.
We talk to last year’s winner Anthony Honn about his experience with the festival, the work he has in this year’s fest, and what he’s looking to put together in the future. In true Turnstyle spirit, Honn works as a UI Designer for BMW by day and makes films by night.
We are LIVE at the Downtown Independent, just on the border of Little Tokyo here in Los Angeles for the 2012 Los Angeles Music Video Festival.
We’ll be podcasting all weekend long (internet gods willing) with interviews featuring the video directors, guests, and maybe a few special surprises.
This podcast features writer Robert Faires, talking about his creative space. It’s part of a series spun out of Fusebox festival’s The Writer’s Room, A Home Studio Tour curated by Elizabeth Doss and Annie La Ganga.
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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 [...]
Winners of the 16th annual Webby Awards were announced today. The awards recognize excellence on the Internet and are sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The Webby Person of the Year was Louis C.K. and the Webby Artist of the Year was Bjork. Check out some of surprising winners below, including Visitor Norway for the best Welcome / Home Page.
Now On the Ice is finally available to any and all who wish to see it. Well, any and all with an Internet connection at least. The film is out on iTunes, Amazon and Vudu.
If only everyone was having he same kind of recovery that Apple has been having. The Atlantic puts it best: Apple’s Cash Reserves Would Fill 50 Olympic Swimming Pools With Dollar Bills This calculation comes on the heels of the news that the iPhone maker sold 35 million of the things and made a record [...]
Kevin Fallon at The Atlantic takes a look at Kristen Wiig’s “uncharted path” to movie stardom from Saturday Night Live. When reports began circulating that Saturday Night Live scene-stealer Kristen Wiig will likely leave the show for Hollywood at the end of the current season, hardly anyone was surprised. Wiig, the thrice-Emmy-nominated mastermind behind the Target [...]
Just a few brief thoughts before we hit the road about social activism, responsibility, and the future of communication online.
Hulu jumps into original series in order to survive.
Jennifer Pahlka loves bureaucrats. While that proclamation got her some laughs at a recent Google/MTV Big Tent event at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, Pahlka, who founded Code for America in 2010, followed up with an earnest statement about the work that CFA’s fellowships support in collaboration with local governments. ”We think bureaucrats get things done. [...]
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A new study published in the journal Psychological Science shows a correlation between college students that come from states with high income inequality and students that cheat. The researcher, Lukas Neville, is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at Queen’s School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He said he became interested in academic dishonesty and plagiarism because of his teaching experience.
Berkeley Rep aims to help theatre artists get in on the “Ground Floor”.
Mos Def and Dead Prez come together to do a song that pays tribute to Trayvon Martin. We had a great convo with M1 the other day about this.. He reminded us that Florida is also home to the Uhuru Movement, an organization that helped shape and mold him, and that the spirit of resistance in the [...]
Ben Nelson, the founder of the online photo finishing company Snapfish, just received $25 million from Benchmark Capital in Silicon Valley, to launch what he claims is the answer to the “lockjaw” problem at elite universities. In other words top tier schools are overcrowded and unable to expand their undergraduate capacity, resulting in droves of qualified applicants turning to less prestigious institutions. His idea is called the Minerva Project, an online elite university.
The acclaimed writer of Kingdom Come, Daredevil, and Irredeemable bets his personal collection on the future of comics.
YouTube is pinning their future on the ways of the past.
A new resource for veterans has emerged with a focus on interaction and community support. VeteranCentral.com, called the “Facebook for Veterans,” is a website that aims to connect veterans with jobs, resources, mental health services, and fellow veterans near them.
Back at Sundance while covering Bear 71, an interactive documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada, I learned from producer Jeremy Mendes that the NFB has been experiementing with the interactive film format for a while now.
One of the projects is the delightful Bla Bla, an animated piece by Vincent Morisset whose interactive elements are intuitive and reward exploration. That is: if you wheel the mouse around the screen and click just about anywhere something neat happens.
Bibliophiles and literature hounds in Los Angeles can rejoice, the new Literary Los Angeles: A Road Guide is a treasure map to LA’s lit scenes.
In a press release earlier today ComiXology, which holds bragging rights to being the world’s largest digital comics platform announced that Nerdist Industries CEO Peter Levin was joining their advisory board. He joins a veritable Who’s Who of top geek culture business executives.
What’s a tech blogger to do when a popular crowdfunding site becomes so popular that it becomes difficult to seperate the wheat from the chaff?
If you’re Joe Brown of Gizmodo it’s whine about how it sucks and pledge not to cover projects on the site until they do something about it.
The deadline for registration for this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival is this Sunday, April 1st.
When is a video app not a video app? When it’s HBOGo!
Public Enemy is arguably the greatest rap group of all time. Their impact on the game goes beyond nearly every rap group’s legacy—except for maybe N.W.A. They’ve inspired nearly every rapper that calls him or herself socially ”conscious”; and they continue to make good music and tour the world. Now a new group of youngsters [...]
Matthew Weiner offers his thoughts on Sunday night’s Season 5 premiere, the character development of Don Draper, and what may be in store for the staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Race has played an increasingly large role in the case involving the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old boy who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer last month in Sanford, Florida. The teenager, who was visiting the community with his father, had been on his way back to a family friend’s home after [...]
Back in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to life without parole for any crimes besides murder is cruel and unusual punishment.This week the high court took another look at life in prison, except this time for juveniles under the age of 14 convicted of homicide.
For more than thirty years, it’s been Barry Krisberg’s priority to fight for reforms in California’s state juvenile correctional facilities, known as the California Youth Authority (CYA) or Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). And now a change is coming at the DJJ. Only three of California’s state facilities still remain open, holding a total of [...]
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This month, I was a presenter at a college readiness conference for young Black males, convened at Berkeley City College. During the program, I watched and observed, just like the young men in the audience, six Black male startup founders share their story of how they came into their fields of endeavor. It reminded me of [...]
This school year has seen major tuition increases for college students in California. Santa Monica College, one of California’s community colleges, recently decided to start offering more sections of its most popular classes during the summer for five times the amount they normally cost, according to the Atlantic. The reason the tuition is so high is because these sections are not subsidized by the state.
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