Category Archives: Video

Immigrant Song

Posted on January 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Okay, hyped or not, everybody cares about this movie.

I think the original film is better, but it doesn’t come with this incredible title sequence. And oh, OH, NO BIG DEAL, JUST TRENT REZNOR AND KAREN O FINALLY WORKED TOGETHER ON A SONG. It’s forgivable that it’s a Led Zeppelin song too (just go with it).

Blur did the effects for this sequence, led by creative director Tim Miller.

Here’s a sweet article and interview with Tim Miller on io9

The books seem like a waste of time, but the Swedish films are pretty damn entertaining. David Fincher’s films are always pretty, so those are worth a look.

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Posted in Design, Film, Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Link, Photography, Hollywood, Pop Culture, Nerd Alert, Video, Music

Tagged Special Effects, Karen O, Trent Reznor, Film, Blur, Atticus Ross, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher, Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin, Score, Soundtrack, VFX, Visual Effects, Tim Miller, io9

Eleventy-One

Posted on January 11, 2012 | 2 Comments

1. I think in list form often,

2. Music is the only constant comfort in my life,

3. Number 2 seems like an dramatized version of the truth; it could be.

TOP 30 (Seriously?) ALBUMS OF 2011:

30. Cults – CULTS

29. Washed Out – WITHIN AND WITHOUT

28. Liturgy – AESTHETICA

27. This Will Destroy You – TUNNEL BLANKET

26. Skeletonwitch – BEYOND THE PERMAFROST

25. Chelsea Wolfe – APOKALYPSIS

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Posted in Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, List, Pop Culture, Video, Music

Tagged Los Angeles, Echoplex, The Horrors, Music, Downtown Los Angeles, Dum Dum Girls, Black Flag, Jack White, DTLA, 2011, Danger Mouse, Rome, Daniele Luppi, Norah Jones, Salem, Red Sparowes, Eagle Rock, The Black Keys, The Black Angels, Slayer, top lists, concerts, Portishead, Death From Above 1979, Power of the Riff, Pentagram, Pelican, EyeHateGod, Aeges, Coliseum, Dark Dark Dark, This Will Destroy You, Explosions In the Sky, Russian Circles, Marriages, Deafheaven, Black Breath, Trap Them, Acephalix, Black Cobra, Baptists, Masakari, All Pigs Must Die, Plagues, Thought Forms, The Shrine Auditorium, The Music Box, The Henry Fonda Theater, The Echo, The Echoplex, The Satellite, Troubadour, The Hollywood Bowl, The National, Neko Case, Ukrainian Cultural Center, American Nightmare, Give Up The Ghost, Trash Talk, Touche Amore, Weekends, The Weeknd, Glass Candy, FYF Fest, Esben and the Witch, The Bootleg Theater, No Age, No Flag, Levitt Pavillion, Echo Park, Light Asylum, Gatekeeper, Mariachi El Bronx, La Cita, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Ty Segall, Tijuana Panthers, Zola Jesus, M83, El Rey Theatr, Baroness, Isis, Dissection, Nation of Ulysses, Chromatics, Italians Do It Better, Wolves in the Throne Room, Chelsea Wolfe, At the Drive-In, Refused

Bōsōzoku – GOD SPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR (1976)

Posted on January 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

GOD SPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR isn’t just a sweet band from Canada.

It’s a 1976 documentary about Japanese biker gangs in the 1970s.

Here’s the entire movie for you, just because!

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Posted in Documentary, Film, History Lesson, Pop Culture, Video

Tagged 1970s, Biker gangs, Bikers, Cinema, Documentary, Japanese Cinema, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Motorcycles, Video

Boofin’ Up

Posted on September 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

You know me? I’m really into um, teddy bears.

Like this guy.

And this internet famous, moody British chap.

So this Weetabix cereal commercial makes me really, really stoked. Stoked on life. Stoked on bears. And dancing. And cereal. And commercial production.

The ending with the last bear made my face go like >_< then O_O

SO CUUUTE!

Here’s the awesome behind-the-scenes video for the commercial. Bear costumes what! No Furry jokes plz! Pedobear free-zone too, gawd, gosh, srsly.

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Posted in Costume design, Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Dance, Funny Ha-Ha, Link, Nerd Alert, Pop Culture, Product, Television, Video

Tagged #boofboof, Advertisement, Bears, Behind The Scenes, Chocolate Spoon, Choreography, Commercial, Costume design, Dance, Dubstep, Mord Fustang, Production, Teddy bears, The Daniels, Weetabix

Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Posted on September 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

Aphex Twin

“Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima” remix

Performed at the European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, Poland, 2011

Original composition by Krzysztof Penderecki

The video and sound qualities are shit, but those didn’t stop me from geeking out hardcore. This original piece by Penderecki is famous for a lot of reasons, but also because it showed up in films like THE SHINING and CHILDREN OF MEN.

I just wish I was there to witness Richard D’s remix and to get a better look at the video art going on behind the musicians.

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Posted in Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Film, History Lesson, Hollywood, Music, Nerd Alert, Video

Tagged Aphex Twin, Children of Men, European Culture Congress 2011, Krzysztof Penderecki, Poland, Richard D. James, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Thernody For the Victims of Hiroshima

However You Want Me, However You Need Me

Posted on July 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

BELLY, Dir. Hype Williams, 1998

I was on turntable.fm today and dropped one of my favorite 90s songs, Soul II Soul’s “Back To Life” and immediately remembered this film.

BELLY has one of the best introduction sequences ever. Elements at hand include: an incredible, minimal remix of the aforementioned song, black lights, Nas, DMX, strippers, a strip club, money, strobe lights, armed robbery, NEON EYEBALLS, Malik Hassan Sayeed’s cinematography, and Hype Williams’ styling at its zenith. It seems like every hip hop music video tried to copy this sequence afterward.

I wish there was a better-quality video of this segment out there.

The rest of the film is pretty good.

(Big ups to an old friend who showed me this clip once upon a time, back in the day, however that goes)

Oh, ooh, and there’s T-Boz on that TLC tip. Miss you girl.

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Posted in Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Dance, Film, History Lesson, Hollywood, Pop Culture, Video

Tagged 1998, 90s, Back to Life, Belly, Cinema, DMX, Film, Hype Williams, Malik Hassan Sayeed, Method Man, Production Design, Regan Jackson, Soul II Soul, Strip clubs, T-Boz, Tionne Watkins

Still Standing

Posted on June 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Tipping the geek scales to Very – here’s a video from Kotaku, where some dudes (Machinima Respawn E3 2011 LA Noire Landmark Tour Part 1 w/ Sark, Hutch & Seananners) visit all of the historical landmarks in Los Angeles that appear in L.A. NOIRE.

I haven’t bought that game yet, but it’s on my to-do. Hours of film noir stories and visuals will make any film geek…excited? Wait, aren’t film geeks excited a lot, anyway? Anyway.

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Posted in Architecture, Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Documentary, Fashion, History Lesson, Hollywood, Link, Los Angeles, Nerd Alert, Pop Culture, Production Design, Video

Tagged Cinema, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, E3, Filming locations, Games, Gaming, Hutch & Seanners, Kotaku, LA NOIRE, Locations, Los Angeles, Machinima Respawn E3 2011, Sark

Passion’s Overrated Anyway

Posted on April 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hey, if you’re going to rip-off Syd Mead or BLADE RUNNER, do it right.

Scenes from IMMORTAL (2004) cut to Massive Attack’s “Dissolved Girl”.

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Posted in Culture / Music / Big City Stuff, Film, Music, Pop Culture, Production Design, Video

Tagged 2004, Blade Runner, Enki Bilal, immortal, Linda Hardy, Massive Attack, Music, music video, Sci-fi, Science Fiction, Syd Mead

Three Hundred Sixty Degrees

Posted on March 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

This post is for me. INCEPTION is really inspiring to me, for technical film-making purposes. It doesn’t hurt that the film is wonderful to watch, that the narrative is original, and that it also has a few (a lot) of cute guys in it. They were totally robbed at the Oscars.

Behind the Scenes, INCEPTION, Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2010