In keeping with the “Game of Thrones” theme, here’s the video fx reel from BlueBolt for some of the effects they did for the first season of the HBO show. BlueBolt still a relatively new facililty (even though the founding members have been at this for years now), but they’ve been picking up some big jobs, and you can see why.
The Fab Faux is made up of 5 journeymen musicians who live to recreate live the things that the Beatles created in studio with remixing and overdubs. You may recognize some of them from their other gigs (Jimmy Vivino is the Music Director for Conan O’Brien and Will Lee plays bass on The Late Show with David Letterman). This video is of them at the Sirius studios faithfully covering the Side 2 suite of the Abbey Road album. It’s 18 minutes long, but surprisingly mesmerizing, and worthy of that break you know you need from work right about now. The Fab Faux are: Will Lee, Rich Pagano, Frank Agnello, Jimmy Vivino, and Jack Petruzzelli.
This video is from an exhibition at the Mobile World Congress by Paris design collective Superbien. It was made by projecting video onto plain white blocks in the room. It starts out very simply, but they do a beautiful job with it.
I defy you to watch this animated video that James Blagden and Chris Isenberg created and not laugh. It’s an animation to go over former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Doc Ellis retelling the story of how he pitched a no-hitter while high on LSD and greenies.
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Michel Gondry has released a follow-up DVD to his Director’s Series with some more classics and work that he has created since the first DVD. Included on this volume are videos he did for bands such as The White Stripes, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones and, of course, Bjork. It also has such internet hits as “Michel Gondry Solves a RUBIK’S CUBE With His Feet” and “Michel Gondry Solves a RUBIK’s CUBE With His Nose”. List price is $19.95, but you can get it for a few bucks cheaper if you buy it directly from the Michel Gondry store. That’s $2 you could put towards a customized toilet paper roll drawn by Michel.
Sadly, it appears I am too late to get the combo deal of the DVD and a personalized portrait of you hand-drawn by Michel, but you can always hope.
I came across this video of a test shoot that Adam Guzman and Julie Tsao did of the visuals for Nosaj Thing’s live performance. Rather than just being a backdrop, the visuals act as the sole stage lighting for the show. The clip shows various samples, all synchronized to the music. Guzman says of the pieces:
As the set progresses, the imagery becomes less abstract and focused less on light. Patterns begin to form and space begins to open as if the two dimensions exploded into a third. The relationship the graphics create with the performer is interesting. As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.
Nosaj isn’t playing any East Coast gigs until November, but he’s in the midst of a swing through California right now if you’re out there. You can get tour dates on his site.
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Forget about those YouTube videos of people doing 3,000 celebrity impersonations in 30 seconds - Rory and Craig have gotten it down to one word. Here’s their one-word impression of Woody Allen.
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I’ll be having nightmares about this for weeks.
Like A Local is a travel service that helps tourists avoid the traps and see cities from the prospective of a resident. Current TV posted this video following one of their tour offerings in Barcelona. I’m contemplating some overseas trips for later this year, and went to check the site to see what kind of offerings they had currently, but sadly found that the site is under construction. I hope they’re back up soon, this seems like a great way to see a city (sorry Lonely Planet guides, I think I might be done with you).
Filmmaker Murray Siple spent years making documentaries about extreme sports until a car accident left him a quadriplegic. After taking ten years off, he got back behind the camera to capture a story of a group of homeless men who spend their mornings collecting bottles and cans and their afternoons racing shopping carts down the steep hills of Northern Vancouver. It aired on the Sundance Channel, which doesn’t show any more upcoming screenings currently, but the National Film Board of Canada has posted the entire film online for free.
I’m going to be spending a little over a month in Vancouver for the Olympics this Winter. I just wish this was a year-round sport. I would have loved to see these guys in action in person.
