Georges Melies is A DUDE

Guardian Re. Star Trek, the new movie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/11/star-trek-jjabrams-sexism

Jonlajoie

Saw this guy a few months ago...and rediscovered him this fine evening, funnyyyy.
http://www.youtube.com/user/jonlajoie

another monday morning treasure

Too Be Continued...

Went to this Screening Last Night

GENIUS

A Long Lost Idea

This was a sketch for an idea i never finished a couple of months ago. To capture two people racing around the block, where i live. To have all four cameras running simultaneously so the guys racing run in and out of shot. Projecting the films so that they somehow run in and out of each projection. /I think i will still do this. When i get back to London, and build a larger project around it.

Still From LA

Photoshop RETURNS

ive got really into these totilla chips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWap-cPDms
made it a few weeks ago.

Im having an internet binge

Thought this text was funny.

Jean Luc Godard: The Weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9d9rxjuhg

MEGA tracking shot....meaning to see this for a while.

This Made My Monday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcVZcIDNEfQ&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtnC_PFBf8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fuser%2Ftherockcookiebottom&feature=player_embedded
Find more here
http://www.youtube.com/user/therockcookiebottom

FREE TRIP TO
CYBERSPACE!

Meet outside Powell Station

Bus leaves 4.30pm Friday May 1st 2009

Returns by Mid-afternoon Sunday


Food and drinks provided,
Bring Your Own Sunglasses.

Cyberspace

MUSIC VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeR3NSYcHk&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVEGfH4s5g&feature=channel_page

I have been thinking about a few things. Jarret talking about Fandom in relation to Beyonces Youtube video, which has been copied and re-posted by so many people.
How cool a camera would be if it came with an inbuilt radio and mp3 player so you could immediately add your own sound track to films. (a radio especially because you dont choose the music it would be totally incidental and with a commentary from some dude introducing the song, or dedicating it to some unknown listener..)
Also how Music really holds a movie together, and creates those EPIC moments and cheese. Music Videos themselves are often prettty awesome, i guess they have alot of money to play with. I THINK I WANT TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO. I love the stars of music videos the singers and how they work up to the camera.

http://www.youtube.com/coryarcangel

SAVE LOMBARD STREET

Are you interested in the preservation of Lombard Street?
Lombard Street in San Francisco is at Risk of closure. Damage to the road caused by the sheer amount of traffic means that it is at severe risk of crumbling.
If nothing is done to save this historic site, the local government are considering straighting the road.
WE CANT LET THIS HAPPEN, donate your money to day, or sign our petition.
You get a free Lollipop.

PES

http://www.eatpes.com/human_skateboard.html

Thank-You PES.

i have been away for a while.

"Relational Aesthetics; the avant garde of the Service Economy"

Potted Plants

They amuse me.

A few clips i have collected from films Recently:

Ref. to CCTV again

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/westminster-cctv-system-privacy

a little bit bored of this now.

Manequin in the Window.

Photo's taken in the Tenderloin, a couple of blocks away from where I'm living in San Francisco.

Ode to Split Screen.

College Chums 1907
Pillow Talk 1959
That '70s Show

In the back of my mind for a while i have been thinking about a phone call i witnessed.
YES IT WAS ON A BUS. "i'm on the bus"
I girl was talking to a friend about another friend who had died. The conversation lapsed between descriptions of the girls life, her illness, and how she died; as well as descriptions of where we were on the bus, how long it would take her to arrive, and other random comments about the day. I suppose it was a natural conversation. Only the whole bus played witness to her thoughts and emotions as she described them to a someone unknown to us.

And the other day i saw a cheesey advert, that used the old split screen effect, to illustrate a phone call.

I like the CRASS feeling of split screen, as method of rendering simulanteous action, and interaction across (...urgh i hate these words put together..) SPACE AND TIME.
I found an article, which briefly runs through some examples of split screen genius as it develops at: http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/12/24/the-aesthetics-of-displays-how-the-split-screen-remediates-other-media-%e2%80%93-malte-hagener/
So please take a moment to pay your respect to
SPLIT SCREEN in all its glory.
I could go on forever/

Join the fan club:

http://www.splitscreen.us/tv/

So now i have been to wondercon!

Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Featuring

BRITNEY SPEARS

KATE MOSS

&

KEIRA KNIGHTLY

George Kuchar's Class Friday 20th Feb

It's on it's side.

The Church Of Scientology

I was nearly converted. And then i changed my Mind.

Things in the Sky this Weekend

The Video Store on Polk and California is SuperCool

I got out "Voyages in Time" a documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky, to be honest i was kind of expecting to be bored by this film. I thought it might be a bit pretentious.
So why did i get it out. Mainly I liked the cover. It is actually quite a beautiful short film. You have to be patient, its definitely not everyones cup of tea.

Lots of long takes of landscape shots. Tarkovsky talks about making films, and directors he's interested in; it is filmed whilst he is travelling around Italy, looking for locations for his film Nostalghia. It seems to become a layering of places, the landscape as a potential set for a movie, the landscape of this documentary, and the landscape described by Tarkovsky. The sound was overlapping some images. I enjoyed the intersections of close ups. I havent seen any of his other films yet (although this was of him, not by him). I want to watch it again, so i will follow this up again later.

Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons was talking about his comic..soon to be movie, the Watchman at the apple store last thursday.
I really like the composition of comics; how the layout and composition is so important to the way you read them.

Tattoos

Its funny, people always say they dont want to get a tattoo, because they will regret it when they are older. But surely its forward planning, because when your old, its too late to get a tattoo.
Ive noticed that loads more people have tattoos in San Francisco than they do in London. Maybe i'll come home like the leopard man.

Silly Film

A film in response to a class at SFAI, thinking about surveillance.
Its funny, i had thought the idea ofsurveillance, had been done already: that Orwell's 1984, and Channel 4's Big Brother had already chewed it over enough times. But recently i've heard the phrase bandied around.
Talking about it today, i guess it is being reconsidered again as technologies develop? Everyone talks about the volume of CCTV in London, the most captured city. I find the extent of personal cameras insane.
I guess in this clip i was taking the piss out of our attitude to surveillance, more than surveillance itself. the eye of a monster.
We fantasize forever about the number of times we are photographed everyday, and who might be watching, and what they might do with the information. the unknown God of cameras, sees all that we do, and judges us for it!
Take me to camera heaven, for thine is the Kingdom.

wearing sunglasses makes you cool

So this is something i have thought about for a while.
Sunglasses
This week i came across this picture. Micheal Jackson is auctioning off bits and bobs from his Neverland world, this is up for grabs.
i only wish i had thought to make it first

New London Bus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/17/architect-car-design-routemaster

The Moon