grizzly death scenarios in FD4's opening titles
Project: Forget the Film, Watch the Titles in film
Fast-paced, violent, loud, in-your-face and brilliantly executed. That just about sums up PIC's opening
title sequence for The Final Destination. The perfect introduction to
the fourth installment of a successful horror movie series. We discussed
the 'Making Of' in an email interview with art director Jarik van
Sluijs and executive producer Pamela Green of this amazing Hollywood "design
boutique."
Watch 'n' shiverPosted on Sep 02, 2010
Pirates of the Bay!
News: Crowd-sourced Docu
Hollywood's number one enemy and torrent source for the masses The Pirate Bay, has a Court of Appeal hearing coming up to contest the one-year prison sentence (and 4 million fine-bucks!!) of it's founding fathers. One year in the slammer for some harmless file-sharing? We're all over that appeal! But the reason we write: there's a fun-looking peer-funded documentary coming out about the wild and dramatic world of the hardcore software fanatics who revolutionized media distribution with their humble hobby homepage gone wild. And beyond that, it's about our beloved internet and what it might look like in the future (when IS that happening?).
Trailer and suchlike herePosted on Aug 30, 2010
Blast Theory Creates A Machine to See With
News: Locative Cinema
While indulging in the sumptuous Interactive Screens of Banff, Alberta last week, we gleaned some ultra exclusive insider juice about the soon-to-be locative cinema project by veteran interactive storytellers Blast Theory. Mixing documentary material, film noir cliches and the oeuvres of Jean-Luc Godard, it invites you to step inside a film, receiving instructions on your mobile phone as you walk through your city. Are you the lead role or a crappy extra? Once you start making decisions you'll find out! A Machine to See With (love that name!) will premiere at 2010 01SJ Biennial in September.
Follow the seeing machine...Posted on Aug 24, 2010
Banff Interactive Screen Tripping
News: Interactive Storytelling
We're on a little trip to Interactive Screen, a cross-disciplinary geek mega-fest where the brain gets a luxuriant massage and the eyeballs explode! Nestled between the majestic, snowy peaks of Canadian Rocky Mountains is a place called the Banff New Media Institute, a collection of James Bond-esque glass, wood and concrete buildings where amazing minds gather to share ideas and plot the technophenomelogical takeover of the world! We're thrilled to be a part of it, and suggest you take a peek the lavish line-up of speakers and topics to get a virtual flavor of the action.
Banff is tha bizzle!Posted on Aug 18, 2010
Interact with Eniko
News: Interactive Fashion
You read it here first (or maybe second)! The first ever interactive fashion editorial to grace our wayward Zeitgeist, show-cases some of Fashionistan’s most promising soon-to-be darlings - as selected by stylist superbot Keegan Singh. Directed by New York-London migrant and wow-worthy photographer Barnaby Roper, the project is spearheaded by ShowStudio (but of course!) and is modeled by Hungarian hotty of the day Eniko Mihalik. With Roper's zippy widget, you get to create your own unique fashion film (instead of languidly flipping through glossy pages like you normally do), choosing from two-dozen clips and ten bespoke soundtracks...
...and then you get to send it to your mum!Posted on Aug 11, 2010
stunning title sequence using DIY 3D scanner
Project: Forget the Film, Watch the Titles in film
“All technology to do with the production of visual effects interests
us,” says Pablo Barquín of Physalia – a motion-graphics studio based in
Barcelona, Spain. Using Kyle McDonald's free and open DIY 3D scanner
software, Physalia created an unpolished and bold but innovative piece
of motion art for Mad MMX – an international design event in Madrid. Making Of included.
It's mad, I say... MAD!Posted on Aug 06, 2010
New Harmony Korine movie
News: short films
Harmony Korine, filmmaker extraordinaire, enfant terrible, wunderkind and bla-bla what not, just dropped a short commissioned film for fashion label Proenza Schouler titled Act da Fool. Korine went out and shot a couple of scenes with a derelict gang of the baddest girls from the Nashville projects, Proenza Schouler-clad head to toe. One of the girls does a voice-over that exudes Korine's signature style. Love it or hate it, this is classic Korine. From the Q&A: "How much of a 'character' did you intend Proenza Schouler's clothes to play in the film? Korine: In the same way Groucho Marx's moustache plays a role in his face.'
Posted on Sep 02, 2010
Riz MC Mind Control
News: Interactive Music Promo
If the words "interactive music video" are repeating on you while browsing our blawg, it’s not because we’ve been over-indulging - but simply that we keep seeing them EVERYWHERE! Ladies and gents, we think it’s safe to say a new genre is exploding before our very eyes! While the interactive oeuvres of Radical Friend for Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Dark Bubbles, or Fulkultur’s Ugly Dance stay true to the idea of a music video, Riz MC’s Lab project proffers quite a different experience.
Posted on Aug 25, 2010
Watch the Titles on tour!
Project: Forget the Film, Watch the Titles in film
After the positive feedback we got about our
movie title show at MU earlier this year, we decided, it's time to do a tour
and take this show on the road. We're kicking off with the tour on 19 Sep. at the Rialto Cinema inAmsterdam. But there's going to be a sneak preview at the ass-kicking Lowlands Festival this Sunday. If you get a chance to see it, send us feedback please! After the Dutch tour, the program will be presented at selected
international festivals and events, t.b.a. soon.Posted on Aug 20, 2010
Killing Me Loudly
News: Interactive Music Video
Before GaGa there was Robyn! And she’s back to show us who’s boss with this splendid Friday music and even more splendid interactive video which is written entirely in code, showing the song’s lyrics in no less than THREE dimensions (if you have a pair of 3D specs to hand)! Interactive, hmmm? Why, yes! The first half of the vid tells us what’s killing poor old Robyn, and then a live Twitter feed of the hashtag #killingme, streams the tweets of what’s killing everyone else. Moaning Minnies, the lot of you!
Music videos in the Age of Digitalia: What Fun!Posted on Aug 13, 2010
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated
News: Crowd-Sourced Cinema
A motley crew of no less than 500 zombie-, gore-, horror-, dungeon-, and dragon-inspired creative souls collaborated on this crowd-sourced remake of the 1968 cult classic, re-interpreting their favorite scenes by any animated means necessary. Style and process were no object, and the result is a glorious mish-mash of monochromatic melodrama. At least that’s what we get from the trailer – to see the whole thing y’all need to BUY it on AMAZON of all places. How very 2004! Still there’s not much money in amateur gore these days - and the rent won’t pay itself...
They’re coming for you!Posted on Aug 10, 2010
Cool Design Movie Man Tackles Cities
News: Design Documentary
In a logical chronology from little to large, the third in Gary Hustwit’s trilogy of design documentaries is about cities, and the magnificent hotch-potch of architectural higgeldy-piggeldiness that comprise the exploding megalopoli of today's wild world (FYI the first two movies were about typography and object design, respectively). Urbanized marks a watershed moment in human history when, for the first time, we're a majority urban civilization which is growing super-duper fast and by 2050, when we’re all zipping around in teleporters wearing silver space suits – a whopping 75% of us will be living in cities! Hopefully on Mars. Or the moon. But we digress… the film will be released some time next year and you can follow all the fun of the fair on Gary’s twit account.
Urbanized!Posted on Aug 05, 2010