If you follow the film blogosphere at all, you’ll have probably seen this, but if not, here you go. Dozens of film clips are edited together according to contentual and contextual shot similarity to the music “Complex City” by Oliver Nelson. It’s quite captivating. The film is by Jonathan Lapper, and originally appeared on his blog, Cinema Styles, which is always worth a read. The full list of films used, as well as the thinking that went into the editing choices, is here. I get tired just thinking about all the work he had to have put into capturing and editing this. Great work, Jonathan.
Final trailer for Joss Whedon’s new fall show, “Dollhouse,” starring Eliza Dushku. I’m really excited about this, which of course means it’s going to be canceled within eight episodes. Hopefully I’m wrong. I only lost one show I cared about last year (”Journeyman”), so maybe the TV climate is moving more toward my tastes? One can only hope…
Rock Band downloadable content this week is songs from the European release, hence EUROPEAN SONGS. Awesome. There’s also “Hysteria” by Muse, which I’m definitely up for, since Muse is incredible, and they just released a three-pack of Muse songs for Guitar Hero 3 a few weeks ago, causing all Rock Band-only owners to breathe a collective sigh of frustration. (Although we shouldn’t, since we get like twenty times as much DLC as GH3 does.) But I’m also really excited about this song from German band Juli. I first heard them on European MTV when I was over there, and I love their whole CD. No clue what it’s saying, since I don’t speak German, but hey. That’ll just make the vocals extra challenging, right? AND AWESOME.
This is a fan-made music video setting Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou with The Pixies song “Wave of Mutilation.” Most fanvidders are busy with Harry Potter or Lost or some such, so it’s fun to find one working with Godard! And pretty well, too, though it definitely helps that the line “I drive my car into the ocean” happens to be extremely apropos. The video does spoil the ending of Pierrot le fou completely, just fyi. Also, this slowed-down version of the song? Way better than the regular version that kicks my ass in Rock Band.
Where were the kids TV shows that booked indie bands (like Jenny Lewis, above) when I was a kid? I might have discovered the good stuff when I was, like, seven instead of seventeen! I don’t know anything about this Pancake Mountain show other than that they have good bands on, but that’s enough. They have a bunch of other spots on their YouTube channel, but apparently they’re putting out a DVD, which apparently means I can’t watch the Metric clip online anymore. Wah.
CommonCraft has put together a number of these “in Plain English” videos explaining various Web2.0 concepts and applications; they’re all worth watching, both informative and entertaining. Since I’m currently in the process of Twitter-addiction, I put this one up, but also check out the ones on RSS, Blogs, Wikis, photo sharing, social bookmarking, etc. And, of course, zombies.
barringer82 over on YouTube has a bunch of compilation videos of different directors and time periods. This one is to Stanley Kubrick, of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, and many, many other which feature in this video. Plus, it’s really well put together; someday when I get good video editing software, this is the sort of thing I’d love to do in my spare time, though I doubt I have the patience to do it this well. I also recommend the ones for David Lynch, Wes Anderson, and The Coen Brothers, and I’m sure all the rest are good, too, but I haven’t had time to watch them all. via kottke.
Pretty cool video showing the process of transforming the animated Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? into a photo-realistic version, with the help of PhotoShop and several real-life actresses. It’s not hard to guess who the model is for Jessica’s face, but I was off on my prediction that it was Amy Adams’ hair. I suppose I’ve just got Amy Adams on the mind lately. In other news, I’m never trusting a photograph again. As if I still did anyway. ;) (via Cinematical, among others; original site Pixeloo) BTW, there isn’t any sound, so don’t think your sound card suddenly bit the dust or anything.
If you follow the film blogosphere at all, you’ll have probably seen this, but if not, here you go. Dozens of film clips are edited together according to contentual and contextual shot similarity to the music “Complex City” by Oliver Nelson. It’s quite captivating. The film is by Jonathan Lapper, and originally appeared on his blog, Cinema Styles, which is always worth a read. The full list of films used, as well as the thinking that went into the editing choices, is here. I get tired just thinking about all the work he had to have put into capturing and editing this. Great work, Jonathan.
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