Jazz guitarist and multi-instrument musician Pat Metheny just released his “Orchestrion” album, recorded with something like a mechanic sequencer which allows him to play all instrumemts of a jazz combo by himself. More videos on his YouTube channel.
Crazy Croutons
“Y'all need to get your shit together! You hear me, humans? Your shit is all outta whack! You're all over the place like a bunch of crazy croutons and tomatoes in a crazy salad!” *
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“ You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
Steve Jobs [via Michael Pusateri on the iPad]
“ [At 400 km/h] the tyres will only last for about 15 minutes, which is ok, because the fuel runs out in 12 minutes.
James May at top speed in a Bugatti Veyron in BBC’s Top Gear
I almost forgot what YouTube is all about: “Man Does Banana Face Fireworks”
Please tell me if you have to laugh out loud, too.
“Begin to eat the dust of Baja California”
For the records: The introductory sample in Take California from Propellerheads’ album “Decksandrumsandrockandroll” (still a great 90ies big-beat/breakbeat/trip-hop album by the way) comes from the documentary “Twenty Seven Hours To La Paz” about the legendary Baja 1000 off-road race (at about 3/5 of the video).
More video: Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck - Heaven Can Wait (directed by Keith Schofield).
Some of the video’s scenes are inspired by photos of William Hundley
Great skateboard video by Salazar with wonderful images full of tempera powdered paint and flour. Filmed with Panasonic HVX200 with Redrock micro and SGPro adapters and Nikon primes.
With all the current attention to HD-filming DSLRs, you still can make beautiful images with 35mm adapters.
We just released Pomfort DPXHeaderEditor, a unique tool for reviewing and changing header information in DPX image sequences.
Pomfort DPXHeaderEditor can be used as a free metadata viewer for DPX files, for full editing features a license is needed.
We have tons of ideas for next versions of DPXHeaderEditor (more renaming, automation, and sequence checking), but at the moment we are curious how much interest there is for such a tool at all.
Let us know your ideas, too! And don’t miss the wonderful, custom edit panels!
“ Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense.
David Thorne (or the blog character David Thorne) in an email to his son’s teacher on 27b/6.
Music television from the basement
“From the Basement” shows how music television can be. Intimate live performances of artists such as Beck, Cold War Kids, Eels, Fleet Foxes, Gnarls Barkley, Jose Gonzales, The Kills, P J Harvey, QOTSA, Radiohead, Thom York, White Stripes, and others are recorded without any audience in one of the BBC studios in London, produced by Nigel Godrich. This setup reduces the “music video” to music and artists.
On the website you can watch all of the performances in a very good quality: All of the shows have been recorded in HD and the live sound is pretty much brilliant.
The controversial, innovative horror movie “Deadgirl” premiered at Toronto International Film Festival as the first independent production to use a completely tapeless digital production method.
We helped the filmmakers Harris Charalambous and Marcel Sarmiento to realize a flexible, professional post-production workflow on Mac-based desktop systems with our swiss-army-knife-for-post-production “Pomfort SilverStack”.
Read the Case Study for more information and a detailed workflow breakdown or feel free to download the PDF (7.3 MB) for offline reading.
“Exactitudes”
Amazing, massive, photo-sociological work by Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek.
Crowd-Sourced Star Wars
Randomly choose a finished scene made by Vimeo users and try to guess when that 15 seconds happen in the original movie. Not always easy, but great fun. Or watch the trailer for a good selection of home-made Star Wars trash.
