King Corn - extended clip

May 6th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

A voyage of discovery to see where America’s food comes from. This seems like a good topic, since where America’s food comes from has changed more in the last 20 years than the previous 100, replacing the bucolic ideal of the American cowboy rancher with giant agribusinesses and Yale graduate presidents in Stetsons.
(I like the idea of these extended clips for PBS documentaries)

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David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

April 8th, 2008 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)

David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

A nice clip from The New Shock Of The New, which I assume is an update to the classic Robert Hughes series of the 70s. The original series would rank in my top 10 all time TV programs, so I am now scurrying around trying to find a complete version.
via Andy Jones

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Cellular Automata edited version of Psycho Shower Scene

March 28th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

psychoblurt666.mov

“Algorithmically generated hyper-edit of Hitchcock’s Psycho shower scene using cellular automata to determine sound and image.”
Hmm.

Maurice Methot 5 min 18 sec Jan 30, 2007

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Commercial break: Be Kind Rewind Style Remake of Be Kind Rewind Trailer

March 23rd, 2008 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)

Be Kind Rewind is about a guy who works in a video store who is magnetic, accidentally erases all the videos and decides to remake them himself. A bunch of French guys decided to do the same with the trailer for the movie itself. So deliciously meta.
Be Kind Rewind Sweded Trailer

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Spacefest Preview

March 8th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

Spacefest 2009 will be held in San Diego Feb 19-22 next year in San Diego. This trailer is a great taster. It is also a way to plug the place where I found it, my favorite new weblog: Bad Astronomy, which is bad ass, indeed.

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