A highly inspirational film directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the « Bon appétit » exhibition, aimed mainly at the kids aged 9 to 14. For Dr. Martens 50th Anniversary, The Cinematic Orchestra cover Lilac Wine - a track made famous by Jeff Buckley in 1994. The music video is directed by Blind. For the founder of The Cinematic Orchestra – Jason Swinscoe – working life began at Ninja Tune, the London-based independent record label. Here, Swinscoe would distribute records by day, while by night he’d develop a sound that would eventually evolve into The Cinematic Orchestra. Their popularity and growing reputation amongst critics is largely down to their unique sound. Their diverse, imaginative, jazz improvised, electronic approach was praised by Uncut magazine as “every hard-boiled neon-lit Hollywood thriller you’ve ever seen.” To promote the new Colorado Lottery Monopoly Scratch game, Cactus teamed up with the famed animation studio Laika/House and Fantastic Mr. Fox Director Mark Gustafson to create a stop-motion spot where the iconic Monopoly game pieces come to life and work together to get to the new Colorado Lottery Monopoly Scratch ticket that someone left on the counter. Cari Lekebusch doesn't mess around when it comes to dropping proper techno music, something which he has shown in abundance over the past few years. As a prelude to his album, Cari will release two singles this June that once again show who's boss. The Macabre EP features two tracks, both equally stomping. The title track is a deep, dark techno banger with a variety of sinister sound effect and industrial effects. The groove itself is as we can expect from authentic techno: slowly progressing, yet packing an awesome vibe decorated with stunning fx. Including a short animated film called "ARK" that fits well with the track. A knight. A princess. A dragon. Three little kids. One school play. An epic battle for love and honor. Dragonboy is a collaborative thesis done by Lisa Allen, Bernie Warman and Shaofu Zhang at the Academy of Art University. For more information and still pics, please visit: dragonboythemovie.com Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I would guess, let the flood gates open as many will try to capitalize on the Avatar inspired look. Descendants featuring the voice work Whoopi Goldberg is one of those who will try to cash in the greatest all-time grossing movie in monetary terms. The CG animated film by Heiko van der Scherm will always be in the shadow of Avatar’s fame due to timing. This great little movie is reaping many awards as it plays many festivals and with good reason. A movie about Facebook. Made this after reading about facebook everyday in the news. A lot of what was said seemed like it would make more sense if explained in a little movie... so that's that. In what is surely the single greatest robot-themed squirting-candy ad ever produced, Saatchi & Saatchi in New York sends forth a cap-wearing, metal-claw-tongued automaton to "defuse" a malfunctioning, non-gushing Fruit Gusher left sitting on a park bench. The bot looks like a cross between a typical class nerd and the uber-evil Davros from Dr. Who: goofy and scary at the same time. The earnest/tongue-in-cheek acting by the bomb-squad types is spot on, and the mother's mock-relieved reaction ("Oh, thank you, robot-child") is especially well delivered. Even knowing that the robo-kid will one day turn on his masters and kill us all can't stop me from gushing over this spot. This neat short film, titled “8-Bit Gary” and directed by Mortar Inc.’s Docter Twins, is ostensibly about the DVD upconversion capabilities of Toshiba laptops, but we know the truth: Really, it just makes you wish that the “8-bitinator” was real. Thanks to the vaguely Capsule Corp.-looking device, a guy named Gary is converted into a pixellated, bleep- and bloop-emitting avatar and then ‘upconverted’ back into a musclebound hunk. Hilarity ensues. Fun, impressive fact: According to Design Taxi, the 8-bit Gary costume consisted of more than 3,000 hand-cut foam boxes. |
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