I watched the Woody Allen film Sleeper this past weekend and still can’t get over the scene with the giant food.
Category: video
About 20 years ago, The Orb released “Little Fluffy Clouds,” a great tune that samples a hilarious interview with Rickie Lee Jones and the music of Steve Reich. A friend of mine shared a worthy parody, “Grey Clouds.”
A video of the total lunar eclipse we had a while back.
A strong critique of The King of Kong. Interesting bit of controversy there. I still loved it.
Video mash-up of political candidates talking about “Change” (ugh) + David Bowie’s song, “Changes.”
I grow to love Ill Doctrine more with every post, like his take on the Clinton/Obama handshake controversy.
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections is a new documentary about voting manipulation and the disastrous state of our polling systems. The trailer strikes a balance of citizen activism and paranoia that I usually get a kick out of.
When Bela Fleck gets an idea for a song that he can’t develop completely at the time, he calls himself and leaves a voice mail.
Paul Festa left a comment that his film, Apparition of the Eternal Church (trailer), will be playing in Athens, Georgia on January 30, and showing across the south in the following week. I’ve got it on my calendar.
A video montage of almost all the uses of Turbo Boost in the Knight Rider television show. I used to watch Knight Rider religiously. [via waxy]
Geometry of Circles is a series of animated shorts that appeared on Sesame street in the late 1970s, with music by Philip Glass. Someone put together four of the Geometry of Circles videos for your enjoyment on YouTube. [via lined & unlined]
Yesterday I stumbled on the I Want to See That! podcast—wherein Ben Brown and Katie Spence review upcoming movies they haven’t seen. Ill-rehearsed and delightful to watch.
The Web that Wasn’t: Alex Wright talks about precursors and alternatives to the web we know.
I’d never thought to look for it before, but I wish I had: interviewer Charlie Rose has an amazing online archive.
A video of lions vs. crocodile vs. water buffalo. Really cool multi-species rivalry. [via dooce]
There’s going to be a movie version of The Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis (see my review of The Surrogates). I really, really liked the comics, especially because I haven’t found a lot of decent scifi. Very cool book—I hope those Hollywood folks treat it kindly.
By the by, the publishers of The Surrogates, Top Shelf Productions, is having a nice little seasonal sale until the end of this month.
“I’ve never found a girl at a museum… but I do look because the kind of girls I like theoretically should show up there.” –Woody Allen
Is it me, or is there subversive body language in this Apple promo video? I was watching the iPod Touch guided tour, and I noticed that our friendly host keeps moving his head left and right, as if to express disagreement. It’s incredibly distracting.
Helvetica, the film
Just got back from the local Helvetica screening (presented by AIGA-Atlanta, sponsored by the Art Institute of Atlanta). It was good, but not great. Pretty cool for a relative noob like myself to see Helvetica’s role in design over the past half-century. But I wish there was a little more nitty-gritty talk about how it came about, and less personal testimony and philosophizing about its ubiquity. One nice bonus was the post-film Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and type designer Matthew Carter. I didn’t take a whole lot of notes, so you’ll have to trust me on its overall worthwhility. But I do remember the three books that Carter most highly recommended: Letters of Credit by Walter Tracy, Modern Typography by Robin Kinross, and Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style.
Mark Larson 