Four filmmakers are traveling the world in search of pick-up soccer/football games, aiming to produce a documentary.
Category: video
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I really, really want to see this movie. Let’s hope they bring it by Atlanta soon.
Videos of mass human choreography at the Arirang Festival in North Korea. Here’s the Children’s Parade. It would be kind of cool if it weren’t taking place in a hopelessly poor, totalitarian state.
Right now I’m enjoying Riding Giants, a documentary about the history of surfing.
A video of photos of circular things. Tires, letters, signs, holes, dials, etc. Great soundtrack to boot. [via krazydad]
Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even in the bathroom. Even on a date.
Here’s the bike-dancing scene from the Kevin Bacon movie Quicksilver. Really, why did we ever leave the 80s?
Etched in Stone is an animated short film, a murder-mystery revolving around typefaces, specifically Trajan. Watch the trailer first.
“The Cinema Redux project explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my most admired directors including Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and John Boorman, each film is processed through a Java program written with the processing environment. This small piece of software samples a movie every second and generates an 8 x 6 pixel image of the frame at that moment in time. It does this for the entire film, with each row representing one minute of film time. The end result is a kind of unique fingerprint for that film. A sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process.”
Here’s the not-horrible music video for Midlake’s song Roscoe, perhaps one of the most catchy tunes I’ve heard in a couple years.
A video with animated mechanical devices playing jazz/funk. I’d love to have a circular vibraphone or a conveyor marimba.
Interesting article in the New Yorker about movies that chop up and mix the chronology, which has been called hypertext film. And it has this line, which I just loved: “‘Babel’ feels like the first example of a new genreÄîthe highbrow globalist tearjerker.” I suppose you could add “The Constant Gardener” to that category, too.
Ira Glass, host of the NPR show This American Life, talks about storytelling in 4 short films.
Here’s a great parody video, a performance of Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C# minor (pdf). An assistant brings out a specially-cut chunk of wood to help play those huge chords.
The video for Daft Punk’s song, Around the World. I hadn’t seen that in about 10 years. Michael Gondry says about directing the video: “I was sick to see choreography being mistreated in videos like filler with fast cutting and fast editing, really shallow. I don’t think choreography should be shot in close-ups.”
Merlin Mann is starting a little video show. Widescreen, to boot. I hope they’re all that way—GTD is all about peripheral vision.
Kottke points to the audio and video for a talk that Chris Ware recently gave at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A video about adjusting to a new technology called a “book”. [via design observer]
Mark Larson 
