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Posts Tagged ‘media’

resfest hits l.a.

see some short films and rarely seen (thanks to mtv programming) music videos. illustrator/director, mike mills (his short ‘paperboys’ screens at this fest) will discuss creative inspiration and breakdown techniques behind examples of his work at noon, Saturday, 27 october.
damage = $10 per screening, $65 for ‘all-access REPASS’ madness
fine print = passes in limited quantity, [...]

where ‘casting’ is just another word

i don’t know what’s sadder, affleck as daredevil or that i went to eonline.com to find out.

movie review

‘don’t say a word’.
don’t worry, i won’t.

softballs

so i saw a vcd of ‘hardball’ starring keanu. it’s like bad news bears meets i don’t know what. i was very disappointed. i think it was when i heard keanu rap ‘big poppa’ for the third time. i never thought i would ever see the day…

coming soon

‘ROBOT BASTARD’ a film by rob schrab. the trailer looks like john woo directs giant robot with sid and marty krofft producing. (via billyb)

hulk goes physical

rick baker will do makeup fx for ‘the incredible hulk’. i guess it won’t be a cg film afterall.

good reads

An Afghan-American speaks - by Tamin Ansary
‘You can’t bomb us back into the Stone Age. We’re already there. But you can start a new world war, and that’s exactly what Osama bin Laden wants.’
first hand account: he is pakistani, he is a muslim, he works in the WTC, his name is Usman Farman and he [...]

reading matter

articles regarding the current situation.
- Make it green by Roger Ebert
- Hunting Bin Laden, Frontline report
- World War III, NY Times
- When will we learn by Harry Browne
- …not even in the USA can you have your cake and eat it too… by Sean Hartigan
- They can’t see why they are hated, Guardian Unlimited
- Life [...]

film festival

my friend, michael abbott’s documentary about rave culture “synergy: visions of
vibe” is screening in los angeles as part of the ‘hiqi film series’. the film focuses on the southern california scene and features carl cox, jason bentley, underworld and sven vath. immediately preceeding his film is pink and mitch’s video “plaistow flex [...]

keanu gives up matrix cash

neo gives his cake to the technical departments because he feels ‘they are the ones who make the movie’.
that’s pretty cool. i believe that effects houses SHOULD get participation in the big effects productions, since they end up doing most of the design and work.

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