Evan Puschak marvels anew at the intense Omaha Beach opening scene in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, filmed at Curracloe Strand in Wexford.
Many of the famously long shots were filmed from the intimate perspective of a battlefield cameraman, a decision inspired by actual WWII battle footage and John Ford’s The Battle of Midway, which used scenes where actual explosions on set made the camera skip.
A new animation from artist Jake Fried who uses layers of ink, gouache, correction fluid and coffee to build up his animations – each layers covering the previous one, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.
Previously: Night Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vac8GUbWK68
58 year old former streetluge champion Roger Hickey clocks 100.279mph on his skateboard at the Top Speed World Championship in Quebec earlier this month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WlCUOaAk4
Fail Army’s compilation of sororal malfunctions.
See also: Brothers.
Gymkhana 9 – the third rorty installment of talented US rally driver Ken Block’s trick driving series.
Here, he horses a vilely-wrapped Ford Focus RS RX around an industrial park with twocker aplomb.
Previously: Around The Block
Samorost 3 – an immersive game App recently released by Prague based Amanita Design (creators of the award winning Mechinarium). Surreal, non verbal, heavily reliant on symbolism, sound design and intuition, the game is like an interactive artwork where players progress through the ecosystems of nine planets by solving increasingly difficult puzzles.
It’s no Pokemon Go.
A short for The School Of Life directed, animated and designed by Luiz Stockler. To wit:
‘H8rs gonna h8.’
A group of suburbanites head out for a night of fun in this charming, wordless short by UK-based animators Remus Buznea and Kiki Kyriakou.
Recently returned after a long hiatus, Glove and Boots’ resident thespian Johnny T translates a scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet into Brooklynese with the help of director Fafa.
An excerpt from a 2008 Atlantic interview with director David Lynch, designed and directed by Jackie Lay. To wit:
A lot of artists think that suffering is necessary. But in reality, any kind of suffering cramps the flow of creativity.
