Playwright Danny Thompson, co-founder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck, takes footage of Samuel Beckett wandering around Berlin in 1969, adds the theme from The Streets Of San Francisco and creates opening titles for the best, moodiest and most existential 70’s Quinn Martin cop show you never saw.
The episode title is Beckett’s own.
(Thanks Cúán MacConghail)
Dubmeister Mario Weinerroither neatly removes all the verbals from Barack Obama’s recent farewell speech to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Previously: Chandelier Without The Music
A short documentary about model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith and the wonderful world of Elgin Park – a meticulously detailed diorama series featuring miniature buildings and cars of the 1950s America brought to life with a hawk’s eye for detail and a nice line in forced perspective.
Now available in book form.
Related : A Model Town
John Barker writes:
…me and the lads at Press Record released a video this morning of Kormac’s Big Band with Vyvienne Long on vocals performing their song ‘Drown Me’. There’s a lovely cinematic feel to it. Kormac is playing the Choice Music Prize on March 5th.
Filmmaker Paul Parker puts the After Effects ‘echo’ tool to use capturing the flight paths of seagulls near his home in Cornwall.
Related: Flight Paths.
Last week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory marked its fifth year in space, generating one incredibly detailed image of the Sun every second, 24 hours a day.
Flare play, in flareness.
A 10K (that’s right) timelapse of the favelas of Rio De Janiero, showing the frankly preposterous resolution of the 80MP PhaseOne IQ180 camera.
Each shot is composed of hundreds of 80MP still images.
Each individual frame measures 10,328 x 7760 pixels.
Watch full screen in HD.
Valves – Hold the Reins
Moodily directed, tenebrously shot and darkly edited by Burschi Wojnar & John Stokes.
Gibsonorange writes:
We’ve just released the music video for our debut UK single. We are all Dubliners who moved to London last year to record and perform. Would love it if you could share. Release show takes place on Feb 28th at the Camden Barfly.
Bill Smith edits all the blah-blah out of an episode of Dr Phil, creating the mother of all awkward silences.
And her pregnant daughter.
