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Archive for September, 2006
Soderbergh's experimental build
Building No. 7 is Steven Soderbergh's experimental short, a homage to Godard's Alphaville. Amateurish iTunes visualizer shots spoil an otherwise intriguing urban-oneiric short.
Cornelius goes all sensuous
Arty montage and teaser clip for Sensuous, the eagerly awaited album by cult Japanese musician, Cornelius. Can't wait to see/hear more. [via jeansnow.
Tate Modern A New Renaissance lectures
Supernatural studios are in the middle of curating a series of lectures at the Tate Modern on visual effects, and computer animation. Inc. Johnny Hardstaff, Joe Letteri, Glassworks.
Cinema 2.0 vote
A Swarm of Angels is having its first voting day, as we ramp up the participation in the project and near the current 1000 member target.
Summer has seen a lot of behind the scenes work in terms of project evolution and media production. And we've made our first event bookings, doing a Remixing Cinema presentation at Bitfilm in Hamburg, and a script reading of one of the Swarm of Angels scripts at Cinecity, the Brighton Film Festival.
Top 20 VJs Vote
The poll for DJmag's Top 20 VJs 2006 is now open for voting. The annual contest is a great indicator of who is currently popping the most eyeballs in AVland. You have until September 25 to vote for your Top 5.
Democracy unleashed
Awesome open source internet TV and video player Democracy is nearing the first full 1.0 release with version 0.9 of the player launched this week.
Hyped $3M music video
Ridiculously shiny clip for Janet Jackson featuring Nelly, Call on Me. I've never really been a fan of Hype Williams, whom I see only excelling at squeezing record company budgets. Okay, he has a few redeeming seconds every promo clip or so; here, it is the bizarre apparition of a superbly incongruous pirate ship.
Woof Wan Bau webbed
Received an email from the enigmatic Nexus director Woof Wan Bau, to tell me his new site is ready for public consumption. Feast on videos for Four Tet, Mogwai, and Coldcut at woofwanbau.com.
