The Arts
Coelacanth Dreams Of Lung
by Nick Glossop on March 24, 2011
Photographer Daniel Lee depicts the ascent of man from coelacanth in twelve shots that get creepier as they get closer. Check out the gallery at Bored Panda.
Using Photoshop software to combine human portraits with animal features, Lee creates composite digital images that are startlingly lifelike. Though image editing tools make such overt manipulation possible, they also allow subtle yet powerful adjustments that are completely invisible to the viewer…
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Rug Cop – Steaming Mad At Crime
by Nick Glossop on March 24, 2011
Via Dangerous Minds
For further martial arts of lunacy, I refer you to the Goodies of 1975 and Ecky Thump.…
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New Diamond Rings Video “It’s Not My Party”
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on March 23, 2011
Beautiful new video from Toronto’s Diamond Rings, directed by Jeff Scheven (of Lioness). Enjoy!
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Dept Of Dozing And Doodles
by Nick Glossop on March 23, 2011
(notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo.…
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Bass with Soul
by Malcolm Parker on March 23, 2011
For the average audience, the credits tell them there’s only
three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren’t interested in.
I aim to set up the audience for what’s coming;
make them expectant.Saul Bass
As you may have seen in a previous post about titles in movies, Saul Bass was the man: …
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Rango Kicks Rooster Cogburn In the Hoolies
by Nick Glossop on March 21, 2011
I’m with Roger Ebert on this; Rango is brilliant. As a western, as a meta-western, it wipes the floor with True Grit in terms of characters, adventure, setting, dialog, humour. Like Galaxy Quest it works both as a satire and as a straight up film of the genre it is riffing off. This is a film for people who love films, bristling as it is with nods and winks to …
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So close, faraway
by Malcolm Parker on March 21, 2011
Hong Kong is just over there, a pleasant train ride for a few hours. It is another world from Guangzhou, but then it’s another world from any other city I’ve been to. It thrums and bustles like no other place – New York was slow and spacious when I went for a visit. But the canyons of buildings and gleaming shops give way quickly to lush mountains and quiet islands …
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True Blood Season 4 Teaser
by Tony Longworth on March 20, 2011
Here’s a little (slightly spoilery) tease of for Season 4 of ‘True Blood’. The new season starts June 12, 2011. Enjoy!
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Bite-Sized Oscars
by Nick Glossop on March 19, 2011
Having worked my way through the shortlist of 60-second remakes at the Jameson Empire Awards 2011, I am now prepared to cast my ballot. At a very close second is this ingenious, somewhat Edward Gorey, Inception.
But my number one is this claymation Exorcist by Lee Hardcastle (loved his Eraserhead too). The balance was tipped by the Evil Dead reference, and by the line:
Your mother stacks shelves at
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Dept Of The Atom
by Nick Glossop on March 18, 2011
The Louvin Brothers ~ Great Atomic Power
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