Category: film-video
Cool video made from David Foster Wallace commencement address.
I made two trailers for my forthcoming book 1616: The World in Motion. The short one is a little over a minute long and has no voice-over narration….
The Danish Poet is a animated short film written, directed, and animated by Torill Kove. It is narrated by Liv Ullmann. Via Jason del Arroz.
I linked to this video on Friday, but it’s so hep it kept calling out to be embedded here. The scene is from the movie High School Confidential….
I don’t know what you call this — it appears to be some form of motorized paragliding. There were a couple of guys taking off from Anna Maria…
Before “upgrading” your Netflix instant-watch player, think about it. .
. via Robert Peake .
HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN) .
Jerry Levitan, working with direction Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and digital artist Alex Kurina, has produced an animated version of an interview he made thirty-eight years ago…
This is brilliant.
Russel Brown has an interesting sequence of tutorials on working with video in Photoshop. In part one he demonstrates combining two video sequences using a layer mask In…
Maybe it makes me a wuss, but I don’t care. I just have no interest in seeing violent films. Even though I host a blog about Mesoamerica and…
A Flickr set. via Swiss Miss
Most discussion of type in film centers on anachronisms — how could characters in a movie set in the thirties read materials set in a typeface designed in…
via India Ink
Two hours with Julio! (In Spanish.)
director’s comments via splodinvark
In New York Magazine Daniel Asa Rose quotes Annie Dillard as giving up writing: “I’m tired,” declared the 62-year-old Dillard, who says that she won’t be doing any…
Below is part one of the Disneyfied copyright video. I previously linked to part two — which proves the information must be reliable.