LA 1.23.12
This photo was shot on a recent trip to LA where I was pitching some new projects over an action packed 48 hours.
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Room 237 – Rodney Ascher
Rodney Ascher explores the mystery and conspiracies surrounding Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining.
In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we are still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher’s film Room 237 is an exploration of the truths concealed in The Shining.
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Bear71 – Jeremy Mendes & Leanne Allison
Bear71 is an amazing project from Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison. Produced by the NFB, the project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Bear71 is a heartbreaking tale of a grizzly bear who after years of of being documented by wireless motion sensored trail cams is struck and killed by a train.
I co-created the installation as well as assisted with extending the social narrative of the project.
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Goldfish Salvation – Riusuke Fukahori
This is amazing. What a beautiful and breathtaking process and the results look totally real.
hat tip Dr. Dena.
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John Lennon sums up Elvis, Paul, Ringo, George and Bowie in a single word.
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Inside Apple Archives at Stanford
A look inside the Apple Archives at Standford.
via boing boing
In 1997, Apple gifted the Stanford University Libraries its historical collections of paperwork, hardware, software, artifacts, and other materials documenting the organization since Woz and Jobs founded it in 1976. The Associated Press toured the collection. No, it’s not available for public viewing.
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Visualizing 2011
A look back at the major events of 2011 using data visualization.
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Shit Year – Cam Archer
An actress finds herself adrift after she quits performing. Looking forward to checking this out. Visually stunning in parts.
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Slavery Footprint – made in a free world
Slavery Footprint is a site and mobile app that looks at purchases you make to determine amount of forced labor that’s gone into everything you own.
It’s not easy to be a socially responsible consumer. Even if you buy mostly local products and diligently keep track of corporate environmental footprints, you may still be leaving a trail of slaves in your wake. After all, who do you think is digging up the minerals in your smartphone or picking the cotton for your T-shirts? Slavery Footprint, a new website and mobile app that launched today (the 149th anniversary of the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation) can tell you approximately how many slaves have pitched in to make the goods you enjoy on a daily basis.
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You’re Next
Adam Wingard’s new flick You’re Next looks awesome. I was a fan of Pop Skull and this new horror / thriller looks to be genre eye candy. Fresh off a bidding war at TIFF the film will get a nice rollout from Lionsgate but you’ll have to wait to the fall 2012. Until then you can look at these cool shots from the film.
Family reunions can be a real bitch. All fun and amicable on the surface, yet underneath the tensions are ready to boil over. Welcome to the Davison clan’s opulent country house, where a get-together gets ugly and bloody — fast.
When Crispian Davison (A.J. Bowen) brings his new girlfriend Erin (Sharni Vinson) along to celebrate the wedding anniversary of his parents (Rob Moran and Re-Animator’s Barbara Crampton), the worst thing either of them expects is some awkward conversation and an inadequate supply of whiskey. But an evening of sibling rivalry and icy barbs at the dinner table is shattered when an arrow smashes through the window. Enter a gang of killers in animal masks, armed with machetes, axes and a crossbow, who begin to hunt the family down with brutal precision.
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, who shocked audiences at last year’s Festival with their lo-fi serial-killer thriller A Horrible Way to Die, return to the scene of the crime with this solid shriek show tailor-made for Midnight Madness.
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The Pack a.d. – Sirens
Love this heavy sound coming out of Canada.
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Robot Heart Stories
This fall I’ll be launching a new participatory storytelling project entitled Robot Heart Stories. At its core Robot Heart Stories is an experiential education experiment. Over the course of 10 days two classrooms in underprivileged schools (one in Montreal and the other in LA) will work together to help a robot make her way home using science, math, history, geography and creative writing. The project concludes with an actual space launch to the international space station.
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HAIL – Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Looking forward to checking this out. It’s Amiel’s first narrative feature and it seems as powerful as his doc work. Plus the lead is a former convict turned actor.
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Back to the Future – Irina Werning
Just stumbled onto this cool photo project by Irina Werning. Back to the Future recreates photos from your past using your current self.
PANCHO IN 1983 & 2010, Buenos Aires
MECHI IN 1990 & 2010, Buenos Aires
