24/08/2009
23/08/2009
CoH - Iron (2000)
"Dedicated to Vadim 'Mark' Kosolapov and heavy metal fans all over the world" - Ivan Pavlov. Released on Wavetrap.
22/08/2009
The Art of Noise - Moments in Love (1983)
Original video directed by Zbig Rybczynski. Produced by Trevor Horn and The Art of Noise.
British Government - Protect and Survive (1980)
Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. This poster was photographed inside the decommissioned Kelvedon Hatch RGHQ Nuclear Bunker in Essex, UK. visit the source HERE.
The Human League - Path of Least Resistance (1979)
Original line up live television performance from 1979. Top !
The Synthi Group - Volume 1 (2009)
"The Synthi Group have honed the original pioneering spirit and DIY ethic of EMS with their Volume series, a collection of sounds encompassing
beautiful dreamscapes, synaesthetic visions, dark ambience, aural
abstractions, sonic absurdities, pulsating analog, glitch,
ring modulators, and envelope shapers generating trapezoidal geometry" Various artists compilation utilizing the famous E.M.S Synthi. Read more and download the compilation for free HERE.
21/08/2009
Winchell Chung Jr - Rockets and Space ships Comparison
[1] Giraffe: 6 meters/20 feet
[2] City Bus: 12 meters/40 feet long
[3] Small Orion Drive ship: 21 meters/70 feet
[4] Millennium Falcon: 27 meters/90 feet (Star Wars)
[5] Polaris: 43 meters/140 feet (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)
[6] Moonship: 44 meters/144 feet (Chesley Bonestell Conquest of Space)
[7] Luna: 46 meters/150 feet (Destination Moon)
[8] Arc De Triomphe: 49 meters/160 feet
[9] Orion Drive Mars Exploration Vehicle: 50 meters/165 feet
[10] United Planets Star Cruiser C-57D: 51 meters/170 feet wide (Forbidden Planet)
[11] Nautilus: 51 meters/170 feet long
[12] Space Shuttle stack: 56 meters/180 feet
[13] Absyrtis: 60 meters/197 feet (G. Harry Stine Contraband Rocket)
[14] Boeing747: 72 meters/232 feet
[15] RS-10: 73 meters/240 feet (Andre Norton Star Born)
[16] Ferry Rocket: 84 meters/280 feet (Collier's Magazine, 22 March, 1952)
[17] Statue of Liberty: 93 meters/300 feet
[18] DE-51 Destroyer Buckley: 93 meters/306 feet
[19] Saturn V: 102 meters/335 feet
[20] DY-100 Botany Bay: 111 meters/365 feet (Star Trek)
[21] California Redwood: 112 meters/367 feet
[22] Discovery: 113 meters/370 feet (2001, A Space Odyssey)
[23] Romulan Bird of Prey: 131 meters/430 feet (Star Trek)
[24] Great Pyramid of Cheops: 140 meters/500 feet
[25] Oscar class submarine: 154 meters/500 feet
[26] Galactic Cruiser Leif Ericson: 169 meters/554 feet
[27] Washington Monument: 170 meters/560 feet
[28] Klingon D7 battlecruiser: 228 meters/750 feet (Star Trek)
[29] LZ-129 Passenger airship Hindenburg: 245 meters/800 feet
[30] BB-62 Battleship New Jersey: 270 meters/887 feet
[31] NCC 1701 Starship Enterprise: 289 meters/950 feet (Star Trek)
[32] Eiffel Tower: 324 meters/1060 feet
[33] CVN-65 Carrier Enterprise: 336 meters/1101 feet
[34] Empire State Building: 444 meters/1500 feet
[35] Al Rafik: 102 meters/335 feet (Attack Vector: Tactical)
Read the source HERE.
20/08/2009
Harold Cohen & Aaron - Aarons's Garden (1989)
Aaron's Garden, pen and ink drawing plotted by Aaron in 1989. "Aaron" is a "personal expert system" that Harold Cohen developed for generating art. "Aaron" consists of Harold's coded program of generative drawing procedures and a flat bed pen plotter. Aaron's drawings of two figures in a garden recall the tradition of representing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Visit the source HERE.
19/08/2009
David Lynch "On the Air" (1992)
The year is 1957. A new program entitled "The Lester Guy Show" is debuting on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC). Most of the cast is nuts, the crew is incompetent and everything that could go wrong always does. Of course, this makes the show a hit.
While mixing the sound for an episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, Lynch was hit with a sudden inspiration. "It just came into my head, the idea of people trying to do something successful and having it all go wrong."
Following the initial success of Twin Peaks, David Lynch and Mark Frost were hot properties in Television. When they approached ABC with the idea for "On the Air," the network was eager to take them up on the offer. The show itself was a half-hour absurdist comedy featuring many of the cast and crew from Twin Peaks. The pilot tested very well, and six more episodes were ordered. However, by the time it came to scheduling the On the Air, things with Twin Peaks had already fallen apart, and the network was no longer eager to work with Lynch. "During that time everything was going belly up with Twin Peaks, and there wasn't any support from ABC for this show at all. They really hated it."
The series' broadcast was delayed and finally run during the summer, a time when most networks know people are away from their television sets, thus they dump undesirable shows then. Lynch knew the timeslot meant certain death for the show at the hands of the network. "I've heard that summertime is pretty much the worst time you can be on, but we're going on in summer. I've heard that Saturday night is the worst night of the week to be on, and we're going on Saturday night."
As expected, the show received poor ratings, and only three of the seven episodes were aired by ABC before they gave it the axe (all seven episodes were aired overseas however).
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50 mentalist film makers
Great article in September's Sight & Sound magazine on outré film makers
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49563/
"The Wild Bunch"
They make films that are uncategorisable, in which cinematic language, taste and even reality itself are bent to their will.....
Kenneth Anger (1930-)
Jane Arden (1927-1982)
Dario Argento (1940-)
Fernando Arrabal (1932-)
Alexei Balabanov (1959-)
Mario Bava (1914-1980)
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006)
Catherine Breillat (1947-)
Tod Browning (1882-1962)
Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)
Donald Cammell (1934-1996)
Vera Chytilová (1929-)
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)
Claire Denis (1948-)
Federico Fellini (1920-93)
Abel Ferrara (1951-)
Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976)
Alexei Guerman (1938-)
Wojciech Has (1925-2000)
Werner Herzog (1942-)
Imamura Shohei (1926-2006)
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1930-)
David Lynch (1946-)
Guy Maddin (1956-)
Dusan Makavejev (1932-)
Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945-1998)
Masumura Yasuzo (1924-1986)
Ma-Xu Weibang (1905-1961)
Miike Takashi (1960-)
Nakagawa Nobuo (1905-1984)
Gaspar Noé (1963-)
Ogawa Shinsuke (1935-1992)
Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990)
Sally Potter (1949-)
Glauber Rocha (1938-81)
Raúl Ruiz (1941-)
Ken Russell (1927-)
Jerzy Skolimowski (1938-)
Richard Stanley (1966-)
Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969)
Suzuki Seijun (1923-)
Jan Svankmajer (1934-)
Lars von Trier (1956-)
Tsui Hark (1950-)
Tsukamoto Shinya (1960-)
Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972)
Paul Verhoeven (1938-)
Wakamatsu Kôji (1936-)
Edward D. Wood Jr (1924-1978)
Andrzej Zulawski (1940-)
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