The weather outside this morning inspired me to make this short winter movie (90 seconds).
[Snowy Morning – Flickr]
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Konflikt, (Conflict), is a 6 minute short film that re-enacts just about every boy’s childhood wargame fantasies—including the delicate operation of dealing with the dissonance that arises as one friend’s expectations don’t match the other’s imagination.
English speakers, be sure to turn on subtitles. Hit play or watch Konflikt on YouTube.
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Beatles Rooftop Concert
As often as I find myself listening to The Beatles, I haven’t seen much video footage of them playing (except from the Ed Sullivan show and in their movie, Help!).
Here they are, in colour, doing their most famous performance ever, The Beatles Rooftop Concert:
Hit play or watch The Beatles Rooftop Concert on YouTube. Also part 2 and part 3.
Over the weekend I had my first cross country skiing experience. Some friends and I took the Goat Creek Trail 19km from Canmore to Banff, and followed it up with a nice hot dip at the Banff Hot Springs.
Here’s a clip of my friend Duane zipping past the camera.
[Goat Trail – Flickr]
Footage by my friend Andy Davies.
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Her Morning Elegance
This gorgeous stop motion pixilation by Yuval & Merav Nathan, with music by Oren Lavie, might just help you get through your Wednesday blues:
Hit play or watch Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie at YouTube.
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NFB Online!
The National Film Board finally went online today. Canadian classics like The Log Driver’s Waltz, The Cat Came Back, and Neighbours are now in reach of the people they were created for, Canadians! (you other folks from around the world are welcome too).
They’ve included links to various social networking bookmark sites and enabled embedding. Here’s a 2008 movie by Murray Siple, Cart of Darkness, about “a group of homeless men in North Vancouver who’ve married their love of shopping-cart racing with their business of bottle picking.” (NSFW for language).
They still have some kinks to work out, like the embed code linked to the wrong video and it isn’t standards compliant by default (nobody else does that yet either)Â —Â but in general it looks like they’re on the right track.
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Backwards Beethoven
Not exactly backmasking, but close enough:
[Backwards Beethoven – Revver]
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The Remnants
The Remnants is a post-apocalyptic comedy written and directed by John August and stars Justine Bateman, Michael Cassidy, Ben Falcone, Ze Frank, Ernie Hudson, and Amanda Walsh. It’s now available in it’s full length version: The Remnants.
Shot during the WGA strike in February 2008, it’s unlikely that this brilliant work will ever be anything more than a pilot.
For the past few months, the pilot has been shopped around to advertisers and other possible sponsors, but given the economy and my schedule, it’s looking unlikely that a confluence of money and time will lead us to shoot more. So I wanted to let people see it, particularly because it features some actors who should be on more lists. Including Ze Frank, who is now an Angeleno.
The web series business model has proved tough for everyone to figure out. Yes, Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible was fantastic, but even that couldn’t get the ad sponsors it should have. Selling through iTunes is an option for someone with Whedon’s name brand, but I don’t see it working for The Remnants, even given the recognizability of some of the cast members.
I retained rights to do other things with The Remnants, so I certainly may come back to it at some point in some other form.
Check it out.
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Pork and Beans (alternate version)
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Fred Syversen’s 107 Meter Cliff Drop
Fred Syversen skiied off a 107 Meter cliff and set the world record—by accident. He lives to tell about it in this amazing YouTube video.
See also Fred Syversen’s full story.
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