not work related, but definitely sociologically related - Hipster Dinosaurs:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ihatedinosaurs/hipster-dinosaurs-ppz?ref=nf
"i remember when this volcano was dormant." that is going to be my next response when i hear somebody tell me that they remember when sonic youth used to play in their friend's bedroom...
- kt
30 September 2010
11 September 2010
15 films... (from facebook)
The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen Films you've seen that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what Films my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules ...
1. Dead Man - easily my favorite film. beautiful cinematography, haunting soundtrack, and a simple story told epically. plus, it's a western, and westerns usually bore me. so that's sayin' something!
2. Faces - John Cassavetes' tale of domestic boredom and collapse. brutal.
3. Trash - part 2 of Paul Morrissey's Flesh Trilogy. Joe Dallesandro plays a junkie that can't get it up, even though scores of women badly want him. plus, there's an odd love story mixed in there.
4. Totally F***ed Up - part 1 of Gregg Araki's "Teen Apocalypse" trilogy. written, directed, shot, and edited by him; with a 4AD soundtrack, to boot! this film was inspirational to me as i was graduating film school.
5. Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo's self-loathing love story, with Christina Ricci looking her best. shot on color reversal film, Buffalo '66 is one of the most technically beautiful-looking films of the late-90's. plus, VG's personality is so raw in this film, you can't help but feel both contempt and sympathy for him at the same time. he's easily one of america's modern film auteurs.
6. The American Nightmare - my favorite documentary. doc analyzing the societal influence upon american (and one canadian) horror films of the 1970's. Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw, Shivers, Last House on the Left... interviews with the directors, and a soundtrack by Godspeed You Black Emperor. "there's something about the american dream, and the realization that it's not the truth... that give american horror films an additional rage" - wes craven
7. Half Japanese: The Band that Would be King - my favorite music documentary. a 90-minute exaggerated fawning over an awesome indie rock band, Half Japanese. everybody in the film loves the band, but they all consciously amp up their praise to the level of the almost-absurd, with hilarious results that make you want to love the band, too. interspersed with some of the greatest "in-studio" footage ever shot of them covering a velvet underground song.
8. Sigur Ros: Heima - the most beautifully shot concert film of the Icelandic band, Sigur Ros. they play an album's worth of songs, each in a different location, all around Iceland: in a cave, in a town hall, at a swap meet, in a field destined to be flooded by a new dam, and in a huge outdoor theater. so beautifully shot and edited, it comes as close as a film can to capturing the magic that is their concert experience.
9. High School Confidential - film from the late 50's, where everybody talks beatnik. early appearance by michael landon and lots of tight sweaters and pointy bras. watch it, and you'll realize you were born too late.
10. The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke's first feature, and arguably his bleakest. based on a true story of a suburban family in austria that committed suicide. the first half of the film is simply a series of repetitive shots of domestic malaise, over and over again. then, the breakdown happens, with no conscious explanation. one can deduce that the malaise of life has left these people trapped and hating their lives so much, that they want to die. but, the film leaves that interp up to you, as they descend into chaos for the last half of the film.
11. J-Men Forever - a series of 40's serials, cut together and overdubbed, to create a story about aliens from the moon taking over the earth with weed and rock music. i've been told that my "excited" voice is a duplicate of the films villain, The Lightning Bug. so, i guess this film had the most effect on me, in a way.
12. Three Colours Red - Kieslowski's final film of the "Three Colours" trilogy, and his final film before he died.
13. Halloween 3: Season of the Witch - partially because it was filmed in humboldt county, i love this film. but also because it's a truly original plot - an evil toymaker decides to bring back the tradition of the holiday by exploiting consumer culture to buy his deadly halloween masks for a mass child sacrifice. and that's only part of the plot! plus, my personal fave soundtrack, by john carpenter.
14. Amateur / Henry Fool - 2 films by Hal Hartley, the first of which irreversibly shaped my taste in film; the second of which is his greatest film, in my opinion.
15. Everything Will be OK - short animation by Don Hertzfeldt, the first of a trilogy. tells the story of Bill, a man dying of something mysterious - but can really be read as dying of regret and loneliness. told through the simplicity of stick-figures against a backdrop of decaying photographs and film stills, i challenge anybody watching this flick not to project themselves onto the almost-featureless face of the main character and feel genuine sadness in the same way that Bill does.
(fuck it, i'm adding one more)
16. The Holy Mountain - easily one of the most epic films ever made. that's a word i use a lot; but that word pretty much describes what the Jodorowsky set out to make. a gargantuan-sized vision quest, incorporating characters from all aspects of humanity, striving to reach the top of The Holy Mountain at all costs. metaphor? yes, but so much more...
too many to choose from, so here are the ones that would've come next: Day of the Dead, Prince of Darkness, Videodrome, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hitcher, The Rules of the Game, Gentlemen Broncos, Vernon Florida, pretty much anything by David Lynch
1. Dead Man - easily my favorite film. beautiful cinematography, haunting soundtrack, and a simple story told epically. plus, it's a western, and westerns usually bore me. so that's sayin' something!
2. Faces - John Cassavetes' tale of domestic boredom and collapse. brutal.
3. Trash - part 2 of Paul Morrissey's Flesh Trilogy. Joe Dallesandro plays a junkie that can't get it up, even though scores of women badly want him. plus, there's an odd love story mixed in there.
4. Totally F***ed Up - part 1 of Gregg Araki's "Teen Apocalypse" trilogy. written, directed, shot, and edited by him; with a 4AD soundtrack, to boot! this film was inspirational to me as i was graduating film school.
5. Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo's self-loathing love story, with Christina Ricci looking her best. shot on color reversal film, Buffalo '66 is one of the most technically beautiful-looking films of the late-90's. plus, VG's personality is so raw in this film, you can't help but feel both contempt and sympathy for him at the same time. he's easily one of america's modern film auteurs.
6. The American Nightmare - my favorite documentary. doc analyzing the societal influence upon american (and one canadian) horror films of the 1970's. Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw, Shivers, Last House on the Left... interviews with the directors, and a soundtrack by Godspeed You Black Emperor. "there's something about the american dream, and the realization that it's not the truth... that give american horror films an additional rage" - wes craven
7. Half Japanese: The Band that Would be King - my favorite music documentary. a 90-minute exaggerated fawning over an awesome indie rock band, Half Japanese. everybody in the film loves the band, but they all consciously amp up their praise to the level of the almost-absurd, with hilarious results that make you want to love the band, too. interspersed with some of the greatest "in-studio" footage ever shot of them covering a velvet underground song.
8. Sigur Ros: Heima - the most beautifully shot concert film of the Icelandic band, Sigur Ros. they play an album's worth of songs, each in a different location, all around Iceland: in a cave, in a town hall, at a swap meet, in a field destined to be flooded by a new dam, and in a huge outdoor theater. so beautifully shot and edited, it comes as close as a film can to capturing the magic that is their concert experience.
9. High School Confidential - film from the late 50's, where everybody talks beatnik. early appearance by michael landon and lots of tight sweaters and pointy bras. watch it, and you'll realize you were born too late.
10. The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke's first feature, and arguably his bleakest. based on a true story of a suburban family in austria that committed suicide. the first half of the film is simply a series of repetitive shots of domestic malaise, over and over again. then, the breakdown happens, with no conscious explanation. one can deduce that the malaise of life has left these people trapped and hating their lives so much, that they want to die. but, the film leaves that interp up to you, as they descend into chaos for the last half of the film.
11. J-Men Forever - a series of 40's serials, cut together and overdubbed, to create a story about aliens from the moon taking over the earth with weed and rock music. i've been told that my "excited" voice is a duplicate of the films villain, The Lightning Bug. so, i guess this film had the most effect on me, in a way.
12. Three Colours Red - Kieslowski's final film of the "Three Colours" trilogy, and his final film before he died.
13. Halloween 3: Season of the Witch - partially because it was filmed in humboldt county, i love this film. but also because it's a truly original plot - an evil toymaker decides to bring back the tradition of the holiday by exploiting consumer culture to buy his deadly halloween masks for a mass child sacrifice. and that's only part of the plot! plus, my personal fave soundtrack, by john carpenter.
14. Amateur / Henry Fool - 2 films by Hal Hartley, the first of which irreversibly shaped my taste in film; the second of which is his greatest film, in my opinion.
15. Everything Will be OK - short animation by Don Hertzfeldt, the first of a trilogy. tells the story of Bill, a man dying of something mysterious - but can really be read as dying of regret and loneliness. told through the simplicity of stick-figures against a backdrop of decaying photographs and film stills, i challenge anybody watching this flick not to project themselves onto the almost-featureless face of the main character and feel genuine sadness in the same way that Bill does.
(fuck it, i'm adding one more)
16. The Holy Mountain - easily one of the most epic films ever made. that's a word i use a lot; but that word pretty much describes what the Jodorowsky set out to make. a gargantuan-sized vision quest, incorporating characters from all aspects of humanity, striving to reach the top of The Holy Mountain at all costs. metaphor? yes, but so much more...
too many to choose from, so here are the ones that would've come next: Day of the Dead, Prince of Darkness, Videodrome, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hitcher, The Rules of the Game, Gentlemen Broncos, Vernon Florida, pretty much anything by David Lynch
24 August 2010
music video completion
just finished checking out the final color-correction for a music video i directed for Isis. this primary ideas of this video were "epic" and "end of civilization" - and, more than ever, i feel like i was able to capture those ideas succinctly and beautifully. as soon as it's available for public consumption, i'll post a link here...
10 June 2010
ISIS dedication piece printed on NBC Bay Area website
a piece i wrote on Isis and their farewell tour was printed at the following link - enjoy, and please vote! the more votes, the more likely they'll keep printing stories like this in the future:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around-town/events/Isis-Calls-it-Quits-95795659.html
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around-town/events/Isis-Calls-it-Quits-95795659.html
13 May 2010
Bootleg TV Archives - Vol. 5 - KMFDM (well, MDFMK)
10 years ago, I co-produced, shot and edited rock concerts in Seattle, WA. for a living. a dream job, that i still do today (less pay now, but i get to choose the bands)!
the company was called Bootleg TV, and its initial purpose was to shoot and edit live shows, in full cooperation with the bands. the original idea was to stream these shows on the web, followed by whatever the artist wanted to do with the recordings. basically extending the power of the live show, and keeping it in control of the artist. Two to three camera shoots, professional soundboard mixes, and a non-MTV, "from the audience" aesthetic. credits for the shoots are in the info of each youtube clip.
i think we were just a bit too early for this idea in 2000 - back then, web video was still in its infancy - well, more of a toddler, really. now that today's technology allows for easy viewing of anything and everything, i figured it was time to bring these videos back, in a way that is similar to what was imagined back then.
here is Volume 5 - just one clip to show, but it's action-packed! the group is KMFDM, the industrial metal powerhouse. the place is The Palace, in Hollywood, CA (the Palace is now Avalon, for you LA folk).
on this tour, they reversed their name's letters to MDFMK - they'd just reformed after their breakup, with a new line-up, so it appears they were looking to try something new. the new name didn't last long, and they went back to KMFDM after this tour.
the song is "Adios" - look for the the little boy in the red shirt, intensely headbanging; and check out the insane fans attacking Gregory, our cameraguy, in the parking lot!
to view all of the posted clips so far, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/scourgetv#p/c/A0B5045E6E8514F0
the company was called Bootleg TV, and its initial purpose was to shoot and edit live shows, in full cooperation with the bands. the original idea was to stream these shows on the web, followed by whatever the artist wanted to do with the recordings. basically extending the power of the live show, and keeping it in control of the artist. Two to three camera shoots, professional soundboard mixes, and a non-MTV, "from the audience" aesthetic. credits for the shoots are in the info of each youtube clip.
i think we were just a bit too early for this idea in 2000 - back then, web video was still in its infancy - well, more of a toddler, really. now that today's technology allows for easy viewing of anything and everything, i figured it was time to bring these videos back, in a way that is similar to what was imagined back then.
here is Volume 5 - just one clip to show, but it's action-packed! the group is KMFDM, the industrial metal powerhouse. the place is The Palace, in Hollywood, CA (the Palace is now Avalon, for you LA folk).
on this tour, they reversed their name's letters to MDFMK - they'd just reformed after their breakup, with a new line-up, so it appears they were looking to try something new. the new name didn't last long, and they went back to KMFDM after this tour.
the song is "Adios" - look for the the little boy in the red shirt, intensely headbanging; and check out the insane fans attacking Gregory, our cameraguy, in the parking lot!
to view all of the posted clips so far, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/scourgetv#p/c/A0B5045E6E8514F0
06 May 2010
Bootleg TV Archives - Vol. 4 - Peter Murphy triple feature
10 years ago, I co-produced, shot and edited rock concerts in Seattle, WA. for a living. a dream job, that i still do today (less pay now, but i get to choose the bands)!
the company was called Bootleg TV, and its initial purpose was to shoot and edit live shows, in full cooperation with the bands. the original idea was to stream these shows on the web, followed by whatever the artist wanted to do with the recordings. basically extending the power of the live show, and keeping it in control of the artist. Two to three camera shoots, professional soundboard mixes, and a non-MTV, "from the audience" aesthetic. credits for the shoots are in the info of each youtube clip.
i think we were just a bit too early for this idea in 2000 - back then, web video was still in its infancy - well, more of a toddler, really. now that today's technology allows for easy viewing of anything and everything, i figured it was time to bring these videos back, in a way that is similar to what was imagined back then.
here is Volume 4 - i am a day late, so i decided to add an additional video to the usual two. plus, i couldn't decide which of these vids to cut out, so my indecision means more enjoyment for you:
"Final Solution" contains some hilarious backstage footage with Peter and the band before the band. "Disappearing" contains one of the simplest and coolest on-stage props i've ever seen. and, of course, a rousing rendition of "Cuts You Up." enjoy!
to view all of the posted clips so far, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/scourgetv#p/c/A0B5045E6E8514F0
the company was called Bootleg TV, and its initial purpose was to shoot and edit live shows, in full cooperation with the bands. the original idea was to stream these shows on the web, followed by whatever the artist wanted to do with the recordings. basically extending the power of the live show, and keeping it in control of the artist. Two to three camera shoots, professional soundboard mixes, and a non-MTV, "from the audience" aesthetic. credits for the shoots are in the info of each youtube clip.
i think we were just a bit too early for this idea in 2000 - back then, web video was still in its infancy - well, more of a toddler, really. now that today's technology allows for easy viewing of anything and everything, i figured it was time to bring these videos back, in a way that is similar to what was imagined back then.
here is Volume 4 - i am a day late, so i decided to add an additional video to the usual two. plus, i couldn't decide which of these vids to cut out, so my indecision means more enjoyment for you:
"Final Solution" contains some hilarious backstage footage with Peter and the band before the band. "Disappearing" contains one of the simplest and coolest on-stage props i've ever seen. and, of course, a rousing rendition of "Cuts You Up." enjoy!
to view all of the posted clips so far, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/scourgetv#p/c/A0B5045E6E8514F0
28 April 2010
Iron Man 2 Red Carpet Premiere
shot the red carpet event of Iron Man 2, for marvel.com, on 26 April 2010. being a Marvel Comics fan since i was a young'un, and being in the middle of the carpet chaos in the center of hollywood definitely made it one of the more thrilling work days in recent memory.
Shot for Upstairs Film, hosted by Tamara Krinsky.
Shot for Upstairs Film, hosted by Tamara Krinsky.
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