Saul Bass, The Solar Film
via Monoscope:
Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles and Ray Eames presents a rare glimpse of the Solar Film produced by graphic designer Saul Bass. The film was commissioned is 1980 by Robert Redford.
From the monthly archives:
January 2008
Online Viewing: Saul Bass, The Solar Film
MSNBC Debuts Embedded Player
It seems MSNBC really hit a home-run with it’s new embed-able player. Nicely designed, and the video quality might be the best of any of the networks’ offerings, rivaling CNN.
Online Viewing: Fora.tv
I’ve been subscribed to the Fora.tv podcast feed featured in the iTunes Music Store for a while, but I’ve never managed to check out the site (the feed is just excerpts). After spending a while browsing, I was really surprised by the amount of cool stuff they have archived. While the site is in dire need of a usability overhaul, and they could/should up the video quality a bit, it’s definitely worth it to spend some time browsing, especially if you’re a C-SPAN-type nerd.
Some videos of interest:
The Future of Music: Digital Rights or Wrongs?
Music, Technology, and Community
Miranda July, Becky Stark and David Byrne
Stefan Sagmeister: Creative Genius
Steven Pinker: Games People Play
William Gibson discusses Spook Country
links for 2008-01-10
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FCC to investigate Comcast’s bittorrent traffic-shaping
Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered
Near the top of my “favorite photographers” list is Julius Shulman, whose body of work is probably the preeminent documentation of Modernism in Architecture. I don’t know how I missed it, but Taschen released a three-volume retrospective of Shulman’s work in October 2007. Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered is personally curated by Benedikt Taschen and has 400+ photos in a beautiful, coffee-table-ish large format.
If you’re in LA anytime in January, be sure to check out Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles {EDIT} at the Getty Gallery at the Los Angeles Public Library.
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Video Art Miscelleaneous
_10 Best Music Videos of 2007 at Director File.
_Stan Vanderbeek: Symmetrics (1972)
_Cut up, Generative, and Distributed art project Sensation Container. Generating video pieces via EDL and Final Cut XML.
snstncntnrs is an open video project in the form of files that include a set of cuts described in a EDL and Final Cut Pro XML file. These cuts can be applied to any video using video editing applications
_Trailer for the Spanish horror film [REC]
(remade in the US for release in 2008.)
_David Lynch hates the iPhone? I have no plans to watch a film on mine, though. How about making some mobile-specific content? DON’T HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE GAME.
_Mary Ellen Bute: Tarantella (1940)
via Joao Ribas’ Expanded Cinema Blog.
Download Gene Youngblood’s influential 1970 book Expanded Cinema at UBUweb.
links for 2008-01-05
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A study on Fair-Use and user-generated content
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Nice, but no HD.
