The first time I heard String Cheese was in 1999 and the music never stopped. This is a full show, take a bite, start anywhere you want. (minute 46, for example?) If you don’t know this jam band, listen in. They depart wildly from basic melodic structures and verses, opening up spaces for unforgettable creative vibes in motion, jazzy ripples circling juicy refrain patterns.
What’s that got to do with film, you say?
Andrew Fitzgerald from Twitter talks about short short stories & other hybrids coming our way.
Looking forward to miniature films?
This video is from a Himalaya Motocross tour. A father and son’s story with a warm tone and high stakes.
Our micro doc site docmob.net doesn’t yet contain any Go Pro films, but it has a free manifesto to download, that sets up the basic principles of making miniature documentaries 30 steps from mainstream.
Anybody out there making GoPro #DocMob films?
Subtext lets cinema imply without explaining.
Yesterday I found myself over-texted, covered in text, wrapped in credits.
The snap was by the visual artist Norman Kulkin.
A forgotten station emerges from under NYC, a metaphor for the magic power of reveals. We discover what was hidden and the range of our familiar spaces and sources expands. Read more on the blog that posted the story first, the cool travelettes.
This station is with us now, like a secret in a story revealed from the deep. Meaning is best not told, but discovered.
Take a good look at these two young actors in training at the MEISNER TRAINED teaching series in S.Francisco.
The scene work is lead by Meisner protege’ and Cinemahead friend Jimmy Jarrett. Click the blue link to view the short session.
http://www.themeisnertechniquestudio.com/meisner-trained-video/?vid_id=9883&sh=y
10 years ago an ad made a bold statement: EVERYONE IS A DIRECTOR.
Making of Sony Two Worlds from Spy Films on Vimeo.
In the 1960’s this statement would have been ludicrous. Directors were grand masters of a young art-form, explorers of the mystery of movement and the power of story. Directors, at least in Eruope, were an intellectual avant-garde at the edge of all the arts, carrying the torch of inspiration, talent, individuality, genius.
Cinema directors of that time were like shamans, a living conduit between universal questions and small human stories told in frame-by-frame detail. Films often reflected experiences that the mostly grown-up audiences could recognize and identify with.
In a film by Fellini or Kurosawa or Antonioni one could expect to get lost in magical worlds that other arts could not yet access. The master directors blended material, physical and spiritual dimensions in personal, unique manifestos. No other art-form could move so dynamically: the monopoly on moving images, virtual travel, urban escapism and human darkness and dream belonged to the cinema.
Directors held the power to unleash Freudian/Junghian shadow dark sides. The new release by Kurosawa or De Sica was awaited (in almost every country except the United States) with fervor, more than a Lady Gaga show today. Cinema audiences were mostly still unspoiled by a world of inflated, constant, omnipresent imagery and constant swift manipulation and pressure to buy, not think or feel.
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The Cinemahead logo is 12 years old. I made it with Alessandro Savoldi, creator of Talento Naturale. We had no specific symbol or metaphor in mind when we designed it, other than a modular logo for dynamic uses, project to project.
The morphed one you see here a is from a 2007 short film title sequence [Scratch] made by motion graphics artist Finn Deivert.
By now, you’re probably used to seeing Facebook “LIKE” buttons attached to content all over the Internet. The team behind CentUp wants to take that concept and monetize it — giving money to the people who create content as well as to charities. A few cents per person for a given blogpost can really add up when you think how popular some content gets. A $20 contribution earns you 2,200 cents for when the product launches!
CentUp is an intentionally simple button that lives next to all kinds of web content. It lets people toss a few cents at blog posts, photos, videos, and songs they really love. The kicker? Half that money goes to charity.
Click here to find out more about this project at indiegogo.com!
