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This trip. Sensational. No, better. Sorta like a dream? I flew Air France from Paris to Copenhagen then back again. I listened to Air France on my headphones. They are Swedish and good. Air France (the airline) upgraded me to business class. I thought they were pretty good too. Then they lost my luggage and my worldly possessions. It was then I learnt the phrase, c’est la vie.
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How do you like the new The National album? It’s been growing on me. This video makes Bloodbuzz Ohio even more mellifluous. As Jess said in an email, “Sweet beard, excellent tailoring, feeding ducks. Fin!”
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Youth, summer, hopes and dreams. This is the video for the song Young Blood by Auckland band The Naked and Famous. It’s an apt name, I think know they have a grand future ahead of them.
The video was directed by Special Problems, who have this ethereal, glitchy, breathe-in-the cold-clean-air niche nailed. Another example? The music video they made for Sydney skate-rat Jonathon Boulet’s Community Service Announcement (he’s signed to the fantastic Modular label).
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Sometimes things just don’t go right. Shitty moods, flaky friends, mountains of study. What to do? My advice is to sit back and watch some videos of baby sloths. If you don’t feel better after watching this one, well then, you are a DEPRESSED ROBOT. Sorry.
Or for a more intellectual cheer up, watch and learn from this video:
Now I want to marry David Attenborough (swoon) and become a sloth farmer.
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I have a total soft spot for ridiculous 80’s movies, especially if they are set in THE FUTURE. In this case, the future is a post-apocalyptic year 2017 – Las Vegas is smothered by sand and outlaw is a popular career choice.
Cherry 2000 (dir. Steve De Jarnatt, 1988) is so bad it’s incredible. By the looks of it, we’ll be able to take robot wives, enjoy Kartell kitchens and have Larry Fishburne serve as our Glu Glu lawyer.
I love the outfits and interiors of the movie. Camp-tastic. If you’re ever flicking through the outer reaches of your cable subscription and you see this movie playing, stop. It’s well worth watching for the laughs, and a sneak peek at the guns we’ll all be toting in 7 years…
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Sony’s ‘Around The World In 80 Seconds’ video, directed Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit, makes me want to pack my bags and get on a plane with a camera in hand. Right now.
I love how the globe spins as the action moves across the planet: London – Cairo – Mumbai – Hong Kong – Tokyo – San Francisco – New York – London. The route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne book “Le Tour Du Monde En 80 Jours” and took 3 weeks to travel.
Lo fi, high impact advertising – over one million views already.
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Woo, volcanos! The recent volcano activity in Iceland* (Eyjafjallajokull?!) and the trip my parents just made to Tanna Island in Vanuatu (where they went to scope out Mt.Yasur) has captured my imagination. Here’s just a few of the VOLCANO inspired videos I’ve been watching:
Lava porn from National Geographic
Nat Geo also shows you an Icelandic volcano that reared its head in 2004:
Dante’s Peak This film made me never want to swin in natural hotsprings again. See also: the Volcano trailer.
Damien Rice sings the Volcano
The top 5 volcanic webcams. Beats puppies?
*Ooh look – someone has already made a tee…
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Logorama is short film directed by the French animation collective H5. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short. A deftly composed film. My favourite touch? The Evian mountains.
Cayce Pollard would have a conniption if she saw this.
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This made me giggle! As a teenager I was obsessed with short films, and eventually attended film school for a year. Of course, any good filmmaker needs a larger production company moniker, and mine was ‘Missing Limb Productions’. It was named for my pet axolotl Dragon, who had his left leg scarfed by his tank mate CinCin. (Aw, I miss making movies and my slimy little friends.)
Anyway; it’s based on a Craiglist missed connection, it’s succinct, and beautifully shot. Is This Your Limb?
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Iceland, wow. It’s just skipped into the top ten of the ‘places-I-madly-want-to-visit-next’ list. Make sure you watch it full-screen.
ICELAND from Gunnar Konradsson on Vimeo.
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Hello friends! I have just finished watching the Adventures of Milo and Otis and am high on cute.
It’s the tale of a pug, a kitten and the adventures they have. It starts on the farm… but Milo never listens to his mother. Here’s two of my favourite scenes:
Crab Attack
Otis Meets The Fox
Did you know that Milo and Otis is a Japanese made film and was released in English 4 years after the original release? Me neither! Did you know Dudley Moore was the vivacious and hilarious narrator? Not I!
While there has been some controversy over the use of animal actors in the movie, I still love this romp (and have done since I was 5). It’s a good film to watch from bed while hanging out in your pyjamas. Nostalgia rules.
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Burning question: Who do you want to be when you grow up? Fever Ray, Shirley Manson and the Pussy Cat Dolls all have uh, different dreams. I think when I grow up I totally want to writhe on some scaffolding, wearing combat boots. Possibly looking like Fever Ray.
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Dinner with Murakami is a 2007 documentary directed by Yan Ting Yuen about the life and work of legendary Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
“Largely structured round Murakami’s enigmatic absence, the film dramatizes Murakami’s impact on his readers and takes the camera into the hinterland to determine what is “Murakamian” in the Japanese landscape. The resulting film has a beautiful sense of form and poetic structure.” [Indie Flick Pick]
In the film everybody from groupies who hang outside Murakami’s old jazz club to schoolchildren, share their piece on the publicity shy writer. Norwegian Wood has been likened to the Nippon equivalent of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye; so it is unsurprising most Japanese people have a story to tell about their relationship with Murakami’s work.
See also: Imagine, a BBC documentary series. Alan Yentob goes on A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search Of Haruki Murakami.
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On Monday the inaugural Auckland Laneways festival is taking place in the city! Exciting! It might not be a sassy wee alley like St Jerome’s but Britomart will be rocking I’m sure. Here are a few videos I’ve pulled up in the last couple of days – bands I am gagging to hear live.
Black Lips – Bad Kids
The Black Lips live show is meant to be pretty badass – I’ve heard reports of band members pashing, vomiting and getting raucous on stage. Will they show Auckland a naughty time?
The xx – Crystalised
SEXY VOICES. Can they pull it off live? And will they duet with Florence?
Echo doesn’t want me to embed his 80’s gold, but here’s a link to the video anyway. The next video is very reminiscent of The Killing Moon aesthetic:
Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got The Love
Nearly a year ago I blogged about F&TM and now she’s playing here! Felicity commented on that post, and yay, you get to see her on Monday.
The Naked And Famous – All Of This
LOVE. All of this.
I’m working on the day as a writerly type person so say come say HI! - I’ll be lurking around a giant blackboard for Red Bull. (I would love to interview some people and get their thoughts on how the day is going!)
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