Available in iTunes: Issue #3 Discosalt Magazine
Before sketch comedy duo Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney fame and Fred Armisen of SNL teamed up to make Portlandia, there was Thunderant.com; a series of awkward moments, misunderstandings, well-intentioned failures, and celebrations of cluelessness. Watch the comedy side-project on the Thunderant Website or Thunderant on iTunes.
Tracing the steps of “grunge” from its subversive inception, to its global rise, to the multimillion pop culture phenomenon
Tracing the steps of “grunge” from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements to its global rise to the multimillion dollar pop culture phenomenon, HYPE! incorporates hilarious interviews with rare concert footage of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and The Melvins. Filmed over three years in 24 track digital sound, HYPE! casts a discriminating look on how the fuse was lit on the northwest rock explosion.
Watch the full film HERE
Photographer Mark Bramley spent 2 days in Tokyo with just his Canon 5D MkII, taking thousands of photos. Lost In Tokyo captures his unique urban cultural experience through timelapse of Tokyo’s busy metropolitan streets, subway trains and skyline.
As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all. In this episode of the PBS series Off Book, watch as Jon Cohen (Co-Founder, FADER Label), Ryan Dombal (Senior Editor, Pitchfork) Blake Whitman (VP of Creative Development, Vimeo) and Anthony Volodkin (Founder, Hype Machine) discuss these massive changes, and reveal how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality. Produced by Kornhaber Brown, with music from Flex Blur, Mindthings, Dub Terminator and Nestor Gonzalez.
Artists from Music Video Section:
Rihanna – We Found Love - vimeo.com/33123323
Miss Eaves – Diva Pop - vimeo.com/34415367
My First Earthquake – We Float - vimeo.com/31941995
Moullinex – Catalina - vimeo.com/19723907
Sleigh Bells – Riot Rhythm - vimeo.com/16668477
Keep The Heat
Morning Teleportation – Expanding Anyway - vimeo.com/14304059
Da Silva – Les Stations Balnearies - vimeo.com/33569324
Goose – Synrise - vimeo.com/20913850
Tim and Puma Mimi – Perspective - vimeo.com/11742651
DYE – Fantasy - vimeo.com/30798517
Dan Wholey – Amateur Rocketry - vimeo.com/29672263
Health – We Are Water - vimeo.com/10818338
Colours – Colourfornia - vimeo.com/26906724
Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin - vimeo.com/13639493
The Naked And Famous – The Sun - vimeo.com/27790801
The Limousines - vimeo.com/18665622
Flying Lotus – Kill Your Co-Workers - vimeo.com/15568767
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This New Year’s Day, Marina Bay Sands, a 55-story resort was chosen as the venue for the largest BASE jumping attempt in Singapore. Watch as seven professional BASE jumpers [Marta Empinotti, James Pouchert, Amanda Vicharelli, Anne Helliwell, Tim Mattson, Brendon Cork and Jeb Corliss] participate in this adrenaline pumping display against the futuristic Singapore skyline to welcome in the New Year. Skypark BASE jump was directed & Edited by Snow R. Shai with music from PowderTree and produced by extremegate.com.
Remember mopeds? Well they’re making a revival. Two moped gangs in Brooklyn, NY show us why the bikes, old and new, are still kicking around – and share a little bit about the elusive ‘gangs’ that ride them.
Born in New York, The Bicycle Film Festival has evolved hand in hand with the unprecedented boom in urban cycling internationally. From its roots in New York City, The BFF has grown into a multi-faceted, global event that will travel to over 25 cities this year, from Milan to Tokyo, Minneapolis to Sydney. In 2001 Brendt Barbur, Founding Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He was inspired to turn this negative experience into a positive one, and created a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film. The festival merges many creative communities, including fashion, music and art, as well as various bicycling communities – road cycling, mountainbiking, fixed gear, BMX, cyclocross – over a shared passion for bike riding. Watch above as Discosalt goes inside The Bicycle Film Festival’s headquarters in New York with its creator Brendt Barbur.
Shut Up And Play The Hits, a new documentary from Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, follows LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy over a 48-hour period, from the day of their massive “farewell” show at Madison Square Garden on April 2nd, 2011, to the morning after the show. The film is screening at the Sundance Festival later this month. Watch the trailer above.
Watch the first trailer of upcoming Wes Anderson ensemble film Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDorman, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton. Set in the sixties, Moonrise Kingdom was filmed in New England and co-written with Darjeeling co-writer Roman Coppola.
“Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.” [Apple Trailers]
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage…
Director Rick Meriki spent last summer making this compelling one-minute video called “Move” with two of his pals as they traveled to 11 countries over 44 days, walking through a dazzling variety of cultures, locations and images. The film was part of a three-film series of short subjects commissioned by STA Travel Australia, based on the concepts of movement, learning and food. Jealous? You have to watch this a few times just to absorb it all.
In 2005, music producer Hal Wilner staged an all-star tribute concert in Australia in which a handful of major artists offered their interpretations of Cohen’s songs, including Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and many more. This documentary offers an intimate look at the songs, poetry and life of the influential troubadour, Leonard Cohen.
Watch full film HERE
IFC is bringing back the 90′s…with another season of Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag) and Fred Armisen’s “Portlandia”. Watch the first season of the IFC original short-based comedy series on Netflix instant play or catch the second season premiere this Friday, January 6 on IFC. Then, celebrate with a nap, or put a bird on something.
Watch a full episode online right now, featuring Eddie Vedder and Jeff Goldblum and music from Washed Out.
Grab Washed Out’s title song from Portlandia “Feel It All Around”
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