TO LIVE & RIDE IN L.A. OFFICIAL TRAILER
Trafik presents The Official Trailer for To Live & Ride In L.A. (toliveandrideinla.com) Over a year in the making, To Live & Ride In L.A. is the first feature-length film about L.A.’s underground fixed-gear culture. Directed by David Rowe (Fast Friday) and produced by Tim Jieh & Rick Kleinsmith, the documentary explores a side of Los Angeles few outsiders have ever seen. To Live & Ride In L.A. features talented local riders tearing up the streets with first-time visitor Keo Curry (Fast Friday, Macaframa), one of the living legends of the sport. From races through rush-hour traffic to midnight loft parties, To Live & Ride In L.A. is a fast-paced trip through the busy streets and back-alleys of one of the world’s largest cities. The second feature film from David Rowe, To Live & Ride In L.A. will challenge viewers’ perceptions of a city better known for its paparazzi, fake breasts, and traffic jams.
The soundtrack for To Live & Ride in L.A. highlights top artists from record labels such as Dangerbird Records (dangerbirdrecords.com), Dim Mak Records, Anticon, SWTBRDS, and I Heart Comix and includes music by Silversun Pickups, Hot Hot Heat, Bad Veins, The Willowz, Minus The Bear, Bambu, DaVinci, Crown City Rockers, Datarock, Kid Infinity, Sea Wolf, From Monument To Masses, Darker My Love… and more!
TRAFIK is a group of creatives who love biking the streets of L.A. and the world. From Japan to Australia, Europe to South Africa, urban fixed-gear cycling has become a symbol of a new generation that isn’t afraid to bomb hills, split lanes, and defy norms.
To purchase tickets for the BFF screening on Sept. 3rd….
brownpapertickets.com/event/124195
THERE’S ALWAYS A PARTY!: CAMERABAG.TV TOASTS PHOTOGRAPHER BRAD ELTERMAN
discosalt is really excited about a new website called Camerabag.tv. The site toasts both emerging and established photographers, adding a new photographer profile each week and giving an intimate glimpse into their work spaces and tools of the trade.
This week, the site features a really cool piece on BuzzFoto founder, legendary rock photographer and discosalt fav and friend, Brad Elterman; a photo guru whose edgy, often raw and raunchy photos you’ve most likely been subliminally consuming in books, magazines and TV since you were born. Now, Camerbag.tv gives you the opportunity to peep Brad’s workspace through videos and stills, learn about his arresting life as a photographer, his camera arsenal, favorite photos, the “Golden Rule” of concerts!, and get a really neat preview of his new limited edition book project which we are anxiously awaiting the birth of some time this fall. As always, check back with discosalt for updates on the release.
CLICK HERE to watch the interview with Brad, or check out some photos from Camerabag.tv below and remember, there’s always a party!:
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Q + A: HOLY HAIL
In a slightly sweaty room, with a decrepit skylight and a drum kit, I met Kevin Cooke and Jesse Sposato of Brookyn based Holy Hail. They are one part rock, one part electronica and all parts awesome. We were there to discuss Holy Hail’s recently released EP’s, Education Through Music, strong hands, dead birds, short attention spans, Morrissey, the glory of touring and their take on Brooklyn’s music scene.
Two years after releasing Independent Pleasure Club, Holy Hail are back with a new sound and a new EP, The Dying Party, which they released for free in collaboration with Education Through Music, a non-profit org. that initiates music education programs in New York City and California.
DISCOSALT: How did you end up releasing “The Dying Party” for free with RCRD LBL?
KEVIN COOKE: It’s something that we had talked about for a long time, just doing something for free for a cause…and we had a bunch of songs and knew Eliot from RCD LBL, for like, years. We checked out Education Through Music, and checked out their people, and stuff like that.
JESSE SPOSATO: yeah, we’re not asking for money, but if you wanted to pay for it…
DS: That’s awesome! Music Education seems to hold some real weight for you guys. Were you band geeks growing up?
K&J: Noooooooooooooooooooooo
K: that’s maybe part of the reason [for the charity]
J: I tried, but I wanted to play the drums when I was in the 3rd grade, this is my favorite story because it’s so instrumental to what wound up happening, but my teachers were like, “no, your hands aren’t strong enough” which I feel like just means “you’re a girl”.
K: Are hands strong? Like a big muscular hand (laughing) like a six pack on your palm.
J: I don’t know, but I can picture myself sitting at this table and they were feeling my hands, and they were like “no, you can’t do that” and I was like fuck that, I didn’t want to play anything if I wasn’t playing the drums, so I just didn’t play anything.
DS: But you did end up learning the drums.
J: I just taught myself years later, I kind of dabbled a little bit in high school and college, I don’t know. I borrowed a friend’s drum kit after college and sort of decided to start a band with two of my girlfriends.
DS: That’s really cool. And how did you become a musician [Kevin]?
K: Just like in college. I was a film major, and I think every film major secretly majors in film to start a band. I didn’t know how to play. I sort of just bought a bass and started playing.
J: You bought a bass with fake blood on it (laughing)
K: Which I still have!
J: It was from ebay or something?
K: Then I got bored of bass and started playing keyboards and stuff like that.
DS: Let’s talk about the new sound for a bit. The band has really evolved on the new album. I read an interview with Cat and there was a lot of talk about what genre your music falls into. There is a lot more guitar than on the first album, and I was wondering how that came about and what the plan was?
K: Yeah, no plan. I think it was just boredom. I think there is a really short attention span in this band. We’ll do one genre that we’re all into, then get kind of bored and start to get into something else and listen to it, and be like we should do something like THAT! There was never a conscious decision to get away from rappy dance music with more guitar. It was just a friend of ours that lived here was a guitarist and we were like: you should come by and play with us. And it got more “guitar” and more melody… I think.
J: Yeah, because there wasn’t guitar before. I feel like when the lineup changed the sound changed too.
K: Yeah, totally.
J: yeah, it started out being me Kevin, Cat and Andrew years ago. Then for years it was Kevin, Cat, Michail, and Matt or Alex. Then it switched from no Matt and Alex to me and Mike. So, I guess naturally it was a different sound.
DS: Now, you guys released another EP on Pseudoscience recently, which I was trying to do some research on…. they are a little elusive.
K: Yeah, it’s a friend who’s an artist and mostly works with galleries and stuff and wants to start a boutique label
J: we’re the first band on his label. He just started it, and wanted to start in time to put out our record.
K: We were writing and recording with no plan, at a pretty fast pace. Like, the songs were accumulating. So we were like, yeah, we’ll throw these out…and we’ll throw those out.
DS: So, it wasn’t a conscious decision to release two EPs as opposed to a full length record?
K: Well, originally we were going to do one looooong record, and then we had this idea: that it was, like, the folk songs and, then, the pop songs. When we were recording, we realized that we didn’t like the way the pop songs were coming out. Then we re-recorded them, which became The Dying After Party EP.
J: The first ones were already done and we liked those, because we recorded with 2 different people the first time. We sort of liked how one batch came out but for the other ones we’re, like, we don’t know if THAT’S what we were going for. So, we put the first ones out and waited… and then re-recorded the other ones.
DS: Who is the band recording with?
J: We usually record with Josh Clark at Seaside Lounge. He’s pretty awesome.
DS: You can hear a lot of different influences in your music. Are there any bands or musicians that have shaped your sound? What are you listening to now? What are your old standbys? And what’s the band’s favorite?
J: I was just editing this interview, I have a magazine called “Sadie” that our friend Mihail did with Shannon Funchis; she is in a lot of bands, like a Light Asylum and Rose Parade, TVOR, !!!. And, I’m just obsessed with her right now. She’s a huge thing. She’s someone I really appreciate for her music and spirit. Yeah, her band Rose Parade and Light Asylum are really awesome.
DS: All Brooklyn based bands it seems.
K: Yeah. And I think at the time, we were all listening to Ariel Pink a lot. Like every other “indie” is always saying…
J: But it’s been for, like, a while. We all consistently like them.
K: Its one of the few bands that we all agree on. But then, I think Fleetwood Mac is a huge one we always have gone to, since we started.
J: Yeah, that’s a good one.
K: And then our friend’s band, another brookyn band, Desert Stars. The first time we saw them and played with them, we were just, like, blown away! And I think secretly, we took certain ideas from them.
J: Kevin just saw the last night at Cake Shop.
K: They are fresh on my mind.
DS: I actually saw a show at Cake shop the other night. There was not one, but two female drummers.
J: It’s becoming pretty common.
DS: A mini phenomenon. Seems another phenomenon with Brooklyn bands right now, is the heavy influence of 90’s music.
J: Shannon was just talking about that at the magazine.
DS: Oh yeah, tell us about the magazine.
J: Um, yeah. It’s called “Sadie” and it’s a counter culture magazine for young women and we’re trying to pick up where Sassie left off. It was this, like, really amazing magazine that existed when I was a teenager,or maybe when I was younger, like, junior high or something. They were a teen magazine that wasn’t like Seventeen or YM or whatever. They introduced RiotGrrrl to readers and all of these punk alternative concepts. And that was the only thing like that when I was a kid. So, we sort of want to give young girls all the stuff that I wished I had when I was younger. There was like one magazine ad that was it. So we want to be the voice for young girls, to get into cool stuff early.
DS: That’s a really cool concept.
K: Yeah we’ve all known each other for a really long time and we are all kind of connected through the magazine. Mike and I, and Cat have written for it and do articles and stuff.
J: We might start a label through the magazine, that’s our new plan.
K: Our “brainchild”
J: We just came up with the concept yesterday.
K: I was thinking about a label for a while, I don’t know why I didn’t think to attach it to Sadie.
J: Our publicist sort of suggested that, too. So, we were, like, yeah; that makes sense.
DS: So, one thing that I always read about you guys is that there are some pretty strong messages in your lyrics. Can you talk a little bit about what messages you are sending, maybe let us in on your favorite songs or some things that are really meaningful for you?
K: Forever, it has been a rule between me and Cat that we would make it some kind of political message. You know, each song had something that we were reading about and what we were doing at the time. The newer stuff, we just sort of stumbled into writing about people that were close to us, or that we knew who had died. Which is sort of a rock cliché, but we sort of got into it.
So yeah, we’ve never been light on lyrics. I think a lot of times the songs have started with lyrics. [If] We want to make this really interesting we should start with something that impacts us. Yeah, it’s always been a rule. Lyrically, we are going to come out with something big. Sometimes it comes off as pretentious or whatever…
J: but its almost like you have this platform and you have the opportunity to do whatever you want with it, so you might as well try to get out a message. If you have strong beliefs about anything, that are important to you, it’s such a great platform to get that out there; through music.
Ds: Favorite song?
J: I think I really like “Keymaker Summer”. I like the imagery of that guy that the songs about. Maybe you [Kevin] can describe what that’s about? I feel like you know more because you wrote it.
K: That was another death tale song that we had. A song that I’ve always looked up to is “Life’s A Bitch” by NAS. It blew me away! It came out when I was a kid….Days Of Metro. It meant a lot to me because my friend was shot a couple of years ago, who I grew up with. My best friend when I was really young. Like kindergarten and first grade. Yeah, those lyrics are pretty simple and repetitive, but it was exactly what I was feeling when I found out.
DS: Have some of your real life experiences leaked into the imagery in your music videos? In the video for “Feels Like Forever” there is this dead bird imagery.
J: I knew you were going to say the dead bird thing.
DS: What was the concept behind that video?
K: I had been pushing for a Coney Island video for a really long time. It’s another New York cliché but its pretty, you know, before the summer comes and it’s desolate. It just looks awesome. And there were a couple of videos in particular that I wanted to feel like that. So, I talked to the director and Jesse’s boyfriend (who makes films) shot it and they just totally got it. I wanted it to be melancholic like that, “Every Day Is Like Sunday” Morrissey video, where its sort of, like, you spend a mildly mundane day with someone. Which, I think, is really awesome.
DS: So how do the birds fit in?
J: The birds were….We found those birds.
DS: Oh, so they weren’t staged?
J: No, those were there and we were like: this rules!… and we should add this to the video. I think that’s sort of the whole point of doing the Coney Island video. The natural scenery is so amazing that you don’t need to do anything.
K: Yeah, It’s mostly improv. Just on what we saw. There was scouting, but mostly, it happened that day.
J: Yeah, there’s just so much amazing stuff there I feel like.
DS: There is another amazing locale in the video for “Carry On”. Where did you shoot?
K: Big Surr. Mike was just driving through and he shot it. It’s not an “official video”. It was my birthday present from him. He was driving in Big Surr because he’s a gallery owner and he was checking out artists on the West Coast, and he shot it out the window.
J: It’s kind of “unofficial”, but its pretty.
K: It looks awesome, and I feel like, it feels, the way the song feels.
DS: One of my favorite Holy Hail songs is “Antioch”. Any inside scoop on the meaning of those lyrics?
J: It’s an awesome song. I love the lyrics in Antioch.
K: the lyrics are kind of funny….its fiction. We’ve played Memphis a lot, and Cat kind of grew up in Memphis and we have a lot of friends there. So, we just came up with this idea of a Memphis insane asylum. It is one of the few fiction songs that we have. It’s the idea of someone in this insane asylum not getting along with people.
DS: You were most recently on tour with Florence And The Machine. How was the whole tour experience and how long did the tour last?
K: It was awesome! It was pretty short, less than a month. It was great, she doesn’t like to have extensive tours so she just played the major market cities. Every city we went to was really awesome
J: It was really fun. We have friends in a lot of cities and stuff, so that just made the experience really nice.
K: It was vacation-ish
J: We had a goal every day, but there was always stuff, like staying with our friend Laura in Seattle… and we had the best meal ever! It was an Ethiopian restaurant. It was just insane. It was like eating in someone’s kitchen. We had those [types} of experiences in a lot of places.
K: And we got to play with Florence in awesome places.
DS: What was the crowd response like?
K: It was really good. Florence is like a star, y’know? She’s got her audience and they are devoted. She got the Brit award right before we went on tour. And we were just thinking: are we going to be too fucking weird or something? And our first show was Philly and I felt completely uncomfortable. And then we played, and it was great. The crowds were pretty much great the whole time.I mean not to toot our own horn, but we had a really receptive audience. I think mood wise we fit her fans.
DS: I’ve heard a lot of tour stories and I’m guessing there must have been some trying moments.
J: There was once…oh god!, I don’t even know how to say it….
K: I feel like we are not going to get into it…we lost gas a certain moment and it didn’t prey on our best emotions at that moment.
J: I did it, it was me. I ran out of gas in Ohio, and the turn out was…eh.
K: Not what we hoped for… [all laughing]
DS: I’m guessing that’s all I’m going to get out of you guys on that. So, what’s on the horizon for the band? Anything you want to share with Discosalt’s readers about upcoming projects in the works?
J: No, not really…
K: We are pretty much on haiatus….we’re burnt out. We’ve been vaguely talking about doing a couple shows in London, but we aren’t sure that we’re going to do them.
…15 minutes later, I got an email from Jesse. She and Kevin have recently started another band called Love Tribe. It’s a combination of a bunch of bands that they’ve been in and they are excited and want people to know about it. As soon as they record some song’s, Discosalt will have an Mp3 for you!
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-Rachel Covert
NEW VIDEO FROM YEASAYER: MADDER RED (STARRING KRISTEN BELL)
After watching Yeasayers new video for “Madder Red” directed by Andras Nilsson and starring the incredibly adorable Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars/Party Down, I’ve almost forgiven Bell for being the voice of Gossip Girl. Watching her play opposite a amorphous bleeding oozing, one eyed ball of flesh whom is suffering, is infinitely less painful than listening to her narrate the lives of fictional upper east side brat packs. You can’t help but love her here. “Madder Red” along with “Ambling Alp” and “O.N.E.”, makes the third bizarre video from the band this year; equal parts unsettling, sad and amusing. Great song, strange video.
GET STACKED: AT THE WHITE RABBIT W/ DJ EPIDEMIC
STACKED #9 is taking on THE WHITE RABBIT w/ DJ Epidemic (AZ)!!!
This week, the scallywags behind Stacked #1-8 will be jumping ship and setting sail for the White Rabbit on East Houston. You have no doubt walked by it a million times and apparently they have a freshly tuned sound system as well, which is begging for something nasty. Enter Stacked, bringing out Arizona’s Best DJ, Epidemic, for a special NYC appearance!!!
THE DETAILS:
– $5 vodka drinks 10pm-1am and 2 for 1 beer 10pm-12am*****
– Guest DJ Epidemic (Arizona’s Best) *****
– The party’s hosted by (Pretty) Girls & Lasers, Slouch and Chris Alker
– It’s at White Rabbit, 145 East Houston (btwn Forsyth & Eldridge)
– The party starts at 10pm and goes la
ESOTERIC TRAVELER’S LANDSCAPE PHOTO NARRATIVE
West coast photographer Anthony George Noceti has just assembled a new series of landscape photo narrative’s on his website Esoteric Traveler. The images are taken from within vehicles along Anthony’s travels with a low resolution digital and 35mm camera. Read what Anthony has to say about his work:
“Conveying a detached and voyeuristic presence, the mode in the Esoteric Traveler is that of a passenger moving through an every changing landscape where the notion of reality is blurred. An onmiscient sort of being, the passenger is more of an implied character who does not take part in the narrative, but only relates it to the viewer. In this sense the narrative takes on a feeling of esoteric projection, wherein the traveler leaves the physical to explore a greater realm.”( Esoteric Traveler)
Check out some of our favorite images below:
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JEREMY & CLAIRE WEISS’S DAY 19
Jeremy & Claire Weiss are far and away my favorite husband and wife photography team (ok, maybe the only one i know of) but they are two of the hippest photographers on the West coast with an amazing portofilio that dips into portraits of musicians, directors, actors, friends, hipsters and the girl next door. Based out of Los Angeles, CA, the couple, who also go by the name of their photo studio Day 19, have put together a really amazing portfolio for you to check out. They work on composition using light and shadows to create simple, highly stylish images that can take you right inside moments of real comfort or high energy. Their work has been featured on the covers of Nylon and Paste and they have shot portraits of a slew of musicians, film makers and actors from David Lynch, Jack Black, No Age, Slash, Devendra Banhart, The Black Keys, Rivers Cuomo to Billy Corgan. The list goes on and on.
Visit their website or check out some more of our favorite images below:
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THIS WEEK FROM ROOFTOP FILMS: PROFESSOR NIETO REANIMATES A CHICKEN LIVE AND CAPUCINE
Rooftop has an event coming up this week that you dont want to miss: for one night only Professor Nieto will perform one of his infamous experiments live at this Thursday’s Rooftop Films show!
During his illustrious career as the world’s first mad scientist filmmaker, the Professor has documented the education of filmmaking monkeys, taught Brazilian bugs to play soccer, and created mice that multiply like earth worms when cut in half. Though his ambitious experiments don’t always go as planned, they never fail to amaze and flabbergast.
Now, at Thursday’s Rooftop show, the Professor will attempt to reanimate a chicken… Will it work? Don’t you want to be there to find out?
Following the Professor’s experiment, we will screen Capucine, his fascinating look at the life of a genuine filmmaking monkey.
Learn more about Professor Nieto’s mad experiments here:
http://rooftopfilms.com/blog/2010/07/mad-scientist-filmmaker-professor-nieto-live-at-rooftop.html
CAPUCINE: FILMMAKING MONKEYS AND OTHER RENEGADES
Crazy characters who make their own rules, as cake-addicted cranks, Rambo-revering detectives, and an actual filmmaking monkey. Plus a live experiment by mad scientist filmmaker Luis Nieto. In this program of short films, as Sean Sharpstone says, “rules to take a backseat to justice, and justice rides shotgun, ‘cuz that bitch is blind.”
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/31-capucine-filmmaking-monkeys-and-other-renegades
When:
Thursday, July 29th
8:00 p.m. Doors Open
8:30 p.m. Live music by Family Portrait
9:00 Films Begin
Where:
On the Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
G to Fulton, C to Lafayette, 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or B,M,Q, R to Dekalb
ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES: MUSIC FESTIVAL AND DOCUMENTARY
Last year, Future Cinema in association with Warp Films presented a documentary film called All Tomorrow’s Parties, directed by All Tomorrow’s People and Jonathan Caouette. The film documents the history of the long running All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Festival, which is often described as a “post-punk DIY bricolage.” The film was created by both fans and musicians who attended the festivals, with Super8, camcorders and even mobile phones. There are some great performances from Grizzly Bear, Sonic Youth, Battles, Belle and Sebastian, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savy Fav, Fuck Buttons, Iggy Pop, and the list goes on and on. Check out some trailers and don’t miss the next ATP festival this September in Monticello, NY. Details below:
All Tomorrows Parties are presenting an upcoming ATP festival in New York On Labor Day Weekend: September 3,4 and 5. The Festival takes place at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, NY. Three days of unbelievable bands performing, with Sunday’s acts selected by indie director Jim Jarmusch.
Here are the details so far:
Friday– Dont Look Back day: a day of bands playing beloved albums (Iggy and the Stooges do Raw Power, Sleep do Holy Mountain, Mudhoney do Superfuzz Bigmuff + early singles, the Scientists do Blood Red River)
Saturday– Sonic Youth, Explosions in the Sky, the Breeders, Fuck Buttons, the Books, Papa M, and Apse.
Sunday (Jim Jarmusch’s picks)- Raekwon, Girls, Fucked Up, Vivian Girls, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wooden Shjips, and the Black Angels.
All three days will also feature DJs and Cinema presented by Criterion.
Full 3 day Festival Tickets are priced at $250 + booking fee for the weekend.
Friday day tickets are priced at $110 + booking fee.
Saturday day tickets are priced at $120 + booking fee.
Sunday day tickets will be available in March.
need a way to get there? Weekend and day Bus travel is available between Brooklyn or Manhattan. Just click here to buy!
FREE MP3: HOLY HAIL: RIVERINE
Holy sh*t, i mean Holy Hail this is good. Holy Hail are an electro/indie band out of New York that play dance music for smart people. They have toured with the Rapture, New Young Pony Club, Klaxons, Art Brut and Florence and the Machine. and you can grab a free track for “Riverine” off their most recent album The Dying (After) Party which was released a couple weeks ago. Check them out here:
GIRLS IN BIKINIS!…OH, AND MAYER HAWTHORNE: NEW VIDEO FOR “YOUR EASY LOVIN AINT PLEASIN NOTHIN”
Haven’t heard of eclectic Motown crooner Mayer Hawthorne yet? Well, you might remember him after watching his new video for “Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin'”. When I watched this the first time, I didn’t even realize I had my speakers off. But it doesn’t really matter. He could sound like Justin Bieber, and I’ll keep watching, so long as he keeps making videos with these girls in bikinis. This is sort of what goes on in my head on Friday afternoons…ok every afternoon, but now I can at least share it with other people. Except, I’m not sure what this guy in the suit is doing here? Respect to directors Jackson Perry & Henry DeMaio.
UPCOMING INDIE DOCUMENTARY: WELCOME TO DAYTROTTER
MFR (minneapolis fucking rocks) turned us onto this trailer for Welcome to Daytrotter, a feature documentary about the music blog / studio daytrotter.com.
“This film is the story of a small group of people and a singular idea: To build a website and recording studio right where they were, in Rock Island, IL, and invite bands to stop in to record a session. Over the last four years, more than 1,000 bands have passed through that little studio and recorded four songs to be given away free online, from then-emerging artists like Vampire Weekend and Blitzen Trapper, to veterans like Death Cab for Cutie and Kris Kristoffersen.”(daytrotter)
This is a real passion project that is still in the production phase and is being funded entirely out of pocket, so help get the word out and Donate here.
WATCH the trailer IN HD below:
PHOTOGRAPHER JASON TRAVIS WANTS TO KNOW: WHAT’S IN YOUR BAG?
Check out this new series of photographs by Jason Travis in the pretty self-explanatary photo project “What’s in your bag?”. You can visit Jason on Flickr or read an interview with him on Dashboard Co-Op. Who would have thought that guy would have a sandwich in his bag?
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WES ANDERSON’S SHORT FILM: HOTEL CHEVALIER
So, we realize that it’s been more than a minute since Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited was released in theaters, but we came across the 13 minute film prequal Hotel Chevalier this week on vimeo and were reminded how entertaining it is…also, we were reminded that Natalie Portman bears more than her acting chops in it. Meow. If you haven’t seen the short in a while, or yet, you can watch it in it’s entirety below, again…or for the first time. The entire short was shot in one hotel room in Paris where Jason Schwartzman’s character Jack Whitman and his x-girlfriend Natalie Portman break up in Wes’ signature style to Peter Sarstedt’s 1969 hit, “Where Do You Go My Lovely?”. The scene sets the tone and fills in some of the back story for Schwartzman’s character before he joins his older brothers on his spiritual journey to India in Darjeeling. Since we are rapping about movies, anyone seen this movie the Star Wars? Just caught it and I think it’s going to be huge too.
AUTUMN DE WILDE SHORT: LES ENFANTS S’ENNUIENT LE DIMANCHE ( THE CHILDREN ARE BORED ON SUNDAYS) WITH ELIJAH WOOD AND SHIRLEY MANSON
Ever since the Apples in Stereo video for “Dance Floor”, Elijah Wood keeps sneaking turning up wherever I look. Like when I am trying to buy new eyeglasses online or sometimes when I close my eyes at night, his beady hobbit eyes haunt my dreams . Is that weird? Well, most recently, Froto and sexy ginger starlet, Shirley Manson joined photographer and director Autumn De Wilde, to shoot a short film for Oliver Peoples 2010 campaign called “les enfants s’ennuient le dimanche (the children are bored on sundays)”. Lord of the Rings meets Garbage but with retro-inspired sunglasses, 1960’s “Mad Men” flair and a pretentiously long french title. Can’t picture it, just watch. Actually, Wood is pretty entertaining here and he gets to make out with Shirley Manson. He should always play Fred.
If this video has a bit of an indie music video feel to it, that’s probably because Autumn has been working with musicians for most of her career. She is most known for her portraits of Sonic Youth, Wolfmother, Willie Nelson and Ryan Adams, which have graced the pages of Spin magazine, Rolling Stone, Filter and Nylon. She has also photographed CD covers for Elliot Smith, Jenny Lewis, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Beck and Wilco, directed music videos for Elliot Smith, Spoon, Rilo Kiley, The Raconteurs and Death Cab and directed three live concert documentaries for the Flaming Lips, Spoon and Arcade Fire.
Last year, Autumn directed another short for Oliver Peoples called “Catch a Tuesday” featuring another celeb who haunts my dreams (but in a different way) Zooey Deschanel (call me) , oh and some guy, Matt Costa. (Jack Johnson label? dreamin’) Watch it below:
FREE MP3: SOFT LANDING SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM THIS FALL
Soft Landing, the trio comprising Beirut’s Paul Collins & Perrin Cloutier, along with Mike Lawless, are self-described as “a bunch of Jorge Ben wannabees” and are releasing their first album this October. Soft Landing began as a recording project by Paul Collins. Between finishing school and touring the world with Beirut, he never really had time to focus on his project. After a month long tour in Brazil, Beirut took a break. It was then that he grabbed Perrin Cloutier (Beirut) and Michael Lawless (Paul’s college friend). Soft Landing, the band, was born. Knowing that free time like this never lasts, the band would practice almost everyday. In January, they drove out to Chicago, and recorded their debut record with Griffin Rodriguez (Icy Demons). The record is currently being mixed, and will be out soon. All of Paul’s songs seem to pull together multiple influences. From Jorge Ben to Arthur Russell, it’s all in there. The beats are huge, the electric guitar is liquid, and the acoustic relentlessly propels the rhythm. Yet, the bands ultimate goal is to make honest music that suits the players playing it.
MP3: SOFT LANDING- “MIC CHECK”
SOFT LANDING has a couple shows coming up at the end of July.
IS THIS FILM OKAY?: GIA COPPOLA’S SHORT FILM STARRING JASON SCHWARTZMAN AND KIRSTEN DUNST
So, it’s no Godfather epic here, but Gia Coppola (Francis Ford’s granddaughter, Sophia’s niece) joined the Coppola clan behind the camera to direct a short film with Tracy Antonopoulos back in February called Non Plus One. Its a simple five minute boy meets girl story here to promote Opening Ceremony, set to the song “Is this Sound Okay” by cousin, Jason Schwartzman’s band Coconut Records, which also stars Jason, along side a very cute Kirsten Dunst. Taking cue’s from Goddard, this is sort of a low budget French new wave tribute. Not too much to sink into here, but it does leave us curious as to what Gia and Tracy will churn out next.
Tracy has some other work on vimeo including aother boy meets girl story called “The Corner” starring Sara Goldstein and John Eatherly which you can also check out below:
VISUAL ARTIST BOBBY HILL HIDES OVER $50,000 ON NYC STREETS AND TRAINS!
It seems as if there’s a grandiose game of hide n’ seek being played in NYC and no, I’m not talking about the kind played by grade school children in summer camp (although that’s fun too). Since July 2nd 2010, pedestrians and subway riders have been pleasantly surprised to find limited edition “Bobby Hill Multiple Original Art Prints” during their commute throughout the city. Each of these unique works of art is conservatively valued at $50 apiece (not considering prices increasing over time), which means Bobby Hill is dropping over a cool $50,000 in total on the unsuspecting folks of the 5 boroughs.
Internationally known visual artist Bobby Hill has created 1000 limited edition Multiple Original art prints to celebrate his one-man show, “BHILLBOARDS” (pronounced: billboards), which opens this upcoming 9/11, for two nights only in NYC during Fashion Week. The exact location will be announced August 31st via Resetuniverse.com and to those who RSVP. The original prints, which currently features images of Bob Dylan, Bob The Builder, and a special one of Muhammad Ali, were individually handcrafted by Mr. Hill on found corrugated cardboard. These pieces will continue to be strategically placed throughout NYC until September 10th, 2010.
The lucky few that find one, will have a unique work of art that lasts a lifetime and the opportunity to bring it to the Bhillboards Artshow to get it signed. In addition, the first 250 guests to the arrive at the show will receive a NYC 9/11 inspired “Bobby Hill Multiple Original Art Print.” For more info, visit www.resetuniverse.com or www.youtube.com/resetuniverse.
BHILLBOARDS is never resting on your laurels, never living off yesterday’s victories never taking anything for granted and always pushing the envelope by putting your best on display for the world to see. Bhillboards is determination multiplied by vision. Bobby Hill, Resetuniverse.com, NYC… Bhillboards.
FREE MP3: COOL RUNNINGS: WHEN I GOT HIGH WITH YOU
Cool Runnings, the band out of Knoxville, not the Doug E. Doug vehicle, is the brainchild of Brandon Biondo (Royal Bangs) and Forrest Ferguson: a collaborative project between two front men that benefits from the creative contributions of all eight members of the band. On their new EP, Babes Forever, they drop their southern roots and bring a real west coast vibe with some “tasteful” California alt-nudity cover art. Clinching the lead for best album art of the summer.
Check out a free MP3 below:
Cool Runnings: When I Got High With You MP3
or download Cool Runnings’ Babes Forever EP here.
and…if you need to get your mind off that cover art, here ya go. I couldn’t resist:
"you have punk rock, you have rock, you have blues, you have soul, it’s all disco.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOsztgBE-I
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