Here is the beautiful short film Dennis by Danish filmmaker Mads Matthiesen. The film stars Danish bodybuilder Kim Kold who does an amazing job as Dennis. This might actually be his film debut which makes the performance all the more remarkable.
Happy weekend!!
I was going to post this as weekend viewing item but this video is blowing up everywhere. It is a short film called Moonboy by animation house MoreFrames.
Moonboy from MoreFrames on Vimeo.
A short film about a boy who wishes for better things.
This is the new video from Jay-Z featuring and produced by Swizz Beatz. The video was directed by Sam Brown. I wasn’t a big fan of the song but the constant rotation has gotten me used to it. I really like the video though. I am having fun and shaking my head reading all the posts online about how the symbolism of the video is proof of all the internet chatter around Jay-Z dabbling with the “dark side”.
Image courtesy ecolabelling.org
Leonard Lopate had a great show explaining explaining eco-lables in all of their confusing manifestations. I learned so much about about things I assumed I knew. Enjoy.
I was really surprised by how this moved me. Here we go again: nostalgia. This is Jay-Z’s Rhapsody commercial for “The Blueprint 3″ which comes out on 9/11/09. Supposed to look like one shot, he goes through different lighting setups and staging to seamlessly present tableaux (yeah, I know. couldn’t think of another word though) of all of his CD covers. Even though the covers seemed blah at the time, seeing them all took me back to the very specific times each CD came out and what was happening in my life and in NYC at the time. every cover had an impact.
If anyone knows who produced or directed this please drop me a line or leave a comment. Thanks.
The AP is reporting that writer E. Lynn Harris passed away today. According to his publicist Laura Gilmore, he died at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.
He was 54.
I was never really a fan but can’t deny his huge cultural impact. He was everywhere in the 90s – on the bus/subway, campuses, hair salons, . . . He proved those of us who assumed his career would be super-short wrong. His audience kept growing. He kept at it and ended up with a very lucrative body of work. I just looked over this body of work and didn’t realized how much he had managed to produce very consistently. He will be missed.
His Work
Invisible Life (Self published: 1991; Mass market: 1994)
Just As I Am (1994)
And This Too Shall Pass (1997)
If This World Were Mine (1998)
Abide With Me (2000)
Not a Day Goes By (2000)
Got to be Real: Four Original Love Stories (2000)
by Colin Channer, Eric Jerome Dickey, E. Lynn Harris and Marcus Major.
Any Way the Wind Blows (2002)
A Love of My Own (2003)
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir (2004)
I Say a Little Prayer (2006)
Just Too Good to Be True (2008)
Basketball Jones (2009)
Mama Dearest (Oct. 2009)
Broadcast legend Walter Cronkite died today at 92 in New York City.
What an appropriate symbol for the 40th anniversary of Stonewall and the day before gay pride. The rainbow over Brooklyn was incredible! The one picture I should have, but didn’t take, was all the people who were taking the pictures of the rainbow.
My cousins and I must have watched The Making of Thriller (and the Billy Jean performance at Motown 25!!!!!!) a million times. We dreamt that we too could get to the heights that he set. He got Michael Landis, Quincy Jones and Michael Peters to help him realize that BIG vision and they really did their thing and created magic. It was one of the early things that pulled back the veil of filmmaking for me. It was one of things that make me want to be a filmmaker. Let us put aside the Jesus Juice and Jesus Blood for a second and remember the legend.
I Wanna Be Where You Are
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLu6lHHSXg[/youtube]
Rock With You
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c[/youtube]
Thriller
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-TZnNXXQrI[/youtube]
Beat It
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqxo1SKB0z8[/youtube]
Smooth Criminal
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex30DYwQlHU[/youtube]
We Are the World
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM[/youtube]
Ah . . . to be a fly on the wall.
Apparently, the richest people in the US had a secret meeting in New York earlier this month to talk about poverty and philanthropy. The group included Oprah, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner and Michael R. Bloomberg. That was apparently $125 billion in one room.
The headlines related to this got me all suspicious and paranoid about what was being planned for the rest of us mere mortals. Because I am so gullible though, when I saw Oprah’s name included I was like “Oh, it must be all for good.” I would love to know what exactly was discussed and what had to happen to make the meeting a reality. Also, that menu must have been amazing!
Check out the ABC News report on it here. Drop me a line if you got your info and you went. Or if you were able to sneak in.
