Keep It Fresh

It’s here…

Check out the hi-res version here.

-phil

The ever amazing Anton Corbijn’s “Control” opened in the IFI today. Corbjin’s first feature film (having previously photographed the likes of U2, Depeche Mode and The Killers), Control is a biopic of late Joy Division front man Ian Curtis and is based on the book written by Curtis’s wife entitled “Touching From A Distance“. The film stars newcomer Sam Riley (who funnily had a small role in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, a film which loosely follows the life of late Tony Wilson and his involvement with the Manchester music scene including bands Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays) as lead man Curtis and Samantha Morton (In America, Minority Report) as Deborah Curtis, his ever suffering spouse. Shot in stark black & white the film has the added appeal of all it’s cast members playing their instruments live. This looks like a must see for both fans of music and cinema. I’ll hopefully get a chance to check it out over the weekend but until then here’s the trailer.

-phil

Oh Sony Bravia let me count the ways…well there are two actually. Balls and paint. But number three is on the way, form of play-doh! So here’s the stats:

2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set
40 animators
3 weeks
189 2ft bunnies
150 1ft cubes
10ft x 20ft purple wave
30ft giant rabbit.
6 cameras.
40 animators working through 4 hours generated 4 seconds of footage.
40 animators working on the same scene had never been attempted before.
The 60 second spot will be constructed of approximately 100,000 stills.

What a generation we live in when adverts get teaser trailers and said trailers actually get me excited. Read all about the new bunny play-doh commercial by checking out bravia-advert.com.

Heres the making of video for the original bouncy balls ad which helped push Jose Gonzalez into the public domain.

-phil

Today, Amazon announced the opening of it’s digital music store, which will be the fine purveyors of high quality 256kbps DRM free mp3’s. This means that the general public can now buy high quality, fully legal music, which can be played on any commercially available digital music player, burned to a CD, copied, moved, or whatever else you care to do with it.

Albums will range from $5.99 to $9.99, with the Top 100 albums going for a paltry (when compared to the exorbitant prices of CDs) $8.99. Individual songs go for 89c to 99c, with the Top 100 songs going for 89c.

The reason that I’m excited about this is the twofold. Fold number one being that people are finally realising that DRM only hurts people who buy music legally. It does not and will never prevent piracy. The second fold being that the same people are finally realising that the reason people illegally copy music is because the artificially inflated price of €20 for an album is just plain crazy.

Unfortunately, the store is only available in the US at the moment, but if all goes well, I can’t see why the wouldn’t roll out a worldwide store soon.

Check out Engadget’s article here, and Amazon’s brand spanking new store here.

-Dave.

So after overing hearing a snippit of it while on a trip to a newsagents on Parnell Street, I remembered what a great track In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins is. My Dad was a big Phil Collins fan so there was always plenty of Genesis and Phil Collins knocking around the gaff. Anywho, I’ve been listening to In The Air Tonight a lot lately after my little newsagents experience when my cousin randomly sent me the following video. I don’t know how old it is or if it ever made it to TV but I think its very clever all together so enjoy.

-phil

http://www.culturenight.ie

It’s tonight, dontcha know.

Get this, there are FREE buses from such far flung places as trinity to temple bar. Get your stilettos out.

It should be a hoot though. Vodka in Coke bottles, anyone?

I like vodka

I dislike getting startled

_sarah_

I’ve decided to blog about the MTV VMAs.

It all started when 1 minute after Britney started and she was so shit that I thought I’d blog…. then I thought I might actually watch the show. Here goes… after the jump! Continue reading ‘MTV VMAs - Britney! & more…’

A word from one of my favorite design collectives:

“This weekends sees us bring together our biggest project to date. In a world first (please tell us if we’re wrong) we’ve managed to bring together some of the very best Irish and international creative talent to present their work at Ireland’s best festival Electric Picnic. In association with Topman we’ve programmed 30 hours of live presentations by leading artists, illustrators, directors, designers and musicians…”

Sounds like my cup of tea alright and I’ll be sure to check it out when I have some down time at the Picnic.
For more info on ‘Sweetness And Light’ event head to:
www.candycollective.com/sweetness_light // www.candycollective.com/epicnic_timetable // www.candycollective.com

-phil