this guy painted by tatjana uhlmann.

a wonderful fictious animated trailer:



The director sez:

"A Kiss From Tokyo", Theatrical Trailer (1964) - Yuki 7 dashes around the world in hot pursuit of the tantalizingly tricky Diamond Eye, who is stealing parts and plans and leaving behind a path of murdered scientists in her quest to build a missile inside her volcanic lair.

I co-directed it with and for Kevin Dart. This animation is a part of a promotional event about the release of Kevin's new book, "Seductive Espionage, the world of Yuki 7" which will happen this summer.
Kevin produced the graphics and I gave them life in After Effects.

I tried to catch what was typical about the vintage look of the movies from this period. Lighting, grain, old school Special Effects (car chase in a studio with background projected film, miniature sets), editing, old fashion transitions, Music, etc... Cyrille Marchesseau created a great piece of music inspired by Laurie Johnson (The Avengers) and John Barry (James bond).

» stephane coedel on vimeo
» kevin dart
» cyrille marchesseau

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New York is a city that looks better from a distance. The gap can be temporal – the poverty of youth becomes, in time, one’s golden freedom – or spatial. A friend from Chicago complained that Manhattan lacked alleyways: in the summer, our garbage stunk and burned on the sidewalks. On the Brooklyn Bridge, the smell disappears, and all you can see are buildings massed at the edge of the island, the offices crowned with lights, glowing like bottles in a dark bar. The boundaries of other cities blur – at what point do the sprawling lights become suburb? – but Manhattan is an island, cut cleanly against the night. As pure image, New York is flawless: tidy, discrete, simple to hold in your mind, and for this reason particularly easy to romanticize. Emblem, icon, colophon: its skyline stands for a story.

» elizabeth gumport: in which nothing will cut new york but a diamond

» robert crumb in conversation with francoise mouly (via)

"the big picture" covers halloween:

» days of the dead

recently, there were some noteworthy releases on one of my favorite netlabels, berlin based resting bell. let me just point to at least two of them (and both make a great sunday evening head phones listening experience):

sergey suokas, a.k.a. slow, just finished a lovely ambient mini-album: dual box.





and then there are latvian ambient masters astrowind with a new full length release. kurland is a hauntingly beautiful audio journey. while some of their early releases lack a little focus from time to time, this could easily be called their masterpiece.