Rwanda and Burundi and Ministry of Sound

MINISTRY OF SOUND - J Majik & Wickaman ft Dee Freer 'In Pieces' (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Luke Jacobs on Vimeo.

This is a nicely found, thoughtfully edited and soulful video. I like it quite a lot.

Canada Astound Me

And dig around their Vimeo page for updates. They definitely make musicians much, much cooler.

The Bicycle Becomes Dance

Yes, this man can ride a bicycle, but the film making is the clincher. The production values of Cut Media showcase Danny Macaskill's talents brilliantly. It's very exciting to see epic films made for small budgets. The director has a good eye.

Canada Make A Mean Music Video

The makers of this NSFW video are Canada, and they're not Canadian. They are however now represented by Partizan and have done my favourite video of 2011 so far.

Canada (watch their whole reel at Vimeo)

Unkle & Spike Jonze Level Up

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This is the Skate video gone to the next level. It takes a minute or two to make sense, however, the extreme visual poetry is worth the wait.

The Killers MTV Stage Design

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I'm not a fan of the song but their stage show design at the European MTV Awards was fairly spectacular. Looks like fun.

I.O.U. A Plastic Island - Welcome to Tomorrow

Last night Barack Obama became the poster child of optimists the world over. It was a remarkable piece of history and he was not wrong when he stated that his election was not the Change that needed to be made. The Change still needs to be done.

Here are two Changes that need to be dealt with. They effect everyone. One is a problem of the USA, the other is a problem that is the World's.

I'm not posting these pieces just for their educational value, that's not what I'm about really. They are excellent, startling and scary presentations of BIG problems in graphic and compelling ways. I.O.U.S.A is a 30 minute free version of their film released as a public service. Obviously you can buy the rest of the content to get the real detail, but the precis is more than enough to start with. The VBS.tv documentary is distributed through their own digital channel that is ad supported (I'm not sure where the link is with Rockband (the game) and environmental meltdown, other than their ridculous packaging).

The content delivered for both is remarkable. Worth learning from and learning about.



I.O.U.S.A, the documentary explaining the United States 8.7 Trillion Dollar debt and it's implications has released a 30 minute cutdown on Vimeo. This is perhaps the scariest film since An Inconvenient Truth and you should spend the time to educate yourself on what it's about and what it means to your future. Words cannot explain the magnitude of the crisis, so they use pictures to help us understand.



VBS.tv have created a 12 part documentary of their journey to the island of plastic that sits in the Pacific Ocean. It is not a myth. It is not going away. This will change the way you think about plastic.

ps. Remember to Invest in Yourself.

Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home Cinematically

Creative Review Blog are hosting the initial screening of The Cinematic Orchestra's "To Build a Home" music video. It consists of 2 thematically linked tracks and is more of a short film than promo. It's done by Up The Resolution and it is a wonderful, sad film. There's also an interview with the creators.

CR: Two tracks could work as the soundtrack to a short film?
UTR: We believed so, yes. Beyond the obvious allusion to soundtracks in the band name, and in the music itself, there was a narrative theme (of love and loss) that ran through both songs lending them to being linked as a single story. The band had themselves commissioned an unmade film treatment for which these tracks were intended as a ‘score’, and whilst we didn’t read that script we were very sensitive to writing something sympathetic to the music and lyrics, and that was suitably moving, but (hopefully) not too mawkish or melodramatic.

Watch To Build A Home

ps. you may cry

Mystery Posting

A wonderful talk about Mystery awaits you.

Mystery Link

Michel Gondry says: "Be Kind, Rewind."

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I love this trailer and I cannot wait for the movie.