Winner of Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards 2012 We’re exited to bring you our review of the brand-new interactive book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lesmore. Design and animation is done by ex-Pixar designer William Joyce, also known from Toy Story and A Bugs Life. Morris Lessmore is a humorous … Continued
Björk stepped out of her comfort zone – if you can call it that – by adding the fascinating realm of musical interactivity to her signature mix of music, art, fashion and performance. The Icelandic siren beckons you into her evocative nebula of vector-esque graphics, where you create your own soundscapes by manipulating Björk’s musical … Continued
Indie games! Another succulent fruit to be plucked from the bountiful tree of digital emancipation. Amazing superbots who might be a little too *special* for the air-tight chambers of Sony or Microsoft, create their own video games and distribute them online without having to deal with bothersome, besuited bigwigs. One such renegade genius is Edmund … Continued
Thaw out with this honey-hued Take-Away Show of Josh Rouse, the exquisite Nebraskan pop-folkalist, bringing music to the sun-dappled streets of fair Barcelona. Just the latest offering in a gloriously limitless supply of raw, spirited music moments from the likes of Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire and hipster of hipsters Tom Jones, on La Blogotheque – … Continued
Aah the sweet naïveté of vintage commercials! A time when copywriters were poets, creative directors humble homebodies, and consumers preferred their consumables frozen and laden with E numbers. This digital archive of vintage television commercials is a fun way to reflect on the grandiose growth of the advertising industry – and it’ll whisk you into … Continued
Stemming from the Internet Dark Ages of 1996, UbuWeb started as an experimental platform for “Concrete and Sound Poetry” (don’t ask), and has since expanded to become the go-to site for all things rare and avant-garde. From recordings of Frank O’Hara reading some New York poems, to video paintings by Brian Eno (image), the site … Continued
The UK Film Council has launched a film search engine that covers everything from A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971 spaghetti Western) to Zizek! (obscure cultural theory documentary). Part of a push to steer the masses away from peer-to-peer file-sharing and towards the legal alternatives, the website contains 30 000 films – that’s roughly 7 … Continued
Tate Online, the website of the well-known museums in the UK has a nice collection of video reports. Plenty of artist interviews, performances, discussions and specials features like TateShots and Tate: Remixed. The latter is a digital media collaboration between B3 Media and Tate. Four spoken-word artists and filmmakers were commissioned to produce a series … Continued
Have you ever been gripped by the urge to watch an army of kilted, bagpiping Scotsmen circa 1899? How about some 1940s erotica seductively named The Apple-Knockers and the Coke? We’re guessing no on both counts, but with 70% of footage shot in the first fifty years of cinema now lost forever, this user-friendly collection … Continued
Like a ghost town, the relic that is the RESFest website lives on, leaving no trace of human activity since early 2007. The sudden discontinuation of tour dates is the only indication that something went horribly wrong on this otherwise fully functional website. With 10 quality years of exponential growth behind them, RESFest had established … Continued
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