Joe Berkowitz of Fast Company's Co.Create writes: The history of Rube Goldberg contraptions in pop culture is long and convoluted, like the machines themselves. What it pretty much boils down to, though, is Peewee Herman’s breakfast and that OK Go video--two towering examples of the form...
Neal Ungerleider of Fast Company's Co.Create writes: The future of storytelling according to the Tribeca Film Festival includes robots, crowdsourced films, and interactive self-confessional documentaries. Last week, Tribeca held its Storyscapes program--a collection of five handpicked...
Graeme McMillan of Wired writes: Everything about a television pilot is stressful, because the entire future of the program rests on it. The people making them have to introduce the show’s characters, concept and voice without seeming like they’re trying too hard (or forgetting to...
Angel Tagudin of Art of the Title writes: After centuries of reflection, the oft studied character of Leonardo da Vinci continues to reign as the genius and archetypal Renaissance Man that we’ve always known him to be. Yet as familiar as the man may seem, the opening to Da Vinci’s...
Watch the full trailer for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring which features quite a bit of Emma Watson acting like a spoiled brat along with her teen thief cohorts.
The Bling Ring comes out in June.
Postproduction house Click 3X delivered a four-spot campaign promoting this year’s MTV Movie Awards, continuing a long run of successful collaborations with the network. Postproduction master Mark Szumski, who acted as Click 3X creative director, senior VFX artist and colorist on the campaign...
Photo credit: Carol Rosegg
Mark Wilson of Fast Company's Co.Design writes: One moment it’s the Egyptian desert. Another it’s somewhere deep in space, and another an ink drop unfurling in water. Then, the illusion of environments shrinks away completely, framing two...
Io Echo's interactive music video lets you use your cursor to maniplate the scenes by changing colors, unblurring imagery, adding in band members and more. The video was created by the developers behind Arcade Fire's The Wilderness Downtown.
Read more and see the video here on NOISEY.
NOWNESS writes: A furry beast cavorts on the shoreline as Hawaii becomes a psychotropic paradise after being given the CocoRosie treatment in the band's newest video release. Filmed by Mike Basich in the island state, “After the Afterlife” is taken from the forthcoming...
Ian Parker of The New Yorker writes: Noah Baumbach, the writer and director, has been more willing than most to think of his films of the past decade—about disappointment, broken families, dying pets—as comedies. When Greenberg opened, in 2010, the spectacle of Ben Stiller as a sour,...
