Thanks to everyone who voted for us, we finished as one of the top 20 bands in the Fresh Films contest. That means we were eligible to have our music featured in any of the films.
Fresh Films Atlanta chose “Silence Broken” for their film “The Testimony of Saint Grey“. You can watch it online right now and vote for them as many times as you want! Voting for them is like voting for us, so get over there and make it happen. If they win this thing, that’s even more exposure for our music, which is always a good thing.
Click here for the Fresh Films website!
Then click on “FILMS” and then on Atlanta on the left to watch the film. Please vote for them too! You can vote more than once, so just keep voting as much as you have time for!
This video shows what could happen if a giant meteor hit the Earth. Anyone with a bit of common sense could tell you that giant meteors hitting the Earth is not good. But seeing it actually happen (or a simulation of it anyway) just shows how not good it would really be.
Unfortunately the narration is in Japanese, but on the YouTube page there’s a pretty long description of what’s going on. Here’s some of the good parts:
The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000 km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower… The earth’s crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called, “Earth’s crust tidal wave”. There is 1km width of the rock, and it flies to the sky it by the impact. The impact surges to the Japanese Islands and, as a result, the Japanese Islands are crushed. The splinter of the crushed rock easily exceeds the height of 1000Km. After exceeding the atmosphere it reaches space. Afterwards, the splinter of the rock falls again in surface of the earth. The edge of Crater completed by the collision of the meteorite is 7000m in height. It looks like a huge mountain range. The diameter of Crater has 4000Km. Crater is big to swallow a part from Guam to a Chinese continent. But, it was only an introductory chapter of the tragedy that would start in the future…..
http://www.youtube.com/v/3JHdYBet_4Q
First of all, I ripped this idea from kottke.org. Not that anyone reads this thing anyway. But if you do and you’re about to cry “ripoff”, the line to collect your $0.00 refund forms to the left.
Anyway…
Some film critic I’ve never heard of published his list of “201 Movies You Need To See Before You Die”
I’m not sure that I’ll care that I haven’t seen The Maltese Falcon when I’m dead and buried. According to this guy though, it’s pretty important. Either way it looks like I have a lot of movies to watch if I want to keep up.
Here’s his list, with the ones I’ve actually seen in bold.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 1/2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Bambi
The Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Red One
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
Blade Runner
Blowup
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
Carrie
Casablanca
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
The Crying Game
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Heaven
Dirty Harry
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Do the Right Thing
La Dolce Vita
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
Easy Rider
The Empire Strikes Back
The Exorcist
Fargo
Fight Club
Frankenstein
The General
The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
Gone With the Wind
GoodFellas
The Graduate
Halloween
A Hard Day’s Night
Intolerance
It’s a Gift
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
M
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
Metropolis
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
North by Northwest
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
Out of the Past
Persona
Pink Flamingos
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Repulsion
The Rules of the Game
Scarface
The Scarlet Empress
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
Singin’ in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
A Star Is Born
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
Vertigo
West Side Story
The Wild Bunch
The Wizard of Oz
Only 28 out of 102. I left out ones that I’ve only seen parts of or that I somehow watched but have no memory of. But even if I cheated and included all of those, it’d still be less than half.
I’m not sure if I really care, but it’s kind of interesting for some reason. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of movies (I’ve never really kept track as I would guess most people haven’t). And I’ve certainly seen quite a few that I’d consider really good or even great. I could probably make my own list of 102 (or even more) essential movies. But according to this guy I haven’t seen shit. But I have a feeling that I’d probably sleep through a bunch on this list. Generational difference maybe? Or am I just unable to appreciate good movies? I hope not.
Besides, any essential movie list that doesn’t include Big Trouble in Little China is obviously flawed.
- Dan
Check out this video we found on YouTube. Apparently it’s a tribute to someone named Kurt Angle. I don’t know much about wrestling but I’m assuming he’s pretty well known in the wrestling world. The incredibly interesting part is that the whole thing is set to our worldwide “smash hit” single, “Something More.”
It’s strange to see stuff like this (pile drivers, body slams, etc.) set to our music, but I guess at the same time it’s cool to see it used in a way we would have never thought of.
Ever.
In other words, this never would have crossed our minds. Not once. We just wouldn’t have made the connection. This wasn’t our idea… I guess would be the main bullet point here.
In honor of this glorious occasion, I’ll leave you with this Wrestling Move Generator, where you can find such obscure moves as the Horizontal Scissors, the Team Knee or the always reliable Brain Press.
My new favorite cooking show is Starvin’ with Louis. It’s actually not on TV though. It’s what you might call a “video podcast.” Or maybe it’s called a “vidcast.” Or possibly a “castvid.” I’m not really sure what it’s called but it’s a series of videos that you can get for free through iTunes.
They describe it as a cooking show for people with “no food, no money and no cooking skillz”. In the latest episode they make Brass Monkeys and Spam Cupcakes. Watch and learn:
Link: Starvin’ with Louis
EYEWASH
“The VJ Book” Release Party
Wednesday, October 19, 9:00pm to 1:00am
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143 Madison at 32nd St
New York, NY
Participating artists include:
Peter Kirn (CDM)
Jay Smith (Sinch/Livid Instruments)
VJ Miixxy (Multo.com)
Music by DJ Duane Reade and DJ ActivPhaze
Visit Forward Motion Theater for more info
Jay Smith will be demoing the new Tactic m2 video instrument. The Tactic m2 is the “Cadillac” of MIDI controllers, designed to work with Livid’s Tactic Pro software for real-time video performance. The Tactic m2 instrument features ten sliders, six knobs, seven effects triggers, and a thirty-six movieclip bank for video mixing at your fingertips.
The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance
Edited by Paul Spinrad; DVD by Melissa Ulto (VJ Miixxy), Foreword by Jon Schwark (videojon) — Includes Free DVD with Software and Clips
Book includes: How-to, history and culture, legal issues, craft advice, future technology, plus interviews with: Benton-C Bainbridge » Craig Baldwin » Mark Coniglio » Bill Cottman » Ivan Dryer » Kathleen Forde » Stefan Gosiewski » Yusei Horiuchi » John Humphries » Peter Mettler » Norman Perryman » Jay Smith » Olivier Sorrentino » George Stadnik » Melissa Ulto » Henry Warwick.
DVD includes: Easy-to-use sample VJ software, mixable video clips, live performance footage, excerpts from the 2005 documentary film “Video Out,” historical material.
The video for “All That’s Left Behind” is now on iFilm.com
Watch the video now
Update (3/18/05):
The videos are now available in Quicktime format.
Small | Medium | Large (right-click to download)
Also, look out for some other stuff coming up over the next couple weeks:
Sunday March 20 (9:00pm)
Radio interview and acoustic performance on “Exposed” on 94.1 WYSP
Monday March 21
AOL Listening Party. Listen to the whole album before the release. More on that later.
Tuesday March 22
The new album comes out. Buy it if you can.
Friday March 25
Acoustic in-store performance. Trac Records. Doylestown, PA
Saturday March 26
CD release show. North Star Bar. Philadelphia, PA
We fixed one of the videos that wasn’t working properly and added a new one.
The new one is a live performance of “Old Man” by Neil Young at one of our recent shows (North Star - 09.18.04).
Everything can be found in the video section.
Attention all NYC AREA Viditar/Ocular Noise Machine fans!
(If you don’t know what that means dont worry… just keep reading)
On Tuesday August 31, Sinch member Jay Smith will be at the Apple Store in Soho demonstrating his new line of real-time video mixing software and hardware.
Over the past few years we’ve had lots of people at our shows asking about the Viditar: What is it? How does it work? Where can I get one?
All those questions can be answered at this event!
Download the Press Release (PDF)
Here are the details:
LIVID INSTRUMENTS AT APPLE SOHO
Tuesday August 31st
6:30pm
Apple Store SOHO
103 Prince St.
New York, NY 10012
