…is a stylist based in Toronto, ON
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Met him at the ad agency I used to work in.
I was in the merch and he was a stylist. I was in the studio a lot.
Check out his blog here
…is a stylist based in Toronto, ON
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Met him at the ad agency I used to work in.
I was in the merch and he was a stylist. I was in the studio a lot.
Check out his blog here
…by Jimmy Chiale (from France, currently based in Toronto) and SoTeeOh (Toronto)
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I doubt he’ll remember me but I partied with him back in the day.
Jimmy’s paintings are all over TO but he’s a resident artist at Tequila Bookworm.
Check out Jimmy Chiale’s site here
And his Facebook here
And his Instagram here
Check out SoTeeOh’s site here
And his Instagram here
And here’s another one of SoTeeOh’s directed music videos:
ELMNT – Body Movin (Directed by SoTeeOh) from ELMNT on Vimeo.
… a film by Banksy (United Kingdom)
“Los Angeles based Frenchman ‘Thierry Guetta’ gets the idea that he would like to film street artists in the process of creating their work. He tells them that he is making a documentary, when in reality he has no intention of editing the footage into one cohesive movie. Unaware of this latter fact, many street artists from around the world agree to participate. Thierry even gets into the act by assisting them in creating the art. One of the artists that participates is the camera-shy Brit Banksy, who refuses to be shown on screen unless he is blacked out. Banksy does convince Thierry to use the footage to make a movie. In Thierry doing so, Banksy comes to the realization that Thierry is a lousy filmmaker, but he is an interesting character in an odd yet appealing way. So Banksy decides to use the footage and add additional material to make his own movie about Thierry’s journey in this project. Since Thierry spent so much time involved in the process of street art, Banksy also convinces Thierry to become a street artist himself. Thierry reinvents himself as street artist MBW, an acronym for “Mr. Brainwash”. Banksy, in the end, may regret this suggestion.”
– IMDB
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This had limited release but was showing at Yonge/Dundas cinemas for a while.
Check out the film’s site here
And the IMDB page here
Also, Mr. Brainwash made it (he’s exhibiting shows and got his own shop etc in LA, California)
…directed by Jaume Balaguero (Catalonia, Spain) and Paco Plaza (Comunitat Valenciana, Spain)
“A TV reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside something terrifying.”
– IMDB
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It was on TIFF Midnight Madness.
Rec 1 is what you see here. Rec 2 is a pickup from 1. Rec 3 is a prequel, and Rec 4 picks up from 2.
In film school, we studied “lazy” ways to set up horror films and one of them was isolation, meaning isolating the characters to a confined space and not leaving them much choice. It makes sense that it’s considered “lazy” but I think this is an exception to that theory. There is nothing lazy about the character development and the series of events in the movie at all.
Here’s my favorite scene from Rec 2 (LARRA_)
Great zombie film.
Check out the IMDB page here
Lars Von Trier is a filmmaker from Kongens, Lyngby, Denmark.
He was one of the founders of Dogme 95 during the 90’s, which was a rebellion movement against ubiquitous use of special effects and frou-frou that doesn’t carry much substance, which abided by this manifesto – The Vow of Chastity:
1. Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
3. The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera.)
5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.
6. The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
8. Genre movies are not acceptable.
9. The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
10. The director must not be credited.
Many years later, when I heard he’s coming out with a feature, free of the manifesto, I was like, “Wuuut!?!”
Then I found out that it’s about a couple who lost their child where the wife/mother is intensely grieving. The husband is a therapist who decides to treat her, himself, by taking her out in the middle of nowhere.
Two things you must never do as a therapist: treat someone close to you and isolate them.
It did not disappoint.
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Don’t me wrong, I like my big-budget, substance-less blockbuster films on occasion ’cause it’s fun but these things, to me, are so much more interesting to study.
Montage editing was “radical” or just too “out there” back in the 60s or 70s even though a lot of avant-garde filmmakers were already using it at the time.
Mainstream caught on eventually.
Granted, they didn’t use it quite as much as the avant-garde, or even fairly popular filmmakers. with tendencies towards experimentation, do (ex. Darren Aronofsky or Sofia Coppola). Mainstream media gauges it with the market vs the avant-garde, which has a very no-fucks-given sensibility.
Anyway back to Von Trier: he didn’t use special effects in all the conventional ways at all but IMO it’s really compelling because he used it, strategically, to emphasize human emotion in moments where it’s at its peak. As I’m sure you know, what goes on the inside can be very different, sometimes it looks almost like nothing, on the outside, so what he’s done really puts the audience in a subjective, immersive headspace.
…translates to “Bear Creek” in Ojibwe
This track is titled, “Forgotten One” from the “Bear Creek Live” album.
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I first bought the CD up in Vancouver about a decade ago.
I didn’t much info on these guys online. If you’ve got any more, hit me up.
Check out a page from Batchewana here
And a short bio I from Canyon Records that I found here
…directed by Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
based of the book, “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
“A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.”
– IMDB
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“We were in the jungle. We had too much money. We had too much equipment. And little by little, we went insane.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
We thoroughly studied the filmmaking components along with the psychology of the characters and the filmmakers in film school; rightfully so.
Apparently, everybody just went batshit (the opening scene with Sheen going nuts and punching the mirror, making his hands bleed was real. It wasn’t fake blood and he was actually pretty fucked up).
From what we’ve studied, I think it’s safe to say that they probably ended up making an epic because the people behind the camera delved into their darkness just as the characters in the movie did.
Check out the film’s IMDB here
And Wiki entry here
Check out Hearts of Darkness IMDB here
And its Wiki entry here
by Jason Eisener (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
One Last Dive from jasoneisener on Vimeo.
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Check out Jason Eisener’s IMDB here
I still haven’t tried night diving. Bucket list?
“Why are you always laughing? Sometimes I don’t even know what you’re laughing about! Sometimes it’s just mean!”
– Didn’t you get the memo?
“What? What memo?”
– It’s all a joke.
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Budai is said to travel giving candy to poor children, only asking a penny from Zen monks or lay practitioners he meets. One day a monk walks up to him and asks, “What is the meaning of Zen?”
Smiling as usual, he instantly swung the sack over his shoulder.
“How does one realize Zen?” Budai then takes up his bag and continues on his way.
The Laughing Buddha
From Siddhartha
“The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life. It is not possible for one person to see how far another is on the way; the Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.”
I visited a friend, who was undergoing chemotherapy, at the time.
“WTF are you wearing?” was the first thing he said as I walked in the room.
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Cancer: spreading.
Snooty attitude: intact.
Spirit > Cancer = 💯
Update: He’s well and cancer-free now.
He’s also still quite snappy and still insults the way I dress.
I wouldn’t have him any other way… prick.
Gelene 