LOST SPOILERS — STOP READING AND DON’T WATCH IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCH ‘THE END’

Still haven’t watched/downloaded THE “JKL Aloha to LOST Special’ — but this clip is great !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXlLNWRULo

We’re almost at the end. One more tonight then the finale.

“815 Sentences About Lost is a project bringing together 108 different people to share their thoughts about Lost during this, its last season. For some, Lost has become an obsession over the last 5 and a half years, for others, not so much. Personally, I thought the series began drifting during the 2nd season, bottoming out in the 3rd season, before coming back strong in the middle of the 4th season. What’s always been most impressive to me, though, is Lost’s innovative narrative style - using flashbacks, and then flash forwards, as well, to move the story along. I’m eager to see how the series concludes and whether the show’s fans will be satisfied with the answers provided by the show’s creators.”

Fitting time to read…

http://815sentencesaboutlost.com/

I’m a huge Survivor fan. Since Ep. 1 Season 1.

Next season looks epic. Already tons of speculation/spoilers to who will be on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Heroes_vs._Villains

My iphone sitting on my dash pointing up as I drive down st joseph listening to some opera after a long day.

So awesome — 13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me. Can you dig it?

Love the style, colours, movement, and story.

“Directed by Clément Soulmagnon, Yann Benedi, Sébastien Eballard & Quentin Chaillet”

View on Vimeo

For all my bike loving friends…

Alex Marco “The Bike” (Scopitone) rocks.

http://scopitones.com/

Look Mom! I’m filming myself surfing, with a camera phone… from jarrod Tallman on Vimeo.

“Sterling Spencer was chatting on his waterproof cell phone while sitting on his board and waiting for waves in Mexico, when a set came in. He had the phone in his hand, so he went ahead and filmed himself on the wave.”

http://vimeo.com/5835424

The first band I loved as a kid — partly due to having a cool neighbor who told me how life worked and that AC/DC was an integral part of it all.

Great show — too bad about the sound at the Big-O. Essh. It’s as bad as it’s ever been.

Not exactly how I remember the waves in the movie.

Large version here

KISS in MTL comes on stage from stevey on Vimeo.

The show last night rocked. I’m more a KISS fan now than ever. They put on an excellent show — 2 hours non-stop with great lights/pyrotechnics/antics and stunts !! Didn’t sit down once the whole time. Helped that we had AMAZING seats.

More photos here (I was live posting some last night) and T’Cha’s Gazette review here

Watch and wait for it to kick in…

playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Full set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotmeteor/sets/72157615214095434/

This week’s HOUR has the United Steel Workers of Montréal on the cover. They also got a full story in the Voir (french) here.

Congrats to all of them, Linda, Rachel and everyone at UHW. Great way to gear up for their album launch at Club Soda next weekend..

“United Steel Workers Of Montreal
w/ Slaters, Jimmyriggers, Dirty ‘Ol Band, Ladies Of The Canyon, Unsettlers and Jonas
At Club Soda, Feb. 6, 9:30 p.m.”

The image above is their new album “Three on the Tree” — Linda tells me: “the three on the tree refers to the old gear shifter behind the wheel in the cars of the 40s and 50s (in case you were wonderin’)”. Love it.

Hour Cover and Story | Voir Story in French

God Went Surfing with the Devil is a very interesting looking documentary. Seems to have some beautiful photos and shots…

(We worked with a film company quite a while back on a doc called “Encounter Point” with an Org called Just Vision)

“In 2007 it emerged that a small group of young men were surfing in Gaza, sharing battered surfboards they had attained prior to the siege. Word traveled north to Israel, and that same year, a mixed group of Israelis and Americans delivered a dozen boards to their Palestinian counterparts.

In the spring of 2008, they would attempt to deliver another 23 surfboards into Gaza. By this time the situation in Gaza had deteriorated further, the border still sealed, with military activity a near daily occurrence.

“God Went Surfing With the Devil” charts the difficulties and dangers encountered by surfers in the region. Along the way it speaks to Israelis, Arab-Israelis, and Palestinians affected by the violence, charting their daily struggle to supersede the conflict through the joys of surfing.”

http://www.godwentsurfing.com

Bought a digital copy of “Seaworthy” by Nathan Oldfield from www.thesurfnetwork.com. Looks beautiful with a killer soundtrack. This is fodder for saving every last penny for a Costa trip in the spring.

“Seaworthy is the long awaited second offering from independent filmmaker Nathan Oldfield, the maker of the highly regarded and award winning underground surf film Lines from a Poem.

Nearly three years in the making, Seaworthy documents a variety of individuals and the different ways that they approach wave riding.

The film presents a left of center look at the diversity in surfing, including the riding of alaias, olos, singlefins, twins, thrusters, quads, fish, logs, toothpicks, surfmats, and body surfing.

It’s a unique, intimate and timeless perspective of surfing, surfers and the environment in which they live and find their being.”

Will report back after viewing.

Another great older video for one of the early “better” electro-music groups that starting coming out after 2000.

Worth watching again. I’d love to see a clean HD version of this.

Bit more about Röyksopp

Love this old video — but what makes it worth a second watch is checking out Spike Jonzes’ original notes/ideas he came up with that they used.

View them here…

The guys still got it and can rock out. Amazing show — couple songs gave me serious goose bumps.

Full photoset here

Finally got to see Calexico play last night (@ Le National in MTL) with Linda.

Excellent show at a fitting venue — waiting for them to post the set-list so I can figure out what the third song was (a very Dick Dale / 50’s surf music tune).

Something about those horns and very good energy that had me grinning like a fool in the audience.

We don’t take many videos, but every now and then the Canon gets set to video mode and something gets badly recorded.

Here’s the ones that are okay from the past year. The highlight is me trying to remember then HUM the tune of “hollerback girl” by Gwen Stefani while playing Cranium in Mexico. Hah.

http://vimeo.com/stevey/videos

We like HBO a lot. Who doesn’t? Flight of the Conchords and Entourage are two of the better shows on TV. One of the easiest ways to watch HBO in Canada is through the Movie Network which offers limited HBO tacked onto one of it’s 5 “movie channels”.

Seems a deal has been reached to add a 6th (?) channel which will be dedicated to only HBO shows - not sure who they plan to get around the Canadian content laws since no HBO content is Canadian as far as I know …

“After walking away with the lion’s share of Primetime Emmys at the television industry’s annual awards show Sunday, U.S. cable juggernaut HBO is preparing to set foot in Canada for the first time as a standalone network.

The move, through an agreement with Corus Entertainment Inc. and Astral Media Inc., ends years of negotiations to bring HBO to Canada as a full-fledged channel. A select number of HBO’s most popular series, such as The Sopranos and The Wire, have been offered in Canada on pay-TV over the years, but the network has never been afforded a dedicated space on the dial.

Under federal rules, The Movie Network and Movie Central are required to devote about 25 per cent of overall air time, and 35 per cent of prime time, to Canadian content, which will also apply to the HBO Canada schedule.” — Globe and Mail

O yea… And I created that logo up top — I should sell them the idea. ;-)

“The Evolve speaker system comprises a charging base and two cube-shaped speakers. Talk about stereo separation — simply place the Evolve cubes wherever you want to hear the music. You can even move them into the next room with you. There are no entangling wires to hassle with.”

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/evolve

I’m a huge Shins fan. I’ve never grown tired of listening to their albums over the past few years. Something I’ve never really checked out is their videos.

I even have my own vision for a Shins video to pitch to them one day (for the song Sleeping Lessons) — ha!

The Shins : Turn on Me — Poolside FL @ it’s best. Socks + sandals, one-eyed dogs and the tension mounts (the video above).

The Shins : Phantom Limb — The best school play ever!

The Shins : Pink Bullets — Excellent paper mache and a sad cow.

The Shins : Saint Simon — Youtube compression doesn’t do this one justice - try to find it in HD. “… shot in Mexico during Monarch butterfly mating season and amazingness ensue”

Beautiful video of early morning surfing in Broken Head, Australia (Google map link). Worth going to the Vimeo site and watching it in HD.

(link from the awesome Tubeguide.tv)

Excellent design work from Jean Julien. This re-imagining of the JAWS poster really struck a chord…

“horror movie posters
create three type-based posters to promote a horror film festival. the posters promote either three different films or the festival as a whole.”

Site here

I like the older Bond movies and the style that was set at such a high standard in the beginning by Maurice Binder.

This set of Bond books, with painted Michael Gillette covers, really shows the continuing strength of the Penguin Publishing company and their take on that style. Even the spines when lined up are gorgeous (photo here).

“The centenary of Fleming’s birth was clearly a good time to revisit the Bonds and cover them in a package that says, yes these are fun, but also makes it implicit that there’s no reason not to take them seriously. Most importantly, they should look like books worth owning.”

Read more about it and see the high-res versions

A client of ours in NYC, Ultrabland, produces some amazing spots/trailers and teasers for some of the cables networks. They have always impressed me with there “ultra-editing” chops — but this takes the cake.

Watch the award winning Cinemax “Sounds Good” Spot.

The lack of blog posts/tweets and sleep over the past couple weeks has been due to us racing to get out the Fantasia 2008 site.

Trying to improve it every year and thankfully we have the process down — in order to run through close to 1000 images (films and graphics) in a week. Whew** .

I’m very happy with it overall; we’ll be continuing to work on it as the festival kicks into gear next week. The festival revs up to full steam tonight - maybe this year I’ll even get to go see a movie or two !! Cya there.

Plank blog post | Fantasia 2008

I’ve watched a bit of Brian Conley’s first two movies and they’re pretty fun — the format, although absolutley amazing does get a tad repetitive — but then I saw the trailer for this new flickr “My Eye Won’t Dry 3” and forgot all about that.

“Brian Conley scores epic south swells on a recent excursion to the uncharted south pacific. Doing what he does best Brian charges big, deep, thick tubes and captures it from the tail of his surfboard, revealing the magic experienced while tube riding. This clip features scenes from his new project “My Eyes Won’t Dry 3” Coming 2009.” — Surfline

Wow. Trailer here.