On LAist a story about arrests of looters following the Laker’s Championship win in June. LAPD using a combination of security footage, Flickr, and Youtube to nabbing already 20 individuals
“It’s nearly impossible to stay anonymous in this age of cell phones, video, and social websites; and that’s a good thing, if it holds people more accountable for their behavior,” said Lt. Paul Vernon, head of LAPD detectives downtown, today about the 20th arrest related to the Lakers Championship melee on June 14th). Detectives have been using security footage from around downtown, complementing it with videos and images posted on websites like YouTube and Flickr.
You’ll feel as though you’ve taken a few tabs after watching this strangely edited/remixed clip of Captain K on a voyage to the great beyond.
[via Nerdcore]
Dublab the prolific collective for audio/visual programming in Los Angeles turns 10 this October. In celebration, they’ll be throwing 10 events from the 1st to the 10th, including everything from screenings, exhibitions, and retrospectives as eclectic as you’d expect. Come to enjoy and support.
Eye-candy via Pete Candeland who did the terrific animations for Beatles Rock Band. Despite being an advertisement, it’s hard not to admire the strong visual aesthetic in his work.
Eric Wareheim forgoes the crackheads this time for a go-around at Depeche Mode’s Hole To Fill — complete with the signature style and material you’d expect from the man who did the Major Lazer vid.
Rogers took the images on the anniversary of the deaths, at the exact moment they occurred, and in the precise position the car was before impact. Whereas some of the final photographs are rendered atmospheric by darkness, many reveal the rather banal landscape witnessed by the subjects in the final seconds before their deaths.
The series includes the deathplaces of artists and writers including Jackson Pollock, Albert Camus and Helmut Newton, and musicians such as Marc Bolan and Eddie Cochrane. It also features perhaps the world’s most famous car crash victim, Princess Diana.
Some of these shots really give the viewer a sense of the final glimpse these cultural figureheads had at the specific moment of death. I’m curious to see if the light for the photographs correspond to the time of impact.
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Werner Herzog is opening up a film school based around weekend seminars. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet and talk with the famed eccentric filmmaker. I love the mantra by how these classes are to be run, here’s a taste:
4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.
5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.
7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?
8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.
9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.
Reads almost like a satire but that’s always been the fine line that Herzog has walked all these years. Simply put — Awesome.
[Rogue Film School via Chud]
Really enjoying the retro minimalist scheme here. Like new-wave biker chic’ meets Marble Madness. It’s funny how when talking about fashion, you can just hob-cobble a bunch of terms like that and it works.
[Rizon via WhiteZine]
