Film archivist Serge Bromberg uncovers a treasure trove of imagery from an unfinished film called L’Enfer starring Romy Schneider and directed by the French master Henri-Georges Clouzot, known for Wages of Fear and Diabolique.
I Know You Are but What Am I?! (PeeWee in LA)
by MK on August 12, 2009
I’m chalking this up as a creative left-field move to make profits in these recession times — Pee-Wee returns to the L.A. stage! Mark your calendars boys and girls for November 8th @ the Music Box.
Let the fun begin! Pee-wee Herman is inviting you – and all your friends – back to Puppetland. Come join Pee-wee, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi, Chairry and all your favorites, live on stage.
Re-imagined, re-invented, and nuttier than ever, “The Pee-wee Herman Show” will be LA’s theatrical event of 2009, with its live-action cast and puppets galore!
The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
by MK on August 3, 2009
Illustration by Jan Kallwejt via Wired.com
Wired’s Mark Horowitz created an “Unofficial Guide to LA” via Thomas Pynchon’s past experiences. Horowitz announces that Pynchon,
the paranoid poet of the information age, is LA’s greatest writer. To be sure, Los Angeles—whose aerial view he likened to a printed circuit board—has always been central to the elusive writer’s weird weltanschauung, his hallucinogenic stir-fry of Cold War hysteria, high tech anxiety, and low-brow pop-culture references. But did you know he actually lived there in the ’60s and early ’70s, while writing Gravity’s Rainbow, the Moby-Dick of rocket-science novels?
Using a Zeemap, user-submitted annotations can be marked down all throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Already, they far surpass the 14 spots mentioned at the publication of this article. How very appropriate.
The Lost Coin [nsfw]
by MK on August 1, 2009
The Lost Coin from Dan Britt on Vimeo.
Time to get this weekend started on the right foot by doing some drugs and watching The Lost Coin. A motion graphic short that goes through numerous aesthetics that’d be familiar to anyone who grew up through the 90’s. Feels like something belonging on Adult Swim.
[via Change the Thought]
“Alice” by Pogo
by MK on July 31, 2009
‘Alice’, an electronic piece composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.
More delightful mash-ups of sound + video on his youtube page. It’s like hearing The Avalanches if they all decided to snort lines of fairy dust.
[Pogo]
