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Momentos – A Short Film

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Momentos is a new short film from Nuna Rocha. Nuna wrote and directed it for LG Portugal. The concept, “Life’s good” was the main theme. Despite being made for a commercial company, you could easily be unaware of this. It is both a sad and moving short film, one you would not maybe expect to [...]

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The Builder – Rick Alverson

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Following an Irish immigrant carpenter from coastal Queens to the Catskills and beyond,The Builder is an American existential portrait that explores the gulf between the idea of a thing and the thing itself. Having set off to the New York countryside to construct a reproduction of the earliest of American cape houses, the protagonist (Colm [...]

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The Third & The Seventh

The Third & The Seventh - A short film by Alex

The Third & The Seventh is a short film by Alex Roman. Architecture through the cinematographic lens. The visual fusion between the Third and Seventh arts – this brief description defines the declaration of aesthetic principles that underlies the “Third and Seventh” project: A full-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a [...]

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The Rude Shipyard

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I mentioned a little while ago (on facebook) that I was going to be featuring an occasional piece on venues that offer something a bit different and unique. The first place to catch my eye was The Rude Shipyard run by Pete David and Sally Smith in Sheffield. It’s a cafe/bookshop and the sort of [...]

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Colin Meloy to release Children’s Books

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That’s right, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is about to release a series of Children’s books. Maybe not so surprising as some may report though. The series entitled Wildwood see’s Meloy collaborating with his wife, Carsons Ellis, an illustrator. Wildwood is a classic tale of adventure, magic, and danger.

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David Owen’s 5000 Morris Dancers

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I‘m sure some, if not many of you have come across the work of designer David Owen which continues to attract attention with his amusing, provoking and beautiful folk-related pop art images. The one above features Morrissey as a Morris Dancer.

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We Walk…

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We Walk is a short film which stumbles into the journey of a young girl desperate to leave the city in search of isolation and in turn, sleep. Shot in LA and Palm Springs, the film is based on a new poem by Writer, Brett Darling.

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London Word Festival

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The London Word Festival is a pioneering, annual celebration of words, text and language; daring in its approach to cross-artform programming, commissioning new work and exploring non-traditional spaces.

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Pictoplasma – Berlin

Pictoplasma Festival - Berlin by Alex

Pictoplasma is a Festival of contemporary character design and art with screenings, lectures and presentations which takes place on 9. + 10. April 2010 in Berlin.

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Seamus Ennis in Drumcondra by Dermot Bolger

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I got this wonderful message this morning from Alan O’Leary of Copperplate: Thought I would share this beautiful heartbreakingly sad poem of Dermot Bolgers with you all.

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Orla Wren – The Fish And The Doll

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Stop motion animation by Rima Staines for the Orla Wren track ‘The Fish and the Doll’ from the album ‘The One Two Bird And The Half Horse’ released in 2009 on the FLAU label. Vocals by Russudan Meipariani.

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The Man who Recorded the World

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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music [...]

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Micmacs à tire-larigot

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Film Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest movie, “Micmacs” has just been released, which for those that enjoyed Amelie (French Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated) can expect another whimsical movie set in a surreal and fantastical world.

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Ether 10 – 16-24 April 2010

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Ether – Southbank Centre’s annual music festival of innovation, art, technology and cross-arts experimentation – has long been presenting one-off collaborations and groundbreaking work from the likes of Kraftwerk, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke, and David Byrne.

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Galileo – A short animation by Ghislain Avrillon

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Galileo lives alone on an isolated sky island in a small house fully equipped for observing the sky. Obsessed with the idea to climb ever higher, he builds a steam propulsion machine:

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Visions of Joanna Newsom (new book out on 5th February)

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Roan Press are excited to announce the launch of Visions of Joanna Newsom, a book of essays, poems, and art responding to Joanna Newsom’s evocative, controversial work.

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Moleskine Passion

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Moleskine, the makers of very fine quality journals have a new collection which caught our eye. They are dedicated to Recipes, Wine, Books, Films, Wellness and more importantly, Music. We have a fondness for quality of detail and admit to being lovers of pencil and paper over the computer / gadget, hard to believe, I [...]

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The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man’s Love of New Music

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This is a story of teenage dreams, which, as any Peel fan knows, are hard to beat. Between 1967 and 2004 John Peel picked over 2000 bands to come and record over 4000 sessions to be played on his radio show. Many were young and had never been in a recording studio before, for some [...]

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Echoes of Home – A film by Stefan Schwietert

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If I suggested to you that I enjoyed a film that focused on the Swiss musical tradition of yodeling, what would your reaction be? Behind the everyday comedy and clichés there has been something quite miraculous and beautiful taking place. You only need to watch the clip in this post to appreciate

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Family

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Family — For many years, Lauren Dukoff has been photographing close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, and each other, as well as a range of other musical influences. This lovely hardcover album collects Dukoff’s striking portraits and candid images of [...]

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