spot the #chaosdog

Love this - Sweet Sure Gone by MV & EE

Found via rcrdlbl.com

brightwalldarkroom:

LOUIE.

by Andrew Root

“This is how my brain works: It’s stupidity followed by self-hatred and then further analysis.”

– Louis C.K

1. Stupidity.

Who would approve a show like this? Who would take the structure of Seinfeld (single comedian, playing a version of himself living in…

I’ve never seen this show. I need to. Because of this brilliant piece.

illbeyourmirror2012:

Hit link above to see the latest festival announcement on the ATP website.

I’m going to this, with my darling wife. I’ve earned it. We’ve earned. She’s earned it. Slayer, Mogwai, Codeine, The Make Up. It’s going to be Spectacular

undertrees:

NEIL FOX LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Sorry girls, he’s taken!

If you will excuse the vanity, I must repost this. Life has been incredibly tough for me lately but yesterday there were glimmers of light, and one of its high points was a student thanking me for introducing him to Orson Welles.

Then I get into work, load up my dash and see this and I now haven’t stopped smiling in about 25 minutes, and I just keep staring at it, smiling and laughing. 

This people, is the internet, it’s like real life but it can sometimes give you the joy of a hug from your closest loves in the form of a gif from someone you have never physically met but who knows just what you need and when.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Andrew Root

(Sorry ladies, he is taken too)

@neldina

Still waiting on the Arts Council bid, but the inspirations and thoughts are still flowing. 

The project seems to be drawing heavily on fairytale imagery, particularly woodland and forests. Some key references David has collected so far lean towards these archetypes (see his references so far here).

And that’s fine, it seems a good fit. Despite the story being contemporary and not taking place in woodland or forests it definitely seems to be a spell that is cast over the tone and atmosphere of the piece.

So it was with great joy and curiosity that I viewed a friend’s work at an exhibition last night.

Transition/Pareja is currently showing at the University of Bedfordshire and features the work of 4 Latvian artists. I know one of them, Nelda Karklina and her work really resonated with me and I thought immediately of Hospice.

Her four pieces feature mythical creatures deep in woodland and they emit a feeling of power, fear, loss and being lost. They are beautifully rendered and mix the delicate with the strong and the colours teeter between pink flesh and red blood hues. They are incredibly powerful; primitive yet resonant with the current. 

You don’t get a sense of how the texture affects the piece from the image below (one of the 4 pieces on display) but hopefully it will prompt you to pop in and see the show. It’s free, and runs until May 24th, and is fantastic.

Thank you to Nelda for the image to use here as we document our own artistic journey. Follow her tumblr here where Nelda explains her work with great eloquence.

That was just a rollicking good yarn wasn’t it? I mean it was nonsense, but it was superior nonsense with some amazing set pieces and the challenge of working out which late 1980s tennis player the Cruiser was homaging with his hair.

I’m going for Stefan Edberg.

Makes me laugh when people say he is arrogant for wanting to do his own stunts including the ridiculous Dubai Burj Khalifa climbing. Me? I’m sitting here and in my head I’m shouting YES! It’s a MAN climbing the tallest building in the world. It’s a stunt. It’s REAL. This wasn’t created on a computer. This is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

But that’s just me. I like stuff like that. Passion, daring, all that stuff. Yeah, I’m old fashioned like that. 

Ah, what glorious cinema. It’s refreshing to break from reading the austere and sterile UK Film Policy Review to watch a film dripping in cinema.

This is a beautiful film, one that celebrates character and composition. Each frame is lovingly, exquisitely rendered and the whole film is bursting with atmosphere and menace.

What I love about it is how clever it is. It gives Paul Newman a brilliant role as a bitter, caustic, aggressive firebrand, he smoulders and is magnificent, but the film is not about him even though he plays Hud.

The film is about his nephew Lon, who watches his Uncle first with awe, then with caution, and finally with disgust. He accepts his old school old time Grandfather’s challenge to make up his own mind and through him we get to enjoy an anti hero and also realise what is right and wrong.

Also, the sequence where the Bannon’s entire herd of cattle is rounded up and destroyed because of foot and mouth disease is deliberate, heart wrenching and chillingly portrayed.

This kind of depth is mostly absent from the mainstream American cinema this film is relative too. Not regarded as a masterpiece, it’s just a supremely solid film, that is enjoyable, full to the brim with achingly wonderful dialogue (as my two previous quote posts attest) and it looks magnificent.

One day, all cinema will be like this.

Yep, right.