Tis the Season

My Week #34

My Week #34 (December 7-13) from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Snow.

Three Links and a Dot

Gizmodo was entertaining this afternoon. Here are three links worth sharing.

Awesome White Elephants including Burrito Glasses:



Custom stuffed toys made from your child's sketches:




And sculptures made from dust.

I should clean my house.

When I got home, Dottie had been on my computer. This is what she managed to get up on the screen:

Michael Bikels

My Week #33

My Week #33 (November 30-December 6) from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Finally getting better at riding and shooting with the new camera, First Friday, Melt Banana & snow, among other things.

It's Winter in Nebraska, and I Commute By Bike

Thick be the boots!

Fierce be the facial expression!

Destruction Myth

I ordered this today. You should too, whether you care about anything or nothing.

This is exciting

Ben Russell is on Vimeo.

Daumë from Ben Russell on Vimeo.

(7:00, 16mm, color/B/W, sound, 2000)

“One of the strangest films I have ever seen; its characters come and go as if they’re ‘primitives’ posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographer’s controlling eye.” - Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

That's the first film of his I ever saw, back in 2003 in my first 16mm film class with Leslie Thornton.

The Red and the Blue Gods from Ben Russell on Vimeo.

(8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)

An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods.

Performed with live narration and sound effects over a pre-recorded soundscape.

This one, he had in the Movies with Live Soundtracks that played in the very very crowded upstairs of some building at RISD that I forget the name of. That was a great show.

I could embed all of his work here, but that would be annoying. Just go over to his Vimeo page and enjoy.

Bike-mas

In Copenhagen, the tree will only light up if the cyclists keep it going.