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Sundance Channel’s Up-to-the-Minute, All-Access Coverage of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival from January 21 – January 30

“Sundance Channel HQ” Is TV And Digital Hub For All Of The Films, People And Happenings Of Independent Cinema’s Biggest Festival Sundance Channel sets up shop in Park City, Utah for the network’s biggest ever exclusive, all-access, multimedia experience at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, taking place from January 20th – January 30th.  For the [...]

Transforming oven lounger

A design student at University of Cincinnati – College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) built this amazing transforming oven lounger for his class project. It was constructed as an art piece to illustrate an elegant example of the principle of reuse. Fully functional as a piece of seating, this oven lounge has the [...]

Mother-daughter team launches recycled vintage jewelry business

When William McDonough and Michael Braungart popularized the term “upcycling” in their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle, they were referring to industrial-scale recycling and production. The term, however, has really captured the imagination of the crafty community: you don’t need to browse Etsy for long before coming across handmade products crafted out of used materials of some kind. And St. Louis’ own Upcycle Exchange is just one example of an organization that’s popped up to serve this niche though collecting and distributing materials that the more creative among us see as the basis of something new, useful, and likely even beautiful.

Data Romance’s Bones

Data Romance – Bones from Data Romance on Vimeo. I cannot stop listening to Data Romance‘s song “Bones.” The band is a male/female duo from Vancouver. They make electronic music and it is really good. The video above is really good too. Directed by Tash Baycroft, the video starts out as a standard electro music [...]

Dorm Life FAIL: real-life masturbation pests or urban legend?

Regular readers of this blog will know that few things make us happier than FAILblog. We don’t think that teen guys wiping out during skateboard tricks are remotely funny, but a “chocolate chip muffin” with only one chocolate chip? Comedy genius. That all said, we hate to think of ourselves as suckers, which is why [...]

Glengarry Glen Sith

One of my favorite all time films is Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. The original STAR WARS trilogy is up there too, which is why I’m loving Josh Millard’s parody of the famous speech given by Alec Baldwin: VADER: A.B.C. A, always; B, be; C, choking. Always be choking. Always be choking! [Via]

Sundance’s Cooper credits Utah for bravery

Do we have the good people of Utah to thank for last year’s Sundance Film Festival reboot, in which director John Cooper and founder Robert Redford brushed away Hollywood commercialism like a light dusting of snow and returned the festival to its gritty indie roots, a reorientation they plan to continue this year? That may [...]

Daily wisdom about start-ups

Startup Quote: A website of inspiring quotes to help motivate those of you working around the clock creating the next GroupTwitOogleSquare. Memo to self: Buy www.GroupTwitOogleSquare.com domain. [Hat tip: Mike]

Where is SOMEWHERE going?

Nowhere, says Perrin Drumm on this site, and I wouldn’t want to argue. It’s a valid point, and the extraordinarily plot-less plot of this new film is not for everyone. We watch the mundane unfold as Sofia Coppola’s protagonist, famous actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) wanders from hotel room to pool to lobby to shower to car to press conference to the bed of yet one more blonde … then he hangs out with his eleven year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). She cries, he cries … he’s now vaguely more aware of a nagging dissatisfaction … and that’s about it! But some people do like these sorts of very-low-to-the-ground films – and I’m always one of them. The problem with Coppola’s film? It’s not the visuals, which are absolutely captivating — it’s the content. If I have to watch this amazingly talented woman do one more study of excess, wealth and celebrity, even I will cancel my subscription to Town and Country and move out of the Chateau Marmont for good, just in protest. In all seriousness, — c’mon, Sof, it’s a recession out there. Most of us can’t even afford Gray’s Papaya anymore.

Marvel Swimsuit Special

The folks over at io9.com have an amazing visual slideshow of the Marvel Swimsuit issues, which were published in the early 90s. They’re like Sports Illustrated‘s Swimsuit Issue. But with comic book heroes.

They’re also the gayest things I’ve ever seen. From io9.com:

The Marvel Swimsuit Specials were a unique breed of Nineties comic double-you-tee-effery. They took sober, serious superheroes and made them flaunt their décolletage and banana hammocks (more so than usual). Here’s the ripest cheesecake we could find.

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EuroPopped, for all your crazy European music video needs

Our L.A. writer friend Charlie Amter recently launched a labor-of-love blog called EUROPOPPED, what he describes as “a little epic sideblog” to “turn on more people to the crazy Euro music vids” he finds every day. And they ARE crazy. Or just foreign. Or maybe something is just getting lost in translation. Whatever the reason, [...]

Literal New Yorker cartoon captions

My new favorite website for high-brow chuckles: Literal New Yorker Cartoon Captions. [Via]

Jailed Iranian directors a ‘hot topic’ at Sundance?

If you notice some Hollywood stars, directors and business types sporting white lapel ribbons at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, they’ll be wearing them “to register their opposition to the Iranian government’s treatment of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (‘Offside’) and fellow filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who were sentenced last month to six years in [...]

Sundance Film Festival: Be There … if you’re serious about indie film

Last year, the Sundance Film Festival made a point of returning to its indie roots, away from glitzy Hollywood fare and back to the riskier films on which it made its name. In keeping with this back-to-basics approach, the 2010 festival played on themes of renewal, rebirth, rebellion … “ReWork.” So what to make of [...]

7 minutes with The Sartorialist

This is a thoughtful and beautifully executed (much like his photos) 7 minute documentary and behind the scenes with Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist. It’s a treat for any fan of his work. I especially liked the moment in the short film when he asked to take a photo of a fashionably dressed woman. You [...]

Catching up with the CRUDE battle

(Photo credit: Brian Putnam/FilmMagic) Two years after Joe Berlinger’s CRUDE premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the court battle at the heart of the documentary is still dragging on, and the film itself has shifted from neutral observer to central object of contention. Today, the New York Times checks in on the controversy surrounding [...]

Sundance Watch List: HOT COFFEE

You know the famous court case in which a woman won $2.7 million (later reduced) after she spilled a cup of burning-hot McDonald’s coffee in her lap? Yeah, I’ve joked about it, too. But lawyer-turned-filmmaker Susan Saladoff has made a movie to help us understand that by ridiculing this case, we’re playing right into the [...]

Green tech finds (1/13/11)

From green tech at the auto show in Detroit to a potential standard for eco cell phones… your green tech finds for the week.

• Green tech in Detroit: Lots of green technology at the North American International Auto Show; The Street gives a run-down of seven developments worth watching…
  
  
• Crowdsourced environmental video: Dialogue Earth, an organization tied to the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, has completed a pilot involving “crowdsourcing” environmental science video content (specifically on ocean acidification). See the winner above…
  
  

Sundance is approaching — roll out the survival guides!

Even if you didn’t have a calendar, you’d still be able to tell that the Sundance Film Festival is about a week away from kickoff from the flurry of “How to Survive Sundance” articles that appear in media outlets across the country in the days before the festival. These helpful articles offer advice on navigating [...]

Beefcake Blog

Michael Denison’s blog Male Models Vintage Beefcake is really fun to get lost in. The blog is “dedicated to photographs of our favorite vintage beefcake photographers and models” and Denison does not dissapoint. Their is plenty of penis there too, so be careful as you click from work. What I find most remarkable about the [...]

Collection of rejected New Yorker cover ideas

New York City based artist and teacher at SVA Tomer Hanuka shared some of his rejected New Yorker cover concepts. This one went so far as a final version, but I like this one above that he describes as “one about Winter / Valentine’s day / over-heated apartments / relationships.” Who knows, maybe it’s just [...]

Can best friends be sex friends?

You gotta love a movie trailer with lots of swear words, nudity, sex scenes and menstruation references. We don’t think we’ve looked forward to an Ashton Kucher vehicle since “Dude, Where’s My Car,” but the “restricted” trailer (NOT one of the many sanitized-for-tv versions) for his next flick, “No Strings Attached,” co-starring the ever-present Natalie [...]

Photo of Mark Twain holding Tesla light

I love the element of danger and wonder in this photo of Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s lab that was published in a 1895 article titled “Tesla’s Osillator and Other Inventions.”

Sundance environmental films: nature and the journey

Stories involving journeys through mysterious, and potentially hostile, natural environments are as old as… well, stories themselves. This year’s Sundance Film Festival features two such narratives in the Spotlight category: Christopher Munch’s LETTERS FROM THE BIG MAN, and Kelly Reichardt’s MEEK’S CUTOFF. Though quite different in terms of historical setting, each bases its narrative on a trip into the wilderness… and the struggles and discoveries (both internal and external) inevitably accompany such undertakings.

Really gay e-cards

Over at fab.com this this week we launched Fab Cards, our take on e-cards. Using catalog images from the 70s and 80s we designed a line of email and Facebook wall cards that are gayer than your typical offerings. The first results, a set of 26 cards, I’m most proud of and they make me giggle every time I look at them. Here are a selection of 5 we created so you can get a feel for them.

And, no, you can’t sit with us!