SIGN LANGUAGE a great short film

This will cheer up your day. I love this bloke's sense of pride.

The film is 4:57 minutes in length

The BLACK HOLE A Short Film

This is a fascinating super short short film, titled The Black Hole. Careful there, dude! Check and see what I'm talking about. Be sure and leave your ratings below.

Director: Diamond Dugs
Running Time: 2'34
Country: U.K.
Category: Comedy

A sleep deprived office worker finds a Black Hole whilst photocopying late one night Suddenly the possibilities seem endless. Will greed get the better of him?

Phil & Olly aka Diamond Dogs met in the last murky years of the 20th Century at one of Wimbledon School of Arts now legendary parties. They teamed up in 2003 and began shooting no budget promos whilst busting their balls as Art Directors to pay their bills. Phil & Olly continue their careers as editor & art director respectively to fund their directing projects in a world of ever shrinking budgets.



The boys are currently in production on music videos for Will and the People and The Enemy and in pre-production on a 30 second Miller Light commercial. They are also penned to shoot a 4 minute short for Future Shorts in conjunction with Samsung called Spontaneously Capture your life and in pre-production with The UK Film Council in association with Virgin Media Shorts on a short film project called The Archaeologist

PROVOCATIVE short film: Sebastian's Voodoo

This is a rather remarkable SHORT, short film. What do you think? Beautiful and sad in a very dark way though, huh?



Director: Joaquin Baldwin
Running Time: 4'06
Country: U.S.A.
Category: Drama

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Joaquin Baldwin is an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. Living in Los Angeles, he is now finishing his MFA in animation at UCLA. He has received over 50 international awards for his animated films Sebastian's Voodoo and Papiroflexia, and also several grants including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate Scholarship in 2006.

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Another short film, LEFT UNSPOKEN. Thought Provoking, huh?

Left Unspoken, a short film. Really cute dude and really adorable accents.



I know what I'm going to do. Go to the 7/11 and buy a carton of cigarettes. What would you do?

Short film BE MY BROTHER. Beautiful performances

Great short film.....Be My Brother. The accents are the best.

Inspiring videos on youtube--these will brighten your life

The three videos below were in my very first blog entry....but I wanted to listen to them again.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg



2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM


3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao

THE CONFESSION--funny short film

This will make you smile..... (this is a real short clip at 3.44mins)

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Rather astonishing short film--STRANGERS--provocative, interesting ending

MELODY DAY--short film using Tet Four Remix of the song by Caribou: Who is Tet Four and what's a remix?

Well that title oughta catch your attention. Actually, I have to admit that I'm kind of old. A sign of my antiquity is that I sort of knew but couldn't have explained what a "remix" is. This song caught my attention when it was played on KCRW (another obsession for another blog post...but this is the most important radio institution in the universe) a few months ago. When I went later to the playlist and saw that it was the Tet Four Remix, I really was kind of clueless. I just knew that I loved the beautiful song that I heard. Turns out there is a wonderful sweet short film that goes with Tet Four's remix. Doesn't that cute bloke seem awfully sad? Watch:



After doing a little surf/sleuthing I stumbled upon the original song as released by the band Caribou. There is a world of difference no doubt. While I liked the song, I LOVED the Tet Four remix which in my opinion transcended a very special and inspired song from just an interesting one. So, our lesson for the day was: what is a remix and wow sometimes remixes can be better than the original. I'm sure all the youngsters must know this.

Here's the original if you want to compare. I think you'll agree that whoever that Tet Four dude is, his version was inspired.



That concludes today's lesson for us old folks and hopefully we turned some young folks on to a great remix. At least, we all know what remix means now!

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Short Film--SIGNS--this'll make your day

This short film oughta brighten anyone's day. Enjoy! You'll have a beautiful day after you've watched this. And isn't the cute dude the most earnest thing. (thanks to roborange for the discovery of this great short film.)

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Inspiring videos on youtube

Okay, this is the first entry of my very first blog. I have no idea what I'm doing but was inspired by a couple of blogs that I stumbled upon. So this will be a mixture of everything, not just my opinions: music, books, film, theater, life.

We'll see how it goes!

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg



2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM


3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao