tagged w/ Short Film
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Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder, Former-CEO and visionary, who helped usher in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday at the age of 56. The death was announced by Apple Computers, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen Wozniak started in 1976 in a suburban California garage. Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with cancer, remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment.
He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer. After leaving, he was still engaged in the company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive only weeks earlier.
“I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company in August. “Unfortunately, that day has come.” By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the personal computer industry and a wide range of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a photo-gallery and three videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/steven-p-jobs-apple’s-co-founder-former-ceo-and-visionary-dies-at-56/Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder, Former-CEO and visionary, who helped usher... more
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Once just a shell with just a lentil for a hat and a Dorito for a hang-glider, Marcel (The Shell With Shoes On) is now the proud owner of a new book and a television development contract. Not too shabby for a tiny animated creature who skis on a man’s toenail!!
“Marcel: The Shell With Shoes On” is a delightful three-minute animated short film directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp, voiced (untreated & unenhanced) by a genius named Jenny Slate. Marcel is a very, very teeny-tiny little shell, but he throws big food parties for his friends, goes skiing and frequently chats on the phone. Ugh, he’s so darn cute. This may very well be the most adorable video ever made. Fantastic.
This piece includes colorful pictures and the wonderful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/marcel-the-shell-lands-a-big-television-show/Once just a shell with just a lentil for a hat and a Dorito for a hang-glider, Marcel... more
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“A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now” is a photographic exhibition that looks at three critical periods in Cuba’s history as witnessed by photographers before, during and after the country’s 1959 Revolution. The exhibition juxtaposes Walker Evans’s 1933 images from the end of the Machado dictatorship, with views by contemporary foreign photographers Virginia Beahan, Alex Harris and Alexey Titarenko, who have explored Cuba since the withdrawal of Soviet support in the 1990s. Walker Evans's distinctive photographic style was nurtured by New York in the late 1920s, but it became more fully formed by his 1933 experiences in Cuba.
Virginia Beahan, Alex Harris and Alexey Titarenko look at Cuba in very different ways. In 2001, Virginia Beahan began a multiyear project on Cuba; Beahan’s Cuba is a land of contradictions, full of disappointments and hope, decay and rejuvenating beauty, simultaneously anchored to the past while looking beyond the present.
Through distinct vantage points, Alex Harris probed the country’s propensity for ingenuity as it underwent great transition. His 1998-2003 photographs focus on three icons of the island, the American car, the beautiful woman and the revolutionary hero, as metaphors to explore the distortions with which Cubans and Americans see one another.
Alexey Titarenko’s 2003 photographs of life in Cuba depict people persevering amid varying states of ruin: collecting food rations, fixing long-outmoded cars or playing baseball. Titarenko was drawn to Cuba following years spent photographing his home town of Saint Petersburg, a once-grand city transformed by revolution and slow decay under Communist rule. Titarenko deliberately photographed Havana in much the same way he’d photographed his native St. Petersburg, as a city that has suffered very much from communist policies and communist rule. And so his black-and-white and very dusty gray imagery removes any spark, any color from Havana, which is in fact very colorful.
This piece includes a number of black-and-white and color photographs, a photo-gallery and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/a-revolutionary-project-explorations-of-cuba-from-walker-evans-to-now/“A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now” is a photographic... more
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“LGFUAD” (an acronym for Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die) is an award-winning four-minute experimental animated short film created by Kelsey Stark. The short mixes a variety of animation styles, primarily focusing on an unwieldy hypnotic medium that looks like an organic crayon drawing. In the film, a young woman eats pizza and relates a series of surreal, richly psychosexual and violent stream-of-consciousness stories about how cool it is to be a ghost.
“LGFUAD” characterizes a jaded, dissatisfied personality type, exacerbated by a hipster-emphasis on cool and from growing up in media-drenched suburban environment where one is taunted constantly by what one doesn’t have, or hasn’t experienced. This is a controversial, love-it or hate-it film; “LGFUAD” is fresh, personal and conceptual, but edgy, uncomfortable and uncompromising all the same.
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the edgy animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/lgfuad-a-grotesque-rampage-of-jaded-sex-drugs-and-violence/“LGFUAD” (an acronym for Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die) is an... more
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In the ultimate accolade for the world's mad scientists, spoof Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday night for studies into beetle sex, turtles yawning, the desperation of people dying to urinate and other daffy investigations. The Annual Ig Nobel Prizes, now in their 21st year, were given at Harvard University in front of 1,200 spectators, with real Nobel Prize winners handing out the honors.
This piece includes color photographs and four videos, including a video of the full awards ceremony.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/worlds-zaniest-scientists-honored-the-21th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prizes/In the ultimate accolade for the world's mad scientists, spoof Nobel prizes were... more
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“Water Lilies Blooming” is a glorious time lapse four-minute short art film by photographer/filmmaker Vincenzo Di Nuzzo, which captures water lilies blooming in his own garden. This wonderful film has a beautiful soundtrack provided by Greendjohn.
This piece presents a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs, as well as the remarkable HD short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/water-lilies-blooming-hear-me-with-your-eyes/“Water Lilies Blooming” is a glorious time lapse four-minute short art... more
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A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that a number of rare photographs taken by Joseph Jasgur in 1946 of Norma Jeane Dougherty, who went on to become the iconic Marilyn Monroe, will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the late photographer. The photographs have not been widely distributed and the collection has been locked up in court battles for more than two decades. The sale is significant because it’s very rare to see something where you can buy a copyrighted image of Monroe, especially images from her very first photo shoot. The photographs include a black-and-white headshot of the future Marilyn Monroe wearing a jaunty beret, another of her in a halter top and a color picture of her smiling in a striped bikini on the sand. Jasgur was hired by the Blue Book modeling agency to shoot the then-unknown Norma Jeane.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs from the collection, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/marilyn-monroes-first-photo-shoot-superstars-early-modelling-photos-revealed/A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that a number of rare... more
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“Full Release” is an amazingly inspiring two-minute short film, a collaborative production by Jordan Satmary and Brandon Yoon. The film presents a stunning documentary of an act of rare bravery, perhaps once best described by Mohandas Gandhi: “Courage is not measured by how tall a man pretends to stand, but by how hard he clenches his butt cheeks.“
This piece includes color photographs and the hilarious short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/a-stunning-measure-of-clenching-courage-full-release/“Full Release” is an amazingly inspiring two-minute short film, a... more
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“John and Karen” is an award-winning four-minute animated short film by British animator Matthew Walker. The film tells about a polar bear in love with a penguin, and their encounter after a disastrous date the night before. We’re dropped into the midst of a very awkward moment between the very earnest polar bear and the perhaps justifiably aggravated lady-penguin. The film is a great example of creating a story with its own small universe through good timing, body language and just the right bit of dialogue. And for those of you who also had a rough night, there’s always hope of patching things up.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the wonderful, heart-warming animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/john-and-karen-about-last-night/“John and Karen” is an award-winning four-minute animated short film by... more
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“Wasp” is an acclaimed short film directed by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, which won the 2005 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film and the Short Filmmaking Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. “Wasp” has been credited as having revived the genre of social realism in British cinema, and this short film has gained the status of a modern classic through Arnold’s sensitive humanistic approach, combined with modern filmmaking techniques.
The film is a searing and intimate portrait of Zoë, a modern young woman in contemporary Britain, who is mired in poverty, but desperately wants something for herself aside from the oppressive limitations of being a single-mother of four. Despite the responsibility she bears, when a former crush unexpectedly resurfaces showing his first bit of romantic interest in her, she takes the opportunity to go out on a date, behaving in agonizingly irresponsible ways.
At another level, “Wasp” is a stinging critique of the painful worship of the faux-celebrity lives manufactured by today’s public relations pop-media machines. For Zoë, the Beckhams are the ideal, the epitome of the fashionably idolized, providing an illusory escape from the harsh realities of her own life. They’re the idealized depiction of a family with three terribly good-looking young sons, a family whose real existence never steps in the way of their living the glamorous life. For Zoë, the Beckhams represent the false pinnacle of desire: never-ending luxury, fashionable motherhood and physical perfection in marriage. But there’s a gut-wrenching sadness to Zoë’s idealized obsession, for she can barely even feed her own children.
It is just phenomenal how much this film gets right; the level of deftness in the writing and presentation is stellar. Having already noted that “Wasp” has achieved the status of a modern classic, it behooves you to watch this engrossing film. “Wasp” is a perfect reintroduction to dramatic live-action short films: it is almost mandatory viewing for short film fans. Enjoy.
This piece includes photographs and the acclaimed short film, “Wasp.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/wasp-a-searing-portrait-of-poverty-and-desperation/“Wasp” is an acclaimed short film directed by British filmmaker Andrea... more
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On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground. Three of the planes hijacked by al-Qaeda on that day hit their high-profile targets: the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people tragically lost their lives. Because of the actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93, who fought back against their hijackers, an intended attack on the U.S. Capitol was thwarted.
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Vice-President Biden, state officials, bereaved relatives, artists and members of the public gathered Saturday to open a 1,500-acre national park on the outskirts of Shanksville (PA) that includes the partially completed Flight 93 National Memorial, in honor of the 40 passengers and crew members who died on United Airlines Flight 93.
The dedication of the memorial on Saturday, provided an opportunity for the two former presidents to appeal for unity. Neither George W. Bush nor Bill Clinton specifically mentioned the fractured state of relations in Washington. But their sharing of a stage and their comments here in the field where Flight 93 slammed into the ground stood in sharp contrast to the current state of divisive political discord.
This piece includes photographs and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/remembering-the-heroes-the-flight-93-national-memorial/On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four... more
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The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and an animated short film depicting The National September 11 Memorial.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/a-tribute-of-remembrance-and-honor-the-national-september-11-memorial/The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly... more
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The disaster that occurred on September 11, 2001 was the worst in the history of New York City. Not only were nearly 3,000 people killed in Manhattan, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on that morning; they were victims of a premeditated act of mass murder that pioneered the use of hijacked passenger jets as suicide bombs and then reordered and distorted the decade that followed.
For those in the immediate vicinity, the horror was immediate and unmistakable; it occurred in what we have learned to call real time, and in real space. Those farther away, whether a few dozen blocks or halfway around the world, witnessed the horrors through the long lens of television.The sense of grief and shock, a terrible roaring in the mind of every American, made it impossible to assess the larger damage that Osama bin Laden and his fanatics had inflicted, the extent to which they had succeeded in shattering our self-possession. In the years after 9/11, many still can hardly erase the vision of the wreckage of the two towers, the twisted steel and sheets of glass, the images of men and women leaping from ninety-odd stories up and the knowledge that thousands lay beneath the ruined buildings.
This piece includes a number of high resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery, audio, a documentary short film and the full version of the movie, “The Saint of 9/11.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/september-11-never-forget/The disaster that occurred on September 11, 2001 was the worst in the history of New... more
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On March 11, 2002, 88 searchlights were trained straight skyward in two brilliant, four-mile-high beams. They were two of the most powerful beams of light ever created, illuminating the New York night, visible throughout the city and up to 60 miles away. Relief workers nearby, who had been plowing through rubble for six months, stood and wept. The art installation was both an act of commemoration and a symbol of resilience. It was the first attempt to fill the void in the city’s skyline and it neatly bypassed the debate over whether the site should be rebuilt or left as consecrated ground. The tribute ran every night from dusk till dawn until April 14, 2002, and has returned for a single night each subsequent September 11th.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, a photo-gallery and a three-minute documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/on-the-10th-anniversary-of-911-tribute-in-light/On March 11, 2002, 88 searchlights were trained straight skyward in two brilliant,... more
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The best view in New York belongs to the fearless ironworkers who are stacking the top floors of the new 1 World Trade Center. The top of 1 World Trade Center, as it stands in mid-August, is just shy of 1,000 feet above Lower Manhattan, higher than anything else on the island’s southern end.
Even among the most elite class of ironworkers that specializes in raising high steel, the 40 or so men who are performing the most dangerous work at 1 World Trade are a kind of special forces. Some of them were among the first wave of volunteers on Sept. 12, 2001, brought in to extract steel from the ruins of the twin towers and who have returned to the site as members of the plumb-up gang. The ironworkers’ almost classically curved human forms of arms, legs and backs express the perseverance that has powered the rise of this new tower, a structure whose symbolic importance is undisputed even if its cost and commercial justification remain dubious.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, a photo-gallery and the two-minute documentary short film, “The Sky Cowboys.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/ironworkers-at-one-world-trade-center-the-sky-cowboys/The best view in New York belongs to the fearless ironworkers who are stacking the top... more
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Public Television’s StoryCorps oral history project is premiering “The StoryCorps 9/11 Series,” three new animated films commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The three-minute animated short films by the Rausch Brothers animators were created to preserve the memories of those who lost loved ones that tragic day. While the films are presented in a vintage cartoon-style, they carry deeply emotional heft due to the tragedy inherent in their stories. They are simple works, befitting the everyday lives that were nonetheless changed forever nearly 10 years ago. A major reason that 9/11 is such a tragedy is that it happened to people not unlike you or me, and these films do an amazing job of crystallizing that central truth.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the three animated short films, “John and Joe,” “Always a Family” and “She Was the One.
”http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/the-10th-anniversary-of-911-the-storycorps-911-series/Public Television’s StoryCorps oral history project is premiering “The... more
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“Twin Tower Cameos” is an epic collection of movie scenes from Hollywood films that featured the Twin Towers at New York City’s World Trade Center. With the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 just days away, the three-minute short film was created by New York-based director and cartoonist Dan Meth to pay homage to the Twin Towers. The film spans 1969 to 2001, with a perfect decade-by-decade soundtrack. It’s a love letter to New York, and to the iconic towers that once defined its skyline.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the memorable short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/on-the-10th-anniversary-of-911-cinematic-cameos-of-the-twin-towers/“Twin Tower Cameos” is an epic collection of movie scenes from Hollywood... more
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“Chump And Clump” is an acclaimed, hilariously hallucinogenic animated short film created by Stephan Sacher and Michael Herm at Germany’s Talking Animals Animation Studio. Chump and Clump meet at a bus station. Unfortunately, they have just missed their bus, which arrives only once a week. While waiting for the next bus, a bizarre and wonderfully raucous friendship develops, which still manages to prevail when all odds turn against our little heroes. Most of the great fun in this film lies in what Chump and Clump do with their eyes: the expressions in their eyes, the red capillaries when they’re hung over, smiling eyes, desperate eyes, sad eyes, crying eyes. Funny, very funny.
This piece includes humorous colorful pictures and the very funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/chump-and-clump-the-very-merry-bus-stop/“Chump And Clump” is an acclaimed, hilariously hallucinogenic animated... more
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“Time Piece” is the acclaimed 1965 nine-minute experimental short film that was written, directed and produced by Jim Henson; the film also starred Henson. Beginning in the spring of 1964, nearly ten years after the introduction of the Muppets, Henson filmed the short film on weekends and late nights between his commercial projects and Muppet appearances. Premiered at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, “Time Piece” enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and in 1966 was nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Short Subject.
“Time Piece” is the story of Everyman, frustrated by the typical tasks of a typical day. With a rhythmic soundtrack and visual clock motif, the film follows follows a nameless man through his mundane daily activities, a montage intercut with surreal fantasy and pop-culture references. The film touches upon themes such as man’s dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept and slavery to time. The film’s only dialog is a repeating cry of “Help!”from Henson, who can’t help but sound like his Kermit the Frog counterpart.
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the acclaimed short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/time-piece-the-story-of-everymans-torment/“Time Piece” is the acclaimed 1965 nine-minute experimental short film... more
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