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“Welcome to My Home” is delightful documentary short film by Kelsey Holtaway and Mark Cersosimo at Departure/Arrival Films. Anthony Pisano is a sweet old man who sits on the sidewalk and invites passersby to browse the contents of his East Village home, an amber-lit apartment-space packed with antiques, photographs, knickknacks, figurines and watch parts, which might easily be confused with a rummage sale or second-hand shop.
But nothing in the collections Mr. Pisano has built throughout his life is for sale. Instead, for Mr. Pisano, the benefit of living in his East Village storefront is that it offers him a chance to meet people. He leaves the front door ajar, and blasts Frank Sinatra music into the street. Passersby peer at his collection of unusual items, like a Bill Clinton doll on an antique model boat. “The New York Times” reported in 2010 that Pisano “estimates he gives away 10 to 12 trinkets every day.”
This piece includes colorful photographs and the wonderful documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/anthony-pisanos-east-village-apartment-a-home-for-the-heart/“Welcome to My Home” is delightful documentary short film by Kelsey... more
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"CTB" is a short film about a depressed, young artist named Ashley who turns her back on her creative passions in favor for a reckless lifestyle of drugs & alcohol abuse. After growing more & more hopeless down this self destructive path, she decides to kill herself. At that moment, she changes her outward appearance from dark clothes & make up to a cheerful demeanor & bright dress and embarks on a final visit to close friends & family. What follows is an emotional realization that neglecting ones dreams (the truest part of all of us) is a form of suicide in its self.
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What was the inspiration of the film?
I have always been known for writing, recording and performing Hip Hop music since I was in middle school. Music was my passion. As time went on I felt less and less attracted to the art form but my desire to be creative grew stronger. After marriage, fatherhood & promotions in the work force I still felt empty inside. Dead, even. One day while on the train going to a job that I absolutely hated, I got up to leave & I saw everyone that was going to work as living corpses! Myself included. We were all dead inside & it showed on the outside! Scary! That was when I decided that I was going to resurrect myself no matter what the odds were & continue to be a creative soul. I have never written a script or even dreamed about filmmaking, but I put all my fears aside and ignored the negative voices (both real and imagined) & set out to see this dream become reality.
What does CTB stand for?
CTB stands for Catch the Bus which is a phrase that means to commit suicide.
Why did you choose such a topic?
Aside from what I explained above, I felt like it's a topic that has to be brought to the forefront. So many young people are facing unimaginable problems (hopelessness, depression, bullying, sexuality discrimination, etc) and I wanted to make a film that shows a minor glimpse of this reality. I also wanted to express a feeling that I had myself: just because you're breathing doesn't mean you're alive. But as long as you're breathing, it's not too late to accomplish your heart's desire.
Where's the money going?
I have been blessed to find such talented and dedicated people who took precious time out of their busy schedules to aid me in this project. Most of these people helped me for free. But post production is a step we can't skimp on. The money from donations will help with promoting our film (DVD artwork, website development, posters, t-shirts, etc), marketing & film festival submissions (Sundance, Tribeca, Slamdance, etc).
What is the general purpose of this film?
After neglecting my creative side for so long, it feels amazing to take a leap of faith into another creative outlet. This film will serve as my production teams calling card as well as other projects already in the works. I also want to spread the message that you don't have to be afraid to try something new.
Thank you for your contributions in making this dream a reality!!"CTB" is a short film about a depressed, young artist named Ashley who turns... more
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Update: "Welcome Home" has been named a winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize!
“Welcome Home” is a series of photographs about Iraq war veteran Brian Scott Ostrom, who suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, by Pulitzer Prize-winning “Denver Post” photographer Craig Walker. Walker has just been named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the Missouri School of Journalism’s Pictures of the Year International Competition for the collection of photographs he took over 27 months about soldiers engaged in the Iraq war, which included the stunning images documenting the struggles of PTSD sufferer Brian Ostrom.
After serving four years as a reconnaissance man and having deployed twice to Iraq, Ostrom, who is now 27, returned home to the U.S. with a severe case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since his discharge, Ostrom has struggled with the demands of daily life, from finding and keeping employment to maintaining healthy relationships. But most of all, he’s struggled to overcome his brutal and haunting memories of Iraq and his guilt for things he did and didn’t do, while fighting a war in which he no longer believes.
This piece includes photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/welcome-home-soldier-the-story-of-scott-ostrom/Update: "Welcome Home" has been named a winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize!... more
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“Decade of Nudes” is a beautiful fine arts video portfolio of nude photography by the German photographer Alexander Paulin. Since 1999, Paulin has worked as a freelance photo-designer in his studio near Hamburg, Germany. Paulin’s photography has been featured in a number of magazines, including “Playboy,” “Maxim,” “Stern” and “Photographie,” as well as in many books and calendars.
This piece includes a number of photographs, as well as the wonderful fine arts video portfolio.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/a-fine-arts-video-portfolio-decade-of-nude-photography/“Decade of Nudes” is a beautiful fine arts video portfolio of nude... more
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Experience the news of the week like never before. Our News Anchors walk the line on every topic from Demi Moore's overdose to the controversial National Defense Authorization Act. If it's not dangerous then it's not worth reporting. Our correspondents infiltrate covert political operations and expose the truth with true American flare, which makes the SpeakEasy the only news show on the planet deregulated from big brother's totalitarian grasp of the media. Don't believe anything you hear or see, just believe us from now on.Experience the news of the week like never before. Our News Anchors walk the line on... more
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“Born to Die” is the new music video directed by the celebrated photographer/filmmaker Yoann Lemoine, from the chart-topping major label album debut by 25-year-old retro chanteuse Lana Del Rey. A number of malcontent bloggers have taken snarky aim at Del Rey, taking issue with the size of her fantastic pout, with the fact that she changed her name from the far less exotic Lizzy Grant, and for presenting an image they feel is just too cool to be real. Nevertheless, Del Rey comes across like a gangster Lauren Bacall, finds musical inspiration in the bright lights of Monte Carlo and can sing with enough grace and longing to break your heart after just one verse.
This piece includes color photographs and the music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/celebrating-the-renaissance-of-the-cyberflaneur-born-to-die/“Born to Die” is the new music video directed by the celebrated... more
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“The First Time I Ran Away” is a beautifully animated music video for M. Ward’s new solo album, “A Wasteland Companion,” set for release on Merge April 10th. The “Him” from the indie music group She & Him is Matthew Stephen Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. The delightful animated video was directed by Joel Trussell and his team of animators, who use M. Ward’s lyrics as a basis to tell the three-part story following a girl who’s run away with her pet llama and fish. The soft, pastel colors are a perfect companion to M. Ward’s soothing voice.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the wonderful animated music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/m-ward-the-first-time-i-ran-away/“The First Time I Ran Away” is a beautifully animated music video for M.... more
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“The Wolf I Used To Be” is a magical animated short film, a collaborative project created by artists at London’s Nearly Normal Studios. The film is a short narrative about a wolf’s drastic life change. Everyone has their own interpretation about what “The Wolf” might mean: it can be seen as a reflection of modern life. The grass always seems to be much greener on the other side, but as is often the case in real life, it truly isn’t.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations and the animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/careful-what-you-ask-for-the-wolf-i-used-to-be/“The Wolf I Used To Be” is a magical animated short film, a collaborative... more
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“The Last Goodbye” is a powerfully emotive music video portrait of the rock duo Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince, directed by the Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton. The Kills celebrate ten years of musical partnership with this poignant and captivating video. The melancholic song “The Last Goodbye” offsets the usually hard-edged sound that Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince are known for, with haunting vocals and a nostalgic piano loop.
Shot in monochrome on crisp, silvery 35mm film, the video reflects the beautiful simplicity of the track, while using an old-school photo-booth to provide an intimate backdrop for Mosshart’s intense and heart-warming opening performance. Her introduction is followed by a series of touching poses that casts a tender light on the musicians’ longstanding and spirited friendship, as Mosshart and Hince share memories of their first meeting and a decade of collaboration.
This piece includes black-and-white photographs and the heart-warming music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-kills-the-last-goodbye/“The Last Goodbye” is a powerfully emotive music video portrait of the... more
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Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed in the (sometimes solitary) lavish joys of nature in rural South Carolina. The memories of the steaming, dusty red clay roads and the smells of downstate piney-woods are now fading away, replaced by years of gritty urban life in Chicago’s inner-city. However, that doesn’t mean that now I’ve become completely blind to the beauty of rural landscapes. I just have to enjoy it from the comfort of a chair, in more climate-controlled conditions. So this video is pretty perfect for me.
“Yosemite HD” is an amazing four-minute time-lapse short art film, a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. They made numerous trips to Yosemite National Park, where they captured the beautiful landscape it offers for visitors every year. Set to “Outro,” from M83′s lovely and stratospheric “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” this might be the best music video you could ask for. So stop whatever you’re doing right now, put this video in full-screen mode and breath very deeply during the film’s duration!
This piece includes colorful high-resolution photographs, as well as the exhilarating short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/look-homeward-angel-park-pretty/Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed... more
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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning animated short film by author/illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg at Moonbot Studios, which just received a 2012 Academy Award Nomination for Best Animated Short Film. Drawing on inspirations from Hurricane Katrina, “The Wizard of Oz” and Buster Keaton, the film combines a variety of animation techniques to tell the story of people who have a passion for books.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the full version of the acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/a-lifesaving-passion-for-books-the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore/“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning... more
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“A Good Wife” is a brilliant five-minute animated short film by the talented Toronto-based illustrator W. Scott Forbes, featuring the artist’s signature minimalist painterly artwork. The film presents a quiet tragedy of mid-1900′s infidelity, the tale of a woman who is in utter shock over her torrid sexual affair with a man who is not her husband. Tormented by painful regret, she decides not to disclose her infidelity to her family. Thus, the family members carry on as though nothing is wrong, going about their daily lives in blissful ignorance. “A Good Wife” provides powerful imagery and music to narrate its plot, successfully leaving viewers feeling emotionally invested despite its short five-minute duration.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/the-sordid-infidelity-of-a-good-wife/“A Good Wife” is a brilliant five-minute animated short film by the... more
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PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites; they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.” The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year. That’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
This piece includes a video about SOPA.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/stop-sopa-protect-your-online-rights/PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is... more
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“Prom Night” is a wild, high-energy eight-minute narrative short film by director/performer/choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall, which premiered at SXSW last year. Rowlson-Hall stars as a/the/your prom-date in this beautiful, surreal, reference-laden piece. The film takes a very simple concept, a look at the cultural trappings that come with dream girls and trips to the prom, and knocks it out of the park.
Hall, who stars in the film, looks straight into the camera and takes the viewer through a dance in an empty school gymnasium decorated for the prom. While The Ronettes’ “Be My Little Baby” plays, through a series of wardrobe alterations and spontaneous costume and hairstyle changes, Hall leads the viewer through a litany of archetypal lovers: from the holy virginal, to Lolita, to Carrie. “Prom Night” is such an engrossing dance/performance short film that you won’t dare take your eyes off of it.
This piece includes color photographs and the completely absorbing short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/prom-night-a-litany-of-sexy-lovers-at-the-prom/“Prom Night” is a wild, high-energy eight-minute narrative short film by... more
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There are 16 shots in Lars von Trier’s hauntingly beautiful prelude to “Melancholia,” a movie about love, family and the apocalypse. The soundtrack for the overture to “Melancholia” is the exquisite prelude to Wagner’s 1859 opera, “Tristan and Isolde,” an opera Wagner described as “one of endless yearning, longing, the bliss and wretchedness of love; world, power, fame, honor, chivalry, loyalty and friendship all blown away like an insubstantial dream,” for which there is “one sole redemption-death, finality, a sleep without awakening.”
The movie, among Mr. von Trier’s greatest, stars Kirsten Dunst as Justine, a young advertising copywriter who, shortly after she gets married endures two separate yet related catastrophes. A wedding party at an oceanside golf resort owned by Justine’s brother-in-law ends with her new husband leaving, which in turn brings on the depression that overtakes her and seems to inaugurate the end of the world or her dream of the same. Many of the movie’s themes are introduced in the overture’s first eight minutes, a masterpiece in miniature that presents a deep reflection of literary, artistic and cinematic allusions.
“Melancholia” was named Best Picture at The 2011 European Film Awards in Berlin; the film also won awards for cinematography and production design. Previously, Kirsten Dunst won the Best Actress Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in “Melancholia.” Last week, The National Society of Film Critics named Lars Von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama “Melancholia” Best Picture, and Best Actress honors went to Kirsten Dunst for her performance in the film.
This piece includes photographs, an HD video of “Prelude to Melancholia” and the Official HD Trailer for “Melancholia.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/prelude-to-melancholia-this-is-how-the-end-begins/There are 16 shots in Lars von Trier’s hauntingly beautiful prelude to... more
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Eve Arnold, who came to be regarded as a grande dame of postwar photojournalism for her bold, revealing images of subjects as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and migratory potato pickers, died on Wednesday in London at the age of 99. Born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1912, Ms. Arnold had lived in Great Britain since 1961.
Her death was announced by Magnum Photos, the photography cooperative to which she had belonged for more than a half-century. She was among the first women Magnum hired to make pictures. Ms. Arnold was a leading light in what is considered to be the golden age of news photography, when magazines like “Life” and “Look” commanded attention with big, arresting pictures provided by photographers who included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White.
Acclaimed for capturing celebrities in intimate moments after winning their trust, Ms. Arnold developed a particular rapport with Marilyn Monroe, the subject of a book of Arnold photographs. Foreshadowing the celebrity portfolios of photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Ms. Arnold captured Joan Crawford squirming into a girdle, Malcolm X collecting fistfuls of dollars at a rally in Washington and James Cagney and his wife doing an impromptu dance in a barn.
But other pictures, just as memorable, were of the unfamous. Among the more than 750,000 Ms. Arnold made were pictures in a South African shantytown, a Havana brothel and a Moscow psychiatric hospital. She documented a small Long Island town, Miller Place, and the first minutes of a baby’s life. She was an official photographer on 40 movie sets.
Her many honors include the Order of the British Empire and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. She was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and named a “Master Photographer” by the International Center of Photography in New York, considered by many to be the world’s most prestigious photographic honor.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/eve-arnold-legendary-photographer-of-illuminating-images-dies-at-99/Eve Arnold, who came to be regarded as a grande dame of postwar photojournalism for... more
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Originally created in support of charity, the popularity of the Dieux Du Stade Calendars has been credited for the increased fame of the Stade Français rugby team, as well as for rugby in general, in France. During the calendar’s 10 years, the basic concept hasn’t changed: the calendar features nude and semi-nude photographs of members of Stade Français, the Paris-based domestic French rugby team, and in more recent years, it includes players from other rugby union clubs. Photographed by Francois Rousseau, in his 3rd collaboration with Dieux Du Stade, the theme for 2012 tells the story of “survivors of a lost world, trying to get on board a ship.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and a two-minute documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/calendar-dieux-du-stade-2012-nude-athletes-for-a-cause/Originally created in support of charity, the popularity of the Dieux Du Stade... more
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Well, this sexy picture shows one really great way to celebrate the New Year! Plus the two-minute short holiday video that goes along with it is sure to give you some chuckles, just to cool you down a bit!
This piece includes the hot high-res. photograph and the humorous 2-minute short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/happy-new-year-sexy-joy/Well, this sexy picture shows one really great way to celebrate the New Year! Plus the... more
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Thirty Seconds To Mars has just released the video album of its award-winning 30-minute MTV acoustic concert, “Unplugged: Thirty Seconds To Mars,” which was shot live in New York City. The set includes never before seen additional footage, plus acoustic performances of “Hurricane,” “Kings & Queens,” “Night Of The Hunter “and their inspiring rendition of the U2 classic “Where The Streets Have No Name.”
This piece includes the full concert music video in HD.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/thirty-seconds-to-mars-unplugged-returning-to-the-beginning/Thirty Seconds To Mars has just released the video album of its award-winning... more
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“Holiday Card 2011” is a one-minute animated holiday greeting card created by Malcolm Sutherland for the National Film Board of Canada. The NFBC wishes you a very happy holiday season with this beautiful animated card!
This piece includes a colorful illustration and the animated holiday greeting card.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/a-very-happy-holiday-card/“Holiday Card 2011” is a one-minute animated holiday greeting card created... more
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