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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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“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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“Singing Christmas Hedgehogs” is a wickedly funny interactive animated video created by the talented Ant Blades at Bird Box Studio. In this cute video, you choose your own Christmas hedgehog, dress it up, pick an activity and then a cheerful holiday song with which your little hedgehog will serenade you. Just how fabulously neat is that?
This piece includes a colorful illustration and the very engaging animated short.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/the-goofy-singing-christmas-hedgehogs/“Singing Christmas Hedgehogs” is a wickedly funny interactive animated... more
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“White” is a beautiful three-minute black-and-white short film by Luxembourg filmmaker Vitùc, with background music by Max Richter. “White” is full of wonderful inspirational imagery of a lot of snow, a lot of fun, peace and pleasure. Even if it’s raining and quite warm outside where you live, this little film is sure to make you feel like it’s beginning to be a “White Christmas.” Here’s wishing you and your family a happy holiday season!
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution photographs and the inspirational short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/white-a-holiday-winter-wonderland/“White” is a beautiful three-minute black-and-white short film by... more
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Santa's sitting on a pretzel stick? Oh goodness me...I never heard of anything so bizarre such as this before. But it's absolutely true, and here's a great high-resolution color photograph of happy old Santa sittin' right there on a pretzel stick. Looks like he could be on some street vendor's old food cart, somewhere in the middle of New York City.
This piece includes the wonderful high-resolution photograph of Santa sitting on a pretzel stick, as well as the cheerful one-minute animated short film, “Joyeux Noël!”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/happy-holidays-santas-sitting-on-a-pretzel-stick/Santa's sitting on a pretzel stick? Oh goodness me...I never heard of anything so... more
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Imagine flipping through the television channels and you turned on Glee’s “Extraordinary Merry Christmas,” expecting a group of rambunctious teenagers covering a number of holiday pop songs, but instead you get a black-and-white homage to Judy Garland’s 1963 Christmas Special, complete with laugh tracks, a Luke Skywalker lookalike (including a lightsaber) and an Irish holiday elf!
Well, this year’s Glee Christmas program was every bit as strange as it sounds, but maybe in today’s times it takes a show like this to spread holiday cheer and inspire the gift of giving.
This piece includes color photographs and two wonderful music videos from the show.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/the-glee-holiday-spectacular/Imagine flipping through the television channels and you turned on Glee’s... more
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“Snow Angels” is a wonderful two-minute animated short film directed by Yves Geleyn, with music provided by Huma-Huma. The delightful little film presents a tender holiday tale of angels, snowflakes and the tradition of giving.
This piece includes colorful pictures and the charmingly engaging animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/a-wintery-tale-snow-angels/“Snow Angels” is a wonderful two-minute animated short film directed by... more
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The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 62, ended one of the greater intellectual careers of the last 40 years. Born in Portsmouth, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Hitchens started his career as a Trotskyite at “The New Statesman,” working along with noted authors, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, who would become his lifelong friends. In the early 1980s, he moved to the United States, becoming a citizen in 2007, and began working for liberal magazine “The Nation,” writing some of his earliest attacks on the conservative government and American foreign policy.
A prolific author, Hitchens left behind a massive body of critical writing, with more than a dozen books and hundreds of essays targeting everyone from the British Monarchy to Bill Clinton to George Orwell to God, usually with wit and more often than not, vicious and cutting remarks. Even those who hated his politics could not help but admire his skill as a writer and ability to craft a sharp turn of phrase, and many called him a friend.
Perhaps his most famous book was “The Missionary Position,” a scathing attack on Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity church, an organization that he called a cult. Hitchens described Mother Teresa as a “fraud” and accused her of glorifying poverty to enrich herself and the Catholic church, rather than truly helping the poor. The book infuriated Roman Catholics around the world, as well as politicians and celebrities who he claimed had used the charity and her reputation to mask their own evil deeds.
A later work, “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” accused the former Secretary of State of “war crimes,” and argued that Kissinger should be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture” for his involvement in atrocities in Southeast Asia and Central America. As a critic of the Bush administration’s use of torture, Hitchens filmed himself being waterboarded to demonstrate the cruelty of the practice. Hitchens claimed that, “The official lie about this treatment … is that it 'simulates' the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning.”
Hitchens had an enviable career arc that began with his own brand of fiery journalism at Britain’s “New Statesman” and then made its way to America, where he wrote for everyone from “The Atlantic” and “Harper’s” to “Slate and “The New York Times Book Review.” He was a legend on the speakers’ circuit, could debate just about anyone on anything and won innumerable awards.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, a troublemaker and was a gift, if it dare be said, from God.
This piece includes color photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/remembering-christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from... more
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