Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Making of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar by Terry Richardson




The Making of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar by Terry Richardson on Vimeo.

like, of course terry richardson is doing the pirelli calendar right? I won't bother saying much more about it.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Home





Home

When Alan Cooke comes to New York City from Dublin, he becomes fascinated with it's resonance for those who consider it home. Anyone who has been to New York can understand the special place it must have to those who've lived there for all of their life, or those who have adopted it as their own. With interviews from Liam Neeson, Mike Myers, Susan Sarandon, Alfred Molina, Rosie Perez, Colin Quinn and Woody Allen, and beautiful footage of this unique landscape, Home presents an amazing city for those who love it, and those who don't know they love it yet.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

My Pet Dinosaur




Watch: BBC Horizon - My Pet Dinosaur on youtube.com


If only those dinosaurs hadn't been so unlucky, they may have been living among us today! Imagine the uses we humans could find for a creature so...huge. Would you have one as a pet, or eat one for dinner? What would evolution have done for them, and would we even be here, along with all the animals we know in our current world? BBC explores these question with experts who share the excitement anyone would when imagining this alternate universe.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown






Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown on youtube.com

If you're at all interested in Lou Barlow as a musician (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion) then definitely take half an hour to watch this short film, a companion to his new album of the same name. If you're interested in the process of making music, then same goes. Bringing in Melvins drummer, Dale Crover and frequent sidekick, Imaad Wasif - as well as a selection of his daughter's deconstructed toys - watching Lou find just the right sounds is more compelling than one might anticipate. If nothing else, the apparently giant grasshopper hanging off of a light fixture is imagery that you likely won't be able to get out of your head any time soon - scary!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Hidden America





Watch: A Hidden America - Children of the Mountains torrent on monova.com

Seeing the way some families live in the hills of Applachia is bound to make you question whether their government even knows they're there. With a poverty rate three times that of the national average, and a laundry list of common health problems caused by their conditions, we meet young people who are teetering on the edge of their fate - to follow that of their family, or to find a route towards better. Babies teethed on Mountain Dew and prevelant drug abuse lay on one side, and a struggle without the resources necessary to overcome it on the other. Diane Sawyer explores the hopes and challenges conflicting within these four youths.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool




Watch:
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 1 on youtube
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 2 on youtube
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 3 on youtube

"A part of me wishes I did try a bit harder [at school] just because of mates I know now who are always saying, ah y'know, "Karl you're stupid and stuff. You don't know enough, you should know more" and all that. But I'm also thinking that, being intelligent, does is make you happier anyway? So yeah, that's sort of what I'm trying to find out really."

Karl Pilkington, who you may know as the round-headed sidekick of one Ricky Gervais, explores his intellect and why he should care in this Channel 4 documentary. Karl goes through testing from big thinkers, including David Icke to see how he stacks up - and whether he's any better off for it.

*and do yourself a favour, if you like this and haven't been to Pilkipedia, do not pass go and do not collect $200.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Super High Me




Watch: Super High Me on Megavideo

Super High Me is Benson's take on "Super Size Me with weed instead of McDonalds", with debatably predictable outcomes. Undertaking testing on his physical, mental and psychic abilities, interviews with activists, medical marijuana patients, advocates and politicians over the course of the project, Benson creates an amusing and fairly thorough picture of the implications of drug use and whether the battle against marijuana is one worth fighting.