Cameron‘s band The Franks has a new video out and it looks great, sounds great. Very impressive and lots of fun. They sure are stylish over there … something about watching The Doom Generation* this weekend and then seeing this video, combined with all the snow outside, is giving me some LA envy like I haven’t felt since I first read Weetzie Bat.
The Franks: Neon Politik from The Franks.
* I think Ché put it best – “The Repoman of the 90s” … definitely nsfw.
My new short, Pre-Apocalypse, is screening next week along with the other projects from my fiction film class. These films are pretty rough technically– each filmed in one day on 16mm, edited by hand on the Steenbeck, single track audio, no sound mix, no titles, some camera problems– but represent a lot of talent and hard work. I’ll be posting a d.i.y. digital transfer of my film up here soon, but I want to encourage everyone to come out and see it on the big screen because the film projection looks so much better. Hope to see you there!
VES 150 Fall Screening
Thursday, January 8th
5:30pm
Carpenter Center Lecture Hall
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This student piece has everything I love in cartoons and folk songs. It’s adorable and grotesque, in the tradition of both Betty Boop and Ren & Stimpy. Moral but not preachy, it makes me really happy.
Story from North America by Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis.
[via Paul]
Casting Call for VES 150: Fiction Filmmaking
Saturday, January 10, 2009
10am – 6pm
Sever Hall, Room 416
Harvard University
Audition for 6 films at once! My film class, VES150, is holding a class-wide audition for our spring films. Slots are almost full so don’t wait to sign up.
My friends Jon and David, and their friend Carson, are Tingle Fingers, an in-house design + screenprinting operation in Brooklyn. Their stuff looks really good– gorgeous designs and professional quality printing– but is made in the same loving d.i.y. way as when Jon was a jersey hardcore kid.
Their rates are reasonable so hire them or show them some love on facebook and myspace.
