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Foley Fridays, Pepper Grinder

Mitch Arend — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:40:20 +0000

Pepper Grinder.

I like pepper. It has its own flavor and helps to bring out other flavors in what its ground onto. I say ground onto because, being the pepper snob I am, I feel that freshly ground pepper is not something we can just trade like my dignity or a common [...]

Money Close Ups: Bela Balazs, Robert Bresson and L’Argent

Michael Hurlbut — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:58:50 +0000

It is a truism — or at least a provocative cliché — that God is in the details; and according to renowned culture critic, filmmaker and proto-cine-theorist Bela Balazs this idea is especially true in cinema. In his august essays, The Close Up (1930) and The Face of Man (1929), Balazs [...]

Starry Night, Interactive.

Michael Pierro — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:29:07 +0000

Some of you may have already seen this, but here is one of my favourite paintings of all time, with a modern twist.

Petros Vrellis has created, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful and captivating pieces of interactive art I have seen so far.

Black George

Kire Paputts — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:56:30 +0000

What Rainbow Connection could have looked like

What Rainbow Connection will look like

When I was trying to sell people on Rainbow Connection the idea of shooting on VHS was yet another hurdle. The most popular response was…”well, if you don’t care about selling [...]

Foley Fridays, cupid’s arrow.

Mitch Arend — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:22:26 +0000

Cupid’s Arrow.

Last year about this time I presented bed springs as a Foley Friday in celebration of Valentines Day. This year I wanted to find a sound that encapsulates the true meaning of V-Day but since openly sobbing isn’t much of a sound effect this year you get Cupid’s arrow.

Cupid [...]