Category : video
Street Skiing
From the movie All.I.Can by Sherpas Cinema, this is the JP Auclair Street Segment directed by Dave Mossop & JP Auclair and shot in the town of Nelson, B.C.
Christine Sun Kim
A terrific little short on artist Christine Sun Kim by Todd Selby
Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn
Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker is a very compelling video of knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn from Made by Hand.
Move
MOVE from Rick Mereki. And don’t miss the equally compelling LEARN and EAT
Meanwhile, in Williamsburg
At Ground Zero, the death of Osama bin Laden was greeted with great jingoistic fervor within hours. But the next morning underneath Williamsburg it was a different story.
The Character
The Character by Candice Breitz
Stars Have a Whiskey at Specs
Stars | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
The band Stars do a Takeaway Show in a San Francisco bar.
St. Vincent Sings INXS
From Beck’s Record Club, an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time.
L.A. Looks Great When You Take Away the Cars
Ross Ching shows how attractive L.A. is when you get rid of the cars in Running on Empty. Ching was inspired by a similar project of still photographs, Empty L.A., from L.A. photographer Matt Logue.
Cannonball
Fresno’s been hit hard by the bursting of the housing bubble, where 12% of the homes there had some type of foreclosure filing in 2009. Few have benefited from this abundance of vacant homes like skaters. Cannonball, from the great new short film blog California is a place, shows how the backyards of Fresno have become one, big skater amusement park.
Reggie Watts
This is amazing. Reggie Watts deconstructs the shite out of classic rap cliches. And the beat is irresistible. Bad words are used.
Roadtrip With Lee Friedlander
Go along on a roadtrip with one of the world’s greatest living photographers and you’ll see it’s all about the crackers.
Vic Chestnutt
Take Away Show #74.1: Vic Chesnutt.
Vic Chestnutt died on Christmas day from an overdose of muscle relaxants. He was 45.