1975 - death race 2000
omfg, this movie is outrageous. you’ve got to see this movie. based on a short story called the racer, this movie depicts america in the year 2000. the racers travel around and accumulate points for running over/killing people that volunteer. wtf?!!?! it’s good, trust me.
read about it here or watch it and talk about it here.
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in-flight flight
psychic amnesia
ultra short-range teleportation
left-side levitation
achieving 99% opacity
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Bars & Tones from André F. Chocron on Vimeo.
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“Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.
While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon. “A Google search has a definite environmental impact.” -timesonline
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1986 - down by law
funny, slow, jailbreak film. directed by jim jarmusch.
read about it here or watch it and talk about it here
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1973 - day for night
françois truffaut is amazing. a film about filming, a film for movie lovers.
read about it here or watch it and talk about it here
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its finally here!! next steps: m1 test, registration, and fun times. 1967 super vespa, fully restored, rebuilt engine, one of the only supers with a p2 engine. if your into this and want to get one, i’ve got a friend that does full restores. e-mail me @ jmamotif@gmail.com
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wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
this is pretty intense. read about it here
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“Motion picture decency standards in the 1960 didn’t allow for things like nude women being stabbed to death in showers. Consequently, Hitchcock was forced to create the impression of nudity and violence without actually showing a breast, a buttock, or a knife puncturing skin. The result is a terrifying masterpiece of a montage. And even though it’s probably the most analyzed (and parodied) 45 seconds in film history, we’re willing to bet the following tidbits slipped past you.
Forget the bloody corpse in the bathtub: what really got “Psycho” censors worked up was the toilet. Just before stepping into that fateful shower, Marion tears up an incriminating note and flushes it. Hitchcock’s close-up of the swirling commode water was the first ever allowed in an American film.
What looks like blood funneling down the drain is actually Bosco chocolate syrup. Hitchcock thought it looked more real in black-and-white than the fake stuff. Tastier, too.
The scene is composed of more than 90 shots seen in 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks.
The woman who played Janet Leigh’s body double in about half of the shower-scene shots was named Myra Jones. In a sad case of life imitating art, Jones was stabbed to death in 1988. Her killer? A mentally disturbed handyman who targeted older women. He’d murdered at least one other before her - that police know about.
After the release of “Psycho,” Hitchcock received an irate letter from a man whose daughter had refused to take baths after seeing the French thriller “Les Diaboliques” (in which a man is drowned in a tub). After seeing “Psycho,” she refused to take showers as well. Hitchcock’s reply? “Send her to the dry cleaners.”
Although popular with most audiences, “Psycho” was reviled by ophthalmologists. Eye doctors everywhere pointed out that a corpse’s pupil dilate, yet - in a stark close-up of her face after her supposedly deadly shower - Janet Leigh’s eyes remain contracted. Ever the obsessed technician, Hitchcock listened, using dilating eyedrops for stiffs in all future films.” -mentalfloss
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