Movies
The Magic Egg
State-of-the-art CGI--in 1984, that is!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 03, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, 1980s
Telephones
The term "supercut" did not exist in 1995 when Christian Marclay created this video.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 22, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Avant Garde, Telephones, 1990s
Flying Saucers Over Istanbul
Essay with many still photos here.
IMDB page.
Another short clip here via Facebook.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2019 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Robots, 1950s
Possibly in Michigan
A recent article in the NY Times describes how artist Cecelia Condit’s weirdo 1983 short video “Possibly in Michigan” is finding a new audience via social media site Tik Tok.Condit describes her video as “A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a the cannibal named Arthur.”
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 10, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Outsider Art, 1980s
Mystery Illustration 87
Two of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Can you possibly tell who, from this off-model illo?
Answer is here (page 12).
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 18, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 15, 2019 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Movies, Special Effects, Surrealism, 1900s
Nude on the Moon
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 05, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Avant Garde, Public Indecency, 1960s
Dark Side of the Rainbow
For those who may not have heard of this classic urban legend of music, Jan Dirk Blom provides this explanation in his Dictionary of Hallucinations:It is not known who first established this pattern of thematic similarities, but from 1994 onwards it was widely discussed on internet sites such as the Usenet message board alt.music.pink-floyd and in the popular media.
As the Pink Floyd band members (save Roger Waters) have always denied deliberate attempts to synchronize their album with the movie, the Dark Side of the Rainbow is commonly designated as a cognitive illusion and attributed to a process called apophenia, i.e. an excess of perceptual or heuristic sensitivity leading to the discernment of patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
If you're curious to experience this phenomenon for yourself, someone has helpfully posted the entirety of the Wizard of Oz on YouTube, synced to Dark Side of the Moon.
Though this raises the biggest problem with the theory: Dark Side of the Moon is about 43 minutes long, while the Wizard of Oz is over an hour long. In the video below, this is solved by simply looping the album.
Some of the synchronicities to look for:
2:20 Look for a triangle hanging in the tree, that looks kinda like the triangle on the cover of Dark Side of the Moon.
8:03 Bells start playing just as Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch) rides onscreen, ringing the bell of her bicycle.
19:34 The song 'Money' starts playing when Dorothy first lays eyes on the Yellow Brick Road, which was often seen as a metaphor for bricks of gold, or money.
29:10 When the Wicked Witch, dressed in black, appears out of a cloud of smoke, the lyrics say "black, black, black..."
37:15 As Dorothy is first talking to the Scarecrow, and (in the movie) he begins singing "If I only had a brain," the song "Brain Damage" starts to play.
42:30 When Dorothy meets the Tin Man and bangs on his chest to listen for his heart, the album ends and fades to a heartbeat sound.
More info: Wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 04, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Synchronicity and Coincidence
Charles Bowers
And one more.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 29, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, Special Effects, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
HERCULES IN NEW YORK
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 09, 2019 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Celebrities, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Foreign Customs, 1960s
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