Category: AV
Fairmont Olympic Hotel Lobby
This place feels like it’s from another time. And haunted.
Pomegranate Popsicles
Popsicles don’t stay frozen in a cooler full of ice.
Office 2010: The Movie
TAT Augmented Reality Demo
This mobile app by TAT uses facial recognition and social networks to present a layer of augmented reality over visual/video displays. Check it out:
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Griffith Park Hike to the Summit
The view was pretty amazing so I took a quick vidy on me celly. The higher you go, the more bones and charred trees you see, the tighter the buzzards start to circle. Also, I made this hike on no sleep the night before so I was having a vision quest sort of experience at the time.
Nerdstar
Soundscapes in Williamsburg Last Summer
Summer 2008, we caught the Soundscapes playing on the sidewalk outside of Spike Hill across the street from the L train Bedford station. Unfortunately I only got to see the last song in their set. Got some video and they obviously rocked the shit. Check it out…
Code Monkey — the Song
This is pretty old (2006) but I just found it this morning. It’s actually pretty cute, the first verse is the funniest… it reminds me of my days in the cubicle farms. The 2nd and 3rd verses are about his crush on the receptionist…
www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3
Synecdoche, New York
Guess we must be living in a cave because the first I heard that Charlie Kaufman wrote and directed a new film was when I saw the trailer for it at the beginning of another DVD a few nights ago. How did that happen? Did it go straight to DVD? Our favorite oscar winning writer (2005 original screenplay, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) does a movie that flies under our radar? Turns out it had only limited theatrical release and apparently limited marketing as well. Guess that’s how it goes when you don’t live in NYC anymore. :(
The movie was another of Kaufman’s amazing works of genius in our opinion. Being a fan of surrealism, we loved that the movie takes place in a dream-reality. Here is the trailer…