Warner Bros. Is Playing With Legos

Warner Bros. Is Playing With Legos

August 12th, 2009 | 3D, Animation, Film, Kids, Music, Videos

Vulture: “Warner Bros. has acquired the rights for, and is moving forward with, a live-action/CGI-hybrid full-length feature Legos film. There are no plot details, of course — that stuff can get hashed out later! — but the general direction will be a movie that “centers… Read More

‘King Rat’ – Directed by Heath Ledger

‘King Rat’ – Directed by Heath Ledger

August 12th, 2009 | Animation, Australia, Music, Videos

Screenhead: “Heath Ledger developed an idea to direct a video for the song ‘King Rat’. Heath Ledger’s vision, brave and unapologetic in its nature, brings together his love of bold and original music with his impassioned stance against the illegal commercial whale hunts taking place… Read More

14 tracks visualising sound: Alva Noto

14 tracks visualising sound: Alva Noto

August 12th, 2009 | Design, Music

14tracks: “Lynchpin and co-founder of the Raster Noton label, renowned installation-artist, producer, conceptual sound sculptor and all-round audio-visual maverick, Carsten Nicolai has over the last decade amassed a sizeable following in both the art and music worlds and figures as one of the most influential… Read More

DJ Da Pury is in da Berlin house

DJ Da Pury is in da Berlin house

August 12th, 2009 | Auctions, Events, Germany, Music, Photography, Shows

The Art Newspaper: “Is there no limit to the talents of Simon de Pury, the energetic chairman of auction house Phillips de Pury? A press release ludicrously labelled ‘Purepurygraphy/Purepurypop’ pinged into our email box with details of ‘contemporary art market power player de Pury’s exhibition… Read More

Long Lost Footage of Musical Play by John Phillips, Produced by Andy Warhol (1975)

Long Lost Footage of Musical Play by John Phillips, Produced by Andy Warhol (1975)

August 5th, 2009 | Music, Pop Art, Popculture, Theatre, USA, Videos

Plastic Bouquets-Man on the Moon from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. Very interesting story at Dangerous Minds: “The following was written by Chris Campion and Jeffrey A. Greenberg and is taken from the liner notes of the CD release of “Andy Warhol Presents Man on the… Read More

Top 10 Incredible Sound Illusions

Top 10 Incredible Sound Illusions

August 2nd, 2009 | Music

Listverse: “We have put together an amazing array of sound illusions (auditory illusions). In these illusions, your mind is tricked in to thinking it is hearing something when, in fact, it is not. To get the most out of this list you should have a… Read More

Beck’s Music Inspired Art 2009

Beck’s Music Inspired Art 2009

July 26th, 2009 | Commercial Art, Graphic Art, Music

BOOOOOOOM!: “Beck’s asked 10 Illustrators including McBess, Hellovon, Kid Acne, Si Scott, and Laura Jackaman to re-think the best albums of the last 40 years (gleaned from Pitchfork lists). Now the project is open to the public to contribute and complete the collection of 100.Head… Read More

PHONE BOOTH GALLERY presents: Art inspired by Spinal Tap

PHONE BOOTH GALLERY presents: Art inspired by Spinal Tap

July 26th, 2009 | Film, Music, Shows

Turn your amp to 11 and check out the tribute to the funniest mockumentary ever made over at the PHONE BOOTH GALLERY Sunday Fun for everyone: Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel from the movie Spinal Tap thinks something is missing from National Geographic Channel’s Stonehenge… Read More

Maximum Security and a Starring Role – Prisoners do "Alice in Wonderland"

Maximum Security and a Starring Role – Prisoners do "Alice in Wonderland"

July 24th, 2009 | Education, Film, Music, Theatre

Photo: Sandro Michahelles for The International Herald Tribune – More Photos NYTimes.com: “VOLTERRA, ITALY — As a sound-system blasted a cha-cha-cha, the men began to dance. Wearing outlandish costumes with oversize hats and wigs, and boots with 15-centimeter heels from a Milanese store that caters… Read More

German beer-hall yodel goes to court in Munich

German beer-hall yodel goes to court in Munich

July 24th, 2009 | Copyright, Germany, Music

The Guardian: “The heirs of Karl Ganzer, the Austrian composer of the 63-year-old beer-hall hit which is said to be Europe’s most-played folk song, were yesterday successful in their attempts to sue the music publisher Egon Frauenberger, who claimed he had written the song’s refrain… Read More