I like the fact that these guys are all local. They have good taste too. The thing that’s strange on a community level is that there is no way to contact them. Their site just seems broken and their email down. Their myspace is gone too. Odd. Maybe they are freakin about licensing or something. Or it’s turned into a money pit to legally license music.
Anyway keep fighting the good fight if you are out there,
This Carlin rant has been floating around for a while since he died. It occurred to me that it sums up why pirate radio still and will always work. It’s funny but it’s not.
This group is just fantastic. They’ve actually outdone themselves. I really like the sound design for these as well. I wonder if people in the USA have the attention span to do something like this. More at blublu.org
Interesting development in Congress where they will give authority to the President to shut down the internet in case of a Cyber attack.
Congress still has to vote on it. Should be really interesting to see what happens. Personally I think people would FREAK if even parts of the internet were turned off for 120 days.
They would have to go back to letter writing.
AGP is this incredible archive of extremely rare vinyl that never made it to CD.
It includes very informative introductions and scans of the liner notes.
Some of my favorites are the Hungarian Steam Locomotives and the very very early electronic music like Morton Subotnick and his “ghost electronics”. Something for all, fat or small, tiny or tall.
A little history. Apparently during WWII an Australian POW in a Japanese Prison named Cornell, who would have made an amazing hacker, came up with the idea that if you use a Gillette “blue” razor and pencil lead, you can receive radio stations. It works similar to a crystal radio due to the coating they put on this particular razor blade at that time. By touching different parts of the razor you get different frequencies. It was later called a “Foxhole Radio”.
Here is the press for the upcoming show at the Anthology. Should be a great night. They WILL RUN OUT OF WINE.
JFC
On Wednesday June 30th NewFilmmakers invites you to join us for a wine evening. There will be tastings from two vineyards, Dinastia Vivanco in Spain and Rushland Ridge in Pennsylvania.
But first at 6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES presents three films about art: Stephen Dackson SEQUENTIAL PAINT (2006, 7 Minutes, Video) about artistic life meeting romantic life; Lori Petchers MEZZANOTTE OBSCURA (2009, 23 Minutes, Video) giving an inside look into an artist’s all consuming passion and creative process as he painstakingly constructs an innovative body of work; and Mark Murphy SCRIBBLE 08 (2009, 42 Minutes, Video) offering an intimate look at eight emerging artists capturing the energy of today’s contemporary art movement. The SCRIBBLE 08 artists include: Tim Biskup, Jeff Soto, Camille Rose Garcia, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Sorren and Martha Rich and offers a great look into the contemporary artists of Southern California.
And at 7:30PM the NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM presents a look into the future with two short films. In John Culhane RADIO FREE BLISSVILLE (2009, 17 Minutes, Video), contingencies use pirate radio airwaves for basic communications after the destruction of primary satellite networks in 2012 and the information apocalypse which followed. In Anthony Werhun HIBERNATION (2008, 27 Minutes, Video), the government mandates that people must hibernate two months of the year in response to overpopulation.
Then at the 8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PRESENTATION presents two films on winemaking. A Reception & Wine Tasting will precede the screenings at 7:30PM in the Upstairs Lobby.
Kyle Repka RUSHLAND RIDGE (2010, 37 Minutes, Super 8MM). RUSHLAND RIDGE tells the story of the Ullman family as they work together to sustain their family vineyard in suburban Pennsylvania. Filmed entirely in super 8mm and spanning one year, the film chronicles the various obstacles and rewards encountered by the family through the wine making process.
Zev Robinson DINASTIA VIVANCO (2010, 50 Minutes, 16MM). DINASTIA VIVANCO is the story of a family winery over four generations and a reflection of the history of wine in La Rioja, Spain. Starting a century ago as a small personal endeavor, it developed to become a major Rioja producer, culminating in the Dinastia Vivanco winery and world-class museum. Zev Robinson is a Canadian-British film maker and artist who has lived in several different cities, including New York, London, and Madrid, before moving to a small village near Valencia, Spain a few years ago. Over the last year, he has travelled some 10,000 miles across Spain taping material for a series of documentaries on wine as culture, history and economics. With a strong visual sense and using interviews with those deeply involved in the culture of wine, each documentary focuses on a certain theme within this complex, fascinating world.
NewFilmmakers NY screens every week at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online. Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.
