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Schöne Montage (fast) aller Hitchcock-Cameos. Es fehlen Easy Virtue (1927), Blackmail (1929), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine, Case (1947) und Under Capricorn (1949).
Vorhin hatte ich erst bei den Filmfreunden Stan Lees Oscar-Campaign gepostet, hier eine Montage seiner Cameos.
Das ist eins der coolsten Streetartworks, die ich seit langem gesehen habe. Life is beautiful, indeed, Mr. Hitchcock!
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mp3s of Francois Truffaut’s interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
I’m such a big Hitchcock fan I was giddy with excitement when I saw that Vanity Fair magazine opted to recreate some of his most famous and iconic scenes from 11 of his movies in their Hollywood Portfolio issue a few months ago. The March issue of the magazine, who has a tradition of doing some fabulous photo editorials, continued to impress with their recreation of 11 of Hitcock’s most famous scenes in which 21 hottest hollywood actors are shot by four regular Vanity Fair photographers. The results are fabulous, and you can see them for yourself below followed by original hollywood stills of the movies.
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant the major changs that sound brought in. In Many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema. They are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking.’ When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise. I always try first to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between… To me, one of the cardinal sins for a scriptwriter, when he runs into some difficulty, is to say ‘We can cover that by a line of dialogue.’ Dialogue should simply be a sound among sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films are as much love letters to the Bay Area as they are Mash notes to murder. From Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square to Bolder Creek’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park, you’ll find some fantastic things to do while you soak up the views that inspired the master of suspense.
The website of lecturer Dr Glen Johnson who teaches Hitchcock to his students, contains a collection of stills from some of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies such as Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958) and Frenzy (1972).
Drei Millionen Scans aus Magazinen der 50er und davor gibt’s hier. Worüber ich beim Stöbern gestolpert bin in no particular order:
American Urban
Architectural Review Covers from the 1950s
Astronomy
BBC Yearbooks
Pictures of Berlin 1928 – 1931
Cold War
Dirty Dolls
Disneyland
Eccentria Photographia
Hitchcock in Magazines
Flying Saucers
Vintage Futurism
First Rollercoaster 1769
Hell Visualised
Horror Comics
Und und und und und und und und und so weiter und so fort… Klickfest!
Craftster member Rockstarcrafter posted before-and-after photos of her Hitchcock-inspired Psycho bathroom. It might not be for everyone, but it is definitely one way to go for crafty film buffs.
OK Go’s LED Jackets
Rising star of modern design, Moritz Waldemeyer, is collaborating with the quirky kings of Geek Rock, OK Go, to fashion a new kind of stage performance. The band recently approached Waldemeyer to design the costumes for their latest performance, and his solution quite literally lights up the stage – thousands of LED lights, stitched into the jackets of the four performers, will turn each of them into a moving light show. Waldemeyer’s inspiration was the flickering lights of the slot machines in the casinos of Las Vegas.
DJ Moule – Le Boot de la Semaine
New boot of the week by the prolific and Mashup artist extrordinaire DJ Moule. ‘Dig It On takes on a foursome containing the Chemical Brothers, T-Rex, Anne Lee, and Marvin Gaye. French Floor Filla.
Celebrity Star Wars
Photoshop Contest
1000 Frames of Hitchcock
“1000 Frames of Hitchcock” is an attempt to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames.
Hitchcock Triple Feature
Though not as commonly known, Alfred Hitchcock’s late British period is nonetheless an intriguing look at what delights were to come from his later work.
Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), Jamaica Inn (1939)
Atom
The Clash of the Titans Watch now
Discovery of the Atom – Development of Quantum Mechanics
The Key to the Cosmos Watch now
Radioactivity – the Atom Bomb – the Big Bang – Why are we here? – How were we made?
The Illusion of Reality Watch now
Parallel universes – Different versions of us exist – Empty space isn’t empty at all – Differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality.
Evan Perry’s Hyper-Realistic Sculptures
Evan Penny’s eccentric portraiture transforms the figurative tradition into contemporary observations on the nature of representation. His lifelike sculptures and photographs tantalize us with vivid allusions to reality, while emphatically affirming their fictional demeanor. When faced with one of Penny’s incredible people, we may not believe what we see.
How To Change Scarlett Johansson Into A Zombie
Photoshop Timelapse Video. Meine Zombies sind immer noch besser. Celebrity Zombies! Muss ich mal drüber nachdenken.
Logo R.I.P.
In todays ruthless business environment, corporations face uncertain futures. The forces of globalisation are creating unprecedented change. Yet apart from the displacement, downsizing and elimination of the workforce, the other casualities are the visual manifestations of the company: its logo, or trademark. Logo RIP is a commemoration of logos withdrawn from the ocular landscape.
Stelar C Muscle Mashine
The Muscle Machine is a six-legged walking robot, five metres in diameter. It is a hybrid human-machine system, pneumatically powered using fluidic muscle actuators. The rubber muscles contract when inflated, and extend when exhausted. This results in a more flexible and compliant mechanism, using a more reliable and robust engineering design.
User Experience Of The Future
We’ve got used to a number of things. To traditional mouse-keyboard user interaction, to 2D windows-based user interface and to a rather unspectacular user’s workflow which enables one user interact with only one application at a time. For instance, while you’re browsing in your web browser you can’t scale your text and resize your window simultaneously — unless you are a keyboard-shortcut-master.
Good news: it can be different. Below we present some of the outstanding recent developments in the field of user experience design. Most techniques may seem very futuristic, but they are reality. And in fact, they are extremely impressive. Keep in mind: they can become ubiquitous over the next years.
Über-Computerposter
Das Poster „PC-Geschichte bzw. Computergeschichte“ wurde bereits zweimal im Jahre 1997 (20 Jahre PC) und 2002 (25 Jahre PC) produziert und sehr erfolgreich aufgelegt. In diesem Jahr feiert der PC nun seinen 30. Geburtstag und es wird ein neues erweitertes Poster erstellt, welches auf der Basis des bereits vorhandenen Posters “25 Jahre PC-Geschichte“ basiert.
Human observation of dark energy may shorten the life span of the universe
Could humanity’s observation of dark energy have shortened the life span of the universe? The answer is “yes” according to the author of a new scientific paper that has recently come to light. Featured in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine, the subscriber-only story, “Has observing the universe hastened its end?”, discusses the paper and its claims.
Retro-Christmas-Catalogue-Scans
Star Craft: The Story so far
Die Terraner reisten das erste Mal in die Tiefen der Galaxie, als eine Navigationsfehlfunktion ihre automatisierten Kolonieschiffe vom Kurs abbrachte. Die Schiffe verfehlten ihr geplantes Ziel und erlitten auf drei weit zerstreuten Welten des Koprulu-Sektors Bruchlandungen.
Über mehrere Jahrzehnte hinweg etablierten die Terraner Kolonien, breiteten sich auf weitere Planeten aus und gerieten miteinander in Konflikt. In dem Jahrzehnt nach dem Ende der Gildenkriege hatte die Terranische Konföderation die unangefochtene Vormachtstellung über den Kolonialraum.
Die terranischen Kolonien wurden sich das erste Mal bewusst, dass sie nicht allein im Universum sind, als eine schimmernde Flotte von Kriegsschiffen der Protoss unvermittelt über der Konföderationswelt Chau Sara auftauchte. Die hochentwickelten, fremdartigen Schiffe äscherten die Oberfläche des Planeten ohne Vorwarnung ein.
Russia to build new cosmodrome on home soil
Russia will build a new cosmodrome on its own territory capable of handling human spaceflight, Russian media reports. President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that clears the way for the construction of the new cosmodrome which will begin hosting launches in 2015.
The launch centre, in Russia’s Far East region of Amur, will be called Vostochny, said, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. It would be Russia’s first launch centre for manned missions on its own territory.
6 Incredible Ocean-Going Hotels from Around the World
Here are six hotels that are perfectly designed for the nautically inclined.
History of Medicine Collection
Planet Tyler’s Flickr photoset contains some of the wonderful things found in University of Buffalo’s History of Medicine Collection such as the Oxypathor, electric chest and lung protector, and this 1861 Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy.
Raubkopierer sind Terroristen
Am 30. November wird der Bundesrat wieder zusammentreten. Dann wird auch das Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zur Abstimmung vorgelegt. Es ist zu erwarten, dass die Großkoalitionäre dem Gesetzesentwurf zustimmen werden. Eine Empfehlung des Rechtsausschuss des Bundesrates fordert indes sogar eine Ergänzung des Gesetzes, die auch eine zivilrechtliche Auskunft über die Bestandsdaten ermöglichen soll. Der Hintergrund ist, dass die Lobbyvertreter der Software-, Film- und Musikindustrie gerne in einem noch höheren Maße rechtlich gegen Urheberrechtsverletzungen, d.h. “Raubkopien” über Tauschbörsen, vorgehen würden.
Ask the Punk Professor – Vivien Goldman’s bi-weekly column on the BBC America website
I am the Professor of Punk, and not only because I teach a course, Classic Punk & Beyond, at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Back in the day, as Features Editor of the scrappy punk-rock weekly, Sounds, I was there to track punk’s frenetic development. Pistols, Clash and Pretenders, DJ Don Letts, Dennis Brown and various Wailers all partied at my place in London’s Ladbroke Grove, and on transatlantic trips, I dropped in on the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith.
This is what I learned in my Punk life class. You have to start doing what you believe in some time, so why not now? And play each gig, teach each class, write each blog, like it was your first – and last. That’s punk. (via)
Smashing Pumpkins Bootlegs
Fans können auf der Seite der Pumpkins ihre Bootlegs hochladen, die wiederum andere Fans herunterladen können. (via)
US labels to Canada: stop giving us free money, we prefer to sue
The Canadian Recording Industry Association (which represents multinational, US, and other non-Canadian record labels exclusively) has come out against the “private copying levy,” a tax on blank media that it lobbied hard for over the past 15 years. The levy is charged against blank media, and the money raised is paid to copyright holders in exchange for the right to copy music and other works onto the media. CRIA apparently fears that the levy can be used to legalize P2P music-trading in Canada (an activity whose legality is in dispute right now), thereby breaking the P2P deadlock, decriminalizing millions of music fans, and paying millions of dollars to their members. The record industry giants would prefer to go on suing music fans and technology companies — an activity that pays the record companies handsomely, while encouraging fans to defect from buying music in the future, and which does not pay one cent to any artist.
The #1-Song on this date in history
A Bunch of Bootlegs:
Alice Cooper – 1975-06-18 – Los Angeles
AC/DC Erwin Centre, Austin Texas 11-10-1985
Okkervil River 2003.09.25 – Manufaktur, Schorndorf, GER @ 320
A Fistful of DJ Sets:
Rennie Pilgrem @ GalaxyFM 09/15
Carl Cox – Global 235 – live at Space, Closing Party Ibiza special.
Timo Maas @ Ultra Radio 09/15
Fabio – One In The Jungle 09/15
Paul van Dyk – E1ns Live Rocker 09/16
Annie Mac – Mash Up 09/14
Youtube: Dark Shadows Groovy Horror Head Toy Commercial
These are toys from the gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows”.
The Man Who Made The Movies – Alfred Hitchcock
Directed (1973) by Richard Schickel. Narrated by Cliff Robertson. Interviews with the Master of Suspense are interspersed with clips from his films. An excellent look at his style and theory for suspense cinema. Features clips from The Lodger, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Torn Curtain, and Frenzy.
Youtube: Nicholas Cage Japanese Ad
The Wolfman
Directed (1941) by Curt Siodmak. Starring Lon Chaney Jr. Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi.
Creature with the Atom Brain
Directed (1955) by Edward L. Cahn. Starring Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer and Michael Granger.
Little Mosque on the Prairie
The creators of a new Canadian sitcom, “Little Mosque on the Prairie” (IMDB), are hoping the TV show will strike a chord beyond the country’s borders as it portrays Muslims in a new light: funny. The comedy, about a small Muslim community in the fictional Prairie town of Mercy, aired on Canadian television this week to mostly favorable reviews and spectacular ratings. It concerns a community of devout Muslims and the inevitable misunderstandings that ensue when they interact with the locals in rural Saskatchewan. Alle Episoden auf Metafilter.
Moveable Transformer Robot Made from KFC Bucket!
Sohu blog user Wonderdasher created this insanely detailed paper model of Bumblebee Transformer from KFC cartons, milk boxes, chopsticks, parts of a ball-point pen, plastic spring and glue! The robot has more than 60 movable joints and can actually transform. (via)
The Killer Shrews
Directed (1959) by Ray Kellogg. Starring James Best, Ingrid Goude and Ken Curtis.
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934): directed by William Nigh, starred by Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren, Lotus Long and Robert Emmett O’Connor. (51 min)
Star Wars – The Backstroke of the West
the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being ‘far far away’…. „
Charles Bronson as you’ve never seen him before…
Japanese Mandom Ad
Und überhaupt: Filmschatten. (via)
Eat the Document
Directed (1972) by Bob Dylan. Eat the Document is a rarely exhibited documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. It was shot under Dylan’s direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary Dont Look Back chronicled Dylan’s 1965 British tour.
Paper Folding and Wire Work by Polly Verity
Check out the paper folding and wire work of Polly Verity at Polyscene. (via)
DHTML-Arkanoid
Unfassbar! Breakout in DHTML-„Coding“…
Hans Christian Andersen – Digital Collection
At Odense City Museums we are constantly at work digitalising the Hans Christian Andersen collections. From the left-hand menu of this site you have access to a wide range of the facilities that have already been established. This applies among other things to the writer’s creative efforts in the form of papercuts, drawings, picture books and folding screens to be found under the link Visual Arts. And it applies to a great deal of the original Manuscripts, our collection of Portraits of Andersen and of persons related to him. We have also developed facilities that aim to convey knowledge about the writer’s life and work, see for example the links Anderseniana and Journeys.
The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
The entire purpose of this site is to stimulate interest and supply information about the vast universe Marvel has created: To find out about the really, really obscure you have to visit The Appendix to The Handbook of the Marvel Universe, where you can learn about such characters as Glowworm (a.k.a. Race Killer), Thunderhoof (part of Force Four) and human/amoeba hybrid Half-Man.
Orchid Houses
Our inspiration for Orchid House comes from the wildlife and landscape at Lower Mill Estate. A number of Orchid species can be found here, but it is the camouflage of the Bee Orchid that specifically generated our design.
The house will blend with its landscape and environment. The organic form is created from laminated veneer lumbar (LVL) ribs and clad with timber shingles (tiles). The camouflage pattern is burnt to the timber.
Orchid House can be located on any lakeshore site, with the main living spaces floating over the water. Terraces, gangway and pontoon cascade from the heart of the house as that of the orchid petals.
The New 7 Wonders
als 360°-Panorama-Fotos
The show that interviews anything on everything
“The show that interviews anything on everything” is fully available on the author’s place, with additional scenes and naughy words! Listen to what robots and Laura Bush have to say about illegal aliens, and learn about alien’s life after The Sopranos, and so on… (via)
Mutterwertschätzung is the new Autobahn
Grundsätzlich vertritt Eva Herman – mit einem “r” und einem “n” – also die Position, es gäbe eine metaphysisch (weiß nicht ob sie das religiös oder genetisch begründet) legitimierte Geschlechterordnung und jemand – natürlich die doofen 68er – trügen Schuld am Fall jener Mauer zwischen den durch die Evolution unverrückbar eingepflegten spezifisch männlichen und weiblichen Verhaltensweisen.
Das ist nicht nur völliger Blödsinn, das ist auch eine komplett illiberale Einstellung. Denn Herman plädiert somit nicht für die Wahlfreiheit des Lebensstils, sondern für Unterordnung in eine externe Ordnung. Frauen sollten ihr zuliebe nicht die Möglichkeit haben – platt ausgedrückt – sich für den Herd zu entscheiden, sondern hätten sich gefälligst in die Vorbestimmung zu fügen. Dass sie das als Normativ versteht, verkleidet sie passabel, aber die Militanz, mit der sie den (bei weitem nicht optimalen) Status Quo der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern angreift, enttarnt’s doch.
33 Funny Exam Answers
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories
Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World
10 Big Lessons from Little Kids
2. Homework blows. Bring work home with you and it’ll ruin your night. And your marriage. And your family. And your life.
Stringtheorie und inflationäres Universum: Da geht noch nichts zusammen
Wie berechnet man Voraussagen für gängige kosmologische Parameter, wenn man von einer 10-dimensionalen Stringtheorie ausgeht? Bisher noch gar nicht.
Versinkende Staaten
Im Südpazifik kämpfen ganze Nationen ums Überleben in einer wärmeren Welt.
Der gläserne Terrorverdächtige
Ein Künstler unter Terrorverdacht veröffentlicht sein ganzes Leben im Internet.
Hurrikan-Rekorde
Die diesjährige Hurrikan-Saison hatte bereits einige böse Überraschungen zu bieten, die für die Zukunft nichts Gutes erwarten lassen.
Was die ältesten Sterne erzählen
Unsere Erstgeborenen, die Sterne, die unmittelbar nach der Entstehung des Universums ihren Wasserstoffzyklus starteten, verraten Kosmologen auch etwas über die Natur der Dunklen Materie.
