At YouTube.

I don't know what's with the cheesy Creed-esque soundtrack but the clips look interesting. Don't watch this if you're still slogging through seasons 1 and 2--possible spoilers. 

You and your MTV video games...

"I don't want to see him in that suit..." (re-posting this in light of Superman's recent return)

Human Space Invaders

Jan Svankmajer's Food Trilogy

Chris Cunningham's latest disturb-o-fest music video

And a bonus non-video link...

A website just for Candleblog lurker, Taschen, and her little dictator

 

Buffy season 8 (it's a comic book)

Veronica Mars season 3 spoilers

Some Lost and BSG news

These items thouroughly swiped from BC. 

The Big Lebowski: the Fucking Short Version

via Backwards City 

Look out Bruce Sterling. Spimes are just around the corner...

With no equal in terms of its combination of size, memory capacity and data access speed, the tiny chip could be stuck on or embedded in almost any object and make available information and content now found mostly on electronic devices or the Internet.

Some of the potential applications include storing medical records on a hospital patient’s wristband; providing audio-visual supplements to postcards and photos; helping fight counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry; adding security to identity cards and passports; and supplying additional information for printed documents.

The experimental chip, developed by the “Memory Spot” research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots.

“The Memory Spot chip frees digital content from the electronic world of the PC and the Internet and arranges it all around us in our physical world,” said Ed McDonnell, Memory Spot project manager, HP Labs.

The chip has a 10 megabits-per-second data transfer rate – 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology and comparable to Wi-Fi speeds – effectively giving users instant retrieval of information in audio, video, photo or document form. With a storage capacity ranging from 256 kilobits to 4 megabits in working prototypes, it could store a very short video clip, several images or dozens of pages of text. Future versions could have larger capacities…

via Warren Ellis 

Here's a nice game for all of you Candleblog devotees... keep track of how many times I claim a show is the "best show on TV" or make some similar superlative declaration.

But seriously, this time I mean it. Every Sunday night at 10:00pm as the new episode of Deadwood is ending, Emily and I look at each other and ask ourselves why it ever has to end. Why can't Deadwood just be on all the time? If you're not onboard yet, get with it.

You'll be in good company.

I've probably said this before too, but despite the occasional brilliant piece of cinema (like Brick and The Proposition, to name two recent examples), the best narrative fiction filmmaking is happening on the small screen these days. We are in the midst of a television renaissance. 

[MovieFilter: the following post assumes you have seen Herzog's Grizzly Man (I just finished it). No plot spoiler here, only commentary.]

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Imagined future (first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly)

vs.

actual future (Japanese schoolgirls farting in your face) 

Hey all you Vermonters... Tonight at 10pm my friend Art is going to be on Vermont Public Television's Reel Independents, a show about Vermont filmmakers. I've been lucky enough to have a couple of my films showcased on the program and you should all check it out. Plus it's hosted by my friend Kenny.

One of Art's films that will be shown tonight is Ride, a 10 minute lyrical piece that meditates on a particularly excellent speech by JFK. Art says it's played a few festivals and that it just got picked up by a new Michael Moore film festival. He quoted an email he received that said:

"Holy shit - MM just phoned me - he LOVES RIDE!! Wants it in his film festival ...."

Congratulations, Art!

UPDATE: We TiVoed it and I thought Art did a great job. They actually showed Ride twice in a row! WTF? That's so ballsy. 

A link, a link, my country for a link...

Deconstructing the Numa Numa Dance

How much do you know about where you are?

What Vermont writer Caleb Daniloff saw today

Terry Gross does Thom Yorke

Digitally reproduced odors?

Follwing Godard and Hartley, Herzog is making an art-SF film. Bad idea.

Ms. Pacman and the ape

Wicked cool shuttle launch videos

Lightning is out to get Amy Stender!

Links via: Backwards City, Boing Boing, Gravity Lens, Warren Ellis & Bad Astronomy