Tonight! Ill Film Artist Series: Ravi Zupa
In addition to his work as a painter and sculptor Ravi Zupa is also a filmmaker directing music videos for acclaimed musical acts such as Why?, Sole, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves and Ghengis Tron. Join Illiterate for a screening and discussion of a selection of Zupa’s music videos, kicking off the beginning of the Underground Music Showcase in Denver. The screening begins at 8PM FREE!...Read more
Bonus Ups! w/ Colin Ward
Two weeks ago I was sitting in relatively the same place, having coffee, and watching Mark Gonzales videos. I'm always watching these fucking videos. They're entertaining on a handful of levels, both skateboarding and non-skateboarding related. They are performance-based, in a sense. I had done this, however, for the better part of a two-hour span. I read threads and picked out newer videos to sift through, but it was getting me nowhere. Finally a friend of mine told me to look up his friend Colin's videos. I was familiar with Colin to some degree already. I had seen his band Phonebooks play in the past and actually knew one of the other members from my brief stint of living in Santa Fe, NM....Read more
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tags: Colin Ward William Wegman Tony Oursler Video Youtube Paul Reubens PeeWee Herman
Interactivity: The Music Video 2.0
It was only a matter of time before somebody updated the music video for the age of interactive media. That somebody is Director Sam Jones. With the aide of interactive production company Tool of North America, Jones created a choose your own adventure version of the Cold War Kids' "I've Seen Enough", in which users can customize the video and the song in an almost infinite amount of combinations. Shot inside a dimly lit studio, the video captures the band playing and recording four variations of the song. Filmed individualy, each band member plays their part four separate times, each time changing instrumentation while maintaining the same tempo. The resulting video is actual...Read more
Hate to Love YouTube
The other night I had an uncontrollable urge to show my friend a short film I knew he would love. I hopped on youtube, pulled the film up, and pressed play. The quality was so horrible that I groaned to him that we should turn it off while he reassured me he could tell what was happening and was getting the gist of it. I squirmed, while he watched, and in the end he loved what I had shared and was pumped on the filmmaker. As the film editor here on illiteratemagazine.com it is my job to love on film so much that you, my ever loyal readers, will begin to love on film as much as I do. Because we are not in a classroom and I do not have an infinite reserve of 16mm and 35mm ...Read more
...I Hope You Dance
Just a little love for you to feast your being on. This video below contains some explicit cartoon scenes, flashing lights and is FOR OVER 18's ONLY. Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com Although this isnt a comic per se, it is very comical and borderline genius. The world must know. Its hypnotizing in the same way as when you look at a car wreck and cant look away. Its artistic and thoroughly religious. Happy Thursday from the illiterati. ...Read more