In alphabetical order

The NYT best 1000 movies ever made.

2046

Kit just pointed me to the 2046 website. I took a quick peek but I really don't want to know. I want to see it cold. Eric and I went to Chinatown the other day and found the 2046 dvd and vcd. Unfortunately, it's the version from China, dubbed into Mandarin and without English subtitles. Still, I was sorely tempted. But I'll wait for the HK DVD. And my new tv.

Wong Kar-Wai news

Kino's releasing a Wong Kar-Wai DVD box set, containing five of his earlier films (the only film that's missing is Ashes of Time. I've never seen the Kino prints, but they must be better than the Chinatown DVD versions I own and so now I'm sorely tempted to get this. They're also re-releasing Days of Being Wild to theaters with a new translation. I just wonder if it's a new print. For those in the New York area, it'll be playing at the Film Forum in November. Looks like it's gonna be a WKW fall . . .

Eminem lets his politics be known

Eminem's Mosh Music Video. See it here.

Sticker shock

Sasha Frere-Jones, Dave Tompkins, Hua Hsu, and Jeff Chang have just about launched their new audioblog, Sticker Shock. I was involved in the minimal design. It's gonna be big.

New photoblogs

My cousin Dan just started his first photoblog. It's called Un Object d'art.

THREE.2

THREE.2 is a new digifotoblog posting frequent images thus far in and around New York.

Kill Kitty

Chang Cheng-Yue is performing in New York and Boston on Sunday and Monday (and he's playing in LA Oct 23. He's a Chinese Rock star, and this marks the first time a Chinese Rock artist has toured the states. Click on the banner for more information.

I love eggs

And you might too after seeing this. Though maybe eating them 365 days a year would be bad for your health. . . . Thanks to Dennis for pointing it out.

Open House New York

"The Second Annual OHNY weekend is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday, October 9 & 10, 2004. 100 fascinating spaces and places in all five boroughs will be open for tours - free of charge. Each site will offer different experiences, including guided and self-guided tours, informal talks and conversations with the designers." I missed this last year so I'm definitely going out this year to check it out. Read about it on their site: www.openhousenewyork.org

Photo books

I'm ordering two books. Eric had recommended the VII agency's book War to me a few weeks ago. At AIGA's 50 books 50 covers I saw the book itself and spent a good portion of my time there flipping through it (you would think that their site would have at least thumbnails of the winners). The other book I'm buying is Michael Ackerman's End Time City, a collection of photographs he took while in Benares. I've been meaning to get that one for a wihle and am finally breaking down and doing it.

Audio blogs

On the subject of audio blogs, here's two more that I'm enjoying (one courtesy of SF/J). Today, Moistworks is offering some mashups. The one mixing the Beatles and the All Saints is eeriely cool. Fluxblog's offering a Phil Specorish song and a funky little jam. The winner today would be Moistworks if you were to compare mp3s. Though Fluxblog's been quoted in the Times on an article about marketing through audiobloggers.

Fruits of Chaos

Fruits of Chaos is an mp3 blog devoted to (mostly) Asian pop music. At least as far as I can discern from my initial glance at it.

The 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial

"The 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial is the latest in a succession of seven national Biennials of Iranian Graphic Designers. It has been prepared for a long time, and very carefully, and has been preceeded by a number of exhibtions both in Tehran and in Europe." You can see some of the posters and the designers here. Oh to be in Tehran!

Creep (acoustic)

Cool animated music video set to Radiohead's "Creep". Very nicely done.

Mining links

I haven't checked #1/usr/bin/girl in a while, and she's put up some links to some cool games and animations. Check out the Scarecrow game, which looks like Tim Burton might have designed it; MoMa's site on Tall buildings, which is nicely designed though it bothers me that three or four of the buildings are WTC sketches which won't even be built; the speed reading test; and the cartoon Heroes.

Soul Sides

Oliver Wang (aka O-Dub) is running this great audio blog called Soul Sides. It started as a place to post record reviews, but it's since become a place where he posts mp3s and comments on those. One of the greatest discoveries in recent weeks is the Bizzie Boys. If I had the original 12"'s, I'd be wearing out the grooves. As it is, the three tracks O-Dub's posted are quickly climbing the charts according to my Itunes play count. It's too bad they only had those four singles. It's almost enough to convince me to become a record collector.

Like sand for water

A neat video showing that sand behaves like water.

Hot in Herrre

What happens when two video game combatants decide to lay down their arms and get funky? Well, you might get something like Dance, Voldo, Dance.

Middle East photographs

I've spent the last three days scanning negatives and designing and producing a site to exhibit some of the black and white photos I took while in the Middle East. A color site will have to come later (when I have the time to edit all the photos). You can find the site here.