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Fortunate to catch the Onedotzero CityStates09 series of shorts at the BFI a couple of week’s back featuring 10 different interpretations of urban dwelling. Stunning digital cinematography and story telling by a super-talented bunch of movie makers. Unfortunately, a friend couldn’t make the screening so I managed to track down most of the films on the web and put them together here (for him and you). Well worth 30 minutes of your time, although lacking the audio-visual experience of  big screen viewing. BTW – the YouTube films are embedded. For the Vimeo ones you need to follow the links below. Watch them, they’re worth it.

• keith loutit: mardi gras / australia 2009   (one of my favourites)
• Eric Testroete : This is Japan (love the simplicity in how this film is constructed from stills)
• Ace norton: Soundscapes / usa 2009 / 02:43     (love this one)
• nirmal singh dhiman: destination direction / uk 2008 / 01:06
• d-fuse: endless cities_redux / uk 2008 / 04:36
• jeff desom: morgenrot / hauschka  / germany 2009 / 03:36

[please see end of films for full credits]

Still Searching for…Soki So ‘hong kong labyrinths’ Richard Hardy ‘The Eco Commune’,  Shobna Gulati ‘akshay’, Asif Mian ‘rerun’

Checking of the Guardian’s Mega Awards for digital stuff, and noticed the ACDC album promo via Excel.
It’s really rather smart. One of the challenges in the old viral world is how do you get round firewalls which routinely strip out any non-work attachments. Not only does embedding the music within Excel get round this but given most finance departments in London media companies seem to be full of Aussie Rockers, it’s well targeted too. I note that it’s not produced by a creative agency, so wonder if it was someone in accounts payable at the record company that had the idea?

First spotted at Mutate Britain – and now I think I’m in love with it.  Such a simple idea so well executed by Tom Hogan - a super bright designer-flash progammer-come-artist. This video shows Erin Wilson in full flow
and a beautiful folk-sound-track from Laura Veirs.
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well, everyone thought the RIAA or majors took them down. Not exactly, but sort of.
Full story here