Friends & Family
Blah Girls
This just proves that there is no end to the number of ways a person can recycle an idea. This is Ashton Kutcher’s new online show called Punk’d, Pop Fiction, Blah Girls.
PPM#17 in SD
Dean Spunt has a record label called Post Present Medium. He puts out records by a bunch of cool bands like Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, David Scott Stone, and of course a few No Age records. The latest PPM release is a DVD compilation of videos from their roster and extended family.
Tomorrow (Sunday) night, old friend Mario is presenting a preview screening at his new ‘night’ called ‘Too Many Creeps‘ (every Sunday at the Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St., San Diego).
Jennifer and Kate from Mika Miko will be there to play records too. Screening’s at 9pm. You should go.
‘Cold Operator’ by Carson Mell
Just put up the second installment in the Community Shorts summer series — Carson Mell’s awesome ‘Cold Operator‘! Enjoy…
Mario’s Pullin’ Some Shit in San Diego Tomorrow
Our old friend Mario is always keepin’ busy in San Diego and tomorrow night he’s presenting the new Vice documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad at The Whistle Stop (2236 Fern St). The screening starts at 9pm and then Mario and his cronies will be playing records afterwards. Not to be missed.
New York vs. LA (Tacos)
My long lost brother and eternal partner in crime Josh Malmuth just launched what’s probably the best blog on the internet: LostTaco.com
I won’t try to explain it, I’ll just quote the ‘about’ box:
I recently moved from Los Angeles to New York, so this is a fairly emotional issue for me. I can’t believe that there aren’t any good tacos in this city. It just doesn’t seem possible. Somewhere in New York there’s a delicious stranded taco, waiting to be found. If you can help, let me know.
Community Shorts (.com!)
We finally launched our new video magazine at communityshorts.com. One new excellent featured video a week and constant updates from the best people around (including everyone from here!). Website coded by the one-and-only Malmuth (epic hypertext for his name coming later this week!) and flash player by Nic Couillard (’da man!).
And embeddable videos! (but you should check out the website anyway…). Week 1: The Man in the Moon by Waverly Films –
Baby!
Summer Jams ‘08
I know things have been quiet around here for a little bit, but we’ve been busy in the real world! Both of our events were great successes (proper reports coming soon) and CommunityShorts.com is on track for a Monday launch, but what I’ve got to direct your attention to immediately is the long-awaited release of Planet People’s Summer Mix ‘08. Boo-ya!
The Return of Community Shorts!
After many months of work, we’re finally getting ready to kick off the project we’ve been preparing for this summer. We’ve taken the original concept behind Milkfat Films (an online ‘magazine’ featuring videos from our favorite filmmakers) and combined it w/ the screening we held in Echo Park last December, and now we’re proud to announce the new Community Shorts.
CommunityShorts.com will be a site much like this one, but featuring videos on a much more regular basis (one a week!) and from a larger group of curated contributors. The site will be much more high-tech as well. The videos, which will play in a custom flash player built by Nic Couillard, will be embeddable, full-screenable, and downloadable to iTunes, iPods, and iPhones.
To commemorate our launch, we’re holding screening events in New York and LA where we’ll be premiering many of the videos from the site. Our New York event will be held on Thursday May 29 at the Black Swan Wines project space in SoHo (70 Greene St). Our Los Angeles screening will be on Sunday June 1 and will again be held at the Evil Monito space in Echo Park (1830 Echo Park Ave). Admission to the screenings is by RSVP only this time so please click here for the NYC one or here for the LA one.
We’ve put together an incredible program featuring contributions from Casey Anderson, Birthday Boy Presents, Blip Boutique, Eli Born, Oscar Boyson, Andy Bruntel, Fatal Farm, Russ Finkelstein, Phylicia Fuentes, Bucky Fukumoto, Micah Gallo, Peter Glanz, Brennan Hill, Oren Kaplan, Jonathan Levine, Pank Films, Patrick McKenzie, Carson Mell, us(!), Casey & Van Neistat, Olde English, Phil Pinto, Red Bucket Films, Rue Brutalia, Jett Steiger and Waverly Films. Yeah.
Expect a few more updates as our screenings approach, and an announcement here when the site goes live. Until then…
I am Tamica
by Sam Sundos! (Look out for Noise League soon and check out Sam’s music reviews)
Yeah I know we’re not an art blog!
Sure he is a friend, but Brennan Hill is also awesome. How can you not be wooed by this gem!
You have to link to his uber to see his other work silly!