5 Questions and 5 Answers with Bryce Pedersen January 31, 2012
1. Two truths and a lie about you please.
Weekend warrior. Cat wrangler. Ginger Ale fiend.
2. Can you please describe what Oddservations means?
Oddservations is a collection of observatory research that has been gathered from an unknown world, consisting of its inhabitants and other found objects. Case Study #0001 is the first of the Oddservations series.
FILED UNDER: Events, News, Our peopleNow, Forager January 26, 2012
It’s festival season and the perfect time to give a huge congrats to cinematographer and Sandymontana family member Jonathan Nastasi for completing the feature film Now, Forager and its successful premiere at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival.
The film is centered around a couple who forage for wild mushrooms and sell them to New York’s restaurants, living seasonally and simply, who’s relationship is tested by the instability of their lifestyle. Being billed by the Village Voice as “…like Alice Waters meets Kelly Reichardt…” this film leaves us excited for its official release.
FILED UNDER: News, Our peopleRobot & Frank January 25, 2012
Congratulations to cinematographer and Sandymontana family member Matthew J. Lloyd for completing his first feature film and its successful premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival!
Robot & Frank, which is directed by first time feature filmmaker Jake Schreier, stars Frank Langella, Susan Surandon and Liv Tyler and has been getting rave reviews from those who caught the Gala Premier. Check one of the reviews for yourself here.
FILED UNDER: News, Our peopleShut Up and Play The Hits January 13, 2012
There are few things we love more than a well done concert flick, and there are few musicians that respect their craft more than James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem.
On April 2, 2011 LCD Soundsystem played their final show ever at Madison Square Garden. What resulted was a 4 hour spectacle that the New York Times called a “marvel of pure craft.” Shut Up and Play The Hits has documented this event and Murphy’s thoughts in the run up to the historic night in the tradition of great concert docs like U2′s Rattle and Hum and The Band’s The Last Waltz. Premiering at Sundance, we are excited to say the least.
FILED UNDER: NewsWe’re Hiring January 12, 2012
Post Production Generalist
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FILED UNDER: News, UncategorizedWho’s your Voice? January 5, 2012
It’s a well known fact that a brand is shaped by what people say about it online. It started with online search – people trust results in Google far more than they trust a brand’s mainstream advertisements or corporate website. And that trust has transcended into social media, as search integrates social results, and users become habituated to monitoring and responding to the social activity stream they follow on services like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Yelp to name a few.
FILED UNDER: NewsIt Was A Damn Good Time December 22, 2011
Did you have a damn good time? We did – or at least we’re quite sure we did looking at the photos from the night.
We do remember Hanni El Khatib and drummer Nicky Fleming-Yaryan tearing through pretty much all of Will The Guns Come Out and that “Loved One” and “Build. Destroy. Rebuild” had us screaming the loudest. DJ GetLive showed us how he does it in NYC with the sounds of Friendly Fires, Theophilus London, Mobb Deep and Azealia Banks. L.A.’s Them Jeans ended up taking the place into a heavy Dirty South moment after working through his signature remixes of electro-nu-disco-rock. We were joined by hundreds of our friends and peers and were deeply satisfied by the coming together of our different creative and cultural circles.
We’re going to look through these photos and try to piece more of this night back together. Thanks to all those that attended and to Hanni, Nicky, GetLive and Them Jeans for making it a damn good time. (All photographs by Scott James)
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PST: Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames December 21, 2011
“Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don’t live here.”
- Ice Cube
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980 was launched in October 2011 and will run for six months telling the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene following WWII and its development through the decades that followed. Backed by the Getty Foundation, PST is bringing together the Getty Museum, LACMA, MOCA, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and many more cultural institutions from across the city to contribute exhibitions and programming to this “grand-scale story of artistic innovation and social change.”
FILED UNDER: News, Uncategorized#DamnGoodTime / Hanni El Khatib December 14, 2011
“The sort of music you’d expect to have soundtracked West Side Story, had the songs been written by the Sharks and the Jets instead of Sondheim and Bernstein.” – Los Angeles Times
“If Joe Strummer came back as an angry young Filipino-Palestinian American.” - Guardian UK
FILED UNDER: Events, UncategorizedAtiba Jefferson / GVB 2011 Videos / Always On December 14, 2011
P-Rod pulling a switch frontside flip from the video for “Atiba’s Song”.
Gorilla Vs. Bear posted their fav videos of 2011 and among the top twenty were two friends of Sandymontana, Kahlil Joseph and Atiba Jefferson. Kahlil was chosen for his powerful “Black Up” video for Shabazz Palaces. Atiba (with co-director Ty Evans) received recognition for an accompanying clip to Panda Bear’s “Atiba’s Song” featuring a beautifully shot skate montage of Paul Rodriquez and Andrew Reynolds. We really dig GVB’s point of view on indie and progressive music and think this is a hell of a list for these gentlemen’s work to be featured in, sitting alongside amazing promos from the likes of Tyler The Creator, Lana Del Rey, and Beyonce.
FILED UNDER: Our people