Band Logos#2

Advertising#15

Live Poker: Miss, KKK, Robber
Slogan: “Become the king of bluff. Live Poker Magazine”
Advertising Agency: DDB, Paris, France

V from Visual#14

What: A spot by PSYOP
Title: "Smith and Nephew"
Who: Eben Mears and Mate Steinforth
With: Amazing 3D

Smith and Nephew from mate on Vimeo.

Gigs Posters#6

Idade D´oirada

Os nova iorquinos Tv on the Radio (ainda recentemente expostos aqui no nosso antro) preparam-se para lançar um novo testemunho musical, e divulgaram hoje a nova cover art do respectivo, que é aparentemente, e totalmente idêntica/igual/cara chapada da já noticiada. Confundidos? Ok...parece ser gémea da anterior, mas há uma minúciosa alteração, só para mais atentos, que se encontra na supressão do traço que ligada o Dear ao Science...fabuloso!

Mas o mais importante é a saída para os ecos planetários de uma das faixas deste Dear Science, de seu desígnio, "Golden Age", que está disponível no site da banda, em tvontheradio.com.

A todos os Bloquistas...Aproximai-vos!

Ok...estou a falar dos adeptos de Bloc Party e não de algum partido de esquerda sobejamente conhecido! Os estimados Bloc Party vão disponibilizar a partir desta Quinta-feira o seu novo trabalho, Intimacy, que já teve direito a um morno avanço, o single Mercury. De qualquer forma esperamos que a banda de Kele Okereke se rejuvenesça e volte a encantar. Produzido por Paul Epworth (que coordenou o seminal Silent Alarm) e Jacknife Lee (que escalou o apenas simpático A Weekend in the City), não se sabe exactamente qual a direcção que o novo trabalho, o terceiro da banda, irá tomar...fazemos figas para que retome a magia e frescura do seu primeiro! Vamos esperar até quinta, entre avés marias e pais nossos!!!

Para quem não consegue esperar 2 longos dias...aka 48 horas...pode dar um saltinho ao Myspace dos Bloc Party (http://www.myspace.com/blocparty) e dar de ouvidos com uma das músicas presentes neste "Intimacy", de seu nome "Trojan Horse" !

There is always an escape

David Mamet is a mature, complex director who sought himself by embodying his different facets in films of various types. Redbelt looks like a compendium of Mamet’s styles and perceptions, mingling a somehow linear plotline with deep views on what the world nowadays means for a person with deep unswerving values.

The plot has a martial arts background, without sketching out a conventional fight film. Not contradicting the director’s creed that a film has consistency when it emphasizes ideas and not characters, Redbelt is not about Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), but about the choices that one makes when obliged to attain balance between his idealistic beliefs and the rough materialistic reality.

Mike Terry is a jujitsu master who owns a dojo in Los Angeles. He has always stayed out of the prizefighting work, deeming that "competition is weakening." Unlike many other martial arts practitioners, he strives to keep the quintessence of the real old Japanese philosophy alive and to convey these pure values to his students; a relatively classical frame for a fight movie.

One evening, after a prolonged jujitsu class, Mike and Joe (Max Martini), one of his students, find themselves in the dojo. At some point a woman (Emily Mortimer) comes in, explaining to Mike that she crashed into his parked car bending it, so she wants to pay the damage. A misunderstanding makes her take Joe’s gun and discharge it. This leads to new complications. The protagonist doesn’t have money to replace the window broken by the bullet, so his wife, Sondra (Alice Braga), asks her brother Bruno (Rodrigo Santoro) for a loan. They arrive in Bruno’s bar, where Terry saves the movie star Chet Frank (played by Tim Allen) from a beating in a bar. This is a turning point in the plot, as Chet invites Mike and his wife to dinner, with the apparent purpose of making amends for helping him. On this occasion, Mike is offered the opportunity to co-produce his Desert Storm picture, contributing to fight choreography.

"Everything has a force. Embrace it or deflect it. Why oppose it?" he says.

Chiwetel Ejiofor embodies an ideal, a “messianic” figure. He’s “too pure to compete, too pure to make money “, as his wife tells him. With this role, the British actor confirms what he has already proven with his former films: you don’t need to go to and fro in search for glory, as stillness has the force to bring it too. But Ejiofor’s performance and the director’s way of shooting are not the only rattling elements about this film. The lifelike cinematography made by Robert Elswit (“There Will Be Blood”) is also lofty, and the soundtrack makes us feel like we are watching an old samurai movie. And speaking of performances, I have to mention the usual suspects from David Mamet’s universe, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, Rebecca Pidgeon, who are sublime in delivering the dialogues from the master.

Mamet’s message gets through by means of fluidity of events and the subtlety-carrying dialogue. His work on this film also demonstrate his passion for jujitsu.

Although the topic might seem stereotypical and overrated, Mamet gave it the flavor of a story strained with deep meanings. Fight scenes are not emphasized, as they only outline the world where all these take place, the world which determines the main character’s inner uproar. They are choreographed by Renato Magno, a 4th degree black belt in Brazilian JuJitsu. Mamet filled this word with a simple person’s path through the labyrinthine world of compromises, cheating, deception and materialism. The dialogues are not bedizened with big words, but compressed into several intense sentences, like “There’s always an escape” and “A man distracted is a man defeated.”

Redbelt is a well crafted film, made by one of the most talented writers of our time.

Little kisses, hugs and many klowns

Wierd Art#9

BART VAN LEEUWEN

An elixir of politics, art, and creativeness -- this is Bart van Leeuwen, a modern caricaturist, and Photoshop master.

Link: http://www.imallfake.com/

Candies#3

Interview with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney

Special Disco Version L.A., August 9 from Anthem Magazine on Vimeo.


These New Puritans Interview & Live Footage @ the EchoPlex

http://www.vimeo.com/1265889?pg=embed&sec=1265889 from Anthem Magazine on Vimeo.

M83 Interview

M83 Interview from Anthem Magazine on Vimeo.

Animal Collective...the real Ones!

A Feira Popular já cessou à imenso tempo em Lisboa, e Portugal não tem grande tradição em amplos espaços físicos de diversão, apenas as Feiras que circulam pelas vilas e aldeias costumam, em alturas de Romaria Popular e devoção a Santos, trazer consigo alguns malabarismos visuais. Nas Américas a coisa é bem diferente, e em elevadas doses de bizarria, mas também só por ali é que encontramos coisas delirantes como os Showbiz Pizza Palace, um colectivo mecânico, e devidamente sincronizado, de animais que adoram indie music (quem diria?). Aqui ficam três clássicos, cantados e avivados por estes peluches, que têm tanto de assustador como de curioso.

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)- Arcade Fire


Electric Feel - MGMT


Conquest- White Stripes

Extra! Extra!#8

Of Montreal

Past: ..., Aldhils Arboretum(2002), Satanic Panic in the Attic(2004), The Sunlandic Twins(2005), Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?(2007)

Future: Skeletal Lamping(2008)
9º LP

Label: Polyvinyl

Edição: 7 de Outubro

Tracklist:

01 Nonpareil of Favor

02 Wicked Wisdom

03 For Our Elegant Caste

04 Touched Something's Hollow

05 An Eluardian Instance

06 Gallery Piece

07 Women's Studies Victims

08 St.Exquisite's Confessions

09 Triphallus, to Punctuate!

10 And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow

11 Plastis Wafers

12 Death Is Not a Parallel Move

13 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants

14 Mingusings

15 Id Engager

Amostra: "Id Engager"

Track Review: O excêntrico colectivo Of Montreal, perito em Pop Psicadélica e liderado pelo transviado Kevin Barnes têm vindo a ganhar notoriedade, e acentuando qualidade, com o decorrer dos anos, e dos Lps que vão furiosamente lançando, sendo que o ano passado terão entregue não só o seu melhor registo, como um dos melhores de 2007. Um ano depois, e como seria de esperar, estão de regresso, e pelo que ouvimos neste primeiro single podemos afirmar com toda a convicção que a bizarria está toda aqui, que a demência está toda aqui, que os biliões de pixeis mega coloridos estão todos aqui, numa canção narcótica, com doses de funk e indie-pop disco! Original e alucinante, como tão bem eles sabem fazer!

Okkervil River
Past: Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See(2002), Down the River of Golden Dreams(2003), Black Sheep Boy(2005), The Stage Names(2007)
Future: "The Stand Ins" (2008)
5º LP
Label: Jagjaguwar
Edição: 9 de Setembro
Tracklist:
01 The Stand Ins, One
02 Lost Coastlines
03 Singer Songwriter
04 Starry Stairs
05 Blue Tulip
06 The Stand Ins, Two
07 Pop Lie
08 On Tour With Zykos
09 Calling and Not Calling My Ex
10 The Stand Ins, Three

Amostra: "Lost Coastlines"
Track Review: A prolífica banda de Austin, Texas, está de regresso, após ter lançado ainda o ano passado mais um album de temperatura elevada, apesar deste não ter o mesmo impacto da sua obra seminal, esse esplendor que é Black Sheep Boy. Os Okkervil River, e pelo que dão a entender neste primeiro avanço, continuam em forma, num registo intimista mas pujante, algo negro mas upbeat, feito de um maravilhoso duelo vocal entre Jonathan Meiburg e Will Sheff. Mais uma talentosa facada!