Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Uploaded by EamesOffice on Aug 26, 2010

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (Available at www.eamesoffice.com)

50 Degrees

...by Ben Mankin...

Chronos.(Ron.Fricke.-.1991)

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Chronos is 42 minutes long and has no actors or dialog. The soundtrack consists of a single continuous piece by composer Michael Stearns. Filmed in dozens of locations on five continents, the film relates to the concept of time passing on different scales -- the bulk of the film covers the history of civilization, from pre-history to Egypt to Rome to Late Antiquity to the rise of Western Europe in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the modern era. It centers on European themes but not exclusively. Other time scales include the passing of seasons, and the passing of night and day, and the passing shadows of the sun in an afternoon to the passing of people on the street. These themes are intermingled with symbolic meaning.

Background

Chronos shares its particular style with the film Koyaanisqatsi (1983), for which Ron Fricke was the cinematographer, as well as his later films Sacred Site and Baraka (1992). The theme of the film is "[t]he celebration of life", and does not include the themes of technology as the culprit for society or "life out of balance", which were present in Koyaanisqatsi. American Cinematographer described the film as "a musical poem praising the evolution of Western man from Cairo to Los Angeles."^[3] The film was produced by Canticle Films, a production company founded by Fricke. Funding for Chronos came from the seed money acquired through the publicity surrounding the production of Koyaanisqatsi.^[3]

Fricke designed and built a 65 mm camera for the film, which included a motion control system for the film's special effects.^[3] The director also used the system in his later films.

Michael Stearns, while composing the soundtrack for the film, used a custom-made instrument called "The Beam" to generate many of the sounds he required. The Beam was 12 feet (3.7 m) long, made of extruded aluminum with 24 piano strings of gauge 19-22.

The name of the film comes from the Ancient Greek word χρόνος, khronos, which means time and is also the source to many modern terms related to time, such as chronology, synchronous etc.

John Fahey - in Concert and Interview

Full DVD of the Laura Webber show "Guitar, Guitar", from 1969, featuring a long interview and some songs from John. Then it goes into a 1996 performance with some short interviews in between the songs. Enjoy guys!

the TRIP (1967)

Peter Fonda was involved in a number of psychedelic films in the end of the 1960s, among them the classic Easy Rider and Psych Out, both of which featured the psychonauts-friendly young Jack Nicholson. The Trip (1967) is perhaps the most psyhedelically ambitious film of them all: it is perhaps the only film which is wholly dedicated to following one trip of one person for almost the whole duration of the film. Anyway you look at it, it is a unique cinematic adventure in psychedelia.

You can watch the entirety of the film on YouTube in the link above.

Hip-Hop n Comedy

Posted on 08/14/2012 by EIA| Leave a comment

Whether you’ve a common affinity for hip hop or not, you undoubtedly appreciate a good laugh. There are certainly some aspects of hip hop I find depressing and absurd. There are definitely exceptions though, especially the intelligent, political, positive and creative variety. The negative and dreary variety of hip hop is what I find pleasantly ridiculed in Epic Rap Battles, but they obviously have an appreciation for the hip hop genre themselves.

If you have not yet been introduced to Epic Rap Battles of History, I have selected a few which I find most favorable. They are not all brilliant, but some are nearly genius.

Epic Rap Battles of History – Cleopatra vs Marylin Monroe:

Epic Rap Battles of History – Michael Jackson vs Elvis

Epic Rap Battles of History – Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates

Because “I’m Chuck fucking Norris” and “I attack sharks when I smell them bleed.”

Be sure to check out other works by Nice Peter

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On a more disturbing level, but equally creative and sometimes as hilarious, there is Die Antwoord, a South African mucho mondo bizarro rap group that gets a little closer to the id than Epic Rap Battles of History. Here are a few selections which seem to stand out:

I Fink U Freeky – Die Antwoord

Enter the Ninja – Die Antwoord

Evil Boy (Explicit Version) – Die Antwoord

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If you survived Die Antwoord, then you are probably ready for a hot, soapy cognitive cleansing. There’s nothing more refreshing than Richard Cheese in this case — and he comes perhaps a little more than highly recommended by EIA. Turning just about any known genre into swing/lounge style music, you’re sure to either get a hardy laugh, or enjoy the music:

Don’t Cha – Richard Cheese [The Bjork part is a treasure]

Gin and Juice (Snoop Dogg) – Richard Cheese

Stand Up (Ludacris) – Richard Cheese

Of course, the brilliant work of Richard Cheese extends far beyond hip hop and should definitely be explored. Similar can be said of Nice Peter, who does some other very different and creative stuff.

Sigur Rós - Varúð

...Varúð by Inga Birgisdóttir - Taken from the "valtari mystery film experiment" - more details: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/videos/
Valtari is available to purchase now: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/buy/