Reel bad arabs

It was a long time ago I first posted Planet of the arabs to the blog - a short trailer-like presentation of how arabs are presented in hollywood films. When I met the guy who made it in Beirut I didn't know that it was based on a book called "Reel bad arabs"by Dr. Jack Shaheen. The title of the book is also the title of a documentary.

Merkurius brinner

Pop art that pops!

A long time ago I found this art event called Monster draw. It was super.
Today I found this. It was even better.

Stockholm Film Festival

Some really great films comming up at the Stockholm film festival, and we might get some of the filmmakers to come to Subtopia.

"Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee"
by Shane Meadows and producer Mark Herbert(interview1, interview2) is a Mockumentary about a "dude" and the rapper he is trying to promote.



"Frontier Blues"
by Babak Jalali is a documentary filmed in the borderlands of Turkmenistan and Iran.

New video from Maceo Frost

Ok, so the dude who made this is Maceo Frost. He is a genious. First time I saw his stuff was the video he made for Supahumans and it was brilliant. This time he is back with Pato and Adam Tensta. Seriously, he is 19 yrs old... So remember the name.



...and now his sister is going to the filmschool here at Subtopia. So remember the Frost siblings...

Welcome to Southwestern

First it was Sthlm-Istanbul then Istanbul-Beirut, Beirut-Istanbul, Istanbul-Stockholm, Stockholm-Munich, Munich-Krakow Krakow-Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Stockholm. And none of those flights were anything like this. When is Southwestern going to offer their services here in Europe?

Wall projection: Hamburg

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

No Homo

New Experimental Film: Artificial paradise Inc

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality (?), which holds all the lost memories of humankind.

Sounds strange, looks cool though.

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC. from Jp Frenay on Vimeo.

New book.

Today Fredrik Strage releases his new book, a compilation of his articles. He is a brilliant writer and here is rapper Ken Ring reading an exerpt from the book.

The book and the clip is only avaliable in swedish... so far.



I am soo gonna read this

http://www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com/

This is like a strong 12 on a 1-10 scale of coolness.



Clap if you like and Click here if you wanna see the whole thing.

100 years of Special Effects

A few days ago Jay Vasquez showed me the site Video Copilot. Video Copilot is a company offering a bunch of cool stuff in the video and visual effects field, but the coolest thing is that they post tutorial videos teaching you to do all the cool visual effects you can dream of. Just go to the site to get inspired or watch the clip below. It's a cool montage of some of the most iconic visual effects from the last 100 years.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Threads of Destiny - Behind the Scenes

Here is a short "Behind the Scenes" about Threads of Destiny that are one of the partners behind Gatekeeper, the Multi Talent Cooperation that is based at Subtopia.

Little Dragon - Live 28/8

So, Nudie got some help from Abbas and I Made This to create this webstreamed live events. So weather you're in Stockholm or not you can see LITTLE DRAGON play on 28th AUGUST. Check it out

Street Art ver 2.0 - Animation

Zombie game

I dunno if the game is so cool but I really like the controls.

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

More Star Wars stuff... this is really funny.

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Spaceinvation of Skansen

Every year the Swedish Clowns Without Borders do their big event and fundraiser Clownnäsans Dag (Red Nose Day). This year the event was hosted by Skansen, the huge outdoor museum in Stockholm established to create and manifest our Swedish national identity... When Subtopia was invited to join forces with the clowns we decided to bring some of our new friends...

Production company ver 2.0

TurnHere is a film production company with a businessmodel for the new age. Film makers apply to work with them online to get tasks online and produce film that is distributed online. Through this they have become really huge. Basically what they do is to gather gigs and outsource them - to free lance film makers.



A similar concept for design is logo tournament but their concept is based around a competition. Where companies submit tasks with a fixed sum that will be won by the best suggestion. The designers then submit logos, the companies vote for their favourites and in the end everybody is happy. Not least the owners of logotournament who get percentage of all the price money submitted through the site. F***in brilliant.

Gatekeeper - slides

Here is a bunch of slides and pictures from/about the production of Gatekeeper, the Sci-Fi fan film that is based at Subtopia.

The project is constantly growing and I am soo looking forward to the release of the first trailer...

TEH meeting #67 - Stanica, Slovakia

At the begining of may me, Cattis and Ella went to Slovakia to represent Subtopia at the 67th meeting of Trans Europe Halles - a network consisting of 50 independent culture centres spread out in Europe. It was my third meeting and really great to meet everybody again.

The venue was crazy... as Stanica (the centre were the meeting was held) had no venue that could take all the participants Marek and his crew had built a new meeting hall built entirely from beer crates and hay. Tootally crazy... (click here for more pics of the construction..)

Planet B-boy

We have just closed a deal with Tempo Documentary Film Festival to do film screenings for schools at Subtopia. Together with them we will screen "Planet B-Boy".

Today Camilo, the Subtopia in-house B-Boy showed me the trailer for "The Freshest Kids". Seems really cool too. Maybe we should screen it too...

Release: Star Trek & Star Wreck

Star Wreck, the funny finish fan-made Star Trek tribute was released on DVD yesterday along with their new uk website.



...this is of course in sync with the release of the new official Star Trek film that is due Thursday.



I watch the slow development of the gigantic Holywood filmindustry. They seem to slowly develop their marketing strategies to a world where the border between fans, users and producers are being blured.

Rockers (1978)

I'm right now planing a number of screenings in our movie theatre.

I'm thinking to present "Rockers" from 1978.



Ideas for more flicks for a theme are welcome...

98% Of Babies Manic-Depressive

Latest news from the Onion...

NEW YORK—A new study published in The Journal Of Pediatric Medicine found that a shocking 98 percent of all infants suffer from bipolar disorder. "The majority of our subjects, regardless of size, sex, or race, exhibited extreme mood swings, often crying one minute and then giggling playfully the next," the study's author Dr. Steven Gregory told reporters. "Additionally we found that most babies had trouble concentrating during the day, often struggled to sleep at night, and could not be counted on to take care of themselves—all classic symptoms of manic depression." Gregory added that nearly 100 percent of infants appear to suffer from the poor motor skills and impaired speech associated with Parkinson's disease.

King of Kong - Video game documentary

Tonight I'll be going to Doc Lounge to have a beer and watch King of Kong.

Bambuser

Here Måns tells the Swedish people about Bambuser, an application and website that enables live narrow- and broadcasting from your cellphone. (only in Swedish)



Good stuff Måns.

R Kelly: Trapped in the closet part 1 - ?

Here is the first episode of R Kelly's "Trapped in the closet". As of today there are 22 episodes (plus a trailer for episode 23). R Kelly has announced the next set of chapters for release in the Summer of 2009. According to (MTV). the new DVD is due July.
Needles to say I am soo stoked.

Ebbe the movie

Yesterday, on my way to Doc Lounge, I was on the phone with Chelsea in San Francisco. I told her I was on my way to see a documentary about Ebbe Carlsson. In the 80s his name spread like a rash all over the media. Ebbe caused the biggest scandal in modern swedish history. But it is totally weird to try to explain to someone who is not from here... and the fact that I hadn't had my tenth birthday when the whole thing happened doesn't make it easier... I told Chelsea he was chief of police or commisioner or something (as I remembered he was involved with the search for the person who murdered Olof Palme)... but the scandal was in fact that he wasn't. He was a book publisher with very good connections. This is like the best documentary I have seen in a really long time...sadly this trailer is only avaliable in swedish.

Total Eclipse of the heart... and this time it's TOTAL.

...and here they go totally crazy.

Documentation

'you ever thought about documenting your work-process?

This is amazing.


Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.

Subtopia - the old presentation film...

It is time to produce a new film about Subtopia.

I am thinking it would be good to make the new one in english.

...in the meanwhile I am trying to gather comments about the old one... so here we go... (in swedish)

Betnér on Volvo

So this guy, Betnér is brilliant, here he delivers a good albeit painfull analysis of Volvo and government subsidis to the auto industry.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

...hmm if the player below doesn't work click this link instead.



...hmm if the player above doesn't work click this link instead.

Super 16 -

Super 16 is the shit. So looking forward to see their new stuff in october...

Congrats to Sirqus Alfon

Big congrats to Sirqus Alfon who just received the prize for best show att the biggest culture/artist festival in Germany.

Here is some background on Sirqus Alfon.

Technology will change us

This is a speech that gives an idea of what kind of technological reality that will surround us in 20 years. One of the many questions that it raises is... if this is true, what should we teach at our schools?

New videos from Studio Barbarella (part 2)

"My Love", the new song by Danjah has been on repeat on The Voice for a while now and today ADE tells me he and Oliver have released the video.



Damn they work fast!

Feels it, sings it, releases it, and breaks. -
It's the beat of Barbarella...

shame & scandal in the family

The Origin... of The Origin of love

I really like the film Hedwig and the angry inch. One of my main reasons was the beautiful lyrics and animated sequence that illustrated the song "The origin of love". Today I found out it is actually a speech by Aristophanes!



This week end I look forward to:

Meeting up with as many as possible from Störningsjouren to yack memories from last week end. (Boys and girls, that gymparty was f'in AMAZING.)

Helping my new neighbours... Asynja&Tilde to move and furnish their video-game-room.

hanging out with the rest of the crowd at Bastard, my (fave gallery in Stockholm)to hear and see the work of Tobias Bernstrup. The three songs he just released are great.

Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters

I.O.U.S.A.

So, what is up with US ecconomy? The documentary I.O.U.S.A. is a good atempt at explaining.

"To the U.S. economy what 'An Inconvenient Truth' was to the environment." – Reuters

Band Aid - Pulpstyle

One song, one microphone and a bunch of celebs... or, in this case a bunch of impersonators.

Pulp - Bad Cover Version
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INSANIQUARIUM

THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER

...from CNN

Trailer for Inside out

Cirkus Cirkör's latest show "Inside out" is playing at Dansens hus. The trailer was made by Jonas Åkerlund and... yup, it's pretty cool.



Right now I am trying to find a director to do something similar for a Canadian circus company. Got really impressed by the stuff Martin de Thurah has made. But please tell me if you have any ideas...

Dead snow

There is a new norwegian zombie flick out. A group of people go out into the wild to hang out in a small cottage, ride snow scooters and chill. This does not please the sleeping undead nazis scattered around the small cottage...