This new documentary entitled The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard dives into the history of The Pirate Bay and its founders. The film details the massive legal battle between the founders and the entertainment industry, as the courts were asked if a websites founders can be held accountable for the actions of its users. The [...]
The only way to watch a film at this unconventional cinema in Guimarães, Portugal, is by manoeuvring your upper body into one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles. The ‘Centipede Cinema’ was finished by Bartlett School of Architecture professor Colin Fournier, who teamed up with Polish artist Marysia Lewandowska and London studio NEON. While the upper body [...]
Philadelphia artist and teacher Andrew DeGraff created an illustrated series of maps that each represent a film from the original Indiana Jones trilogy: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They were created, along with our previously posted Star Wars maps, for his [...]
Freelance filmmaker Colin Mika scored a viral hit last year with his time-lapse video of Los Angeles shot through a snow globe. This past November, Mika created a followup video as a holiday Christmas card on behalf of Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault. He visited six cities across Canada and England: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Québec [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s movies are violent, sure, and vulgar, certainly, but when his characters aren’t shooting something or driving somewhere, odds are they’re eating. Tarantino loves to use food to stretch out a scene, give a comic undercurrent to a grim conversation, or even advance a plot, and he fails to disappoint in his newest film, [...]
Have you ever wondered what colour is? In this first instalment of a series on light, Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors– why the colours we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves. Click the pic to watch this fascinating video that explains it for us.
Shot and directed by photographer and film-maker Jamie-James Medina (who also happens to be the founder of XL’s sub-label Hot Charity), this 3-part documentary follows The xx on the three major cycles of their creative process. Time in the recording studio, in rehearsals and then finally performing live is documented, ending in the last episode [...]
What’s it like to shoot on the front lines of battle as a military photojournalist? This 15-minute documentary by filmmaker Hannah Hill will tell you. This is a documentary about Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane, a United States Air Force photojournalist, who has deployed to Afghanistan twice. He shares his experiences as a photojournalist in a [...]
This mind-blowing paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly [...]
Film legend Kevin Pollak (“A Few Good Men,” “Middle Men”) reads the classic poem “The Night Before Christmas” and adds some commentary of his own. Curious about the meaning of the word “kerchief”? Wondering how the narrator could possibly know the miniature sleigh belonged to Kris Kringle himself? Thinking that Santa is probably half in [...]
