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Tarantino lost his temper momentarily, then got back in control.

Mark Khaisman is the artist.

Check out this masterfully crafted amateur nature documentary. “Syindy2″ has a number of supurbly narrated news reports on a variety of local topics. Is he trying to break into the news business? Or is he an early retiree simply intrigued by citizen’s journalism? You decide.

This clip remixes the OK GO treadmill video using legos. I guess I’m a sucker for click bait…

Not only did director Mreel777 animate only half the song, but each frame is up for too long creating a jerky and amateurish stop motion effect. Worse of all is there are noticeably out of focus shots peppered throughout the entire thing. All in all its a pretty terrible effort by director Mreel777 who is going to have to be a little less lazy if he wants to compete with Youtube Lego autuer, TazziToz. Watch his remix of the first Ok Go video, “A Million Ways:”

Clearly TazziToz has a superior sense of production design. Additionally, the camera work, while still lacking, is miles above Mreel777’s.

However, by far my favorite Youtube Lego remix is this Star Wars video by Vidmaster55 and his (former) friend. Vidmaster55 has actually done a couple of lego stop motions. Apparently, he works without the benefit of editing software. He builds a slide show out of still photographs and then shoots his computer monitor to create the video. I’m going to repost the video description of “Lego Star Wars: “Supposed” Final Duel” in its entirety. Its a fascinating case study of how creative differences can shatter friendships and get in the way of the work:

WHY THIS VIDEO SUCKS Oh my God!! This video sucks. Ok here’s the deal, I was over my (former) friend’s house and he well, insited on making a lego video. I mean he’s heard about my lego productions, (With every film I get better.) and he thinks that you can just snap a couple lego pictures make the slideshow, film it, insert a couple of sound fx and post it here. Well, its not that easy, and plus, if you want to have good audio you have to time the slideshow film, write a script, and discise your voice so it doesn’t sound like some “13 year old star wars nerd.” The whole Prosses takes about three to four weeks. My supposedly straight A student friend was like “Naaa we can do it in two hours or less.” TWO HOURS OR LESS?! what are you crazy!? I even explained to him how the procedure works. But no you can do it in two hours. Also to make the vid more interesting you should add music. My friend and I tried that. But he thought that you didn’t have to include it into your script that because of his “Brain Power” we didn’t need one. The film was suppose to be sort of serious like you know in star wars ep. III, but this dude thinks everything is funny, everything should be a comedy. Well sure enough he classifed the vid as comedy and when he did all the voices, you couldn’t even tell it was star wars. Now let me ask you a question. Do stormtroopes cry like little girls? Of cours not. But my know it all (former) friend thinks they do. So when we tried to film it and we didn’t succeed I ask him if we want to try a script. He said “What’s the point.” Now I’m really pissed off. He thinks, “Oh its no big deal, its not hard.” This kid, I’m telling you…. UGH!! And you know, now that I think of it, it did only take two hours. Since we ditched the script, killed the music and didn’t even care if it had good graphics. Then once we ran the slideshow on his P.C., the whole thing had that like thing going up and down the screen, so it didn’t even look right. (his computer didn’t have a flat pannel monitor so it mad the screen do that funky line thing) So obviously he isn’t my friend anymore. Ya see I’m not his friend just because he didn’t care about the hard work that it takes to make a lego video, but also he was being… well here I’ll tell you. At school he is always talking to me and being annoiying. So one day (the day of the halloween dance at school) I tell him to stop it and I’m not his friend. So of coarse he goes and starts to cry and wimper. Then during the dance he goes up to his mom (his mom works at the school) and says “Edward won’t be my friend.” So his mom come s up to me, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DANCE and embarreses me and says “YOU BE EDDIE’S FRIEND!!!” (We both have the same name…kinda freaky) So I say no and walk away from him and his mom. Now of course Eddie thinks everything is okay and walks over to me an is like “Hey dude!” And the rest of the dance was hell. Finally like almost two months later we aren’t friends. And according to him and his control freak mom I don’t exist! THANK YOU GOD!!! I gon’t have to deal with him and his [SENSORED] Mom!! THE END

Everybody knows Gondry is a genius. Check out this viral video where he proves it by solving a rubiks cube…with his feet.

Its pretty obvious that the footage has been reversed. Sort of a fun idea but, dare I say it, Gondry should step aside and let the youngsters handle the viral videos.

From the rock band She’s Your Sister’s website:

In the winter of 2004, three musicians responded to a classified ad in the Chicago Reader. Thay all met, decided that they didn’t hate each other, and formed a little band. Six months later they found themselves on a California tour, and eighteen months later, they moved to California, abandoning Chicago and its nu metal for warmer climates.

Its a rare thing to get excited about a local band just because you saw one of their concerts. I promise, go to one of their shows and watch Joel scream his guts out, you won’t be dissapointed.

In October their cutting a new album with producer Rae DiLeo whose credits include Filter and Veruca Salt. In the same month their shooting a music video directed by my friend Jonny Pully and produced by myself. How do you make a video with no money, no equipment, and a crew of two? Brainstorm…

Links:

• She’s Your Sister on Myspace
• She’s Your Sister official site
• Listen to “Gravity” (mp3) off She’s Your Sister’s debut album, In Between.

In college I took a class on Steven Soderbergh. If you’ve never watched a director’s entire filmography I highly recommend it. Steven Soderbergh is a good one because he wrote a book, gives a lot of interviews, and likes to do DVD commentaries on his movies.

One of Soderbergh’s favorite things to talk about is the creative process:

A lot of people who write about art don’t understand the importance of failure, the importance of process. Woody Allen can’t leap from Annie Hall to Manhattan. He has to make Interiors in between to get to Manhattan. You’ve got to let him do that.

Check out this Believer Magazine interview.