Category Archives: Film

60 Writers/60 Places

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

60 Writers/60 Places is a fim by Luca Dipiero and Michael Kimball featuring sixty writers in New York City. The writers each read an excerpt from their work in an unlikely location. Rick Moody reads on a baseball diamond. Blake Butler … Continue reading →

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A Year in New York

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

I really love this short film shot by freelance photographer and video editor Andrew Clancy. The video is based on one year of random filming around New York City. It’s not flashy or artsy, but simply a heartfelt slice of … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Hobbit

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, HarperCollins has just released The Art of The Hobbit edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. The sumptuous art book contains a complete collection of … Continue reading →

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Iceland : Midnight Sun

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

LA-based photographer and cinematographer Joe Capra spent seventeen days during the month of June this year traveling alone around Iceland. During his 2,900 mile solo adventure he shot an astounding 38,000 + photographs. The result is this stunningly beautiful film of one … Continue reading →

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“To Travel Is To Possess The World”

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Long before Rick Steves and Peter Greenberg showed us how to travel, Burton Holmes was delighting audiences with original travelogues and short films. The fascinating Burton Holmes Archive has a treasure trove of information about early travel writing and the … Continue reading →

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Pulp Fiction (better than pulped books)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

In the Philly region, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are famous for their spooky art installation Pandemonium in Cell Block Seven at the über-scary old Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. But they rubbed some booklovers the wrong way with … Continue reading →

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Postcards to Alphaville

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Postcards to Alphaville (my adopted hometown) is a very clever project dedicated to film characters featured in guest artist made illustrations. The founder of the project, Paul Paper, invites participants to view a film and to make a postcard portraying … Continue reading →

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On The Road (inspired)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Two years ago, inspired by Jack Kerouac’s iconic novel, On the Road, Benjamin Oliver Jenks left his job at a school for at-risk teens and set off on a 14,000 mile hitchhiking trip around the United States. Using more than three … Continue reading →

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Paris via Stop-Motion

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Freelance photographer and videographer Jean-Philippe Corre has created this intoxicating stop-motion video of a trip through Paris via an abandoned railway line. This film’s title, La Parenthèse Urbaine, is both literal and metaphorical. Related articles Stop-Motion Short of the Day … Continue reading →

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Crete via the Scheimpflug Principle

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This clever tilt-shift video was filmed by Joerg Daiber at locations around the amazing isle of Crete.

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