Motion Painting: Combo (Blu X David Ellis)

23 Sep 2009

COMBO is a beautiful new collaborative film from Blu and David Ellis created for the Fame Festival in Grottaglie, Italy.
A year ago Blu’s amazing MUTO stormed the Internet.
It is great to see Blu work in tandem with Ellis, whose pioneering motion paintings with the Barnstormers date back to 2000. The Barnstormers, Letter to the […]

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The Decemberists: Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, Los Angeles

15 Sep 2009

[ 19 Oct 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

On October 19, The Decemberists will unveil Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a special project that takes their ambitious and acclaimed song cycle to new heights for it’s final American performance at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. This unique live experience will feature The Decemberists in collaboration with four filmmakers—Guilherme […]

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Who is Chris Cairns

Name: Chris Cairns
Created on: 1979-March-05
Record last updated on: 2008-November-20
Homepage: Chris Cairns, Partizan
Domain: Fencing, Base jumping, Cake decoration, lying. I like cameras and computers, music and sleep.
Location: London, England

Born in Brussels, UK-raised Chris Cairns burst on the creative scene in 2005 with a dynamic video for LCD Soundsystem that paid homage […]

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The Dead Weather “What Happens Next” Video Contest

Pick up where Jonathan Glazer leaves off in his Dead Weather Treat Me Like Your Mother video. Best film (not to exceed 2 minutes) will win Jack White’s wardrobe from the video (a pair of pants and a shirt worn by Jack White. Also a few bullet shells.)
Guidelines:
1. Watch the video
2. Jack walks off […]

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Todd St. John: Section, San Francisco

26 Aug 2009

[ 19 Sep 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

“Section” is comprised of works on paper and sculpture that St. John has been developing over the past 7 years. The Mollusk show pushes further some of St. John’s experiments with parallel representations of two and three-dimensional space, and the stark use of cropping, both photographic and mechanical.

Todd St. John is an artist, designer and […]

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Flux Screening Series at the Hammer, Los Angeles

6 Aug 2009

[ 15 Sep 2009; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Los Angeles as depicted in H5’s Logorama

Now in its second year, the Flux Screening Series will host the Los Angeles premiere of Logorama, a spectacular animated action movie created entirely with corporate logos from renowned French design studio H5. Also on tap for the evening is new work from Spike Jonze, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cairns, […]

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Flux Super 8, Culver City

4 Aug 2009

[ 15 Aug 2009 7:00 pm to 5 Sep 2009 6:00 pm. ]

The Flux Super 8 is the first annual showcase that celebrates eight of the most exciting and emerging filmmakers, video artists, and design collectives from around the world. The inaugural Flux Super 8 will launch with a show at the Scion Installation Gallery in Culver City. The artists will develop site-specific installations created exclusively for […]

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