On Thursday night I arrived in Torino as a guest of VIEWFest, the Italian evolution of RESFEST.
Our first stop after quickly dropping our bags at the hotel was the King Kong Microplex for an opening night reception.

I was first introduced to Syd Garon’s work in 1997 when a friend at a San Francisco ad agency slipped me a just completed copy of Somebody Goofed, an animation crafted from a cut up Jack T. Chick gospel comic.

Driving up Highway 99 over the Memorial Day Weekend, I came across this gas station, it somehow felt like a sadly appropriate sign of the times.

The Flux Screening Series at The Hammer presents innovative short films, music videos, feature films, filmmaker retrospectives and the most interesting visual work from around the globe.

This morning, slightly hung over from our Diesel Box Office event and on the way to City Bakery for breakfast this installation stopped me in my tracks.

I honestly wondered how many people we might lose to the rain on Tuesday night. This being London, that was not a problem we had.

We’ve come into possession of a half dozen rolls of unseemly and debaucherous photos that were apparently shot in the forest during Friday night’s celebration that Flux and Amautalab threw for Amauta’s film, The Blindness of the Woods.

Osaka-based duo Tochka is pretty much responsible for the worldwide interest in flashlight animation aka Lightning Doodle Project aka the inspiration for the latest Sprint commercials.

“I didn’t think I was going to like this show,” artist Bill Viola told me at Thursday night’s opening reception for California Video, the Getty Center’s major exhibition celebrating California artists’ important role in video art which opens today.

Our friend Lana Kim of the Directors Bureau, is launching “The Lana Show” featuring self-styled interviews in DB’s broom closet…