mother earth

a film by yann arthus bertrand.

my roommate showed me this film last night. apparently in France this is a staple movie you watch in elementary school... go figure... in america we are watching school house rock...

anyways, beautiful shots from above.

breath taking patterns found in nature. 

we never really get to see the earth from an ariel perspective. Yann shows us the state of our planet and the challenges humanity faces .

if you havent seen this film PLEASE watch it

[trailer]

p.s. yann bertrand was crowned a knight of legion d'honneur and a Knight of the Ordre du Mérite Agricole

DAFT PUNK

scoring the music to the new TRON legacy

" I've been working with Daft Punk for almost three years on this film. Its a new direction for them, it's a combination of orchestral, electronic and granulate sound. It blurs the line between sound design and music."
source: exclaim.ca

ODDSAC

animal collective is one of those bands that you like or you don't. i happen to love them. tonight i went to a visual album done by them and directed by danny perez. it was about 54 minutes long, not to long and not to short. actually it ended up being just perfect. i think a high dosage of the film would have left me feeling insane. one minute i felt like i was a on top of the world, then anxious, to feeling complete despair, and any other emotion you could thing of in between. before long i just felt weird. i guess drawing inspirations from the japanese horror film called house, what else was it suppose to do? it was really interesting after to have members of the band and the director come out and talk to the audience about the film and left the floor open for questions. i think the best question asked was in reference to the title of the film, ODDSAC. aside from the aesthetically pleasing arrangement of letters, they said one night they were sitting around discussing titles and noticed they had an weird bag of gummies.

weird bag of gummies = oddsac.
brilliant.
go watch it. the ending scene is what i wish i could do every time i listen to animal collective