So we kicked off this seasons show of The Worst Kids on WVCW with a bang. Starting off with awesome technical difficulties and an all new cast, the folks talked about various movies and various hilarious anecdotes about hilarious movies with hilarious reviews. Check it out. Starting Mondays at 10PM, prepare to have your blown's brained. Download last weeks show here.
My buddy Corey Smith is releasing his first solo mixtape this November. If you're from Richmond and have been around then you probably have heard of Corey's music group, Earth Tone. He's going to be performing at the Green House in New York City in October. He's also going to be on the pilot for a new Bravo reality show coming up, but that's a whole different story. Check out his mixtape trailer above or see it in HD here.
Also, I forgot to post this but it's of Raekwon when he came down for the SHHO in Richmond. Check it out.
As I mentioned in the previous post, three of my friends and I took a road trip down to Atlanta a few weeks ago. On our way back, we calculated that the ride home would be about nine and a half hours. So we made a nine and a half hour playlist.
Each of us would choose thirty "chill" songs, not knowing who picked what, and have it play in one mega monster playlist on the ride home. So it wasn't really infinite,we skipped a few repeats, and we went over the nine and a half hours allotted because some people had to go nine songs over. Sorry guys...
Anyways, here's the playlist. I highly recommend doing something like this on your next long trip.
Up Against The Wall 7:06 Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block
Little Things 2:46 Arms and Legs
Run 4:12 Air Talkie Walkie
Brown Skin Lady 5:47 Mos Def & Talib Kweli
Fake Plastic Trees 4:51 Radiohead The Bends
Fake Empire (Live) 3:41 The National The Virginia EP
Between The Bars 2:23 Elliott Smith Either/Or
Reelin' In The Years 4:38 Steely Dan The Best Of Steely Dan Then And Now
Secret Heart 3:49 Feist Let It Die
The Limit To Your Love 4:19 Feist The Reminder
Baby Blue 1:56 Arms and Legs
All These Things That I've Done 5:02 The Killers Hot Fuss
Song Cry 5:06 Jay-Z The Blueprint
My Good Gal 4:19 Old Crow Medicine Show Big Iron World
(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan (Original Version) 5:49 Dntel
House Of Cards 5:30 Radiohead In Rainbows
Goin' Against Your Mind 8:42 Built To Spill You In Reverse
Take 'em Away 3:35 Old Crow Medicine Show O.C.M.S.
The Gold Finch And The Red Oak Tree 1:55 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Queen Of Darkness 4:38 Rag I Ryggen
Try A Little Tenderness 3:20 Otis Redding My Blueberry Nights
Apartment Story 3:33 The National Boxer Rock
High Tide or Low Tide 5:40 Ben Harper & Jack Johnson
Beast of Burden 4:25 The Rolling Stones Some Girls
Rise & Shine (EP Version) 3:18 Guster Satellite - EP Rock
Lua 4:32 Bright Eyes Im Wide Awake It's Morning
Another Song for a Blue Guitar 5:07 Red House Painters
For What It's Worth 2:39 Buffalo Springfield
Viridian 2:51 Between the Buried and Me
Hold My Hand 4:29 Hootie & The Blowfish
Head Over Heels 4:17 Tears for Fears
Darling Be Home Soon 4:45 Joe Cocker
Snow (Hey Oh) 5:35 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Neverevereverdid 4:50 Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die
I Love Lucy (Groupee Version) 3:54 Big Phony
Jolene 4:12 Ray LaMontagne Trouble
You, Appearing 3:39 M83 Saturdays = Youth
Lay Down Sally 3:55 Eric Clapton Slowhand
Window 2:51 Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone
She's Losing It 2:22 Belle & Sebastian Tigermilk
Spectacular Views 6:20 Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
Secret Meeting 3:44 The National Alligator Indie Rock
Billy Joel - River of Dreams 4:05
Sun It Rises 3:11 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Alternative
Ballad Of A Thin Man 6:01 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Florida feat. Steve Boone 4:49 Brad Doggett
Heartbeats 2:40 Jose González Veneer
Symmetry 5:40 Mew Frengers
Looks Just Like The Sun 4:23 Broken Social Scene
If I Fell in Love With You (Acoustic) 3:48 Maroon 5
Cherry Blossom Girl 3:40 Air Talkie Walkie
Nantes 3:50 Beirut The Flying Club Cup
New soul 3:45 Yael Naim
Way over Yonder in the Minor Key 4:06 Billy Bragg & Wilco
Don't Know (Music For People Mix) 4:29 One Hand Loves The Other
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost 4:35 Elliott Smith
Hello Seattle 2:47 Owl City Ocean Eyes
Sparks 3:47 Coldplay Parachutes
14MaybeTomorrow 1 5:04 Pretty Lights
The Crane Wife 3 4:18 The Decemberists The Crane Wife
No One's Gonna Love You 3:40 Band Of Horses
We're Already Gone 5:07 The Beautiful Girls
The Widow 3:51 As Cities Burn
Take It Easy 3:29 Eagles
We've Been Had 3:29 The Walkmen
Almost Lover 4:29 A Fine Frenzy
Sleep 3:49 Copeland In Motion
The Light 4:22 Common Like Water for Chocolate
Ghosting 4:46 Mother Mother
Caravan (feat. Van Morrison) 5:57 The Band
Yellow (live at Brixton) 4:07 Coldplay
Hanging High 4:07 Lykke Li Youth Novel
West Coast 3:32 Coconut Records Nighttiming
Hometown Glory 4:31 Adele 19 Pop
A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger 4:57 Of Montreal
The Scientist 5:09 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
WASHED AWAY 3:01 Joe Purdy
Live Forever 4:21 Oasis
Beware Our Nubile Miscreants 4:53 Of Montreal
For The Better 3:42 The Floorwalkers
Vagabond 3:47 Wolfmother
Rock My Boat 3:52 Dntel
Waiting... 4:54 City and Colour
Mirando 3:52 Ratatat
Skinny Love 4:01 Bon Iver
Feelin' Alright? 4:18 Traffic
Walk On The Ocean- Toad The Wet Sprocket
Maybe We 5:14 Brad Doggett
Life Is Change 3:16 Restoring Poetry In Music
Trouble Blues 3:22 Sam Cooke
California Stars 4:59 Billy Bragg & Wilco
Flight 180 5:10 Bishop Allen
Just Dust 2:40 Gabe Hascall
Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)- Peter Sarstedt
I Want You 3:05 Bob Dylan
Tokyo 2:53 Telekinesis
Stars And Sons 5:09 Broken Social Scene
Sloop John B 2:57 The Beach Boys
Sultans Of Swing 5:47 Dire Straits
Give Me One Reason 4:32 Tracy Chapman
Gravity 5:49 John Mayer Trio
Don't Panic 2:17 Coldplay Parachutes
lets go! 2:55 Kenny Hamilton mmmzabop!
Hazy Shade Of Winter 2:47 The Bangles
Jodi 6:14 The Dodos Visiter Rock
Wheel 5:33 John Mayer
New Slang 3:53 The Shins
Heartbeats 2:40 José González
Bell Bottom Blues 5:03 Derek & The Dominos
Passenger Seat 3:42 Death Cab for Cutie
Blacking Out The Friction / Br 7:21 Death Cab For Cutie
My friends and I were sent to Atlanta a few weekends ago to work on a Civil War film for Richmond local Kevin Herschberger of LionHeart Filmworks. 10 hours to and from in the car with your best friends is always fun. It included all of the regular road trip activities. Massive iTunes playlists, playing football at gas stations at 3 in the morning and farting in the car...
We stopped at a lot of food places local to the area that we've never been to. Trying to get with the workers at Krystal, getting lost and owning shirts in Varsity and traveling to various Cook-Outs to try to find one that sells shirts.
But when we were working, we were working. I was shooting amongst the Confederate soldiers. Musket, musket, DSLR. Hanging out with the re-enactors helped give me a better understanding for there Southern pride. A Confederate flag means much more then any negative connotations associated with it. Plus they're a lot more interesting then dem Yankees.
Last weekend we wrapped on the production of A Little Closer. A group of NYU Graduates and other New York City dwellers came down to Richmond, the directors Matthew Petock's hometown, and began shooting his first feature length film.
The final scene was shot at a county fair.Where we spotted a few celebrities including Turtle Kid amongst many others. See if you can spot them all! It feels great to get back in touch with my Southern Roots. Check out more pictures at theworsteyes.
Raekwon the Chef visited Richmond last week to promote his new album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II. I got a chance to hang out with the man himself. Extremely kind and respectful of all his fans, big or little, he took time out to do a small interview with Brice of WVCW Radio that you can check out at the following links.
I know... YouTube? What is a YouTube video doing on here? Well, while YouTube encodes videos at a lower quality, it does allow for HD embedding without forcing it's members to pay for a pro account. And also Vimeo did not have the extended version of this video. Anyways, this is what I did today. Today was a good day...
This is a new video from Mutiny Bikes that will be out this September in Blu-Ray and DVD. Knowing everything about bikes, I like High Definition... So watch it in HD here.
Here is another timely installment of Friday's Vimeo Video. Or shall I say Videos for this occasion. As you may have noticed, there are several videos this week, all in Standard Definition. As you may have also noticed, it is not Friday and I have also not done a FVV in about two months now. Anyways, this weeks edition is meant to show those young and naive filmmakers out there that not everything has to be in Hi-Def. Don't get caught up in upgrading your equipment when you have a perfectly fine tool if you know how to use it. The bad part is, most of you noobs don't. Hopefully these videos will help you get to that point.
I give you D90! Yeah, the D90 can shoot in HD. It can do a many great things as I have experienced first hand, but it can also do great in SD. Check out this video by Matt Vella. Who needs a narrative right?
Umm, this one has naked chicks in Standard Def.
You can also go towards the animated route. Who cares if it's in Hi-Def? They're just lines right?!
This one is my personally favorite. It was shot by the father of one of those boys in the film, Jarbas Agnelli. Who says you need Hi-Def to tell a good story? Hell, who needs words, unless of course you have the voice of Jose Gonzalez. I say, all you need is a Super-8 camera, a slo-mo sequence and a made in 1974 sticker on you, for vintage purposes.
OK, so maybe this SD=HD reasoning is a little flawed. All of these films could have looked better in Hi-Def! But then how else would I have showed you four videos in one blog post? Huh?! Anyways, DSLR HD, lesbians in HD, animations in HD, Super-8 HD, everything is better in HD! Get used to it or get left behind ya nubs.
So the 48 Hour Film Festival is over now, and the results are in. Our team, The Detroit Athletic League Golf Tournament aka The Martin Agency's film Neighborhood Watch won the title of Best Film, as well as Best Costumes and Best Directing along with the Audience Choice Award in Group C. Props to my actual favorite movie of the festival, Taking Stock by the Plaid Connection.
These guys are a group mainly comprised of current and graduate VCU Photo/Film students. It looked beautiful and was wonderfully lit by their DP, Kuni Ohi who won for Best Cinematography. Past winners of the festival, you can check out some of their stuff on their Vimeo site. You can also check out Neighborhood Watch here and see some production stills below taken by Vinnie Gonzalez.
