Day: October 21, 2009

Ultimate Mash-up Live? Three Of My Fave Bands Sort Of Together

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date October 21, 2009

I moved to NYC because of Lou Reed and Martin Scorsese. They were my young man gods of creation.

Yo La Tengo first album came out my second or so years ago. I think I have listened to all of them and have most of them. I’ve put their songs in my films. I did one video for them back in the day (with Hal Hartley). They scored ADVENTURELAND (which featured the idea of Lou Reed along with some of his songs).

And through all that Alex Chilton, Big Star, and The Box Tops played consistently on my stereo(s).

This definitely sits in the “wish I could’ve been there” bin of my time on this earth. I should’ve and could’ve but… well you know how the song goes.

hat tip: Neil Marks

Tags Adventureland, Alex Chilton, Lou Reed, Maxwell's, music, Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo

Truly Free Film

What’s The Future Of Film Look Like?

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date October 21, 2009
3 Comments on What’s The Future Of Film Look Like?

I don’t have that answer and I will leave it to the others (at least for today) as so many are offering options:

Francis Ford Coppola has got his opinion (and it sure got a lot of comments when I posted it to Facebook).
The New Yorker ran a funny piece on the state of publishing that read a bit like Scott Macauley’s Letter From The Near Future.
Power To The Pixel just delivered three awesome days of discussions of new forms (Check out their recommended reading).
Arin Crumley and Jamie King have some interesting solutions.
The industry can’t figure out formats yet again.
the change social media has delivered is pretty astounding.

Each day I have been experiencing and encountering new ideas and new practices; All of it is pretty damn thrilling. So what if we are racing forward even if we don’t know where we are going. I am loving it.

Like I said, I don’t know, but I do believe that some of these tools will change some things significantly.