Because there’s never a wrong time to make a RoboCop video post.

The Ballad of G.I. Joe

Here’s a clip from BASTARD SWORDSMAN.

The Power Of Cinema And Myth: Selected Quotations From George Lucas.

“With Star Wars I consciously set about to re-create myths and the classic mythological motifs. I wanted to use those motifs to deal with issues that exist today.”¹

“I see Star Wars as taking all the issues that religion represents and trying to distill them down into a more modern and easily accessible construct–that there is a greater mystery out there.”¹

“I’ve discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don’t really know much about movies. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the technology. They don’t know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they’re lost.”²

“The area I’m interested in now is to go do some form-experimenting—to try and figure out different ways of telling movies. I grew up in the Godard, Fellini world and all that. To me that’s where my heart is.”³

¹From a Time interview with Bill Moyers.
²From an interview with The Academy Of Achievement.
³From a Time interview with Richard Corliss.

“Turtle Power” by Partners in Kryme. You’re welcome.

Andromeda is my new favorite band.

DESIGN FETISH: OFFF 2009 Main Titles

It’s The Super Powers Team, You Guys!

Kenzo Masaoka’s Abandoned Cat Little Tora

Tales Designed To Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman twittered about this gorgeous, wistful anime from 1947 and I was blown away. Get a hanky.

Chris Ware’s Quimby The Mouse Cartoon for This American Life

DESIGN FETISH: DanteNeverDies’ Little Big Planet Music Videos

Trek Yourself.

A clip from Hal Needham’s Rad.

“We has comes to make crossovers metal.”

I do not need to explain anything.

Batman, Batman, Batman.

The Official Jam of NYCC 2009. (NSFW Lyrics.)

“Bubbilicious,” Rex The Dog.

Two sequences from the live-action Archie-in-his-30s movie To Riverdale and Back Again

My Top Ten Tracks of 2008: #1 “Meddle,” Little Boots

Victoria Hesketh has an unabashed love of pop music. her YouTube channel is filled with covers of verse-chorus-verse groups as diverse as Hot Chip, Alphabeat, Haddaway, and will.i.am. As leader of the short-lived Dead Disco, she did a more-than-passable Deborah Harry fronting the Killers and made a few records that were the basis for some fine remixes, but it’s the four tracks on her Arecibo EP that grabbed my attention. I’m not normally one to fete someone with such a thin discography, but there’s something simultaneously celebratory and revelatory about the four tracks (“Meddle” and “Stuck On Repeat,” appear in their original and remixed forms) on her debut.

Throughout the too-short record, snatches of the purest Eurocheese from the deepest caves meet the no-wave sound of New York 1979 while the analog synths and cheap handclaps of Italodisco provide the backing and on top of it is one of the most perfectly pop voices I’ve heard – upbeat, maybe a little Kate Bush in parts, but with just enough oomph to sell the chorus. I really do get the feeling that she’s onto something, particularly if she continues to work with Joe Goddard from Hot Chip (them again – I have a whole theory about their parts being greater than the sum) and Greg Kurstin, who’s produced Lily Allen and Kylie (as well as Dead Disco.)