Tom Sachs by The Selby
June 27, 2011
Check out a great video on artists Tom Sachs directed by The Selby, shot by Ed David.
Check out a great video on artists Tom Sachs directed by The Selby, shot by Ed David.
In this short film documenting Oakley’s Josh Harrington’s trip to the seemingly cold and desolate Northern European state of Estonia for the Simpel Session contest, we experience in his own words the solidarity of self-awareness of traveling to a foreign country, unable to adjust to your surroundings while still having to focus on putting himself [...]
This past September, I moved to New York from Vancouver B.C. The main reason for moving out here was motivated by my work and to basically push myself and to take everything I do to the next level. To say moving out here was a good decision is definitely an understatement. One of the first [...]
Great collection of behind the scenes movie photos via Selectism. So crazy how the process of making movies has changed over the years. Looking at the shot of the crew actually filming the printed credits for Empire Strikes Back really puts things into perspective. Check out the photos here.
I’ve been stoked on Digital Kitchen’s work for years, but over the weekend I spent some time on their site digging through all their new projects and thought they needed a good old shout out for consistently creating so much great work!
Just watched a great trailer for Page One: Inside the New York Times, a new feature documentary about the New York Times and the current state news media. Keep reading to check out the trailer.
Pretty epic music video for an artist named Woodkid… I wonder where the budget came from to produce this video?
Johnny Elia, who has done a lot of great videos for Ride UK has a new motion real online featuring a bunch of rad motion work that he’s done over the past year. Check it out after the jump as well as on his site – eliaco.com
Check out this amazing promotional film for IBM to help celibrate their 100 year anniversary. What IBM has accomplished in the past 100 years is astonishing and the concept of this film — each presenter states a IMB achievement in the year they were born — is extremely impactful almost drawing your attention more to [...]
We get a lot of submissions to Defgrip and most of them fall into a similar category, but sometimes you get the epiclly random one that doesn’t make sense, but at the same time are amazing. This video “A long lost underground classic video from The What, the greatest band you never heard” definitely falls [...]
James Newrick sent over a link to this great documentary his friend Richard Smith put together. The short documentary is about Newcastle/Gateshead’s Dave Young. ”Dave was a big name within BMX in the 80’s, he competed against the likes of Matt Hoffman and also rode for S&M. In this he talks about the changing industry within BMX. [...]
With over 400,000 views in only seven days, there’s a good change you’ve already seen this video, but if not, it’s definitely worth 30 minutes of your day. Filmmaker Andrew Wonder follows urban historian Steve Duncan around the New York city underground. With trips to abandoned subway stations, Amtrak tunnels, as well as a trip [...]
Came across this profile about Jay-Z on Hypebeast yesterday. With the new year, brings Oprah’s new network OWN. One of the series they will be producing for the network is titled ‘Oprah Presents: Master Class‘ and it will be profiling some of the most influential people in the world. Kicking the series off is a [...]
My brother just hit me with a link to a six song music video/short film for Röyksopp’s new album titled “Senior.” The film follows three girls as they explore the ruins and come across child zombies and lots of skulls. Shot in what looks like a crazy blown out war-zone city from Eastern Europe, actually [...]
Influencers is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. The project was put together by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson from R+I Creative and they have a great website to go along with the film. There will [...]
Check out some dark videos and short films from Jason Last. Credited as a Creative Consultant on Kanye’s film Runaway, Jason Last has a bunch of interesting fashion based shorts with great cinematography as well as post production.
A pretty awesome montage of clips from the past year filmed on GoPros… My only questions is WHERE’S THE BMX??
Notre Jour Viendra is a new feature film from Director Romain Gavras who directed the M.I.A, Born Free video as well as the Jus†ice, Stress video. Staring Vincent Cassel, the film – of which the title translates to Our Day Will Come in english – plays off the redhead theme of the M.I.A. video and tells [...]
Terrelly Gordy sent over a link to his new demo reel consisting of a compilation of amazing BMX footage. With lots of footage of the Greenville crew and work for Haro bikes, as well as some very notable edits for Vital like the Colin McKay edit (above), his demo is definitely worth checking out.
Check out this extremely impressive stop motion animated film using iPads to create the images. Thanks to Harley Hasket for the link!
If you are into camera gear, like I am, then you’ll be into this update on Vincent Laforet’s site. Along with a video of a HDDLSR setup he used on a recent shoot, there’s a big updated gear section on his site breaking down all the gear he uses, what he uses it for, along [...]
I knew Gaspar Noé was working on a new film and I had actually seen a trailer for it recently, but it wasn’t until I got an email from Chad Moore yesterday that I really checked it out. The coolest part about it is one of the main characters is a BMXer… “My friend Nathan [...]
By now a lot of you have seen this, but for those of you who haven’t you should definitely check it out. Absolut Vodka teamed up with director/photographer Danny Clinch to produce a 15min documentary about Jay Z, his life growing up in NY, and the days leading up to his show at Madison Square [...]
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