BASSWEIGHT – A DUBSTEP DOCUMENTARY

Posted on 2010-10-25

BASSWEIGHT is a feature length documentary that offers an unparalleled insight into the subterranean world of Dubstep.

Charting the genre’s growth from its obscure origins in south London to global recognition today, the film features in-depth interviews with many of the DJ’s, producers and promoters who have been instrumental in Dubstep’s ongoing evolution.

Skream, Benga, Kode9 and Mary Anne Hobbs are just some of the key players who have contributed, reflecting on the movement they’ve helped shape; a movement that has come to define the importance of underground music in the 21st Century.

www.bassweightdvd.com

  

MASSIVE ATTACK – ATLAS AIR

Posted on 2010-10-25

Massive Attack get back together with French filmmaker Edouard Salier who previously directed Massive Attacks Splitting the Atom video. Acid drop at 3 minutes 40 seconds.
Stunning!!!

massiveattack.com

  

DAFT PUNK – TRON – THE GAME HAS CHANGED

Posted on 2010-10-25

Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack is out on the 7th of December 2010. After all the fake Daft Punk releases, there is nestling, midway down the Tron: Legacy facebook page underneath the soundtrack tab, a 1 minute 28 second snip of a tune entitled, The game has changed. Link Below.

Tron: Legacy Facebook

  

BLUE & MOROCCO

Posted on 2010-10-25

A deeper shade of blue?
Yves saint Laurent was so enamoured by the blue tinted Moroccan retreat of French painter Jacques Majorelle that he had to have it.
We know the feeling.
Recently we slid under the skin of Morocco to the lesser known town of Chefchaouen in the calmer Northern wilds of the Western Kingdom, a city where a chalky wash of Klein International Blue powders endless sloping stone passageways.
In the air between the jagged escarpment of the Rif Mountains and these spotless dreamlike streets hangs the memorable scent of Aragon oils.

Take a deep breath and go into the blue.

For more information on Black Tomato’s alternative experiences in Morocco visit us online or call on 020 7426 9888.

  

19TH CENTURY IVORY VAMPIRE SLAYING KIT

Posted on 2010-10-25

With Halloween baring it’s fangs around the corner, what perfect timing for this antique ivory vampire killing kit, to come up for auction.Sold earlier in the month for $4,700. Only one of four matching kits known to exist consisting of an ornate ivory-mounted Christian cross integrating a steel, spring-loaded, .41 caliber single-shot percussion pistol, the center mounted with an ebony shield surmounted with a 8-pointed crown, the tips made from tiny semi-precious red stones. A ruby red five-pointed star adorns the center. The vampire pistol is contained in an ivory case, together with steel dagger blade which attaches to the end of the cross, an ivory cleaning rod, ivory powder bottle, and cap and ball supply.
The entire case is made from fine elephant ivory and each element is engraved with letters representing the contents.

This particular kit was brought back from Germany after WWII by one Sergeant Glen Pendelton who liberated it from a German museum in Berlin.

www.gregmartinauctions.com

  

SLATER BRADLEY AND ED LACHMAN – SHADOW

Posted on 2010-10-18

A new video work by Slater Bradley in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, takes as its inspiration the unfinished Hollywood film Dark Blood (1993), which was never completed due to the untimely death of its star, River Phoenix. Seventeen years later, Shadow presents a kind of prologue to the original film, revisiting Phoenix’s character (here, by Ben Brock) while creating a new narrative which, when woven together with the original, creates a labyrinthine tale that blurs the lines between illusion and reality.

Opposite – Production still from Shadow, 2010

Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2011

The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York
NY
10021

whitney.org