Believe it or not, this is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, distilled into a single image.

Created in 2004, this piece is part of a larger collection called, “Cinema Redux.” Artist/innovator Brendan Dawes used a Java program to sample a movie every second, generating 8×6 pixel images, each row representing one minute of film.

As Brendan explains the process, “The end result is a kind of unique fingerprint for that film. A sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process. Compare Serpico to The Conversation. You can see there’s far more edits in Lumet’s classic compared to the more gentle slower pace of Coppola’s Conversation. This is also down to the editing style of Walter Murch who prefers to only make cuts when absolutely necessary. Have a look through the eight movies and make your own mind up.”

To explore his world, go here.

For all you Banksy fans out there, allow me to introduce you to Mark Jenkins.

Substituting mannequins for spray paint, his street installations are at once hilarious, creative, disarming, inventive, and spooky.  I love him.

You can see more at his website…or follow the jump for two more samples…

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The Men Who Stare At Goats – Official Site

Brothers Trailer

The Animals – “House of the Rising Sun”

“Jamaica…We Have a Bobsled Team”

Here’s a brilliant alternative marketing piece for The Men Who Stare At Goats.  I’m looking forward to seeing this film in the theaters.

Contributed By Guest Blogger WILL SHERROD

- We were asked to “Pick Flick.”

- A plastic bag in the wind became Oscar worthy art.

- Mr. Anderson took a slow-mo step down the rabbit hole.

- We learned the rules of a fight club.

- We got an inside look into the mind of John Malkovich.

- Three snot nosed teenagers stumbled into the wrong cabin.

- Lola ran. Over and over again.

- George Clooney, Marky Mark, and Ice Cube found some gold.

- A bunch of random people happened to sing an Aimee Mann song at the same time.

- Forrest Gump Jr. “saw dead people.”

The list goes on. I truly believe you could troll the last decade and be hard pressed to come up with ten movies that live up to the standard of originality produced in 1999. The last year of the 90’s was groundbreaking for the motion picture industry.

I feel like it was an echo from older pages of cinematic history (a 1970’s-style revolution). Sigh… Just coming up with this list makes me wish I could go back and party like it’s 1999.

This Is It – Official Website

Jackson 5 – “Who’s Lovin’ You”

The Shining Parody

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Official Site

Contributed By Guest Blogger BRIAN BURKE

It’s not often I’m compelled to put fingertip to keyboard in effort to make a point about a movie I’ve recently seen, but Where the Wild Things Are had me reaching for a nice tall glass of single malt lithium. Why? Because the movie’s drama comes from a place that is too real, too comprehensible, too common and most unfortunately – just the type of thing you go to the movies to escape.

From it’s trailer we’re led to believe that fuzzy monsters with CG lips and the warm nasal breathings of a Soprano’s lead will satisfy something deep and powerful within us; the hopeful sound bites, “I didn’t want to wake you up, but I really want to show you something,” the transcendent Arcade Fire track rising, crescendoing, promising of secrets revealed, hope rediscovered, problems solved, the washed out cinematography, the power of imagination. It’s a dreamland we’re going to. The kind of dreamland where everything is ok.

And then we’re given the island of Eeyore.

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Antichrist – Official Website

Willy Wonka – How It Should Have Ended

TMNT Dogs

Willy Wonka: Drug Baron

Contributed By Guest Blogger WILL SHERROD

I could go on for hours about everything that’s wrong with the Saw franchise. The convoluted plot, banal characters, and unsurprising “twists” each warrant their own whiny blog entry.

The thing is, America just doesn’t give a damn. You don’t add a Saw movie to your Netflix queue in hopes of being challenged by the darkness that lurks in humanity. You don’t drop $10 at the box office because you want your spine to tingle with edge-of-your-seat suspense. You see a Saw movie because you know some chick is going to have her ribs ripped from her spine by a rusty metal contraption while she screams for mercy. And apparently that is just cool as fuck.

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