February, 2010 Archive

News

Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy

We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Day One – Getting There, Slowly

I’ve made it to the throbbing city of Heathrow, terminal 4 (the location and setting for my husband’s film Mum & Dad, being here never fails

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Live Action

Charlie Brooker – How To Report The News

Charlie Brooker shows us just how easy it is to make ‘News’. https://youtu.be/YtGSXMuWMR4

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Art & Fashion

21:9

For all lovers of the cinema, the release of the “world’s first ultra-wide TV that perfectly matches the original 2.39:1 movie format used by

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News

Exploding Update

The Beastie Boys have done many many good things in their time, but most recently they’ve made it in to my good books when their Oscilloscope

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Film Festival

YARNfest

There’s nothing we like more here at DN than festivals, so when we heard about the impending launch of YARNfest we asked its director Gemma Mitchell to

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Music Video

Padam

You have to be pretty brave to make a music video which is just one static shot, but that’s exactly what Parisien design studio M/M decided to do with

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Art & Fashion, Podcasts

DN156: Stately Turrets Fall – Tony Comley

Way back in the mists of DN time, director Tony Comley joined us to discuss his plane disaster animation Abigail. It’s my pleasure to welcome Tony back

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Music Video

Dirty Laundry

I don’t think we need to go on about just how much we love The Take-Away Shows here at Directors Notes and since discovering it we’re always on the

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Tweak Bird

Having just discovered the music of Tweak Bird, I was ecstatic to discover they also make damn fine videos as well(well video at least!). It’s not often

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Scintillation

Scintillation is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.

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Animation

Codehunters

I talked about animated style in my post on Pivot yesterday and it’s not often you find two such stylized pieces of animation in the space of 24 hours,

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