Apparently Spike Jonze is a Foundation Fan!

Wow!

Two of our music videos by Ben Chappell have now been featured on director, Spike Jonze’s blog, We Love You So!

Jonze recently blogged about our video for Cass McCombs which featured actress Karen Black. Today, he commented on the band, Girls and posted our video for their song “Hellhole Ratrace”!

Spike and the rest of the world has a new Girls video by Ben Chappell and frequent collaborator Aaron Brown, to look forward to as they are shooting a new video of the band this weekend in San Francisco! Stay tuned!

Inevitable Michael Jackson Post

I tried to put this off for as long as I could…but there’s no way around it, it seems…The King of Pop is dead.

Regardless of what you thought about Jackson’s personal life and questionable relations with children…it cannot be denied that he was not only a musical pioneer and an extremely talented performer…but he was perhaps one of the biggest pop culture icons of our generation’s time (Gen Y, I’m talking to you!) All you need to do is look to twitter, facebook and other blogs to see his impact on our culture. Many of us learned to moonwalk right after we learned to walk!

As a company that prides itself on our creativity, we remember Michael Jackson as a creative innovator with an unmatched passion for his art. Peace out Michael and thanks for all the awesome videos, the inspiration for some of our generation’s favorite parodies and the music!

Here’s a few of my personal favorite Jackson videos/tributes/parodies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjOn5TNjBM&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqz1ojIQTBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avjmBiH89M8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KAJw4y8wE

What are yours?

Show Your Love…

Brian Bennett of C-K was recently seen out at a Sox game, sporting this stylish Foundation T-shirt!!

Somebody get that kid a Foundation onsesie, stat!

But seriously, I gotta say, Brian looks pretty good in brown!

SEND US YOUR PICS IN OUR SWAG!!

Spike Jonze Loves Karen Black So

So, director, Spike Jonze recently posted a little shout to his blog (We Love You So) out regarding the music video we produced for folk artist Cass McCombs, which featured Karen Black. Check it out! http://weloveyouso.com/2009/06/dreams-cometrue-girl/

It’s a great review of the video and it’s great publicity for McCombs.

Girls Gone Wild!

Remember these guys?

Well…the band, Girls, is back in the spotlight again with their song “Hellhole Ratrace”. You may recall, the video was shot in San Francisco last December on RED Camera by Foundation’s Ben Chappell.  Our crew followed the band for 24hrs all at 120fps!   The video has finally premiered after 6 long months in order to release it at the same time as the album.

Our good friends at Pitchfork.tv are facilitating the premiere : ) http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/3675-girls-hellhole-ratrace-true-panther-sounds

The band has become SO popular, they are even invading Britain!Check them out on The Guardian! http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/jun/10/girls-hellhole-ratrace

McCafe Your Day!

A while back we shot R&B artist Dwele for McDonald’s new line of signature coffee drinks, McCafe. You may remember this post back in January?

Anyway…if you’re in Chicago on June 18th and you like coffee and neo-soul/r&b music…you may wanna check out this event!

Ben Chappell Sees RED

Ben Chappell just recently was asked to speak at the HD Expo here in Chicago with Fletcher Camera’s Tom Fletcher. Incidentally, Ben has more experience with the RED than almost any other director of photography in the city!

What were they talking about this year at the HD Expo? RED,RED,RED!

The workshop was a highly informative two hour segment on all things relating to the RED camera. Ben says, “The event went great!  It was great to hear RED news straight from the source, Jon Sagud.  They have a new set of lenses coming out that will change the game!  As well as their new cameras Scarlet and Epic!!  Moving beyond 4K to even higher resolutions.”

HD Expo is a very cool event indeed and we were very proud to see one of our own so ahead of the curve!

Web 2.0 Added to the Dictionary?

I just read an interesting article on Yahoo! Tech about how “Web 2.0″ is being added as the one millionth word to the English dictionary! And it’s causing quite a stir in the linguistics community!

Apparently the Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in print and electronic media, claimed “Web 2.0″ appeared over 25,000 times in searches!!!But some people call it “fraud”. Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, says “It’s not bad science. It’s nonsense.”

What do you think? Should Web 2.0 be included in the dictionary? Vote now!

Out of the Water and Onto the BIG Screen!

Editor/Director Anna Patel had the opportunity to work with filmmaker Ky Dickens on the trailer for her feature documentary “Fish Out of Water“. Not only did Anna edit the trailer, but she also onlined, color corrected and provided additional editing to the ending of the film!

The film explores the tumultuous relationship between religion and sexuality and follows one girl’s experience coming to terms with both.The film includes a humorous animation thread and an original score from Golden Globe nominee Kaki King (Into the Wild).

Well, the film is finally set to premiere at this year’s Outfest, the oldest continuously-running film festival in Los Angeles which is also sponsored by HBO.  “Fish out of Water” will premiere on Saturday night, July 18th, at the Fairfax Theater at 7:30pm.

Tickets will be made available to the public on June 15th.
You can purchase tickets here:
http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/2009/xslguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=2760

If you’re not out in California, you’ll still have a chance to see the film! “Fish out of Water” will be on the festival circuit this fall and will hopefully be coming to a theater near you.  To follow their festival schedule, follow them on Twitter!

Please click the image above to view this awesome trailer and don’t forget to check out the website for this incredible film! (http://www.fishoutofwaterfilm.com)

Tears of a Clown

Over the weekend, The L.A. Times featured an interview with French actress, Yolande Moreau, talking about her experience playing painter, Séraphine de Senlis in the upcoming film by Provost, “Séraphine”.

Moreau, who acually comes from a comedy background, opens up about what it was like to play such a tragic figure in this serious and profoundly moving biopic.

Sometimes, it takes a clown to make us cry, and Moreau’s training as a comedian grants her the flexibility of appearing ridiculous without fear of ridicule

The article is not to be missed if you are a fan of Yoalnde Moreau, who won the 2008 César award for Best Actress for her role as Séraphine. CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!

Séraphine screens June 5th in LA and NY. And for more information on this amazing film, check out Music Box Films.