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Film Project in Taos, pt. 3

newberry — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:49:33 +0000

OK, last Taos picture for a while–here’s the alluring Kristin on her Harley. More about the project in these last two posts, and pictures from last year’s New Mexico trip here.

Film Project in Taos, pt. 2

newberry — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:07:29 +0000

Insightful and wisecracking Tuk, another lovely Taoseño I shot last week for Black and Gold, a film in progress by Diane Izzo and Marco Zas. Pt. 1 is here.

Film project in Taos, New Mexico

newberry — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:12:41 +0000

For the last 5 days I’ve been in Taos, shooting stills and video with my friends Diane Izzo and Marco Zas. They’re making a film with the working title Black and Gold. Here’s a picture of Vincente Martinez, one of the fabulous Taoseños we shot. More to follow.

Brian Belknap video

newberry — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:41:04 +0000

Last November, in my pal Brian Belknap‘s San Francisco garage, I filmed the abundantly talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist performing his song Junkyard. Bill Paxton’s character in Adam Rifkin‘s strange film The Dark Backward was based on Brian. You can check out his music here.

Update: you can download 3 albums from Brian’s band Turpentine, for free (!) here.

(The resolution of this clip is very high. It should help to click play and then click pause, then wait for the video to load before hitting play again. Also, if you click on the arrows next to the word Vimeo you can watch it full screen.)

Alex Chilton video shot by Eggelston

newberry — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:16:14 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eVsH49_2U

From William Eggelston‘s Stranded in Canton video. (Via L.A. Times Pop & Hiss blog: via Bob Mehr.)

My Gold Mask video: Violet Eyes

newberry — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:55:23 +0000

Violet Eyes, a brand spanking new video by the fabulous duo My Gold Mask, has just been posted. I shot and directed the video, which was shot both in HD (with the trusty Canon 5DMII) as well as with a low-res toy video camera (circuit-bent Fisher Price PXL-2000, aka “Pixelvision.”) Working with Jack and Greta and their Pug Roadie was a treat.

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxzUQAaCZdU

Stan Wood: Reality is not something he does

newberry — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:30:32 +0000

This video clip was meant to be a video test, but Stan was on a roll so I thought I’d cut together a wee short. You might remember Stan from such blog posts as this one (second pic down) where he impersonates Yoko Ono.

View on Vimeo.

Thriller Zombies video

newberry — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:09:00 +0000

View on Vimeo.

I recently posted a still photo I shot from the Thriller Zombie Walk held in Wicker Park last weekend. Here’s a short film (work in progress) on the event. Thanks to The Goblins for the soundtrack music, and thanks to Martin and Lindsay (the Zombie Walk organizers) and all of the spectacular, gorgeous zombies.

Update on NASA moonwalk video

newberry — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:23:09 +0000

Probably just a coincidence, but I just noticed that this New York Times blog post from last Friday—on the topic of lost moon landing video—opens with the exact same sentence as my blog post from a couple weeks ago on the same subject (“conspiracy theorists, start your engines”). Anyhow, my delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, it turns out the original Apollo 11 tapes were erased, and the “new” footage from NASA is just a freshly restored version. Monday is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing–here’s a Wired article on NASA’s festivities.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbwZL-EK6CY

NASA finds lost video of 1969 moon landing

newberry — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:56:22 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines. From the Daily Express (for me, via the JREF forums):

The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon’s surface in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark.

The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander, are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate fraud.

However, viewers have only ever seen such poor quality footage because the original analogue tapes containing the pictures beamed direct from the lunar surface were lost almost as soon as they were recorded.

Instead, a poor quality copy made from a 16mm camera pointing at a heavily compressed image on a black and white TV screen has been the only record of the event.

The Sunday Express can now reveal that the missing tapes containing the original high quality images have been found.

Apparently the Daily Express may be stealing NASA’s thunder—they’re counting down to a July 16th launch at this handsome NASA site celebrating the 4oth anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

UPDATE: According to the Bad Science Blog, the above story is bogus.