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In Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed short film I’m Here young robots with expressive eyes fall in love and sadly break hearts the way humans do: by taking everything they can until there’s nothing left to take. Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood hosts an outdoor screening of the melancholy tale with special live musical performances by our lovely and talented friends ASKA (who’s music helped inspire the short) and Sam Spiegel (DJ Squeak E. Clean of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew) that will surely lift your spirits. Come for the heartache, but be sure to stay for the rebound. Presented by McSweeney’s and Chocolate Industries.

Also…I’m Here soundtrack featuring ASKA, Sam Spiegel, Animal Collective and many more now available through iTunes here.

From Space 15 Twenty:

“I’m Here is a short film by Spike Jonze about two robots living in semi-futuristic Los Angeles where humans and robots coexist. Based on Shel Silverstein’s children’s book, The Giving Tree, the plot revolves around Sheldon, the protagonist, lending his limbs to Francesca when she starts loosing hers. This is true love as it gets…

Throughout I’m Here you can hear L.A. based art musician ASKA, whose beautiful song, “There Are Many of Us,” is featured in the film.  ASKA told us that the inspiration came from the ‘first song I wrote on a guitar in a bathtub. I felt I needed to tell myself that there are many of us and not just the ‘one’, to release myself from being tied up to the one.”

Find more of I’m Here here:

• The Creators Project is Coming
• Spike Jonze’s I’m Here is Here
• I’m Here with Spike Jonze
  

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Always looking to push creative boundaries, my main man Milk (Chris that is) directs a truly unique and groundbreaking music video for Arcade Fire’s single “We Used to Wait” from their latest album The Suburbs, and turns it into the interactive interpretation titled “The Wilderness Downtown”. Part Google web browser Chrome Experiment part personalized nostalgia trip, the immersive, multi-window, next level clip literally takes you home before the music even starts as you’re prompted to “enter the address of the home were you grew up” (which eventually appears on screen at the appropriate part of the track with the help of Google Maps technology).

Driven by the haunting melodies of Arcade Fire, you follow the galloping footsteps of a hooded runner who’s seemingly travelling through your old neighborhood as he passes familiar spots popping up in small windows on your screen. Sweeping street level and aerial views of your old home conjure childhood memories as Milk perfectly choreographs the sentimental imagery which culminates in an outgrowth of birds, trees and wilderness.

Top it all off with another window for writing “a postcard of advice to the younger you that lived there then” and you have yourself a personalized and poignant journey (and maybe even a tear or two) that you’ve yet to experience in a music video.

Click here or the image below to visit “The Wilderness Downtown” (best viewed in Google Chrome or in Apple’s Safari 5)

Read details and more from Google’s blog here.

From Chrome Experiments:

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”

More from Chris Milk:

• THURSDAY (June 10): Flux Screening Series @ The Hammer feat. Chris Milk, Alexandre de Bonrepos, Chris Marrs Piliero and Jonas Odell
• Milk’s Last Day Dream
• THIS WEEKEND: N.A.S.A. vs. Japan, Milk Photography, 1000 Days, The Red Balloon Scores, To Catch a Dazed and Confused Thief
  
• Chris Gets Complex With Kanye
• The Best Web Videos of the Year 2008: #5-Gnarls Barkley “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
• Milk for Hope
• Gnarlsy
  

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I just couldn’t resist the over-riding urge to post this through the weekend: moustached Euro baby singing the disco club smash hit record “I Was Drunk” by Riva Starr featuring Noze. And with that, I bid you an awesome weekend!

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The greatest hip hop/breakdancing/graffiti/documentary/drama film is alive and well for a special Sunday screening under the stars of the 1983 classic Wild Style starring Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and of course graf legend Lee. Presented by Cinespia at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

From the Cinespia hip hop heads:

“Spirited, fun and funky, Wild Style bursts with flavor. Breakdancers, MCs, artists and DJs provide the backdrop for this sweet love story of two graffitti writers. Wild Style has become an invaluable document of the youthful and unaffected scene which became the hip hop movement. Filmed in the South Bronx, it captures the rare moment when these talented kids from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country created the most important artistic movement of a generation. Starring Patti Astor, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and more. With special suprise guests !!

cinespia all star djs spin before and after the screening”

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From his early hip hop history with the southern fried Goodie Mobb to his latest colab with super producer Danger Mouse to form the mighty Gnarls Barkley to his unconventional solo career and all the guest spots he’s had in-between (Outkast, Common), the uniquely funky, soul-infused singer/MC Cee-Lo Green has already had an incredible rap career sonstantly pushing musical boundaries.

His first single off of the forthcoming The Ladykiller album (due out Oct. 8th) keeps pushing those creative boundaries, and then some, with the simple, colorful and extremely catchy “F**K YOU”.

Also…it seems as though some people are already having fun with Cee-Lo’s latest hit as evidenced by the Dallas Observer’s “F**K YOU” remix of the Shawshank Redemption. See the rest of the movie mashups here.

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Since I’ve been editing other projects the past couple of months I haven’t been able to do anything associated with Michael Rapaport’s doc on A Tribe Called Quest which we began editing last year. That all changed this past Saturday as I got to wild out with Tribe rocking the Rock the Bells show for their set primarily made up of joints off their legendary 1993 album Midnight Marauders.

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The meeting of the two five footers-Phife Dawg and me

Mike Rapaport briefly discusses our Tribe film with Sway, Ali, Phife and Julian

Following a rousing comeback performance by the seldom seen Lauryn Hill, the trio of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad took the stage to tear up the capacity crowd of 45,000+ as they ripped through classics “Steve Biko”, “Sucka Nigga”, “Oh My God” and others before being joined on stage by fourth Quester Jarobi and honorary member Busta Rhymes with Spliff to perform “Electric Relaxation”, “Buggin’ Out”, “Scenario” and of course, “Award Tour” among many other hits.

Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad take the stage

Tip and the Phifer

Busta Bus holds it up

The crew peaces out into the Southern Cali night

Needless to say, after seeing Tribe put on such an amazing show, I’m more than pumped to get back to cutting our A Tribe Called Quest film as we continue to get the film ready for the upcoming festival rounds.

Also…taking the San Bernardino stage by storm was the full Wu-Tang Clan unit with Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s son Boy Jones filling in for his late pops as they rumbled through their classic Enter the 36 Chambers (which coincidentally came out the same exact day as Tribe’s Midnight Marauders).

Ghostface Killah backed by Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Raekwon, the GZA and the RZA

M-E-T-H-O-D Man!

The Wu were then followed by West Coast’s resident don big Snoop Dogg as he closed out the night’s hip hop festivities with Tha Dogg Pound crew performing their own classics off of 1994’s Doggystyle.

Big Snoop D-O-double Gzy and Kurupt

More on the Questers:

• A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauds @ Rock the Bells This Summer!
• Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, The Hundreds and 101 Minutes of A Tribe Called Quest
• J Dilla’s Documentary by Stussy
• FRIDAY (March 5): Phife Dawg & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Go Down Low
• WEDNESDAY (Jan. 20): Mind Body Soul w/ Phife Dawg & Friends Hosted by Michael Rapaport NYC
• Finding a Way with Tribe
• On a Quest With A Tribe Called Quest

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The 30th anniversary of Silver Lake’s always festive street festival, Sunset Junction, goes down this weekend full of the usual too many bands to name, drinking, dancing, carnival rides and games, fried foods, street vendors, drinking and more drinking. Also drinking!

Click here or flyer below for all the info you’ll need to know.

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Enter a world of pure imagination surrounded by a world of pure dead people as Cinespia presents everyone’s favorite candy man (sorry Johnny Depp but it’s still Gene Wilder) along with everyone’s favorite orange midgets (sorry Tattoo) in the 1971 classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory sweetens up the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Also…Daedelus spins before and after the screening!

From Cinespia:

“Classic children’s fantasy starring comic genius Gene Wilder. A visual treat, this movie is filled with wild and imaginative sets, colorful characters and of course, mountains of candy. Charlie is a poor boy who becomes one of five winners of the golden ticket, a special pass which brings him inside the wondrous and mysterious factory of Willy Wonka. Only one of the winners will win a lifetime supply of chocolate, and as they tour the factory, they are eliminated one by one. Come take a tour of the chocolate factory with us!”

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The group of artistic individuals who make up the Bagavagabonds join forces with a mighty group of creative cohorts, including marketing master friend Jessica Chong and K-Swiss, for a night good causes full of art, music, film and partying as Filter Magazine presents the Bagavagabonds DREAM Art Explosion!

Proceeds from art sales benefit Aaron Rose’s youth-oriented Make Something!! workshops across the country.

From JC:

“DREAM a little dream or a lot?  You’re invited! It’s a $10 donation at the door, but drinks are free all night and you will be able to purchase original artwork for $50 or less.  The proceeds from the artwork will benefit Make Something!!

RSVP: sirfrancisdrake@bagavagabonds.com“

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Our fine friends with the finest of tastes at Family Bookstore on Fairfax host another incredibly entertaining evening of intellect and good humor as Spike Jonze joins Dave Eggers for some conversating, book launching and signing and a bit of hand shaking. They’ll also be accompanied by the lovely sounds of our lovely friend ASKA as she performs an acoustic set to start the night’s festivities.

From the Fam:

“Family Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of two new books by Mcsweeney’s:

It Is Right to Draw Their Fur is Dave Eggers’s first collection of drawings. Most of these works are of unusual mammals, most often accompanied by slogans with ancient, heroic, or just plain odd overtones. This full-color package will be a combination of 26 large-sized prints and an accompanying booklet.”

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