A fortnight ago in his personal newsletter Kirby Ferguson announced that he is set to retire from his career as an internet filmmaker. Citing a change in his livelihood as the key reason in doing so, Ferguson is shifting his focus away from the video essay culture in which he became such an influential voice. But he’s not going out without a bang. To coincide with the retirement Ferguson is releasing his 2020 documentary This is Not a Conspiracy Theory from behind a paywall for all audiences to see. He’s also finishing off the latest iteration of his acclaimed Everything Is a Remix series with two more chapters (the first two are available online now). As long time envious fans of Ferguson’s ideas packed work Dn caught up with him soon after he announced his retirement to discuss his journey as an internet filmmaker, the decision to step away now,...
- 5/12/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Kirby Ferguson, who landed on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2011 following this Everything is a Remix web series, is back with a new work that explains the QAnon phenomenon and places it in larger political context. For anyone who found themselves Googling “Marjorie Taylor Greene” this morning (Or was perhaps mystified by a colleague’s late-night email screed), the video offers a bit of a primer on the internet phenomenon as well as analysis. As Jason Kottke summarizes at Kottke.org, Ferguson sees QAnon as a form of magical thinking, breaking down six specific characteristics: 1. Obsession with symbols and […]...
- 8/12/2020
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Kirby Ferguson, who landed on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2011 following this Everything is a Remix web series, is back with a new work that explains the QAnon phenomenon and places it in larger political context. For anyone who found themselves Googling “Marjorie Taylor Greene” this morning (Or was perhaps mystified by a colleague’s late-night email screed), the video offers a bit of a primer on the internet phenomenon as well as analysis. As Jason Kottke summarizes at Kottke.org, Ferguson sees QAnon as a form of magical thinking, breaking down six specific characteristics: 1. Obsession with symbols and […]...
- 8/12/2020
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
All things must come to an end, even TV shows and movies. No matter how much we happen to be enjoying a work of cinema or a serialized drama, there will inevitably come a time when things fade to black and we’re left reading the names of actors in the dark. But, as video essayist Kirby Ferguson notes in his new ode to…...
- 11/6/2018
- by Dan Neilan on News, shared by Dan Neilan to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Supercut of the Day: In this supercut video essay, Kirby Ferguson celebrates movie endings and the credits that come afterward: Filmmaking Lesson of the Day: The latest Filmento video essay shares some ideas for how to create a perfect movie villain: Video Essay of the Day: The latest Like Stories of Old video essay makes the case for why Children of Heaven is the best movie about childhood: Vintage Image of the Day: Burt Lancaster, who was born on this day in 1913, receives direction from Stanley Kramer on the set of Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961: Actor in the Spotlight: For Yahoo!, Jeff Goldblum looks back on his most...
- 11/3/2018
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
It’s now been six years since Kirby Ferguson released his Everything Is A Remix video series showing how the visual media of film and television have always borrowed from what came before them. Now a new video essay helps illustrate how this is also the case with storytelling across all sorts of media. If you’ve […]
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- 11/30/2016
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
One of our 25 New Faces in 2011, Kirby Ferguson has, with his Everything is a Remix Project, created a web series that artfully blends cultural criticism with legal and copyright commentary. In the latest edition, Ferguson considers J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens and wonders if blockbuster artistic sampling has run its course. “Is remixing a weak point in The Force Awakens? Is the remix method growing stale? Have we reached the limits of remixing?” For his conclusions, watch the video above.
- 5/21/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In 2010, Kirby Ferguson created a video essay called Everything is a Remix, about how it’s not just Quentin Tarantino, but every single artist (authors, musicians or filmmakers) who borrows something old to make something new. The video essay spawned a series of essays, which was later combined into an almost 40 minute long documentary (which you can watch […]
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- 5/19/2016
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Kirby Ferguson’s follow up to his YouTube smash Everything Is A Remix explores 9/11 truthers to Illuminati paranoiacs. It’s smart and dark, and it won’t be finished for a long time
There’s a lot of wasted artistry on the internet. Expert video editing skills are used to construct pointless Wes Anderson supercuts, impressive camera and lighting techniques are employed by insipid teen vloggers, and intricate documentary collages are assembled to prove that the melting point of steel is higher than the temperature at which jet fuel burns.
Enter Brooklyn-based film-maker Kirby Ferguson, who seems determined to raise content to the level of form online. With his 2010 video series Everything Is A Remix, he utilised the zippy motion graphics and rollicking pace of so many inane YouTube hits to produce a nuanced and highly politicised essay on the nature of creativity and the corruption of well-intentioned copyright laws by vested corporate interests.
There’s a lot of wasted artistry on the internet. Expert video editing skills are used to construct pointless Wes Anderson supercuts, impressive camera and lighting techniques are employed by insipid teen vloggers, and intricate documentary collages are assembled to prove that the melting point of steel is higher than the temperature at which jet fuel burns.
Enter Brooklyn-based film-maker Kirby Ferguson, who seems determined to raise content to the level of form online. With his 2010 video series Everything Is A Remix, he utilised the zippy motion graphics and rollicking pace of so many inane YouTube hits to produce a nuanced and highly politicised essay on the nature of creativity and the corruption of well-intentioned copyright laws by vested corporate interests.
- 8/7/2015
- by Charlie Lyne
- The Guardian - Film News
Kirby Ferguson’s four-part web series, Everything is a Remix, was a brilliant blend of form, content and delivery system. A discussion of not just the legal issues surrounding fair use and appropriated content but also the nature of creativity itself, Ferguson’s work scored hundreds of thousands of views, launched a Ted talk and established this savvy director at the forefront of the Diy web content creation business. With his new recently launched series, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, he is aiming to make that web content creation business more of a, well, business by switching from free to a […]...
- 11/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Kirby Ferguson’s four-part web series, Everything is a Remix, was a brilliant blend of form, content and delivery system. A discussion of not just the legal issues surrounding fair use and appropriated content but also the nature of creativity itself, Ferguson’s work scored hundreds of thousands of views, launched a Ted talk and established this savvy director at the forefront of the Diy web content creation business. With his new recently launched series, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, he is aiming to make that web content creation business more of a, well, business by switching from free to a […]...
- 11/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Kirby Ferguson wants you to learn the truth behind those secret plots you thought only wackjobs believed. The Canadian filmmaker (known for his previous work Everything Is a Remix) has released his newest episodic documentary, This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory. According to the documentary trailer, This Is Not a Conspiracy takes a deeper look at the “hidden forces that shape our lives.” Successfully funded via Kickstarter, the documentary currently has two episodes (the first of which you can watch for free on Vimeo) available for purchase on Vimeo On Demand as well as on Vhx. To get more perspective on this uniquely-formatted project, we asked Ferguson about his intentions and creative process behind This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory and what we can expect from the rest of the documentary’s episodes: Tubefilter: Why installments in the first place and not one long flick? Kirby Ferguson: Because I...
- 10/24/2014
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Buena Vista Pictures
As Kirby Ferguson’s web series told us, “Everything is a Remix:” all of the big hits and films are variations on the same stories, told over and over again, with the serial numbers filed off and repackaged to make them look new. But sometimes, in those remixes, an original moment crops up; sometimes it’s subtle, but it changes the entire way you look at the concept, and sometimes it’s strong, making you reassess the entire subject. And sometimes it’s so jaw-droppingly stunning that you have to pick yourself up off the floor, thinking, “Did that really just happen?!”
These are the moments that endure: the mind-blowing, or mind-bending flashes of brilliance or difference that the film’s success ultimately distils down to, and the ones that will endlessly be recycled, with “you won’t believe what happens…” at their front. Not always brilliant,...
As Kirby Ferguson’s web series told us, “Everything is a Remix:” all of the big hits and films are variations on the same stories, told over and over again, with the serial numbers filed off and repackaged to make them look new. But sometimes, in those remixes, an original moment crops up; sometimes it’s subtle, but it changes the entire way you look at the concept, and sometimes it’s strong, making you reassess the entire subject. And sometimes it’s so jaw-droppingly stunning that you have to pick yourself up off the floor, thinking, “Did that really just happen?!”
These are the moments that endure: the mind-blowing, or mind-bending flashes of brilliance or difference that the film’s success ultimately distils down to, and the ones that will endlessly be recycled, with “you won’t believe what happens…” at their front. Not always brilliant,...
- 5/8/2014
- by Harry Thomas
- Obsessed with Film
25 New Face Kirby Ferguson extends his popular Everything is a Remix series with this latest entry on the iPhone. I wrote about the series’ original four parts back in 2011. An excerpt: Rather than push a copy-left agenda or hype the latest mash-up artist, Ferguson uses the subject of the remix to discuss the history and nature of creativity. Everything is a Remix deconstructs the idea of originality, exploring the creative but also technological and business memes that recombine from one generation to the next, making us feel that we are encountering something “new” along the way. And it […]...
- 12/14/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
25 New Face Kirby Ferguson extends his popular Everything is a Remix series with this latest entry on the iPhone. I wrote about the series’ original four parts back in 2011. An excerpt: Rather than push a copy-left agenda or hype the latest mash-up artist, Ferguson uses the subject of the remix to discuss the history and nature of creativity. Everything is a Remix deconstructs the idea of originality, exploring the creative but also technological and business memes that recombine from one generation to the next, making us feel that we are encountering something “new” along the way. And it […]...
- 12/14/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Almost two years ago, Kirby Ferguson joined me on Reject Radio to discuss his concept that everything was a remix. This was just after creating his first video which used side-by-side comparisons of songs to show that even our heroes (namely Led Zeppelin) lifted work from other artists and from traditionals in order to craft songs we now think of as iconic. There was no doubt that this same principle could be applied to movies, and it was unsurprising when Ferguson followed up with a film-centric entry. So, Everything is a Remix. “Transforming the old into the new is Hollywood’s greatest talent.” Ferguson, through impressive and entertaining editing, has called to the forefront the truth of creativity involving a great amount of borrowing, homage and sometimes flat-out theft. Now, he’s been invited to give a Ted talk, and as you can see, his main focus isn’t movies, but...
- 8/15/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In Defence of the Reboot is a new weekly column delving into the murky world of story adaptations, reimaginings and inter-media storytelling.
(I promise they won’t all be this long.)
With the announcement that Joss Whedon has signed on to write and direct Avengers 2, in addition to developing a TV series set in the Marvel movieverse (c/o Bleeding Cool), now seems as god a time as any to discuss something that I’ve wanted to address for a while; what I feel is the undue vitriol directed at the concept of expanding on a winning formula, to wit: sequels, reboots and the dreaded remake.
It’s something I’m not entirely unsympathetic to: people getting all het up about a film or show or comic or song they love being manhandled by Hollywood or anyone else is something I can easily relate to. But that’s just an emotional reaction,...
(I promise they won’t all be this long.)
With the announcement that Joss Whedon has signed on to write and direct Avengers 2, in addition to developing a TV series set in the Marvel movieverse (c/o Bleeding Cool), now seems as god a time as any to discuss something that I’ve wanted to address for a while; what I feel is the undue vitriol directed at the concept of expanding on a winning formula, to wit: sequels, reboots and the dreaded remake.
It’s something I’m not entirely unsympathetic to: people getting all het up about a film or show or comic or song they love being manhandled by Hollywood or anyone else is something I can easily relate to. But that’s just an emotional reaction,...
- 8/8/2012
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
March 3
8:30 p.m.
Ata Gallery
992 Valencia (@ 21st)
San Francisco, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema returns for its 2012 Spring Season with a vengeance.With the the recent Sopa scare that threatened the long-standing tradition of the appropriation of other people’s media in new contexts, this screening is taking full advantage of humanity’s god-given right to remix!
The centerpiece for the evening is Soda_Jerk’s Hollywood Burn, an epic remix of hundreds of Hollywood media sources to tell the story of a band of video pirates fighting against the copyright commandments delivered by Moses. Watch the trailer for this masterful manipulation of treasured media memories.
In addition, there will be a screening of Rodney Ascher’s The S From Hell, a documentary about the infamous Screen Gems logo. Plus, Kirby Ferguson’s popular Everything Is a Remix videos; an Animal Charm party platter; and more surprises.
8:30 p.m.
Ata Gallery
992 Valencia (@ 21st)
San Francisco, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema returns for its 2012 Spring Season with a vengeance.With the the recent Sopa scare that threatened the long-standing tradition of the appropriation of other people’s media in new contexts, this screening is taking full advantage of humanity’s god-given right to remix!
The centerpiece for the evening is Soda_Jerk’s Hollywood Burn, an epic remix of hundreds of Hollywood media sources to tell the story of a band of video pirates fighting against the copyright commandments delivered by Moses. Watch the trailer for this masterful manipulation of treasured media memories.
In addition, there will be a screening of Rodney Ascher’s The S From Hell, a documentary about the infamous Screen Gems logo. Plus, Kirby Ferguson’s popular Everything Is a Remix videos; an Animal Charm party platter; and more surprises.
- 3/1/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Kirby Ferguson’s epic and informative web serial, Everything is a Remix, comes to an inspiring conclusion with part four, to my mind the best of the series. In “Part Four: System Failures,” he looks at the historical roots of copyright and patent protection and examines how today’s system has drifted so far away from the original goals of furthering the public good while still protecting creators. I can’t recommend Ferguson’s series more highly, and if you find yourself in an argument with someone about legislations like Sopa, PiPA and Acta, point them towards these videos for a succinctly argued treatise on intellectual property in the age of the internet.
On the basis of the episodes he had done so far, I selected Ferguson for Filmmaker‘s 2011 “25 New Faces” list. Here’s how I began his profile:
It’s hard to create something original about the remix.
On the basis of the episodes he had done so far, I selected Ferguson for Filmmaker‘s 2011 “25 New Faces” list. Here’s how I began his profile:
It’s hard to create something original about the remix.
- 2/17/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Kirby Ferguson recently wrapped up his four-part 40-some-odd-minute online video series inspired by a Jim Jarmusch poster-sized filmmaking manifesto, Everything is a Remix. It’s part historical documentary, part research project, and a wholly fascinating “examination of how our world is the way it is because of an innate cut-and-past culture.” From inspecting the music and lyrics of Led Zeppelin to looking at cellular biology, Ferguson argues incredibly succinctly and successfully how stealing/borrowing/remixing isn’t just “how a handful of things come to fruition, it’s how everything gets made.” You should watch the series. And then you should donate to Ferguson’s latest Kickstarter campaign to ensure he makes some more. This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is the Canadian auteur’s latest passion project. He’s hoping, with your support, it will become a multi-part program “that will explain the major ideas, events and human quirks...
- 2/17/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Grass roots opposition from the anti-censorship left and the anti-regulation right, the lobbying muscle of a startled tech industry, and a nuanced and surprisingly critical response from Obama administration have drastically altered the momentum of the anti-piracy bills Sopa and Pipa as they march through Congress. Still, sites as diverse as Boing Boing, Wikipedia and Google are all continuing their efforts to alert the public to the dangerous elements of these bills, which, in their attempt to thwart pirating of intellectual property, dangerously tamper with internet architecture and loosen free speech protections. Wikipedia and Boing Boing go dark today while Google’s logo is black-barred, leading to a message titled “End Piracy, Not Liberty.” On this designated “Internet Blackout Day,” I thought I’d repost a video by Kirby Ferguson, one of Filmmaker‘s 2011 “25 New Faces,” which lays out the position of those opposed to these bills.
Protect IP Act...
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- 1/18/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Reboots, remakes, recycled plots are nothing new these days. Just like history is cyclical, so are movies. Directors, writers and actors are influenced by others that have come before them. Hollywood has many innovators, but it is often replicated and nothing is 100% original. The series Everything is a Remix, produced by Kirby Ferguson strives to prove that point. The videos he creates take fans inside their favorite films to get a close look at what movies borrow from movies before them.
Here is Ferguson's most recent video that takes a closer look at the seemingly unique film The Matrix by The Wachowski Brothers. Check out the video below and see fore yourself:
Here are the respective films that influenced The Matrix and their timestamps:
0:27 – Fist of Legend (1994)
0:38 – Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:44 – Fist of Legend (1994)
0:48 – Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:53 – Drunken Master (1978)
1:02 – Fist of Legend (1994)
1:...
Here is Ferguson's most recent video that takes a closer look at the seemingly unique film The Matrix by The Wachowski Brothers. Check out the video below and see fore yourself:
Here are the respective films that influenced The Matrix and their timestamps:
0:27 – Fist of Legend (1994)
0:38 – Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:44 – Fist of Legend (1994)
0:48 – Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:53 – Drunken Master (1978)
1:02 – Fist of Legend (1994)
1:...
- 10/7/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
"Everyone steals from everyone, that's movies." The guys in Swingers knew it and we all know it too. Everyone who has ever made a movie has been influenced by someone before them; even the people who invented the art form had influences from outside film. Of course many people innovate, only to to have their techniques ripped off later, but it's almost impossible to find something that is 100% original in every aspect. That's more or less the thesis of the video series Everything is a Remix, produced by Kirby Ferguson. He produces videos (some of which we've highlighted on the site [1]) that visually show how some of our favorite movies borrow from movies before them. Ferguson is still working on the fourth installment of the series, but in the meantime he has released a video dedicated to the 1999 hit film The Matrix by The Wachowski Brothers. Part of the reason...
- 10/7/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
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Everything is a Remix Part 3, the 3rd installment of the 4 part series on the history of remixes by Kirby Ferguson. This part doesn’t focus on music specifically, but indirectly addresses one of the fundamental issues of modern electronic music – the role of sampling and copying in general and explores how innovations truly happen.
Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
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Everything is a Remix Part 3, the 3rd installment of the 4 part series on the history of remixes by Kirby Ferguson. This part doesn’t focus on music specifically, but indirectly addresses one of the fundamental issues of modern electronic music – the role of sampling and copying in general and explores how innovations truly happen.
Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
- 6/22/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Via The Observer's Very Short List, here's a really great video called "Everything Is a Remix: 'Kill Bill," that puts imagery from Quentin Tarantino's samurai revenge flick side-by-side with the movies that inspired it. That striking shot of Uma Thurman's The Bride battling the Crazy 88 silhouetted against a blue wall? An homage to a similar shot in 1998's "Samurai Fiction." Daryl Hannah whistling a twisted tune? Try 1968's "Twisted Nerve."
Unless Quentin Tarantino edited something like this himself -- and oh, how I wish he would -- a video like this could never be comprehensive. There's a few quotations that I know the video misses (like the television origin of this striking music). And I'm not sure if every similarity noted is a true homage. Some may just be coincidence; there are, after all, only so many ways to film a woman buried alive inside a coffin (I should know,...
Unless Quentin Tarantino edited something like this himself -- and oh, how I wish he would -- a video like this could never be comprehensive. There's a few quotations that I know the video misses (like the television origin of this striking music). And I'm not sure if every similarity noted is a true homage. Some may just be coincidence; there are, after all, only so many ways to film a woman buried alive inside a coffin (I should know,...
- 5/25/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Tomorrow might be Valentine’s Day, but how about showing these great sites some love today?
To start things off on an inappropriately sleazy note: The Phantom of Pulp has several awesome — and one extra incredible — poster for one of my favorite horror movies, Maniac. “Underground film” means different things all over the world. In China, it just means government-repressed artists just trying to express themselves. Candlelight Stories has the full documentary Digital Underground in the People’s Republic by Rachel Tejada. Kimberly Chun as a lengthy dip into the current San Francisco experimental film scene on the site Bold Italic. Not sure what it is recently, but I keep digging up classic Chicago Underground Film Festival info. This week it’s the poster from their 4th edition designed by acclaimed graphic novelist Chris Ware. That’s from 1997 when the special guests were John Waters and Beth B. Also from...
To start things off on an inappropriately sleazy note: The Phantom of Pulp has several awesome — and one extra incredible — poster for one of my favorite horror movies, Maniac. “Underground film” means different things all over the world. In China, it just means government-repressed artists just trying to express themselves. Candlelight Stories has the full documentary Digital Underground in the People’s Republic by Rachel Tejada. Kimberly Chun as a lengthy dip into the current San Francisco experimental film scene on the site Bold Italic. Not sure what it is recently, but I keep digging up classic Chicago Underground Film Festival info. This week it’s the poster from their 4th edition designed by acclaimed graphic novelist Chris Ware. That’s from 1997 when the special guests were John Waters and Beth B. Also from...
- 2/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Today feels like a tremendously lazy day for me, what with the Stanley Kubrick compilation, posting the Captain America poster and now a pair of independently produced gems. First we have a segment of Kirby Ferguson's "Everthing's a Remix" video series taking a look at a variety of films and the films that paved the way before them. The first half of the video mentions films such as Julie and Julia and Avatar before digging into George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.
This second video is a co-production between Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson taking a look at Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and 2, a film I've even discussed in the same manner before comparing it to Lady Snowblood (read that here), a film Tarantino himself admitted was a huge inspiration for Kill Bill and is also mentioned in the video below.
This second video is a co-production between Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson taking a look at Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and 2, a film I've even discussed in the same manner before comparing it to Lady Snowblood (read that here), a film Tarantino himself admitted was a huge inspiration for Kill Bill and is also mentioned in the video below.
- 2/5/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Thanks to DVD, compression software and services like YouTube and Vimeo, technology has changed the way we ingest visual content. But it hasn't done as much as I'd like to the way we understand it. Take the Everything is a Remix project, by editor Kirby Ferguson. The second installment [1] was released this week, and it is a slick, well-written and edited piece of work that points out how much of the entertainment we consume is related to other entertainment. Specifically, it breaks down parts of Star Wars and Kill Bill into component elements, presenting scenes from those films alongside the original images re-purposed by George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino. But I'm left wanting more. Watch both this film-centric second installment and a sidebar dissection of Kill Bill after the break, then hit the comments for a discussion of how the mechanism of influence from one film to another really affects storytelling.
- 2/4/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The winter season of television, so far, has been majorly disappointing. The few new series that have debuted have been mediocre, at best, and most of the returning shows have lacked, save for "Parks and Recreation" and a something of a small rebound for "Chuck."
But next week, "Justified" returns, and with it, Timothy Olyphant's ten-gallon hat. I understand that he's going undercover this season, which means changing the color of his hat. I also understand that no man has more perfectly manicured stubble than Olyphant. How do you do that? Seriously? It's goatee stubble. Do you know how much effort you have to put in to get perfect goatee stubble? If you're Olyphant, it probably just spring miraculously from his chin and stops growing at the perfect stubble length after he points a gun at it and winks. That sly dog.
Here's a little teaser spot for Season 2 of "Justified,...
But next week, "Justified" returns, and with it, Timothy Olyphant's ten-gallon hat. I understand that he's going undercover this season, which means changing the color of his hat. I also understand that no man has more perfectly manicured stubble than Olyphant. How do you do that? Seriously? It's goatee stubble. Do you know how much effort you have to put in to get perfect goatee stubble? If you're Olyphant, it probably just spring miraculously from his chin and stops growing at the perfect stubble length after he points a gun at it and winks. That sly dog.
Here's a little teaser spot for Season 2 of "Justified,...
- 2/3/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
If you're a movie buff and want to see where your favorite flicks got their inspirations, then settle back for about six minutes and enjoy "Everything is a Remix, Part 2" by New York-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson. The second in a four-part video series about source material and adaptation, the video takes us through the past decade's remakes, genre films, and indie darlings. Sure, we've complained about how there's no original material, but you've never had the reasoning laid out like this.
You can find the newest "Everything is a Remix" video here.
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You can find the newest "Everything is a Remix" video here.
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- 2/2/2011
- by Natalie Zutter
- Filmology
Sure, we got to Tony Stark doing a little shake-and-shimmy in "Iron Man 2," but let's be honest: the guy was several drinks past drunk and won't be winning over any judges with his performance.
On the other hand, a recent sighting of Iron Man in Brooklyn's Prospect Park leads me to believe that ol' shellhead might have some moves after all. Check it out for yourself:
Posted over on Vimeo by Kirby Ferguson, the video features Iron Man going through a long array of dance moves — even throwing in a little "robot" action at one point.
I'm not entirely certain what prompted Ferguson and his friend Jazz to create the video, but it's hard not to applaud any project that involves dressing up like a superhero and locking, leaping, and otherwise dancing your way around the local scenery. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
As far as I'm concerned, you are a superhero.
On the other hand, a recent sighting of Iron Man in Brooklyn's Prospect Park leads me to believe that ol' shellhead might have some moves after all. Check it out for yourself:
Posted over on Vimeo by Kirby Ferguson, the video features Iron Man going through a long array of dance moves — even throwing in a little "robot" action at one point.
I'm not entirely certain what prompted Ferguson and his friend Jazz to create the video, but it's hard not to applaud any project that involves dressing up like a superhero and locking, leaping, and otherwise dancing your way around the local scenery. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
As far as I'm concerned, you are a superhero.
- 9/28/2010
- by Rick Marshall
- MTV Splash Page
When Jim Jarmusch published his poster-sized manifesto on the art of filmmaking, he borrowed his thesis from Jean-Luc Godard. It reinforced his point that nothing is original. But you don't have to be a fan of Ghost Dog or the French New Wave to know everything's derivative of something else. All you have to do is watch Everything is a Remix. Created by Kirby Ferguson (who you should remember from his engaging output of video art and observations under the banner of Goodiebag, and you may remember from his earlier, sexier productions), the four-part series is an examination of how our world is the way it is because of an innate cut and paste culture. Stealing, borrowing, remixing, or whatever verb you prefer isn't just how a handful of things come to fruition. It's how everything gets made. In the first installment, Ferguson chooses to look at remixing through music and lyrics of Led Zeppelin.
- 9/22/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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