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Jonathan Harris is one of my favorite artists. His latest project to launch is The Whale Hunt, in which he shares his visual experience - literally, the sequential view through his eyes. “Last May I spent ten days with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, during their annual spring whale hunt. I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant ‘photographic heartbeat’. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.”

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Left photo copyright m.paoletti. Right photo by xxgigi.

I love seeing the contents of people’s bags. I never knew so many people carried hand cream and chapstick. Cameras, yes. And mints, me too! Join the Flickr group ”What’s In Your Bag?” and post your own.

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"As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people’s lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe’s life, Julien Temple’s film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.” The film premiered at Sundance and opens to the public on November 2nd, 2007. Visit the movie site or check out the trailer on IFC’s Virb page.

Network: virb

If you’re an independent or non-profit filmmaker, film student or someone “in need of free music for your independent, non-profit film, video or short,” Moby has been thinking about you. The always innovative and individualistic musician launched mobygratis.com, a site that has seventy tracks of his music (some of it previously unreleased) that you can use in your next project. I know I’m going to! If you want to use it for a commercial film you can apply for a license and the money will be donated to the humane society. Watch the video of Moby describing his project below.

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"Based on more than 25 hours of never-before-heard audiotaped interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad, the movie Kurt Cobain About a Son is an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, told entirely in his own voice—without celebrity soundbites, news clips, sensational or tabloid angles. It’s who he was from the man himself, with cinematic imagery shot on film of the three cities in Washington State that played a major role in his life (Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle).” The soundtrack is by Northwest musician and producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard, as well as the music of “more than 20 artists who influenced or touched Cobain during his life.” The movie opens in select cities in October. The soundtrack is out now on Barsuk Records or you can see the trailer on their Virb page.

Network: virb

Over at the new Nalu Collective surf video and photography site, Max Kiesler has posted the trailer to Pipeline Posse, Project 1, “an insider’s look at the world’s most deadly surf break. The Posse is a group of individuals dedicated to surfing Pipe.” We were lucky enough to travel to the North Shore, O’ahu this summer to the seven mile stretch that’s home to some of the world’s most infamous winter surf breaks.  Surfing is about a love of the ocean, respect for nature, camaraderie and adventure, but at its core, it’s about knowing yourself.  As Flynn Novak says about making the drop into Pipeline, “When you commit to it you have to be determined you’re going to conquer it and sometimes you’re not going to, but without that determination you’re never going to conquer it.” Get inspired and buy the DVD at the Pipeline Posse site.

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In 2004, independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock made the documentary Super Size Me, the story of his 30 day diet on McDonald’s fast food and evidence of the crushing physical and psychological effects of a high fat, junk food diet. Coming out in the spring of 2008 is a new documentary by Patagonia Films, called ”Raw for 30 Days.” The film answers the reverse question of Super Size Me: what happens when people consume only healthy, natural, raw vegan foods?  The film documents “the journey of five Americans suffering from Adult Onset Type II Diabetes, who undergo a radical 30-day diet and lifestyle change in the hope of reversing or reducing their insulin dependence. The film will show the eating habits that led to the development of this disease and will posit an alternative approach to living and eating, one in which foods can heal and hold the potential to reverse Diabetes.” See the trailer below…

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