domingo, 25 de julho de 2004

Wicked-ass trailer for Thai kickboxing film "Ong Bak" aka "Mach". Action-feature Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior promises a truckload of Thai kickboxing mightiness. Completed in 2003, it opened July 24 in Japan (under the title Mach) and is apparently slated for North American release this November. In this whup-tasstic preview, a hero with flaming feet stomps opponents in all directions. Lots of aerial fight choreography without wires. Forget what I said before about that Bollywood guy -- stuntman-turned-actor Phanom Yeerum, aka Tony Jaa, is my future husband. BoingBoing reader JohnD says, "Its low budget, virtually no action for the first half, then it gets as intense and exciting as you could want it too, despite the rudimentary story," and reader Garrett Gee says, "Fight sequences were great, it made me want to train again." Link to Quicktime trailer, and Link to the movie website. Link to the company that holds the copyright. Link to IMDB details, Link to alternate French site. (via Warren, thanks for the update Tanner, and thanks very much to Joi Ito for the kind translation assist! ) Update: BoingBoing reader mediamelt says, "You seriously need to check out the trailer for Born to Fight, the latest from the director and fight choreographer of Ong Bak. Some seriously insane stunts here. Watch for the truck scene, I hope that stuntman got a huge bonus! BTW: Ong Bak's plot is so-so, but the stunts are nothing short of revolutionary. You can purchase a region-free DVD of the film here (same place I got my copy)." Update 2: Reader Jon Silpayamanant says, "There is another French site that you might be interested in as it has a download section where you can get "The Making of Ong-Bak": Link. The reason, as I mention in my blog post, that France had already been distributing the film for several months is because of Luc Besson. There's a little blurb about how the Thai director, Prachya Pinkaew, left a little message to Besson in Ong-Bak in the French site." [Boing Boing] 7:00:08 PM    comment []

Yahoo Launches Photo Upload for Camera Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Seeking to tap the explosive growth in cell phones with cameras, Internet company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) on Thursday launched a service that will let users transmit pictures from their camera phones directly to their Yahoo Photos accounts. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 2:29:32 PM    comment []

ITunes Europa Apple signs three major European indie labels to iTunes. Apple was criticized when the iTunes Music Store first launched in the UK, France and Germany in June because of the absence of independent music. That changed on Wednesday when Apple said that it has signed licensing agreements with three major European independent music labels; the agreement adds tens of thousands of additional tracks from leading independent artists to the service's UK, French and German stores. [MacCentral] 1:47:49 PM  Google It!  comment []

New FireWire Cable Griffin offers new FireWire, audio cables. Griffin Technology Inc. has released two new FireWire 400 cables and a new audio cable designed to fix noise problems, all part of its ClearChoice line. The new FireWire cables include a 6-foot long extension cable and a 6-foot connection cable; each are available for US$14.99. The audio cable is called the Ground Loop Isolator Cable. It's designed to negate the low-frequency audible hum sometimes heard when two pieces of audio equipment are connected together but plugged into separate outlets. It costs $19.99. [MacCentral] 1:33:09 PM  Google It!  comment []

Wayne Mercier: Creative Commons license for remix. Slam poetry for CC remix. Wayne Mercier is a Vancouver slam poet who has just released his first book of poetry published, and along with it, a CD of him reading his work. He's made the entire audio of the CD available for downloand and remix under a Creative Commons license. I'm really excited about this, not just because it's a way of getting my stuff out into the world, but because - to my knowledge - this is the first time this has been done in Canadian poetry. Coach House Press releases electronic editions of their author's work but retains copyright. Also the fact that this is audio, and thus open to extensive remixing and incorporation into larger, multimedia projects, is very cool. Link (Thanks, Wayne!) [Boing Boing] 1:28:32 PM  Google It!  comment []

Velvet Underground remix Velvet Underground plundered by Ergo Phizmiz. Avant-odd composer Ergo Phizmiz has posted MP3s of his album covering Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat in its entirety. The release features Phizmiz on: "Banjo, Bass Guitar, Ruler, Music Box, Violin, Toy Piano, Electric Guitar, Accordion, Squeezebox, Euphonium, Ukulele, Kazoo, Xylophone, Pixiphone, Uumskither, Mbira, Pod, Delay, Turntable, Percussion." Earlier this year, he released the instant plunderphonic classic "Ergo Phizmiz & his Orchestra plays Aphex Twin." "The music of Ergo Phizmiz combines sampling and electronics with acoustic instrumentation, plundering the history of popular and classical culture into a Dadaist assault on the senses. Equally at home in the three-minute pop-song as in long, drawn out sound-collages, the sound of Phizmiz comes somewhere between cartoon-music, experimental classical, pop, Gamelan and hip-hop." Link (Via Metafilter) [Boing Boing] 1:24:05 PM  Google It!  comment []

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