They are so cute, posting movie stills like there’s no tomorrow. I love these movies, too. It’s amazing how soulful the pictures come across, even with the motion taken out of them. I saw many of these on N3 growing up, and some still range among my all time favorites. And it’s Jean-Paul Belmondo’s birthday today, cheers!
Via Spreeblick I found this. It looks to me like a modern day theremin. By attaching it to a computer you can control virtual instruments – so the sound has no boundaries.
geekalerts.com writes:
The Beamz is a laser-based invention that is connected to a computer via USB. This allows you to play hundreds of musical instruments in a true Jean Michel Jarre style by breaking the laser beams with your hands.
The beamz system has a ‘W’ shape, with six laser beams spanning the two sections; connect via USB to your PC or laptop, and hook up some speakers. The simple, intuitive computer interface makes it easy to choose any of 30 included songs in 19 musical genres for laying down a complementary rhythm track. The beamz library includes original works in jazz, bluegrass, classical, hip-hop, reggae, heavy metal and more
I checked this book out a while back and I confirm it’s a must have. Here’s a quote from the New York Times.
The cool was born in New York. It was in Manhattan that Miles Davis and the nine-piece group he convened in the late 1940s forged a tightly understated alternative to the hot expressionism of bebop and recorded the hugely influential tracks later collected in the album “Birth of the Cool.” But it was in California in the 1950s that cool jazz and cool art in general took root and flourished.
The story is well told in “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury,” an exhibition here at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Organized by Elizabeth Armstrong, chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, Calif., where it originated, the show examines cool style of the ’50s in several disciplines, including painting, furniture design, architecture, film and photography.
The multidisciplinary approach could be confusing, but it all hangs together in ways both entertaining and thought provoking. What emerges is not just a style but a spirit and an ethos that are in many ways diametrically opposite those of East Coast Abstract Expressionism. Angst-free, not monumental, anti-grandiose:
California cool is laid back yet cleanly articulated, impersonal yet intimate, strict yet hedonistic, and seriously playful. …
Birth of the Cool – California – Art – Review – New York Times
Thanks to Lou Smith.
Hot Buttered Soul was a revolutionary four track LP released by Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays in 1969. A few months later, 20-year-old Terry Fitzgerald, fresh from a Hawaiian winter season and a big fan of funk and soul rhythms decided to identify the name for his new surfboard company with this multi-layered music genre. But all three words didn’t quite fit on the rainbow sash logo. Thus Hot Buttered Surfboards were born – and with it one of surfing’s true originals. But the third word never went missing. Instead it’s lived in the handmade, hand-painted HB surfboards and the styles that arose from riding them, over three decades, in the best surf on the planet. Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie draws on a deep well of surf cinema heritage to present the surfing of the HB extended family. Choice selections from HB’s “Sultans of Speed” series, along with surf flick classics Morning of the Earth, A Winter’s Tale, Fantasea, Storm Riders and more, are expertly intercut by editor Mick Waters, with interviews and commentary from Andrew Kidman and Derek Hynd. Wherever they went, “Sultans” trips always had the knack of scoring amazing waves. …
… The unique soundtrack, featuring ex Tamam Shud guitarist Tim Gaze in front of a six piece band, was written, practiced, and finally recorded as a single 59-minute free-flowing piece, in sync with the movie’s final cut. It’s an inspired enhancement to inspired footage. The unique packaging will feature two photos which can either remain in their original frame or be removed as individual collector’s items. The first 3 different series of artworks will be limited to 600, 600 and 800. A limited numbered edition of 42 units, of each design, will come with hand signed photos by the Sultan of Speed himself.
Action Sports Video | Hot Buttered Soul DVD
via Moritz ®
A film by Denny Tedesco
What is the Wrecking Crew?
The Wrecking Crew were a group of Studio Musicians in Los Angeles in the 60s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. The amount of work that they were involved in was tremendous. …
here’s the trailer
Song List (the links go straight to iTunes):
5th Dimension
Let the Sunshine in/Aquarius
Stone Soul Picnic
Up Up and Away
One Less Bell to Answer
Association
Windy
Never My Love
Beach Boys
California Girls
Don’t Worry Baby
Fun Fun Fun
God Only Knows
Good Vibrations
I Get Around
Sloop John B
Byrds
Mr. Tamborine Man
Turn Turn Turn
Glen Campbell
By The Time I Get to Phoenix
Gentle on My Mind
Wichita Lineman
Captain and Tennille
Love Will Keep Us Together
Carpenters
Close to You
We’ve Only Just Begun
Cher
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Half Breed
Chipmunks
Chipmunks Theme
Nat King Cole
Ramblin Rose
Sam Cooke
Twisting the Night Away
You Send Me
Crystals
And He Kissed Me
Da Doo Ron Ron
He’s A Rebel
Bobby Day
Rockin’ Robin
Defenders
Taco Wagon
Shelley Fabares
Johnny Angel
Richard Harris
MacArthur Park
Jan & Dean
Dead Man’s Curve
Surf City
Little Old Lady From Pasadena
Balboa Blue
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Everybody Loves a Clown
Sure Gonna Miss Her
This Diamond Ring
Barry McGuire
Eve of Destruction
Mamas & Papas
California Dreaming
Creque Alley
Dedicated to the One I Love
Monday Monday
Henry Mancini
Pink Panther
Marketts
Out of Limits
Surfer Stomp
Dean Martin
Every Body Loves Somebody
Scott McKenzie
Are You Gonig to San Francisco
Monkees
Mary Mary
Valerie
Chris Montez
Let’s Dance
Ricky Nelson
Fools Rush In
Wayne Newton
Danke Schoen
Jack Nitzsche
Lonely Surfer
Harry Nilsson
Everybody’s Talking At Me (Echoes)
Partridge Family
Come on Get Happy
Elvis Presley
A Little Less Conversation
Viva Las Vegas
Paul Revere & the Raiders
Indian Reservation
Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
Rip Chords
Hey Little Cobra
Johnny Rivers
Poor Side of Town
Tommy Roe
Dizzy
Ronettes
Be My Baby
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Routers
Let’s Go
Sandpipers
Guantanamera
Lalo Schifren
Mission Impossible
Simon and Garfunkel
Mrs. Robinson
Frank Sinatra
Strangers in the Night
That’s Life
Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Were Made for Walking
Drummer Man
Sonny and Cher
The Beat Goes On
I Got You Babe
T-Bones
No Matter What Shape Your Stomach Is In
Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Deep Purple
Tijuana Brass
Lonely Bull
Spanish Flea
Taste of Honey
Whipped Cream
Zorba the Greek
Ike and Tina Turner
River Deep Mountain High
Ritchie Valens
Donna
Bobby Vee
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Ventures
Hawaii 5-O
Mason Williams
Classical Gas
Roger Williams
Born Free
The legendary filmmaker being Bud Browne.
from Pacific Longboarder
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival is delighted to present an historic and exciting night honoring the world’s first surf filmmaker, 95-year old Bud Browne. Now a local resident of the Central Coast, Bud will be honored here by many surfing greats, including surfers Gerry Lopez, Joel Tudor, Peter Cole, Linda Benson, Fred Van Dyke, Walter Hoffman, and surf cinematographer Jack McCoy. Buzzy Trent’s daughter, Anna Moore is helping to coordinate the event.
On Thursday, March 13, 2008, this group of legendary surfers from around the world, will take the stage at the grand Fremont Theatre in downtown San Luis Obispo to pay tribute to the man who inspired modern surf culture by creating the first commercial surf films ever. Surfing the 50’s will be the featured film, and the evening will also include a raffle, Q & A session and a post-screening Surf Party in the old Pier One building on Monterey St. (generously donated by Copeland Properties) with live music, surf films and the opportunity to meet the surf celebrities in attendance.
read more here
Quote from Lulu:
The Ventures The Story of The Ventures
by Del HaltermanDescription:
The definitive historic account of The Ventures, the world’s number one instrumental group that had a worldwide smash hit in 1960 with “Walk-Don’t Run.” Their second biggest hit came nine years later with “Hawaii Five-0” but they didn’t quit there, continuing non-stop on a fifty-year career of touring and making wonderful instrumental recordings. …
Walk-Don’t Run – The Story of The Ventures by Del Halterman (Book) in Biographies & Memoirs
Thanks to Boing Boing for informing us about this great looking book on hodad photography. Finally a book to hear Davie Allan & The Arrows by.
Danny Lyon’s 1960s biker photography – Boing Boing
book at amazon.com
Wikipedia about the photographer Danny Lyon
also from Smithonian.com
Two for the Rogues By Stephen Franklin
Cowboy and Sparky,
two pals on bikes. They’ve just been to a motorcycle race in Schererville, Indiana, and their girlfriends will soon get off work from the Dairy Queen. It is November 1965, and CowBoy—Irvin P. Dunsdon, who uses the capital B to this day—is 23 years old. He feels he’s on top of the world.
I just saw this and so I don’t have it. But I bet many people wouldn’t want to miss this book by Shag himself, so here’s the link.
Fantagraphics Books
