SHORT FILM: PLOT DEVICE

On a whim, a young filmmaker decides to buy something called “Plot Device” off of Amazon, hoping that it will improve his filmmaking skills, but he has no idea what it does. It is in fact, a physical plot device button, inserting the protagonist into all kinds of stereotypical situations like the runaway brides, zombies and alien invasion flicks.

The whole thing was made with the new Magic Bullet software, which is probably like Photoshop filters on crack. The video does look pretty real, I mean I can’t imagine that they had that much of a budget to work with. If this kind of stuff interests you be sure to check out the making of video here.

via Fox Is Black

I’ve never really had a favorite band, in this day and age their are so many bands/artists that exist on the internet they could probably populate their own country. What kind of criteria would categorize a favorite band? How many times you play their record? How many of their records do you own? How many times you’ve seen them play live? I think when it comes down to it, it’s a pretty plain and simple reason: it’s how closely their music relates to you.

Click on the link to read the whole article as well as download and listen to new unreleased tracks from Real Estate.

I just heard that Flannelcore is a genre. Seriously? The whole weird sub-genre thing has officially gotten out of hand.