Johnny Plays With The Squirrel Disco Ball

Came across this phone video from just before the shoot a year ago...

Speed of Sound *new* Trailer

Speed of Sound -- Trailer from Brian Perkins on Vimeo.

Len Lye -- "A Colour Box" (1935)

Spring Update 2

After some years blogging here, this blog is now the namesake of my new production company, Watching Patch Productions, LLC. New website coming late spring/early summer. I've been hired to do some social awareness shorts for the University here and its because of that that I'm now starting a video production company. 

At the Northwest Record & CD Convention

Found these at the Northwest Record & CD Convention at the Seattle Center yesterday. Above, a 45 from the Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr movie, Son of Dracula.



I'm a fan of the Sonny & Cher soundtracks.



The whole record sounds good until you get to Natalie Wood's song, which has been ruined on this record by its previous owner's overplaying of it.



From the back: "The story is a drama set in a lower middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn about a man named Nunzio, in his late 20's with the intellect of a 13-year-old whose greatest goal in his dreamlike world was to be a superhero."



One of Delerue's best.

Badass Paperbacks

Found these paperbacks at Cinema Books on Roosevelt recently. Hammett is an old favorite. This Ivor Montagu one looks interesting. He covers all aspects of filmmaking, circa 1964. Champion ping pong player, Soviet spy during WWII, editor of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1926)... interesting guy. I like how they join an image of Étienne-Jules Marey's photogun with Antonioni and Eisenstein stills.

Luis Buñuel Makes Dry Martini

Happy Friday. Here's some interesting footage of Luis Buñuel making a dry martini. 

Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic 1957-1962

I'm finding the legend of Harry Smith increasingly appealing in our digital age. I like being able to watch rare films on youtube, but there's something romantic about Harry Smith, the bounty hunter of cultural artifacts, going to real locations and collecting objects, compiling Folk anthologies, and making animated films that seem to be made from a secret, ancient, image-based language.