The first trailer drops on Dec 10th but here’s a look at the Gipsy Danger monster-fighting Jaeger bot from Guillermo Del Toro’s forthcoming Pacific Rim film, due out next July. The silhouette of a human at the bottom shows the scale of it.
And now there’s a second one, a Russian ‘Cherno Alpha‘ bot, there are also a couple of teaser films doing the rounds and ‘leaked documents’ relating to these blueprints.
And then there were four five: 
that’s some BIG robot action next year
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Just saw this, beautiful music and video on Erased Tapes.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”380″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lYFO_tKlE&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
I’m not going to comment on the recent Disney buys Lucasfilm story or the current media scramble to find out who will be starring and directing because… honestly, I don’t give a shit. As I posted the other day, the other SW franchise hook up is with Angry Birds and I have to say, this is very well done. My kids play the game and if the new films failed to sell it to a new generation then this is a good start on the next one.
Wow, this is right up my street. A video collage for The Simonsound remix of Beta Hector‘s ‘Trust Me‘, featuring clips from Psychomania, Mala Morska Vila mixed with oil projections performed on overhead projector. The original song, featuring Rosi Lalor on vocals, is re-imagined by The Simonsound as mythical adventure story, told using analogue synthesisers, Optigan orchestra, home made percussion, pre recorded flute replayed and performed on reel to reel tape machine, and a scattering of voices plucked from the ether.
Available as a free download from Tru Thoughts Records
Love this tumblr of Olly Moss-inspired minimal movie posters. You’ll need a while to go through them but I’ve picked some that caught my eye, I seem to be obsessing over circular designs at the moment.
Happy Halloween from those lovely Sculpture chaps, I could look at this all day.
Just in time for Halloween The Herbaliser premiere the video for their next single, ‘March of The Dead Things (Night Of The Necromantics)‘ featuring Canadian duo Teenburger.
Directed by Caley Maclenan and shot on location in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this year it sees the zombie apocalypse happen right in the middle of their new video shoot. Damn! The group sent out a message to fans in the city to sign up for the shoot and gain entry to an exclusive gig whilst they were in town.
You can grab the new album, ‘There Were Seven’ from their online store on vinyl or download (Hit the red ‘shop’ tab, top right). If you want CD it’s available in all good stores, distributed by Kudos.
Jealous of all those in the vicinity of Glasgow tomorrow for this event.
Nice way to start the day 
I want to see this pretty badly, a long time coming documentary about Richard Williams‘ great unfinished masterpiece of animation, ‘The Cobbler and The Thief’. Looks like it’s finally finished (the doc, not the original film) and showing from next month at selected film festivals. Here’s the trailer and some clips, watching these fills me with a yearning for something that I know deep down will never be finished, the clips are so tantalising though. I first heard about this back in the 80’s and it has since passed into film legend, the story is a long and tragic one which wrote about before here.
After stopping inexplicably after 8 episodes back in August with virtual radio silence as to why, Tron Uprising returns to Disney XD tonight at 7.30pm. Yay! We finally get to find out how Tron turned into Rinzla…
I’d love to embed this video but The Space site doesn’t let you unfortunately. Instead, if you click the image you can watch Raj Pannu‘s excellent 18 minute cut up of vintage Old Grey Whistle Test footage. You may know of Raj as the AV tour DJ with Coldcut or maybe witnessed one of his amazing solo DJ sets over the years in clubs all over the world. Either way, this is worth 20 minutes of your time.
Sculpture recently posted these zoetrope designs on their site, if you print them and spin at the right speed you can get some amazing animated effects. The complexity of these blows my mind, there’s so much doing on I could look at them revolving forever it seems. The Digitalis label are releasing edits of ‘Slime Code’ (a tape-only release in an edition of only 7 copies (!) from earlier this year) and you can listen to excerpts here. I’m hoping that at least one of these designs will be on the vinyl release in November.
They also have a new Tumblr too.
Documentary in the works about the Stones Throw label – Kickstarter fund to finish it too if you want to help out and grab some goodies.
Mr Armtone – Time Machine from Solid Steel on Vimeo.
St. Petersburg’s Mr Armtone returns to Solid Steel this week, with an AV mix no less, full of great material and up to our usual high standard both musically and visually. The overall theme is Time Machines so watch and listen out for various references cropping up throughout.
The second hour features both my recent DJ Shadow mixes and the guest mix debut of NYC’s Ill Chemist aka Alan Friedman, friend of Steinski and one time Break Beatle. His mix is a stunning gallop through all music styles from BeBop to Hip Hop, Jazz takes on the classics and a whole lot more, could this be the show with the most tracks squeezed into it?
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I played with these guys (Reverse Engineering) last weekend in Switzerland and they premiered this at the gig, love the look and location.
Kid Koala‘s ‘Vinyl Vaudeville’ tour comes to London tomorrow at the O2 Academy in Islington and I can’t wait to see it judging by this short film they made last week in Paris.
Check these two promo images drawn by Pat Hamou as well, perfectly fitting in with Eric’s new album, ’12-Bit Blues’. I think this is his strongest record to date (well, it’s a tie with The Slew LP) and the inclusion of a 5″ flexi disc and DIY turntable in the package just seals the deal for me.
More Dredd concept art and Mega City scenes from the film. Some of these are by Jock , some by Neil Miller VFX (check his site for tons more) and some by Daren Horley. It’s a shame the film didn’t have as glorious an opening weekend as in the UK. Reading comments on some websites it seems that the Stallone film did more damage than we thought with a lot of Americans thinking that this was a remake of the 1995 film rather than a new take on a 35 year old character. Depressing.
Shelter from Carl Burton on Vimeo.
Incredible short film by Carl Burton. An epic secret world is revealed within an attic during a rainstorm. Show support by purchasing a download bundle.
Contains: Digital HD Copy + “Making-Of” PDF + Wallpapers for $3
Bundle and T-Shirts available here: shelteranimation.com/shop
Main animation site: shelteranimation.com/ Inspiration Tumblr: carlburton.tumblr.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/carlburton
