Style Watch: Harmony Korine for Proenza Schouler “Snowballs”

In Snowballs, Proenza Schouler continue their collaboration with Harmony Korine to showcase their Fall 2011 collection.

Watch: The Secret Animation Teachings of Terry Gilliam (1974)

Monty Python member, film director, screenwriter and animator Terry Gilliam shows the how to of his cut out animation style on British TV’s Bob Godfrey’s Do-It-Yourself Animation Show in 1974.

Godfrey’s show, which made animation accessible to the masses by taking the mystery out of the production process, was vastly influential and inspired an entire generation of kids in England, including Nick Park, who created Wallace & Gromit, Jan Pinkava, who directed the Pixar short Geri’s Game, and Richard Bazley, an animator on Pocahontas, Hercules, and The Iron Giant.

Below is a short BBC 2 documentary on Bob Godfrey.

Watch: Reggae – The Story of Jamaican Music (documentary)

Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh (pre-dreadlocks)

All three episodes from the 2002 BBC documentary Reggae: The Story Of Jamaican Music have been kindly uploaded to Youtube, and you can watch them here now. The series, comprised of three hour long episodes, details the beginnings of the genre, from the invention of ska at the end of British rule in Jamaica, right up to the turn of the century.

New Music Video: Sandwitches “Back to Sea” (aka Women Who Bowl)

San Francisco’s Sandwitches have been plugging away at their craft for a couple years now, sprinkling their barbed, alluring electric folk briars across unsuspecting gardens in the Bay Area and beyond. Previous releases, such as the swampy ecstasy of How To Make Ambient Sadcake and last year’s more expansive EP, Duck Duck Goose!, captured distinct sides of the trio.  Their latest album Mrs. Jones’ Cookies, which features the single “Back to Sea”, continues to unify their uniquely whimsical and creepy vision.

Mrs. Jones’ Cookies is out now via Empty Cellar Records

From the video’s director Caitlin Durlak:

Last season my Grandma’s bowling team called it there last. I was lucky enough to be there with my video camera and capture a bit of history. This Friday Gram turns another year older and I made her this music video as a gift. I hope that it brings a smile to your face, I know it helps cheer me up!

Watch: “Gulp” – The World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation

Aardman, the British animation studio best known for their work on Wallace and Gromit, follows up their “world’s smallest stop-motion animation” with another record-setting stop-motion promotion for the Nokia N8.

‘Gulp‘ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.