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visual February, 2015 CONTENTS

“With Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), you get six movies for the price of one.” Page 22

16 How the hacking at sony over “the interview” turned into a horror movie By David Carr

These are the drones we are looking for

This Argentinian Director accomplished what Scorsece and Woody couldn’t

By Amy Wallace

Similar to the Thai holiday of Songrkan, Holi is a two day Hindu spring festival that occurs in northern India.

By Elaine Teng

Featured Instagrammer: Brock Davis

Artist wraps rooms with famous art

By Sandra Smith

By John Baker

8 10 Best Parties Around The World By Christian Oba

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these are the drones we are looking for OK Go’s New Music Video Will Blow Your Mind with Its Fancy Drone Camerawork By Amy Wallace Photograph by John Smith

OK Go is known for its creative music videos that often feature single takes and innovative camera techniques, and the band’s latest video continues that trend in an impressive way. Released today, the “I Won’t Let You Down” music video has already amassed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Give it a watch above and you’ll quickly see why. The video features self-balancing unicycles and an army of dancers clutching umbrellas of different colors. What’s crazy is how seamlessly the camera moves from ground level to birds-eye-view thanks to the cameraequ ipped drone. Harley Brown over at Billboard spoke to the band and Japanese director Morihiro Harano for some behind-the-scenes details into how the project was done. wBrown reports that the entire video was done in one continuous shoot, and that it took 50 or 60 tries to get the final version. You’ll notice that parts of the film features playback at double speed. During these portions, the dancers listened to the song being played at half speed through enormous speakers, allowing them to perform complicated movements with precision. For the final shot, which features umbrellas making up “pixels” of a giant human-powered display, was shot by flying the special camera drone about half a mile into the air and controlling it manually and with GPS. The shot features over 1500 volunteers riding the Honda scooter chairs (you can see them waiting on the sidelines before the camera starts rising into the air). 4

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FEATURED INSTAGRAMMER: BR CK DAVIS By Sandra Smith

hen Brock Davis isn’t making work for brands he’s busy making other things, like one piece of art every day for a year in his “Make Something Cool Every Day” project, and t-shirt designs for his line of Brock Davis kid’s tees avt Target stores. He is a regular contributing artist to the New York Times, Wired, Esquire, Fast Company, The New Republic, O Magazine and even has a cover for Time magazine under his belt. He is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary artist specializing in art direction, illustration, graphic design, photography and creative direction.

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by Christian Oba

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La Tomatina What

Nobody is really sure how it began- practical joke? A harmless food fight between two merchants? A prank? No one knows but this messy fiesta has been a strong tradition since 1945. On the last Wednesday in August, about 30,000 people descend on this little town to participate in the world’s largest food fight. Never had that massive cafeteria food fight when you were younger? Well, here’s your chance.

When

The last Wednesday in August.

Where The tiny town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain

Bring

FW ull Moon Party hat

Legend has it that the Full Moon Party started as a birthday party in the 80s. The backpackers decided to come back again and again. Soon word spread and every month, backpackers would head to KPG to party. Over the years, the hippy party morphed into a 20,000 person festival. For a serious dose of all night partying in Thailand, this is place to get it.

When

During the full moon, every month

Where Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand

Bring Your drinking shoes, a red bull, facepaint, and clothes you don’t care about.

Throw-away clothes and goggles! Tomato juice in the eye stings!

Glastonbury Music Festival What

A 3 day music festival designed to celebrate the earth, music, and the arts, this festival brings in people from all over the world. Last year’s event had over 177,000 people and 700 musical acts.

Burning Man

What

Songkran is the Thai New Year. It’s a spiritual festival designed to cool you down and wash away the sins of the previous year. What better way of doing that than by committing a few new ones, right away? Songkran takes place all over the country with everyone embarking on possibly the world’s largest water fight.

When

Where

The last weekend of June

Pilton, England

Bring Tickets, a tent, sleeping bag, food, and whatever else you “need” to have fun.

Songkran

Mid-April Anywhere in the land of Smiles (Bangkok and Chang Mai have the biggest parties)

Bring Anything you don’t mind wearing only once, a water gun and extra water.

Looking for the ultimate arts extravaganza? Burning Man is for you! An 8 day festival that culminates in the burning of a 72ft wooden man, this festival is where you can cut loose. Each year has a theme (this year, it’s “American Dream”) and last year 47,000 people decided to join the fun.

When Starts 8 days before the American Labor Day

Where Blackrock Desert, Nevada US

Bring

Everything BUT money! Burning Man runs on a full barter system and the only things you can buy are water and ice. Aside from the obvious supplies you’d take camping, other essentials include sunblock, a Camel Back and goggles.

Holi What

Similar to the Thai holiday of Songrkan, Holi is a two day Hindu spring festival that occurs in northern India. The first night is marked by bonfires, and the second day is spent pleasuring your inner 2nd grader by splashing colored flour and water over everybody. It’s a celebration about renewal.

When

The full moon in March.

Where India

Bring

Queen’s Day What The normally reserved Dutch cut lose to celebrate the birth of their Queen. Originally to celebrate the birth of Juliana, the day now celebrates the birth of Beatrix, whose January birthday makes it cold to party. All over the country, the Dutch head outside with their beer and music, flood the streets in orange, and cruise up and down the canals in revelry.

When

April 30th

Where The Netherlands (Mostly Amsterdam)

Red, orange, and green flour, lots of water, clothes you don’t need!

Bay to Breakers What It’s supposed to be a 7 mile foot race but instead it’s a 7 mile costume party and keg race that goes through downtown San Francisco. It began in 1906 to keep people’s sprits up after the earthquake and locals are still keeping that alive, in force! Over 70,000 people, congregate downtown in costumes (or nothing at all) and shopping carts filled with kegs. A little Mardi Gras + a little Halloween college party = a lot of fun.

When

The third Sunday in May

Where San Francisco, California

Bring A crazy costume and lots of beer!

Bring Anything orange!

Calgary Stampede What

Australia Day What

A 10 day rodeo that attracts over a million visitors during its course. The festival features a parade and is the largest event in Canada. But don’t come to watch the rodeo, come for the party! The throngs of people who flock to Calgary are there for the revelry, the beer, and the girls (or boys).

Australians love two things: beer and bbqs. No day brings out the best in these two than Australia Day, when Aussies celebrate the first European settlement on the continent of Australia. Aussies, a normally festive bunch, kick it up a notch all over the country with bbqs, music, and beer. From the cities to the towns, Aussies are out in full force. If you don’t already have an Aussie friend to take you under his/her wing, head to a beach with beer and make some new friends! Most Australians would love nothing more to break in a newbie!

When Second week in July

Where Calgary, Alberta

Bring Your best cowboy outfit

When

January 26

Where Anywhere in Oz!

Bring Your Australian pride, a case of Carlton draught or Coopers, and something for the grill.

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By David carr

How the Hacking at Sony Over

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Kim Jong-un, who appears to be America’s newly self-appointed minister of cultur e, has decided that it is not enough that “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen film about North Korea that includes Mr. Kim’s assassination, will not be released. On Thursday, a message from the Guardians of Peace, the hacker group that breached the computer systems of Sony Pictures and warned

against releasing the film, said “we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well

as its full version down from any website hosting them immediately. ”My, that slope became mighty slippery pretty quickly. The hackers promised that if Sony scrubbed all traces of the comedy from the Internet — an impossible task — they would cease a campaign that has lasted almost a month

and has threatened employees and their families, embarrassed executives and potentially unleashed 100 terabytes of private company data into the world. Federal officials said Friday morning that they had extensive evidence that the North Korean government organized the attack. A few hours later, President Obama added his voice to the chorus of critics, including irate Hollywood actors, who say Sony and the nation’s theater operators should not have canceled the release. “We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States,” he said. It was a remarkable and disorienting turn of events: a tiny, failing state that lacks the wherewithal to feed its own people was deciding which movies we can and cannot see, while the industry it had attacked watched silently from the sidelines, and the president of the United States felt compelled to step into an international confrontation catalyzed by a lowbrow comedy. After weeks of embarrassing disclosures from Sony’s hacked files, the endgame for the movie began on Tuesday, when the hackers invoked the devastation of September 11, and said that anyone who attended the opening on Christmas Day would be risking their lives. “We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time,” they wrote in a rambling email to news organizations. Theater chains quickly let it be known that “The Interview” would not be screened. Sony, saying it had no choice, withdrew the movie. Certainly, there were concerns about public safety, but make no mistake, other considerations factored in the decision, all involving dollar signs: the box office receipts of films that would be playing alongside “The Interview” during one of the biggest movie weeks of the year, and the holiday shoppers at the retail chains that surround so many theaters. Major cable players made it clear that they were unwilling to step in with a video-on-demand alternative, so short of hanging a bedsheet and screening the movie at its Culver City headquarters, Sony was cornered. Once the film was successfully censored, you could count the days until other films were affected. Actually, it happened earlier in the same day, before “The Interview” was shelved, when New Regency announced that it would drop an untitled thriller about North Korea that was to have starred Steve Carell. The threats and subsequent cancellation will become a nightmare with a very long tail. Now that cultural discourse has become the subject of online blackmail, it is hard to imagine where it will end. Documentaries, which have become increasingly important sources of news and information, could suddenly be in jeopardy. And if you’ve been watching the current season of “Homeland” on Showtime, you know that Pakistan’s more sinister operations have been on wide view. This summer, HBO is planning to broadcast a comedy series starring Jack Black as a foreign service officer who takes on a rogue general who seizes control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Rogue states and their operatives could go after a Bond movie because they didn’t like its taste in villains. (The script for the next installment was released as part of the intrusion, by the way.) And it doesn’t end with the entertainment. Some news outlets, including The New York Times, have found themselves under sustained digital attack after publishing articles that displeased various groups that had the resources to respond with intrusions. Many state-sponsored actors will no doubt be emboldened by the spectacular success of the Sony breach. Things have gone so deeply wrong so quickly — the movie industry will look back at this crossing of the Rubicon with Magazine a deep sense of shame — it is hard to keep track of all the mistakes that ledVisual us here, but I’d like

during a vast security attack on its PlayStation platform in 2011 — he looked as if he had been living inside a beehive for three days. That Sony did not harden as a target in a meaningful way afterward is inexplicable. And while I am all for bold creative choices, was it really important that the head being blown up in a comedy about bungling assassins be that of an actual sitting ruler of a sovereign state? If you want to satirize a lawless leader, there are plenty of ways to skin that cat, as Charlie Chaplin demonstrated with “The Great Dictator,” which skewered Hitler in everything but name. Hollywood If you are looking for courage on the lots of Hollywood, probably best to pack a lunch. Other studios were content to watch Sony dangle, saying nothing for fear that they, too, would end up on the Guardians of Peace’s naughty list. The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the film industry, went into witness protection when the crisis erupted, with a spokeswoman telling Deadline, a trade website, on Dec. 11, “We have no comment at this time. We are not involved.” The association condemned the attack only once the devastation was writ. The breach of Sony would seem to be exactly the kind of moment when an association has real value, when it can collectively respond to a fundamental threat to the industry. The organization and the studios it represents hid instead. As my colleagues Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply wrote, “The incident is likely to be remembered as a failure of Hollywood leadership.” On Friday, George Clooney was even less polite about the widespread cowardice, telling Deadline Hollywood that when he circulated a petition of solidarity, he heard nothing but crickets in response. “As we watched one group be completely vilified,

The breach of Sony would seem to be exactly the kind of moment when an association has real value

nobody stood up,” he said. When the novel

president — yes, it’s that important — should

“The Satanic Verses” was under attack, the

convene all the players who make billions

book industry formed a united front. Exact-

from the free and unfettered display of con-

ly the opposite happened here. The News

tent and broker a deal that gives Americans

Media After the hackers absconded with per-

the opportunity to watch the film. Put “The

sonal and corporate information from Sony,

Interview” on Hulu, on iTunes, on Google

they put the data on a site called Pastebin.

Play, on Netflix, on NBC and all the broadcast

Trade publications and some mainstream

networks, on Showtime and all the cable

news outlets took the bait and spent a great

stations, put it anywhere and everywhere

deal of time rummaging through the stolen

that people can push a button and watch

goods, and highlighting juicy emails meant

at the same time. Ubiquity and the lack of a

to cause maximum embarrassment. What

discernible target would trump censorship.

public purpose was served by printing private

The industry, old and new, digital and analog,

correspondence? We discovered that studio

should step across a line together, holding

executives are capable of being callous, and

hands with consumers and letting the world

that producers can be churlish when they

know that we prize our goofy movies, along

don’t get what they want. As Aaron Sorkin

with the important ones, and the freedoms

pointed out, that’s not exactly new or import-

that they represent. If disparate competitors

ant information. The data dump did reveal

managed to set aside self-interest and acted

an industrywide effort to join forces against

for the common good, it could be the social

Google, but most of what was disclosed was

viewing event of the century. I’d do anything

intended to elicit clicks and smirks and the

to do my bit for artistic freedom, including

hackers knew enough to harness the base,

watching a buddy-movie comedy that stars

competitive impulses of the press. News

Mr. Rogen and James Franco.

organizations mostly refrained from publishing

material like passports and medical records,

but in general, the news media served as

last-mile delivery agents on information that

was used to threaten Sony, the industry, and

finally, the American public. The larger story

about an unprecedented political attack on

free speech took a back seat to titillating

peeks at industry backbiting. The list goes

on, including politicians who engaged in bom-

bastic, warlike rhetoric, but let’s just say the

last few weeks in the American political and

cultural narrative have been miserable. The

merits of “The Interview” can be debated,

but fundamental business imperatives and

civic freedoms are clearly in play. So what

is the right response? Americans are good

at sitting on a couch and watching all kinds

of stuff, so why not harness that impulse?

David Boies, a lawyer for Sony, told “Meet

the Press” on Sunday that the film would

eventually be distributed. “How it’s going to

be distributed, I don’t think anybody knows

quite yet, but it’s going to be distributed.” The

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This Argentine Director Has Accomplished What Scorsese and Woody Couldn’t

W By Elaine Teng

Photographs based on frames from the movie

ith Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), you get six movies for the price of one. Argentina’s Oscar nominee, which reportedly debuted at

the 2014 Cannes Film Festival to a ten-min-

ute standing ovation, is an anthology of six short films tied together by a common theme: enough is enough. people who have reached the end of their tether. All they want is an apology, and there’s no one—not the government, God, or even a friend—who will give them one. Anthology movies are tricky, slippery things that don’t often strike mainstream success. Why watch a bunch of short movies when you could watch a single long one? By the time you really get into one, it’s 18

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already over. And even when such movies are successful, they’re mostly marriages of convenience, collaborative efforts to explore a single, geographically-bound theme—a way to accommodate multiple egos in one space, if you will. New York Stories (1989) was the brainchild of heavy hitters Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen, and Paris, je t’aime (2006), probably the most high-profile anthology movie of the last decade, featured no fewer than 22 directors, from Alfonso Cuarón to the Coen Brothers to Gurinder Chadha. But Paris, je t’aime, like many movies of its genre, was uneven, with duds embedded among gems. These movies are inconsistent by design, and it shows. But there’s a reason anthology movies often center around a particular place. They free directors of the constraints of narrative so that they can simply paint an impressionistic portrait of a particular place. It doesn’t matter if there’s a consistent plot and sympathetic characters when the whole point is to create a living tableau of a city, to capture a variety of different lives to make up a vibrant whole. Wild Tales, written and directed by the relatively unknown Damián Szifrón, is the rare anthology movie that transcends the limits of its form, combining the advantages of its genre with clever writing, a superb sense of comedic timing, and diligent editing to produce a compilation of shorts as good as any feature-length film. It vividly captures life in twenty-first-century Argentina, its frustrations and pitfalls, traffic jams and high-rises, while still giving us memorable characters and complex plot developments. That’s not to say the six vignettes are all the same. What’s remarkable about Wild Tales is the breadth of stories it manages to cover, each one as notable as the next. There’s the hilarious opener about a beautiful model who engages in a casual conversation with her

hese tales may be revenge fantasies, the cathartic releases of ordinary people pushed beyond their limits, but they also offer a piercing critique of Argentine society

neighbor on the airplane, only to find out that they—and everyone else on the plane—have one acquaintance in common. Then there’s road rage gone horrifically wrong, a demolition expert lashing out against a soulless bureaucracy, a waitress given the opportunity to right past wrongs, and a bride who takes revenge on her profligate husband in the movie’s unexpectedly happy ending. Only one vignette, where wealthy, powerful parents hatch a money-greased conspiracy to get their son out of a drunk-driving manslaughter, doesn’t quite fit the rest. But while it sticks out thematically, it’s an important story, and one that feels particularly salient in the midst of the corruption scandal currently embroiling Argentina. While Wild Tales carries hints of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the movie walks the line between black comedy and absurdism just finely enough to stay on the side of plausibility. These tales may be revenge fantasies, the cathartic releases of ordinary people pushed beyond their limits, but they also offer a piercing critique of Argentine society. The movie might be the funniest of the foreign film nominees, which mostly deal with corruption, oppression, and war, but it is no less potent a political commentary. These ordinary citizens are fighting injustice, corruption, and inequality in a society rotten at its core. After having his car towed for no reason, the exasperated demolition expert asks the unfeeling government drone: “Where is the office where they apologize to you?” The question resonates throughout the movie. This is a country that has lost its way, and a people who have reached the end of their tether. All they want is an apology, and there’s no one—not the government, God, or even a friend—who will give them one. Each of the stories in Wild Tales could have been a full-length movie in itself, but each vignette is so exquisitely crafted, the sequence so carefully chosen, that the six fit flawlessly together.

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art wr roo w fam ar Digital artist jon rafman is presenting his ongoing project ‘brand new paint job’ at the armory show 2014 in new york, a series which appropriates the renowned artworks of master painters into the three-dimensional digital realm. the collection is comprised of humble, ready-made interiors sourced

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from google 3D warehouse, like bedrooms, auditoriums, classrooms and kitchens. bitmap textures, chroma and decorative motifs have been collected from famous historical paintings, and surface the façade of each object placed within the home or commercial dwelling. picasso’s pink and

gray ‘les demoiselles d’avignon’, monet’s hazy ‘water lilies’ and lichtenstein’s saturated dots act like a skin, shrink wrapping around bar stools, chairs, stairs and eclectic pieces garnered from a digital, online community of objects.

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