In 2003, a Hollywood hopeful by the name of Tommy Wiseau released his self written, self produced and self directed dramatic thriller “The Room”. The film, which he also starred in, was to be a platform for his acting skills, a tense, fiery melodrama along to introduce his brooding talent to the world. Unfortunately for Tommy, it was awful. It was like the Titanic, but the actual ship rather than the film. Audiences were rolling in the isles, crying with laughter. Critics labeled it the “Citizen Kane of bad movies” or “a mixture of Tennessee Williams, Ed Wood, and R-Kelly’s Trapped In The Closet”. Always eager to find the brightside, the film’s distributor (you guessed it, also Tommy Wiseau) began billing it as a black comedy, insisting he meant for it to be funny all along. Gotta respect his persistence.
We took ourselves down to the local Arthouse on the weekend to see if it lived up to the hype. It totally did. We highly recommend you check it out. Here’s the trailer.
If that’s not enough to pique your interest, here’s Tommy on his famous apartment trashing rampage.
You probably know by now that here at Hype DC, we don’t mind a bit of stop frame animation. It takes us back to making flip books in our note pads at school or those weird old silent movie machines they have at The Pancake Parlour. Exponentially more sophisticated but still based on the age old principal of shooting still images of painstakingly small movements, is this Dutch clip for the track “Grindin’” by Nobody Beats The Drum. It incorporates some 400 wooden blocks, just like the ones you had when you were a little tacker. The effect is dazzling, slightly hypnotic and totally banging. Enjoy.
A girl plays futsal with the boys. A sweet song and a great clip with lots of indoor soccer action, from cool Argentine band Entre Rios. Plenty of choice retro gear too. There’s something great about foreign language music isn’t there? You can tune out and just feel it without pesky lyrics getting in the way. Anyway, this makes us dreamy, hungry for travel, and most of all, excited for the world cup.
Paris is one of the world’s most exciting places. Great architecture, beautiful people, some of the best museums anywhere, we love it. After the French Revolution hundreds of years ago, the city was remodeled to feature wide avenues and large open spaces. It was thought that twisting dark alleys provided areas for people to gather and plot bad things. So Paris was opened up and that’s part of the reason it’s such a striking metropolis. It also makes it an amazing place to skate. Here’s the adidas Skate Team ripping it to shreds.
