Source Filmmaker Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,' 1981 In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before long, Bowie stopped by the Queen sessions and joined in. The original idea was that he would add backup vocals on the song “Cool Cat.” “David came in one night and we were playing other people’s songs for fun, just jamming,” says Queen drummer Roger Taylor in Mark Blake’s book Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Freddie Mercury and Queen. ‘We felt our way through a backing track all together as an ensemble,’ recalled Brian May. “It was very hard,” said May in 2008, “because you already had four precocious boys and David, who was precocious enough for all of us. After listening to the isolated vocal track above, you can hear the officially released 1981 mix below: via That Eric Alper Related Content:
Marilyn Myller by @misterplease | Animated Short Film Artists by nature are, generally, a self-reflexive, navel-gazing bunch. Probably it has to do with the amount of time they spend in their own heads, inventing new worlds drawn from their own thoughts and experience. If that is true of artists in general, in must go double for stop-motion animators, practitioners of a pain-staking and often lonely craft. Mikey Please, winner of the SotW Award for Best Film of 2013 with The Eagleman Stag, is quite an entertaining and personable fellow in real life, but in his followup to that magnificent work he plumbs the depth of his angst for amusing result in Marilyn Myller. The film centers on myth, a world creating figure transforming existence on an awesome scale. The parallels between Please and his character are clear, something even more recognizable in the film’s original iteration as Martyn Physher (a name that was changed as a courtesy to another famous British animator).
Anomalisa, un film d'animation audacieux et poignant Rien de sert d'aller pester contre le projectionniste ou d'introduire votre index dans l'oreille pour tenter de la déboucher. Ce n'est pas un problème de son. Dans Anomalisa, drame existentiel en stop motion, tout le monde parle avec la même voix masculine. Un récit déconcertant Ce parti pris gonflé, en adéquation avec son propos, confère une étrangeté au récit. Le minimalisme narratif de ce quasi huis clos peut déconcerter, mais il faut se laisser porter par la poésie et l'élégance de son animation.
'Game Of Thrones' Marketing Introduces Bus-Sized Dragon Head I understand you guys are getting socked with between-season Game of Thrones coverage this week, whether it be the latest casting, pre-Comic-Con coverage, awesome video edits, and a great big snub in the midst of several other deserving Game of Thrones Emmy nominations, but I could not resist this. Above is a BUS-SIZED dragon skull that took sculptors more than two months to design and construct. It comes from the same marketing team behind the 40-foot tall statue of Colin Firth, and it was erected on a beach in Britain to publizice the release of the third season of Game of Thrones on the UK’s movie and TV streaming service BlinkBox. Your move, Netflix. More stupid cool images, as well as a making of video below. (Hat Tip: Adfreak) I want more like this!
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