The Art of Flight

Some of the most progressive snowboarders on the planet have been busy pushing the boundaries to new unimaginable levels in mountains around the globe. From the producers of 'That's it, That's all' (2008), 'The Art of Flight' is set for release later in the year, for now enjoy these three minutes:

Laura Marling

The sweet and tender voice of Laura Marling is sure to be heard by a few more folk over the coming weeks after taking Best British Female at the Brit Awards last night. Are the 'Brits' entering a more respectable era? The voting panel was shaken up to include music artists for the first time and (most) the award winners weren't those that are plastered to the picture pages of our papers. But what's popular can't be 'cool' can it? Maybe the likes of David Beckham being an exception to the rule.

Anyways back to Laura Marling, a beautiful singer-songwriter with raw live qualities that make her songs seem so intimate. Check out the short film:

Arcade Fire at Berlin International Film Festival

Spike Jonze's (Where The Wild Things Are) short film 'Scenes from the Suburbs' debuts at the Berlin International Film Festival tomorrow. The music video for Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' is taken from the film so we can expect summer memories.

Grammy Award winners - The Black Keys

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have been playing cool bluesy rock stuff under the name of The Black Keys for about ten years now. Their latest album 'Brothers' won two awards at the Grammy's last night as did the single 'Tighten Up'. Good times.

Brothers - Best Alternative Music Album
Brothers - Best Recording Package (Michael Carney)
Tighten Up - Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals

The Black Keys have got into the habit of releasing tongue in cheek music videos and their latest offering is in the form of a cringe worthy action movie trailer. Spot Shaun White.

Grammy Award winners - Arcade Fire

Moments after performing 'Months of May', Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' was named Album of the Year. Betting off heavy weight competition to win the award, the Canadian group finished their acceptance speech by playing 'Ready to Start' check it out below:

(apologies for the interrupting advert near the end)

Grammy Awards - Mick Jagger performance

The ever youthful Mick Jagger paid tribute to the late 'king of rock n soul' Solomon Burke. Awesome.

Grammy Awards - Bob Dylan performance

The enchanting Bob Dylan croaking away with Mumford & Sons & the Avett Brothers at the Grammys.

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Philippe Petit - Man On Wire

Beautiful film of Philippe Petit in a quest to fulfill his dream. Trailer is slightly over the top but this is definitely worth seeing. It's been out for about two years, a superb British documentary film.

Miles Kane - Come Closer

Off to The Cluny in Newcastle to see Miles Kane. New tune Come Closer sounding awesome.

A Team With No History

The Super Rugby 2011 (previously Super 14) season is set to start in NZ/SAF/AUS with a new revamped three-Conference format. Melbourne Rebels are new to Super Rugby, by focusing on the struggle that may lie ahead WhyBin/TBWA/TEQUILA have developed a campaign to build support for the team from the ground up. Everyone loves an underdog, especially one's called: Mortlock, Cipriani, Lipman and Vuna.

Local Natives - Who Knows Who Cares

Local Natives episode of 'The Take Away Shows' for La Blogotheque is set in the Palais Royal, Paris, it sounds awesome check it out below.

Local Natives | Who Knows Who Cares | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Oh and Carlisle are going to Wembley...who knows who cares. Get in!

Submarine

Richard Ayoade's 'Submarine', has been going down well at film festivals, the much anticipated film inspired by Joe Dunthorne's novel is in cinemas on March 18th. If you can't wait that long it is showing at the Glasgow Film Festival 18th/19th February. Sure to be one of the best British debuts of the year.

Super Bowl XLV

Last night the two most successful franchises in the history of American Football battled it out at Dallas Cowboys $1.2 billion Stadium. The Green Bay Packers got their hands on the Vince Lombardi Trophy once again after holding their nerve to survive a fightback from the Pittsburgh Steelers to take victory 31-25. With over 100 million television viewers and 103,219 fans inside the Cowboys Stadium, Super Bowl XLV is clearly one of the biggest sporting events of all time. The Super Bowl is surrounded with a lot of hype and this year was no different. The biggest advertising event of the year saw companies paying up to $3 million for a 30 second spot (below are three of my favourite).


By Deutsch


By Anamoly


By Grey


By BBDO New York - Gender issues - sensitive subject in the UK media Gray/Keys.

Happy Friday!

From Back Home, Anders Petersen & JH Engstorm's seven year project to photograph Varmland in Sweden (where they grew up) is currently on show (for free) at the National Media Museum in Bradford. It's a captivating exhibition that shows the photographers travel back through memories of people, places and spaces that have shaped them. The exhibition is showing until March 27 2011 to find out more about it click here.  

Anders Petersen 

                                                                                JH Engstrom 

To see more by Anders Petersen click here. To see more from JH Engstrom click here.

Yann Martel - What is Stephen Harper Reading?

This Monday Yann Martel (author of the superb novel 'Life of Pi') sent his one hundredth and final book to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On the 16th April 2007 Yann began sending personally selected books with an accompanying letter to his Prime Minister. Yann was inspired to start this 'little book club' after Mr Harper attended the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Council of Arts in 2007 and barely acknowledged the writers that attended. Yann has sent a book & letter every other Monday for the past four years, but after receiving only five three-line letters from Mr Harper's staff in response he feels that "100 is enough". Yann kept a report on all he sent to the Prime Minister to see it click here.

Book number 100

Man Booker Prize winning Novel by Yann Martel

James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream

Everyone seems to be getting pretty excited about James Blake. He's been much talked about and releases his self-titled LP on February 7th. Check out his new video for 'The Wilhelm Scream' below. Top crooning.