Two entries in "Film"

We are all excited to learn that NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell has been nominated in the 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming and Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design and Art Direction categories.

In the summer of 2007 Athletics’ David Ahuja worked with Wyeth Hansen and Todd Neale to design and animate this two-part, two-hour documentary for VH1’s Rock Docs series.

You can read the news on AWN here:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=23969

You can check out a montage on David’s site:
http://www.amoebalabs.com/work_NY77.php

As well as a clip here from the show about the July 1977 Blackout:
http://www.spike.com/video/2881108

If you haven’t seen this yet, you absolutely must. The breathtakingly gorgeous documentary film about Sigor Ros’ tour of their homeland by my friend Dean DeBlois.

Sigur Ros – Heima

sigur rós break their two-year silence to release their first-ever film and a companion album later this autumn. filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a free tour of iceland, ‘heima’ stands as a colossal labour of love – not to say grand folly – typical of this most exacting of bands.

while most people set up a few cameras at, say, a festival, and call it a dvd, sigur rós decided they would push the boat (bus and plane) out for their debut venture into live film, hauling 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland to create something, well, inspirational.

Inspirational indeed.