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Catch Homer If You Can

Legendary titles refuse to grow old.

The ever resourceful ffffound.com triggered our collective memory this morning. Remember the brilliant titles to Catch Me If You Can? The Saul Bass-inspired graphics with the lazy jazz soundtrack? Always worth another watch. And there’s an extra treat: the sequence reenacted by The Simpsons.

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Categories Design Film Fun Tags Title Sequences Film Saul Bass

By on 7/10/08

Bicycle

18 million bikes, 16.5 million people.

We love them, but not as much as the Dutch. It’s true: there are 18 million bikes in the Netherlands, but only 16.5 million people. If you’re over there this weekend, be sure to check out ‘Bicycle’, a 100-day event that comes to an end this Sunday at the Designhaus in Eindhoven.

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Categories Culture Tags Bicycle Sport

By on 3/10/08

Giving It Away

Moby’s Gratis project shows the majors how it’s done.

If we’re being honest, it’s not every day we find ourselves wistfully browsing the pages of www.moby.com. But the king of ad soundtracks has uploaded an open-ended letter to EMI - who own Mute, the label he releases on - that caught our attention via one or two external music sites this morning. The message is hardly wrapped in cotton wool; addressing EMI directly, he openly questions their approach to digital distribution. Why do they limit sales of his music to iTunes when the majority of his listeners buy their music from Beatport where tracks sell for two or three times as much? The letter itself is interesting, but it doesn’t really tell us anything new - we know what the majors are like and still the world looks on with bewildered eyes. More interesting, to us at least, is the MobyGratis project, a free resource of unreleased Moby material made available for independent filmmakers struggling to covers the costs of licensing audio for their works.

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Categories Music Tags Music Technology

By on 2/10/08