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Currently based out of Berlin, Stéphane Martineau is recording artist Machin.

Video directed by Franck Péret. MySpace here. Website here.

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Polka, by Rodolfo Collado Hernandez, Vancouver Film School

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The year was 1977. And everything changed.

Found via Spike.

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Matter Teaser from Herbert Matter on Vimeo

In the hopper right now is a film about the career of graphic designer Herbert Matter (1907-84). Slated for release Spring 2010, The Visual Language of Herbert Matter is a documentary by Reto Caduff.

Documentary info, bio and more here.

Documentary teaser (above), development drawings for Matter’s 1955 redesign of the New Haven Railroad logo (below):

NHRR logo development from Herbert Matter on Vimeo

For more about the New Haven Railroad project, visit here.

Found via twitter.com/saawan

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While I’m in the mood, might as well post Daniel Kleinman’s titles for Casino Royale (2006). Video above, article here.

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Spread (above) from one of my favorites: Law & Order: An Adventure to Color! by Brandon Bird.

See the book here. More Law & Order art here.

And check out the other forms of tee vee celebrity mischief at Brandon Bird’s website.

The Jack McCoy tee

SVU valentines

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Drive Ins always had double features and Sacramento’s six screen is still open (Facebook group here). Also projecting is the local Movies on a Big Screen.

For intermission: Commercials, community service ads and countdown animations used to remind everyone to be back in their car in time for the second film. Here’s a bunch.

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Check out my Burlingame Drive In prints, cards and postcards.

For the record, I did propose to my wife at the (now gone) chilly Burlingame between Nine Months and Clueless.

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Local bumpers for theatre chains.

General Cinema’s original Feature Presentation animation (above) was iconic. Skip thru to 3:40 to see it in its 1960s blue glory!

Syufy’s old music (below) got the audience to clap along. Their googie-styled cinemas were shaped like dome spaceships.

United Artists (above) was pure 1980s flair!

I once saw a guy walk out of a showing of Amadeus (1984) humming the UA theme music.

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Check out my Theatre prints, cards and postcards. Featuring the now defunct Millbrae and Belmont Theatres. Part of my 20th Century Obsolete series (below).

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The jazz-inspried work of Edu Camacho. MySpace here. His work reminds me of several artists, including Fortunato Depero and Ben Shahn.

Edu is part of a group show Friday night (tomorrow): which includes paintings, illustration, projected photography and short film. November 20, 2009 in at maumau underground in Barcelona. Details here (translated).

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Video for Hidden by Pentatones (above). Inshallah (below). Plus, ‘Documentation of the preEnter project of Pentatones and YouAreWatchungUs’ (below below).

Myspace here. The Pentatones are hooked up with the bauhaus label, collaborating with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

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Visual Acoustics, the new documentary profiling modernist photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is now screening in select locations around the country.

More info at Grain Edit. Visit the Visual Acoustics site here.

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