This marks a revolution in digital film making, maybe there’s going to be a new ‘New Wave’ of cinema now that we have this new high quality easily transportable and cheap camera… Hmmm!

The new iPhone shoots 720p HD, nice and some clever mite has even attached DSLR lens attached to the iPhone 4.

Will this mean move out the way Canon 7d, hello iPhone 4?

I just don’t know?

Check this interesting documentary out about guerilla artist James Powderly; just give the pic a click ; )

Directed & Produced by Emma Swinton

DoP – Dan Sully

1st AD  – Chris Massey

Camera Assistants – Craig Thomas and Avneet Padda

Dancer – Sophie Adams

Hair & Make-Up – Alana Campbell

Editor – Jody McAlavey

GFX & Colourist  – Shaun Leong-Williams

Equipment  – S+O Media

Costume – Robinson Pfeffer

This is ad is unreal… starring Chapelle’s muse Amanda Lepore (click on her face and watch)

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Velvet.Swag interviews Feldberg, the award winning band from Iceland who are currently making waves across Europe.

Rosa’s voice is amazing, a modern poppy version of Billie Holiday met with fun happy riffs! Pure summer music.

Their track ‘Dreaming’ won ‘Best Song’ at the Icelandic music awards and is about to being released worldwide on Kitsune.

Morton co-wrote the film with Tony Grisoni, (screenwriter of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), the film is inspired  by Morton’s childhood experiences of care homes,  abuse and faith. Last year, she told the Guardian that she had “diluted” her own experiences of “violence, sexual abuse and torture” in making The Unloved, saying that, if she hadn’t, it would have been “a horror film”.

The Guardian recently did a really interesting interview with Morton about The Unloved which if defs worth a read.

Now watch the film here!

does she say “gonna feel that cheesy bread”

Have a listen about 33 seconds in. I can no longer listen to this track in the same way again. I love it!

And now I really want  some cheesy bread mmmm….

Cinematically it has a lot going for it (along with a stonker of a budget) and (as most  filmmakers try to do) it’s trying to pass on a message, great.

It got me thinking about Lynne Ramsay‘s Black and White Town by the Doves, and the way in which it tells the story of a tormented youth (a theme running throughout most of her films). Watching the characters in the video makes me feel like I’m walking through a gallery, looking at the various potraits on the walls and thinking about the story behind each character.

There’s something organic and raw about this video. Ramsay doesn’t use explosions or attention seeking scenes of gratuitous violence to pass on her message, but a humble and subtle reality which is what gives the video it’s strength.

If you haven’t seen any of Lynne Ramsay’s films before I’d reccomend you do so now.

Here’s the trailer for Movern Callar, an adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel, starring Samantha Morton (legend).

It’s an amazing film, with a great soundtrack!

Ramsay is currently in production with Tilda Swinton, Directing We Need To Talk About Kevin.

Because you’re gorgeous I’d do anything for yoooooou…

How about now?

When I first read of Depp’s collaboration with Babybird I was shocked.

I mean Babybird, the band from my Now that’s what I call music 29 compilation? Really? W…How?

Apparently the band are Depp’s favourite British band.

A suprising collaboration compared to Depp’s past colabs with the likes of The Pogues, Tim Burton, Oasis, The Fast Show etc, he keeps us on our toes, I like this man.

Depp features on Babybird’s new track Unlovable and not only that, Depp has unleashed even more of those creative juices of his by directing the music video for the track too.

Produced by Unison and shot  on location in the UK at Hatfield House ( home to our great Queen Elizabeth I), the promo sets out to be a moving piece of period drama. The promo has now been banned by some media organisations including Yahoo, this is due to the dramatic hanging scene.

Now when someone tells you not to look at something doesn’t this make you want to see it? So why bother drawing attention to the thing in the first place by banning it. I think we all know, if you want something to be big, ban it, imagine what adding a touch of Johnny Depp is has done… BINGO!

Depp was rumoured to play with Babybird in November of last year at the bands comeback gig in East London.  This resulted in tickets being snapped up and the gig selling out leaving lots of Depp fans (myself included) left hanging (no pun intended). Poor Babybird, performing as the headliner only to feel like the support act. For most of the audience there was disappointment, Depp did not show, Babybird frontman Stephen Jones kindly perked the crowd up by going on to say…

“We all know why you’re here, he’s not coming. He’s in my hotel naked and buttered up ready for action. Johnny Deep is what I call him!”

(save that thought)