Shooting People recently launched a new section on our website called WATCH FILM where members can upload their shorts, reels and trailers and anybody can watch them. This is filmmaker-generated content and we’re really proud of it. It’s in Beta right now but it’s already rocking. Check it out, upload your films and let us know what you think.

I have loved David Shrigley ever since someone gave me a postcard that said “Sorry I painted the word TWAT on your garage wall.” That’s art, that is.

Quite a few people have been blogging about this video recently and for good reason. It is utterly weird and just the right side of genius. Ola Podrida frontman David Wingo did the music for David Gordon Green’s wonderful films George Washington and All the Real Girls. He also did the music for Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake and Todd is the director of this jaw-dropping masterpiece of surreal nuttiness. Enjoy.

Have y’all checked out the Renew Media Resources blog? It’s packed with lots of really useful information for filmmakers from great writers and documentary cheerleaders like Agnes Varnum and Pamela Cohn and is definitely worth adding to your blog list. Pamela Cohn’s most recent entry is an interview with Brent Hoff of Wholphin. Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of Wholphin and that I nag and nag people until they subscribe but nobody holds it against me cos the films are that good! You can watch some films on their website right now, including David Lowery’s Some Analog Lines and David and Nathan Zellner’s hilarious Quasar Hernandez. You should also know that Kent Osborne features in at least two films I watched on the site recently but he has a mustache in one of them. True story.

The Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg is right by my apartment and I love seeing it every day so I was very relieved to hear that it has been granted landmark status. Apparently the planned residential development will still go ahead but they will not be allowed to alter the existing exterior which pleases me no end. There are some terrifyingly ugly glass buildings going up in Williamsburg at the moment, with soulless and empty slogans to accompany them. I’ve been thinking a lot about development and community recently, I carry Jane Jacob’s magnificent The Death and Life of Great American Cities around with me, and spend a lot of time taking photographs of old buildings being demolished or new buildings going up. True/False’s David Wilson recently told me that he loved a short film called Grand Luncheonette by Peter Sillen and I just noticed that you can watch it online on Sillen’s website. It’s a beautiful film about what happened to Times Square and it makes a great double bill with Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar, another poignant tribute to a lost era and a vanished neighborhood.

This!

Genius.

It’s Werner Herzog’s birthday today so we are celebrating with an ad for chocolate on YouTube. You know it makes sense.