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(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Intensely stirring title sequence from David Fincher‘s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Envisioned and directed by Tim Miller of Blur Studio. Musical track is called Immigrant Song (featuring Karen O), a cover (original by Led Zeppelin) by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.
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James W. Griffiths‘ 2011 We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth captures the vast and beautiful nature of Malaysia, all with an added awe-inducing excerpt from Joseph Conrad‘s 1899 Heart of Darkness.
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Yves Geleyn‘s La Gaîté Lyrique is a promotional short from 2009 for a new media arts museum of the same name.
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Based out of Montréal, Canada, Julien Vallée is a graphic designer and art director who has been featured in numerous publications, such as Computer Arts, IdN and Gestalten‘s book Tangible. Vallée is one of those rare artists that does everything – literally everything…out of paper. Vallée has also exhibited internationally from Berlin (Germany), Zurich...
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(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us)  …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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“Find what you love.” -Steve Jobs
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CHAOS CINEMA is a well thought out video essay by Matthias Stork, administered by Indiewire’s journalistic blog PRESS PLAY.  I would like to say that I saw Drive, and it is the antithesis to chaos cinema. I think, but what do I know, I’m just a cake-loving bunny.
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A short film by Michael Langan, narrated by the reading of a poem by Brian Christian. Where is my bluebird.
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A beautiful narrative take on a life of a San Miguel beer bottle. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi, “Una vida bien vivida, Spanish for a “a life well lived”. Check out the commercial after the break.
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Sigur Ros has a new “film event” directed by Vincent Morriset called Inni that will be showing at the Venice Film Festival.
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Check out Arcade Fire’s new interactive video, directed by Chris Milk.  It won some sort of cyber Grand Prix or something at Cannes.   Check it out: thewildernessdowntown.com
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It has been an great year for the talented people at Digital Kitchen and this is their 2011 show reel.
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Hello beautiful people around the world, get your resumes and portfolios ready, because Empty Kingdom wants you.
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What you see displayed right now, on our main header of our website is Barnaby Roper’s new interactive and innovative portrayal of fashion but spliced moving images. Each moving still or video is composed with a specific musical piece and with the images as a whole ends with a beautiful musical score.
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Killer.  Mr. Mclellan has the right idea. www.toddmclellan.com
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Another video commemorating Amnesty Internationals 50th Anniversary. Created pro-bono by the Betterment Bureau, a department of Loyalkaspar inc.
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Nobuyoshi Araki, the man known for his S&M slant turned his lens to Japan’s bleeding edge to shoot the second issue of limited-edition Tokyo-based style magazine The Reality Show. View more for the video.
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