http://www.clipland.com/Blog/ Short, daily weblog entries from Clipland's staff. Suggest a topic for coverage or leave a comment. The blog aims to draw every reader into an ongoing debate about new music videos, recent tv commercials, short films and movies. en Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Clipland GmbH. All rights reserved. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:10:01 +0100 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:10:01 +0100 Clipland Staff contact\@clipland.com http://www.clipland.com/res/logo_rss.gif http://www.clipland.com/ 144 30 /Blog/189-virgin-media-shorts-competition.html It's a bit too late to enter the competition, the submission deadline is long gone. So this blog post is no call for entries - that's quite obvious. Still, it makes sense to point your attention towards this interesting competition held by broadband com... ..<a href='/Blog/189-virgin-media-shorts-competition.html'>more</a> /Blog/189-virgin-media-shorts-competition.html Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:51:00 +0100 /Blog/188-alien-prequel-to-helmed.html Fox and Ridley Scott are in talks about continuing the Alien franchise, this time with a prequel. The 5th Alien installment is scheduled for release in 2011. The directing job will go to Carl Erik Rinsch, although Fox is still unhappy with Scott not dir... ..<a href='/Blog/188-alien-prequel-to-helmed.html'>more</a> /Blog/188-alien-prequel-to-helmed.html Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:51:05 +0100 /Blog/187-2009-palm-springs-international.html Hungarian film-maker Karchi Perlmann's The Dinner (Vacsora), the tale of a hapless pig farmer, received the best of festival award at the 2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest Short Film Market, which concluded Sunday. Winners were announced Sunday... ..<a href='/Blog/187-2009-palm-springs-international.html'>more</a> /Blog/187-2009-palm-springs-international.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:00 +0100 /Blog/186-rest-peace-michael-jackson.html Michael Jackson King of Pop is dead. The sad news reached millions and millions of fans worldwide yesterday when the staff of the UCLA Medical Center and later his brother pronounced him dead. Yet, the exact cause of his death is unknown, a guess might ... ..<a href='/Blog/186-rest-peace-michael-jackson.html'>more</a> /Blog/186-rest-peace-michael-jackson.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:05:00 +0100 /Blog/185-imdb-clipland-our-firefox.html Do you visit the IMDb on a regular basis? And, do you visit Clipland frequently to check out further short form credits? If you answered both questions with yes then this news is for you! IMDB + Clipland is a free and open-source Firefox Add-On that ena... ..<a href='/Blog/185-imdb-clipland-our-firefox.html'>more</a> /Blog/185-imdb-clipland-our-firefox.html Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:17:00 +0100 /Blog/184-bond-homage-for-lux.html For Unilever's asian-region brand LUX (hair products) JWT Tokyo created a James Bond homage called Alchemist, a seven minutes epic, more a short film than a simple .30 TV commercial. To handle the production, the asian createors relied on English talent... ..<a href='/Blog/184-bond-homage-for-lux.html'>more</a> /Blog/184-bond-homage-for-lux.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:48:00 +0100 /Blog/182-overhauled-news-section.html As part of an effort to fix some long-standing bugs on the site, we had the opportunity to overhaul the News section. News is a central page, kind of a portal, that gives you a sum-up of recent posting on short-form media related blogs. Current blog fee... ..<a href='/Blog/182-overhauled-news-section.html'>more</a> /Blog/182-overhauled-news-section.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:44:13 +0000 /Blog/181-oscars-2009-short-form.html Clipland would like to congratulate the winners and nominees of the Academy Award 2009 in the short form categories: Best Animated Short La Maison En Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato 1 Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi and Thi... ..<a href='/Blog/181-oscars-2009-short-form.html'>more</a> /Blog/181-oscars-2009-short-form.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:58:00 +0000 /Blog/180-oscar-2009-81st-academy.html Since January 22nd, the nominees for this year's OSCAR are out. The list as follows: Best Picture a href=/Summary/600002265/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button/a a href=/Summary/600002266/Frost/Nixon/a a href=/Summary/600002267/Milk/a a href=/Summary/6... ..<a href='/Blog/180-oscar-2009-81st-academy.html'>more</a> /Blog/180-oscar-2009-81st-academy.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:16:00 +0000 /Blog/179-will-slotmusic-take-off.html After the music industry has seen a number of revolutions over the past few years, there's another next-big-thing on the horizon that might make it into mainstream. Songs, mp3 music, already has a long history of being disconnected from physical media, ... ..<a href='/Blog/179-will-slotmusic-take-off.html'>more</a> /Blog/179-will-slotmusic-take-off.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:50:00 +0000