Today’s YouTube video pick is a five minute video called “Hands Up” which was one of the entries into the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project. It was entered by YouTube user SPDorsey of Dorsey Graphics. Check out other films from the project at www.48.tv.
San Francisco is a city which leaves its impressions upon people. In honor of that, writers and artists, comedians and actors, and visitors from across the globe have made mention of San Francisco in print and in voice. Quotes about San Francisco vary as much as the people who make up this city. Each morning, San Fran Voice gives you one to think about as you wander through the city streets, letting it leave its mark on you. Check the archives for others.Today’s San Francisco quote is … from a MovieMaker interview asking local filmmakers what they like about San Francisco. The quote is from actress and director Desi del Valle.
“If free speech and individuality are American characteristics, there is no place more American than San Francisco. Movie stars here are not flesh-and-blood people, but ideas and cries for social change. San Franciscans love film. To quote one colleague: “You can’t spit here and not hit a film festival.”
“In the midst of an increasingly cynical and bottom line-oriented world, there is a reassuring sense of community in the film folk of this town. People constantly help each other selflessly execute the most surreal and utterly non-commercial projects for the love of the medium.”
San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco. One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment. There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco. To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … Vestern: A Western, an entry from SF’s 2006 48 hour film festival.
San Francisco has a thriving arts scene and a number of different schools which teach animation, a type of film art which has changed dramatically over the years with the new technology now available. This video clip is an animated film which goes back to the old days, since it was filmed in 1977 for display at SF MoMA. Interesting art clip.
Watch a pair of boots take a trek through San Francisco in this five minute film short. Then go see other SF related video clips here.
I’m not sure why anyone would want to sleep through all of the activity in San Francisco, but this clips shows the filming of a commercial with a girl who is doing precisely that in various SF locations.
The San Francisco YouTube pick for today is an art film short called The Fortune Cookie. In the film, a boy receives the fortune to go to the corner of 4th St. and Mission in San Francisco’s SoMA district, and the film follows what happens to him on his journey. The film actor is silent but the clip is accompanied by whistling.
24 Hours on Craigslist is a movie which is fun to watch because it shows you all of the strangeness you can encounter in SF in a single day. This clip from the movie is of a San Francisco staring contest … yes, an actual competitive contest.
In honor of the now-showing film Zodiac, a movie based upon the true crime story in San Francisco, today’s YouTube pick is a photo montage related to the movie’s events.
