D:U:M SETS ITS EYES ON THE LAND DOWN UNDER
The brainchild of Italian denim experts, Diesel; Diesel-U-Music will kick off a two month search in July to unearth Australia’s most innovative and talented musicians which will culminate in a whistle-stop tour around Australia in November.
D:U:M are looking to discover two winners who will have the opportunity of a lifetime to support the international D:U:M winners at the Australian leg of the tour in Sydney in November, a gig at one of next year’s biggest festival date and get decked out in Diesel’s finest threads worth $2500.
Get a foot in the door and enter the competition by logging onto the D:U:M website http://www.dieselumusic.com/australia. Your music will then be streamed and heard worldwide over the web.
Just like Tila Tequila shot to fame through MySpace, Diesel has been seeking and promoting new music talent since 2001. A competition headed by an international jury, and offering incredible publicity support and worldwide exposure has rocketed many bands to stardom, including past D.U.M winners such as, Mylo, Diplo and The Cool Kids among others.
D:U:M has handpicked a panel of judges from the country’s finest music industry VIP’s to decide the winning artists of 2009. The panel of judges are: Grinspoon – Phil Jamieson & Patrick Davern Rolling Stone Editor in Chief - Mathew Coyte, Nova Presenter – Maz Compton, MTV Presenter – Darren McMullen, VICE Editor – Briony Wright, Max Host – Yumi Stynes, Sunday Telegraph Music Writer - Jonathan Moran, Young Strangers – Jane Slingo and SPA Managing Editor - Andrew Mast.
Introducing the bands of tomorrow, the Australian winners will support global D:U:M winners Terror Pigeon dance revolt and Hearts revolution. A mish mash of dance electro and indie rock has won over the tuneful hearts of many and is ready to show the world just why they deserved it!
The competition commences 13th July and entries close on 13st September. Winners will be announce 1st October. D:U:M global tour will rock out in Sydney on the 26th November.
So what are you waiting for? Jump onto http://www.dieselumusic.com and upload your tunes, and you never know you could be the next Cool Kids?
IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE:
Entries close: 13th September
Australian winners to be announced: 1st October
D:U:M Sydney event: 26th November
Posted by on 07/25 at 02:41 PM
Jaws manages to be a horror movie and effectively scary while not even showing the monster until you are half way through the film. You know the shark is present, though, by the masterful camera work and the now-famous musiclexapro. (ba-DUMP, ba-DUMP.) You ARE the shark when it is about to strike. The camera goes underwater, looking up at the unsuspecting legs of the victims. The camera then switches to the top of the water and shows the poor person being dragged under and a fountain of blood squirts up. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Another interesting camera shot (and one of my favorite scenes) is the shot of Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) on the beach when he sees Alex Kintner get eaten by the shark. The camera does a close-up on Brody while pulling the background away from him. The effect is one of a person going into shock or gasping with horror. The viewer feels what Brody must be feeling while seeing a shark attack.
Jaws is divided up into three acts. The first being when stupid drunk Chrissy gets chomped while her passed out drunk boyfriend lays on the beach. No one will believe Brody that it was a shark attack. Brody is disrupting this peaceful little town by trying to tell everyone it was a shark. This lays the groundwork for the town to be terrorized by the monster. They won’t let Brody close the beaches and tourists resume swimming in the water.
In a scene very much like the Odessa steps sequence in Potemkin, we see shots of the beach: happy swimmers, a boy and his dog, people on towels. These are all interlaced with quick cuts to shots of Brody, nervously scanning the beach. After numerous false alarms, Alex Kintner is attacked and killed by the shark.
Act two begins when a reward is offered for the capture and killing of this shark. Men from all over flock to “tame the beast.” It is here when we are introduced to Hooper and Quint. Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) is abuy propecia spunky young marine biologist. Quint (Robert Shaw) is a salty old seaman who offers to go after the shark for $10,000. There are other men, though, who will do it for less and Quint is turned down. The other men do catch A shark, but Hooper tells us it is not THE shark that killed Chrissy or Alex Kintner. The mayor reopens the beaches for the Fourth of July. There is a fake shark attack on the beach while another real one happens in the lagoon. Brody’s son is injured and another man is killed. You finally get to see the shark, half-way through the film, and so begins Act three.
Act three begins when the town hires Quint to kill the shark. He takes Brody and Hooper with him. The shots in the rest of the film alternate between long, lulling, boring shots when there isn’t a shark around and fast, choppy, exciting shots when there is a shark. The shots in particular that set the mood are when there are long shots of Quint’s boat, out on the water all by itself. Just the tiny boat and tons of water. It really gives the feeling of complete isolation. The three men have to face this shark alone. And if Quint’s monologue about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis doesn’t give you chills, I don’t know what will.
Jaws is a masterfully directed film. It combines all elements of film making and produces a spectacular experience. Not until another Spielberg classic, Jurassic Park, has a movie been so entertaining yet buy ultramstill a piece of technical genius.
Posted by on 11/23 at 03:00 PM
