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“Art by Heath Kane.”  A Film by Chris Strong.

Rad short film on British artist Heath Kane by filmmaker Chris Strong.

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Russell Howard’s Good News (2009) Stopmotion

Creative Diretcor: Chris Strong Production Studio: Blac Ionica

‘‘A Radiohead riff reformatted to a cutout-motion existence where an artful dodger deftly dubsteps his way toward your entertainment. Blac Ionica’s opening for Russell Howard’s Good News, sets us right for human folly and a chuckle.‘‘

Everyone heard of Russel Howard’s Good News. It is a tv-show that anyone with the right humor would rather watch than the actual news.

Today we discussed the making of the intro.

At first they wanted to film it in big, with big signs and speech bubbles, but soon enough they realised that their budget would not allow that. They had to reduce the sizes to quite a bit. They shot one sequence with Russell in an empty white studio. Designed and printed out other elements (speech bubbles, logo sandwich board, arrows, newspapers etc) along with the selected stills of the shoot with Russell. Mounted it all up onto foam board. Rented some props, some lights and lenses. Made a tabletop white cover with some white formica. They shot it over a non-stop period of 2 days. Then they took the rushes into After Effects and tidied them up, tweaked colours and levels. Got a rough cut signed off by the client. Began the lengthly task of retouching and incorporating additional CGI props. Composited it altogether. Gave it all a final grade.

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My Instincts Are The Enemy

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the echo friendly ° supplies for arson

album: love panic, director: david sampson and chris strong, label: n/a, web: http://echo-friendly.tumblr.com

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Chris Strong Releases New Single “80 Proof” Feat. Tonez “the Wicked Bally”

Chris Strong and the artist also known as “Tonez – the Wicked Bally,” has released his new single “80 Proof” on Holland Jungle Music.

Chris Strong, in collaboration with Tonez, “the Wicked Bally,” has released his new single “80 Proof” on Holland Jungle Music. The track is characterized by a laid-back melody line and an up-front beat that neither steals the limelight from Bone Tone nor fails to garner attention. Tonez’s lyrics are well-written and performed effortlessly by the man sometimes called the Wicked Bally. At two and a half minutes long, “80 Proof” is not a track that will be used as the background music for a feature-length film, but it may very well inspire many music fans to question why Tonez hasn’t made hours and hours of quality music like this already, when he seems clearly capable of achieving the big time.

Tonez’s style is at once reminiscent of the great rappers from the 1990s and very contemporary, cutting-edge, almost prophetic. As R&B learns from its nearly infinite autotune mistakes between the years 2000 and 2008, chances are we can expect much more urban music to come out like Tonez: well-sung and well-phrased, with Strong’s funky, clean beats that could be played live on a drum kit just as easily as they could be reproduced on old 808s or 909s. That Strong and Tonez cleave closely to the oldschool ways of making rap music is not as counter-intuitive as it might seem: he sites as artistic references FloRida, Wiz Khalifa, and Gym Class Heroes, all of whom took their own cues from the masters. Christ Strong’s work is rap music that the music scene has needed for a long time. Tonez is very easily as talented as anyone coming out of the radio today.

This is the first professionally published track by Strong and Tonez on Holland Jungle Music (typographically represented as hOLLAND jUNGLE in fanzines and online) but to hear these men go, it definitely sounds as if it will not be the last. With this first single complete and ready for purchase and download on iTunes globally, it’s almost certain that we’ll see Bone Tone publishing an extended play record online any day now, or perhaps beginning his American tour.

-S. McCauley

Staff Press Release Writer

MondoTunes

The Single“80 Proof” is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com) and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download

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Joan of Arc [photo: Chris Strong]