Not only does this shirt depict the miraculous interspecial love connection that spawns the half-dolphin, half-whale wholphin from which our DVD quarterly draws its name, but it is also a paean to May-December relationships. The spritely young male dolphin (left) is an old soul, who has always found comfort in the flippers of the elderly. Yet, dolphin life expectancy being considerably shorter than that of the majestic whale, it was only when these two met did our dolphin see the full potential of age-disparate love.

Buy it here.

and their new dvd: “Not 4 $ale: A Vidjoe Rodeoe”

The Westworld robot, a video ape and Don Knotts started a pirate TV station. Not a metaphor, this is science fact. They have the finest video switching equipment but only cable TV footage and disco technique. All hail TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies, who mine old VHS tapes and make golden nuggets.

More realistically, the Sheriff is a guy in LA who takes tons of found footage, from commercials to rare TV to Arnold to music videos and mashes them together to make new crunchy vids. His live shows at Star Shoes in Hollywood made him an underground legend, and this DVD collection of 30 videos is pretty killer.

TV Sheriff’s style is reminiscent of Animal Charm’s transgressive feel with more recognizable sources, and with the speed and techno vibe of EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network – remember them??) and even some of their politics. If Vice magazine’s TV Carnage wasn’t laid up in the hospital, but religiously healed by E, you would get TV Sheriff. Is there a name for this genre yet? Can I make one? Channel Knobs. No that sucks. Knob Surfers? Toaster Heads?

Because, there used to be this primitive home video switcher thing called Video Toaster and…screw it. See – its hard to mash ideas together. But the Sheriff pulls it together in a funny way, always entertaining but also with some social and political observations in there. YES, it is easy to say TV is twisted and sick and the evil tool of rich people. But it’s hard to show that and not be condescending. All hail TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies.

Slick DVD production is great, easy to navigate and tons of extras, include “collaborations” with Coldcut, DJ Q-Bert and VJ V2, and an introductory essay by Gerry Casale (from Devo), which is like a blessing down from the heavens.

FAILURE WONDERFUL TERRIBLE RIDICULOUS

A presentation of video and performance-based artwork by:

My Barbarian
Sam Green
Julie Lequin
Emily Roysdon
Wholphin (Brent Hoff)

Organized by Nicole Antebi, Robby Herbst, and Irene Tsatsos

Opening March 10, 6-10pm, UCLA

Park Projects is pleased to present a group exhibition that explores the positive aspects of failure. “Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful” features works that can be characterized as privileging a heartfelt appreciation of the effort expended to realize a goal, even if the goal itself remains elusive or even unattainable, rather than the goal itself.

Like the 1970s New Games phenomenon, it celebrates effort over effect, engagement over outcome.

“Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful” is being mounted in conjunction with the book Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press.

www.joaap.org

Please forgive the late notice, but if you live near our nation’s capital and can tear yourself away from _INSERT LATEST D.C. SEX SCANDAL INVOLVING DICK MORRIS HERE_ , we will be screening fresh politically-infused Wholphin shorts at The Center For American Progress this Wednesday. Please come!

The details:

Wednesday, March 14,

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Program: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Admission is free.
Light refreshments will be served.

The screening will start at 7:00 pm sharp.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED
RSVP Required. First come, first served.

RSVP to pfitzgerald@americanprogress.org with the subject line: WHOLPHIN RSVP - Brent sent me

Please let us know in advance if you have accessibility-related needs so that we can be sure to accommodate you.

Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center
For more information, please call 202.741.6246.

Why does everybody want Tom Hanks? Need a good actor? Here is your man.

Jay. Jay Rondot.

He stars in some comedy shorts, lovingly made for the internet by funny guy Ross Novie. The spy ones don’t even seem like a parody, since James Bond is so ridiculous in the first place. Jay is superspy Jack Butterscotch, who I think is poor, coz those aren’t gloves, he painted his hands black.

Hit up the Treasure Trail series and then… The Rascal. You don’t need to watch them in order, it ain’t brain surgery.

Jay also has a series of christmas cards over the past ten years chronicling a life. Beautiful. He says they’re not about him.

Interview with CAM ARCHER
Whose “Wild Tigers I Have Known” opens this weekend in NYC.

“Are you using mountain lions to repesent something like the horrible ages of puberty coming for the characters? Or is a lion just a lion? Puberty is a lion, I like that. Originally, the lion was supposed to represent the outcast, or the thing thing we know nothing about, but are told to despise and want dead. So Logan identifies with the lion, feels surrounded by the ‘tigers’ at his school, and wants nothing more than to be left alone, living independently of the madness, the close mindedness and the hatred. I don’t know, it made sense when I wrote it.

Puberty is a fucking beast, isn’t it? It’s just a question of when that beast’s going to visit you and then when it’s going to be done with you.”

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Also new: more rants about short films
“why do film schools try to teach students by showing them features and then expecting them to emulate what they have learned inside of a short?”

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New, not old:
Interview with STEPHANIE BARBER

“Had there been times when you were showing your films that made you want more crowd participation? No, I never watch my films when people are watching. Too scared. [laughs]

But I just like that there’s something unbelievably lonely about speaking to a movie.”

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And
Interview with BILL DANIEL

“It’s a weird thing about documentaries in general, it’s so strangely possessive of people’s souls. The Native Americans had it right: you definitely capture someone’s soul in a photograph, and it’s even worse in a film and even worse in a documentary.

You’re carrying around this bizarre psychic responsibility when you put somebody in a documentary.”

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Cool festivals now taking submissions:
Madcat
New York Underground

And in LA, REDCAT is showing some incredible hard-to-find films in their “Where Did Our Love Go?” A Series of Films by Women” program, including the legendary WANDA by Barbara Loden.

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Enjoy,
Mike
Publisher

I Blame Society
Lunchfilm