The Tastemakers Society

Today officially marks the return of Throwback Thursday, it was in hiatus for a while but it’s been given new life. I bring back throwback thursday with one of my favorite childhood shows ever, and probably yours too, The Wonder Years. The video is the intro song to the show, remember that song, it brings me back to those days of acting foolish and having crushes. Ahh, those lovely first crushes, how they molded your future in so many ways. The Wonder Years, is by far in the top 5 kid series shows ever (and you can be sure the other 4 will make appearances on throwback thursday), even if all the child actors were doomed to never make it as serious adult actors as do to the curse of the child actor. But how could you not fall in love with Winnie Cooper, I mean seriously, she was probably like every little boys dream girl at the time. And what about little Kevin Arnold and his geeky best friend Paul Pfeiffer, they were as cool as cool could get, how else do you explain this being such a dope outfit. The best part about the show was the narration Kevin would do for himself, like exactly how it really is in life, you are thinking something completely different then what you’re saying or even acting like at the time. So when you get in front of your TV today, search for the re-runs of The Wonder Years and do yourself a favor and watch them all again, taking you back to those more peaceful child-care-free days. Oh, and if you’re wondering what little Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper are up to these days, well Fred Savage is filming a TV show, ‘Single White Millionaire’, and Danica McKellar is writing bestselling math books these days, oh yea, she still is dream girl material.

LVMH the luxury holding company to most of the prestigious luxury brands in the world has made a short film showcasing all the 60 labels under the LVMH family umbrella. The film was in conjunction with the Ogilvy & Mather agency and production house H5.

Miracle at. St. Anna

Made In Queens is a short film directed by Nicholas Randall and Joe Stevens. The film is about a small crew of Trinidadian teenagers from Queens who customize there BMX bikes with huge soundstytems.

Sexdrive movie trailer: more trailers after the jump…….

It’s amazing to see artists work grow into different realms and see how they can manipulate that field different from their usual canvas perspective. This is the trailer for artist Alex Pardee’s upcoming movie with Warner Bros, Chadam. It’s amazing to see how someone could take an idea bring it to form on paper and then turn around and bring it to life in a 3 dimensional setting like film/animation. From canvas to film the art world is definitely trying to play on more playgrounds.

via: juxtapoz

If you’re in NY today hit up Monkey Town in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the screening of the new Daft Punk dvd “Electroma”, an 80 minute film about robots in which two of the robots are trying to become human. The film was written and directed by the Daft Punk duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter who left the music and soundtrack for this film up to others, opting out of putting any of their Daft Punk songs in the film. If you make it out to the screening you’ll be able to get the dvd and a 40 page book that accompanies it for $15. After a decade in the game Daft Punk is still leading the way in their own way, creating what is always innovative. A few more videos of the film after the jump….

Oliver Stone is going to try and explain how George W. Bush became George W. Bush. Will I see the movie? Will I not see the movie? That’ll all be resolved the closer it comes to the films release, but being that I did do this…. my guess is that I’m more than likely going to see the transition from an apparent drunk to a white house resident dubly titled the president, but more importantly were is the film about the Bush and Kennedy families.   

I didn’t read the graphic novel, but I am looking forward to this movie, this is how you make a trailer. And it’s directed by Zack Snyder the same director of 300. You can visit the official website here.  

As mentioned earlier I was going to talk about the last season or more like 9 episodes of the Sopranos that just started up last Sunday. Last season which ended early was not the best the Sopranos could have been, I was very much unhappy with most of the storylines and how the show just ended so abruptly but the first episode of these last 9 shows has already got me thinking the Sopranos just might go out with a bang. I hope the writer’s gave Anthony so balls this time down the road, and I want to see how stable or unstable Chris gets, and we all know Paulie is sneaky as hell so he is definitely someone too look out for. And we can’t forget about the woman of the show Meadow and Carmela, who I hope have big roles to play this season, specially since I think Meadow is sexy as shit. But the most important piece in this seasons Soprano puzzle is Tony, will he be the new calmer and more mindful Tony who has change for the better to say after being shot, or will he slip back into being out of control, loose canon Tony from before, who off just a whim would slap you or disrespect you for just smiling at a joke he didn’t think was funny. In any case I have much faith in David Chase the creator of the Sopranos and the writers who have made a classic out of a show that wasn’t even supposed to be green lighted for a season.

I always have these ideas I know are good but don’t ever have the means or connections to see them realized, the phrase “its not what you know but who you know” is all so painfully true, and this TV show idea I had in my head for almost 2 years now has been, you guessed it already implemented, and recently to. Which is always the worst because it just lets me know if I knew the right people I would be the one running the show, but oh well just another good idea down the drain. The company who was smart enough to think like me was PLUM TV, whom I just read about in Details’ new issue about the 2007 Mevericks who will be making impacts and changes to industries. Plum TV was started by Tom Scott one of the partners of Nantucket Necktars who sold their company for $70 million, has taken plum to vacation spots for his viewer ship and is already in locations such as the Hamptons, Aspen, and Miami Beach. The show that Plum TV has that I wanted to create is called “Open Exchange” which has host Jonathan Tisch speak with titans of industries like Trump, Zuckerman, Clive Davis, Steve Ross, and many others who have been the heads of industries for years. My show was the exact same premise to interview the major players in a comfortable atmosphere like their home, but Plum beat me to it, and from the looks of what I saw they will be continuing to grow in the future with more good shows. Now if someone knows anybody at Plum tell them to give me a shout I got more ideas for them.