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We’re on Playground Mag

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:20:01 +0000

The lovely people at the Madrid-based online magazine Playground asked me to put together a playlist of some of my favorite clips from YouTube. It’s in Spanish, so I’m not really sure what the preample to the piece says, but I’m sure somone will translate it for me at some point. More of our YouTube favorites can be found here.

Dancers, Behind the Scenes in The Province

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:04:58 +0000

The Province has a gallery of photos from the set of the new Circlesquare video, Dancers. The gallery goes behind the scenes and was shot by Arlen Redekop. There’s also a feature on the band in today’s print edition, written by Tom Harrison. They briefly mention the video.

The Province is one of the two major daily newspapers in British Columbia.

Bienvenido Cruz is an Art Thief

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:36:04 +0000

A photo of the elusive Bienvenido Cruz was used to accompany a short story by Sam Kerr in this year’s Holiday issue of Ion Magazine. Shot by Sanaz Afshar, this photo is not unlike the footage of the equally elusive Sasquatch captured by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin. One can also contemplate the irony of the story’s title (The Outside Man) and Mr. Cruz’s love/hate relationship with the “Art World.”

Kerr, Sam. “The Outside Man” Ion Magazine. 5.9.44 (2007): pp.46.
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Fight Sounds on VBS.tv

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:55:38 +0000

Someone told us that the video we directed for Circlesquare‘s Fight Sounds Pt. 1 is now screening at Vice Magazine‘s online video site, VBS.tv. We have no idea how it got there.

Fake Shark-Real Zombie! in Discorder

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:18:48 +0000

One our photographs of Parker from Fake Shark-Real Zombie! landed in this month’s issue of Discorder. The shot was taken at their March 15th show at the Lamplighter.

Fischer, Sarah. “Fake Shark – Real Zombie!” Discorder. June, 2007: pp.8-9.

Grizzly Bear on The New Pollution

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:32:44 +0000

The New Pollution published some photos I took at last February’s Grizzly Bear show. Read the article here.

Reeder, Matt. “Bear Attack” The New Pollution. Volume 12. 1 April, 2007.

The National in Ion: The Year in Live Music

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:22:25 +0000

Rememeber that great show The National played at Richard’s on Richards back in October? Ion just published one of the shots I took that night for their feature on The Year in Live Music.

“The Year in Live Music.” Ion Dec 2006: 31

We Can be Heroes (but just on MySpace)

admin — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:08:35 +0000

Sometimes (rarely), shit like this happens to me. It’s really flattering, but gives me an uneasy feeling. Still, it’s pretty awesome. Oh, just go start a fanclub already.

Georgia Straight on Resfest

admin — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:34:28 +0000

Resfest got some ink in the local entertainment weekly.

The CanCon program, now in its fourth year, includes music videos by MSTRKRFT, the Constantines, and Circlesquare (filmed by local director Bienvenido Cruz). Local filmmaker Jamie Travis’s short “Saddest Boy in the World”, which Travis describes as “a dark comedy about a boy who prepares to hang himself at his ninth birthday party”, is also in the mix.
- Craig Takeuchi, The Georgia Straight

I’m local!

News from Hollywood North By Craig Takeuchi
Publish Date: November 16, 2006

Style is Substance at Visual Smorgasbord
In our daily consumption of music videos and ads, it’s easy to overlook the artistry that goes into their visual effects. Local Resfest producer Nathan Whitford of Urban Visuals points out that “We’re so used to seeing these crazy effects—and that’s a lot of what Res is about—but a lot of what we see now are things that 10 years ago that if you saw that on TV you’d be like, ‘Whoa! That is crazy!’” Resfest (named after the RES Media Group that launched the film festival) puts that talent front and centre on the big screen when its 10th annual showcase of some of the world’s most cutting-edge short films and music videos comes to the Vancouver International Film Centre from Friday to Sunday (November 17 to 19).

Retrospectives are a focal point of this year’s programming, such as A Decade of Resfest: 10 Seminal Short Films, which highlights 10 shorts from the past decade. Musicwise, there’s Basement Jaxx, Beck, Nada Surf, Japanese hip-hoppers Hifana, and even a survey of Radiohead’s visual portfolio (“Radiohead, the Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent”).

Whitford adds that it’s not all just pretty pictures. Programs like By Design feature content that is “really heavily composited, total eye-candy kind of stuff”. He emphasizes out that “we’re getting to the point where people are realizing that if you’re going to do all that stuff you still gotta have some good content or a good story to tell people.” A case in point is Everything Under the Sun: Filmmaking With a Purpose, which presents innovative ways to tackle serious contemporary issues from environmental crises to antiglobalization.

The CanCon program, now in its fourth year, includes music videos by MSTRKRFT, the Constantines, and Circlesquare (filmed by local director Bienvenido Cruz). Local filmmaker Jamie Travis’s short “Saddest Boy in the World”, which Travis describes as “a dark comedy about a boy who prepares to hang himself at his ninth birthday party”, is also in the mix.

Takeuchi, Craig. “Style is Substance at Visual Smorgasbord.” The Georgia Straight 16-23 November. 2006: 71

Fight Sounds on The Wedge

admin — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:22:33 +0000

Fight Sounds Pt. 1 airs on MuchMusic’s The Wedge between videos by Ladytron and Peter Shelley.

Big Stereo Likes Fight Sounds

admin — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:00:44 +0000

“So simple, yet so brilliant. This is one of those rare occasions when the video actually takes the song to a whole different level.” - Big Stereo

Non-Revival Alarm on Remote on DVD

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:31:42 +0000

Circlesquare’s Non-Revival Alarm featured on Remote on DVD 4 with videos from The Streets, TV on the Radio, RJD2, Chromeo, Liars, The Shins, The Stills, and shitloads more.

IdN: Living in a Vancouver Special

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:03:30 +0000

Vicki Wong explores creative Vancouver in the latest issue of IdN (V11N2), featuring Deepseat, Sharilyn Wright, Picnic, Superdeux, Pete Hoang, Joseph Wu, ESM, Sara Bailey, Sunja Link, myself (Bienvenido Cruz), and many others.

This is nice. The photo of me is awful but they did publish some of my photos and some stills from Non-Revival Alarm.

Wong, Vicki. “Living in a Vancouver Special.” International Designers Network (International Edition) 11.2 (2004): 42-57.

Jennifer Lau took that photo.