Check out this informative article in Fast Company about our BluDot experiment.

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The experiment is blowing up all over the internet.  People have been following the live GPS map and tracking us down.  But this weekend we’re on the hunt for all of the people who found the chairs.

Our upcoming documentary about the project will premiere at the BluDot anniversary party and be featured on their website in December…

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Today we dropped 5 BluDot chairs on 5 different NYC street corners each installed with a covert GPS tracking device.  We’re making a film with mono about who takes the chairs & where they end up.

Serious missions call for serious lenses.

Griff readies for a drop in the back of the van.

Our inconspicuous surveillance van.

This is what they look like.

You can watch the chairs progress updates on this live GPS map, and follow them on Twitter & Flickr.

We’re dropping 5 more tomorrow.

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Starting tomorrow we’re teaming up with Mono again and dropping 10 of these BluDot “Real Good” chairs around NYC (with secret GPS tracking devices installed by our friends over at  Tellart) to see where they end up.  You can watch the chairs’ progress on a live map!  We’re going to wait a couple of days and interview the people who pick the chairs up, see what they think about the whole thing.

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During our 2nd week of shooting we were visited on set by NYT reporter Gia Kourlas, who wrote an amazing article about our project.  Béatrice de Géa took photos.   Our grandmothers were very proud.

Click here to read the article….

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Shooting continues.  We shot the 3rd movement of the ballet (Improvisations) at P.S. 146 in Brooklyn and finished up Statics over the weekend in Red Hook.

(photos by Joe Anderson)

(photos by Kate Reeder)

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After 3 years, our 35mm ballet film “NY Export: Opus Jazz” has officially been acquired by Channel 13 (WNET) for its 2010 Great Performances/Dance in America series.

The film is an adaptation of a 1958 ballet by Jerome Robbins starring dancers from New York City Ballet and shot on location all over New York City.

In 2007 we shot 1 movement from the ballet on the Highline.  Over the next 6 weeks we will be shooting the remaining 4 movements and many adjoining scenes.

Big shout-out to our Executive Producers (and NYCB dancers) Ellen & Sean and especially to our lawyer John for putting this whole thing together.

We start shooting in ONE WEEK!  Stay tuned….

xoSM

p.s.  click here to see the official website.

p.p.s.  become our fan on Facebook by searching for “NY Export: Opus Jazz”

p.p.p.s. click here to read an article in The New York Sun about our film.

Nev and I are officially paid stuntmen.  We play “motorcycle bad guy #1 and #2″ in a Microsoft Office commercial/spoof movie trailer, shot by our dear friend Doug Emmett.
Click to play…

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If you want one, just ask.  We here at supermarché are deeply grieved.

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2 sets of dear friends and frequent collaborators screened their movies in the past couple of weeks.  There’s nothing quite as gratifying as seeing your friends’ movie play in front of a full house.

Josh & Benny Safdie of Red Bucket Films introduce their new film “Go Get Some Rosemary” to a house packed with friends at Walter Reade Theater.  Ariel art directed the film and Supermarché provided post-production facilities and equipment.  The film premiered at Cannes  Director’s Fortnight and now they’re on the festival circuit–next stop Munich.

Jody Lee Lipes and Lance Edmands field questions at BAM after the screening of their feature doc “Good Times Will Never Be The Same“.  It’s screening again on June 24th as part of the BAMcinemaFEST.  Click here to buy tickets.

xoSM