A groundbreaking interactive music video for music icon Bob Dylan's 1965 single 'Like a Rolling Stone' has been released. The video, built as a multi-media experience, allows fans to connect with the song like never before.
Created in partnership with Interlude and produced by Pulse Films and Walter Pictures, the video allows viewers to play an active role in the story of the music video. The experience begins as soon as the user presses play where they are instantly given the ability to surf 16 difference 'TV channels' within the video in real-time–no one version of the video is the same.
The interchangeable 'channels' are made up of iconic American TV formats and recognizable talent including 'Pawn Stars' from the History Channel, Derrick Ashong of Fusion TV, comedian Marc Maron, 'The Price is Right' with Drew Carey, Jonathan and Drew Scott of 'Property Brothers', 'Girl Code' on MTV, actor Simon Rex, eccentric Detroit rapper Danny Brown, and 'EXTRA' with Mario Lopez.
The video corresponds with the Columbia/Legacy Recordings release of Dylan's The Complete Album Collection Volume 1. This CD boxed set contains 35 studio titles (including the first-ever North American release of 1973's "Dylan" album on CD), 6 live albums, 2-CD "Side Tracks," and a hardcover book featuring new album-by-album liner notes by Clinton Heylin with a new introduction by Bill Flanagan. "Side Tracks" brings together for the first time two discs worth of previously released non-album singles, tracks from "Biography" and other compilations, songs from films and more.
Vania Heymann directed via Pulse Films.
To connect with the video, click here.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More