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Like for example, the “reel” gives you a brief glimpse of the highly beautiful BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE footage we shot this summer.

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(Within 2 hours of launching deepvisionmedia.com, we got hired for $$$s. Powerrr.)

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There’s been so much movement on so many projects, its been hard to decide when to do this post — like one music video we were late-stage planning seems to have temporarily dissolved, but another one is too fresh to mention yet! Anyways, here’s some upcoming movies as they stand now…

Airs 12/20/06. (Previous episodes.)

This big-budget 37 minute piece is set to shoot in Honduras before the 2007 rainy season. The confirmed cast includes Ball Deep alums Trevor Hoff (as a drug smuggler), John Martin (as the Mayan jaguar god) and Andre Frechette (as Bret Easton Ellis). Bigtime bigshot Alex Orban has just signed on as co-producer.
Xpect to hear a lot in these coming months about preppies, heiroglyphics and art-movie fundraising.

We’ll start you off with some quotes:

“I am nineteen years old, blonde, slim and looking for adventure
…let me be your special.”
1928 letter to J. Eric S. Thompson, Archaeologist of the Ancient Maya

“‘My son, go and get me your loincloth that I may perceive its odour here with the widespread odour of my loincloth and the odour of my mantle and the odour of my censer. The supreme odour of the at the centre of the sky, at the centre of the clouds. And that which closes my mouth together, it is in a white cup if you are a halch uinic. ‘Father I will bring it,’ he said. And this is the odour of the loincloth which he asks for. This is the supreme odour at the centre of the sky. It is copal gum set on fire so that it burns. This is what closes his mouth together. It is ground cacao.”
Bodil Liljefors Persson, Historian, citing the Chilam Balam de Tuzik

“”I’m telling you, baby….The world is a jungle. Wherever you go it’s still the same.”
Bret Easton Ellis, Novelist

Think Apocalypso. Think big!

Ménage à Trois

Taking place over a year, this movie (also 37 minutes) explores the social, physical and erotic rule-sets of three racquet sports. Production is not yet scheduled.

Fake French Naomi’s extensively photo-blogged the very fun weekend we shot Halloween Face 1 and 2 — Cool!

N will be reinterpreting Alicia Silverstone in an upcoming Ball Deep project.
More on that soon…

Lev here.
I know Whitney and I present a fairly unified corporate identity on this site. But we don’t really agree on everything. Take music — she doesn’t invite me along to see bands I wouldn’t be psyched for, and there are MP3s I’d probably email to J or J or A before her.

There is one kind of music tho that I really feel has belonged to us as long as we’ve been friends. It involves heavy distortion, high pitched noises, mumbled off-rhythm vocals (usually mixed way too high to way too low), and often a drum-machine.

Example bands are The Country Teasers, early Devo, the Coachwhips, the Fall and the Butthole Surfers. These are people I only imagine wearing very dark cheaters all the time. If Whitney and I had a band our one song would be her playing a highly amped and distorted kazoo while I screamed “NOW! NOW! NOW!” until I passed out.

So when I heard Cheveu for the first time I emailed the MP3 to Whitney with lots of exclamation points in the subject. I mean, on top of making our kind of music, they’re French: the effing people of sunglasses!

The point is they’re playing in Brooklyn tomorrow night on their first American tour. So we’ll be there and here’s an MPfree…

Friday, October 13 @ UNCLE PAULIE’S

:: Tunnel of Love —–> titans in tights from Boston
:::: Cheveau ———-> from France
:::::: Ghosty ———-> Kansas City kidz
:::::::: Bossy ——–> x Bent Outta Shape
:::::::::: Shrag ——-> from Brighton, England

[ UNCLE PAULIE’S ] ~~ air conditioned! ~~
NE corner of Monitor St & Greenpoint Ave | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G train to Greenpoint Ave or L to Graham | 8pm | all ages | $6

[ UNCLE PAULIE’S ]
$2 beer! Uncle Paulie’s is totally a temporary structure built out of blue canvas and two by fours and plywood on a slab of concrete next to the huge under-construction death star minaret upside-down hot-air-balloon lookin’ sewage treatment plant in Greenpoint. During the daylight, men in hard hats eat fried food here. Totally patio, but totally inside! Easy to get to but so far out nobody cares! Noise & djs till the wee hours! $2 beer!

Yes yes.

From now on, www.levandwhitney.org takes you to www.balldeep.tv, the new official site of Ball Deep International / Lev and Whitney.

Please change yr links, bookmarks, etc…

NOTE: Did ya ever see that terrific “Can I get an upgrade?” Tampax commercial? We found the myspace profile of the hunky guy at the end of it…

It’s kinda warm out! That means the SUMMER (film festival season) is coming. So L & W need writeups of all their recent movies.
Last night, using methods of creative (mis)watching, about twelve beers (many from Russia!) and their imaginations, Lev and Whitney wrote these funabled synopsis:

Music video for Book’s On Tape’s “Stones to Turn /
Bridges to Burn”
With XXXtended love scenes, intricate vampire plots
and 90s-music shoutouts, Stones to Turn / Bridges
to Burn is too soft-core  to be a music video, but
too hardcore to be pornography.

Fun’s Over
File under science-fiction, beach, romantic comedy.
The future is fun, when you’re in the sun. But not
when you’ve got gonorrhea.
Fun’s Over: life’s a “beatch”.

O, Nurse!
Nobody listens to the doctor
because there’s a speedboat, and it’s Bastille Day, and
Batman Returns is on, and we’re at an apple
orchard, and there’s Liberia, and it’s in color…
The punchline is gay sex.

Jazz Christmas
Looking back, it’s clear the young NYC hipsters of
the 1920s were earnest with their own dramas, fads
and fetishes but totally unaware of their fate (Crash!)
Anywayz…
Presenting for your pleasure, Jazz Christmas:
the Beautiful and Damned, before they knew about
that second part.

That’s right — crazy slang poems!
But really seriously. Are you on the selection committee of any film festivals? Do you just “know” about some “cool” ones?
Lev.and.Whitney@gmail.com!

In gratitude for the disproportionate hours of sleep (and probably years of life) Whitney lost getting Jazz Christmas ready for last weekend’s premiere, Lev’s written her a poem. It’s loosely based on the “Because you took…” poem from Lolita.

Whitney
Hitney
Itney
Tney
Ney
Ey
Y?

The new issue of Future Incite, the webzine of “genre video making for the advanced hobbyist” has an article about L & W’s “genre” movies, Fun’s Over and Blood Stew. The article includes an MP3 interview between L & W and the zine’s editor Sundiata Cowels. Whitney is on point and Lev is hilarious.

W: We like knives. We like tennis racquets. They go well together.

L: We want our movies to look like art […] In these days when a lot of digital movies are moving towards blurring the line between reality TV and fictional–y’know: Is it a documentary? Is it a mockumentary? We’re not interested in pursuing any of those questions. […] People still think that [our movies] are improvised or that they’re documentary-style or something. They’re none of that. They’re highly staged. But if we were shooting digital, people would think that all the time. [Shooting 16mm] is kinda a way of influencing the way the movies are read.