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The star of Paul Devlin’s upcoming movie Super Star Dumb, Jim Wood, has just released the first CD with his new band, 1-$tring Woody. The 20-track Vinyl Mind is bursting with diversity, genre-mixing and musical references. Trying to pin down what “type” of music this is won’t be easy – the individual songs are unique, stand-alone gems. Think of each track as its own 45RPM single. These are familiar songs you’ve never heard before. The new retro!

Vinyl Mind is a rocking nod to Jim’s 5000+ vinyl record collection. Find out more about the source from Jim’s podcast, Field Hollers Yield Dollars.

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Field Hollers Yield Dollars is an exciting new podcast about the evolution of Rhythm & Blues into Rock and Roll in the United States. Featuring Jim Wood of DevlinPix' upcoming music-comedy Super Star Dumb, this podcast is an informative, entertaining look back at our nation's storied musical history:

Blues was authored by America’s slaves, and grew into Rhythm & Blues as musical technology advanced. The underground “black music for black audiences” was unearthed by a handful of hip Caucasians, most of them smelling cash and none more endowed of this sense than Sam Phillips. Sam whitewashed the blues, brought us Elvis, and ushered in a mega-millions era of “Rock & Roll” that ensured the death of R&B and forever merged artistic integrity with tin-eared marketing muscle.

Jim Wood has 5000 R&B records, and he recounts the bittersweet tale of the birth of “America’s music” with opinion and dialog as bold as the best Wynonie Harris records.

Listen to Field Hollers Yield Dollars now at the iTunes Store and PodOmatic!

DOWNLOAD: Title Card (Full Res) | Photo of Jim Wood (Full Res) | Press Release (DOC) (PDF)

 

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As featured on The Colbert Report and NPR's Science Friday.

“Brilliant! Absorbing! Unexpected twists and turns!"  - The New York Times    

 "This adventuresome spin on breakthrough science should wow 'em!" - Variety

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Keep up with the experiment here! BLAST was re-built and re-launched as BLAST-pol! Follow the team's progress down in McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Have Netflix? BLAST! is now available!

Welcome to Astrophysics Indiana Jones style!

BLAST! follows the filmmaker’s brother, Mark Devlin, PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists on the journey of a lifetime from Arctic Sweden to the desolate ice of Antarctica. By launching a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon, they hope to reveal a hidden Universe of never-before-seen star-burst galaxies, providing clues to the Evolution of Everything. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, their adventure reveals the surprising real life of scientists.

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"A pop cultural phenonmenon!"-Robert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"The drama is always full-flame. So is the comedy." - Film Pick of the Week, LA Weekly

    SXSW laurels    Northampton Laurels

Emmy award-winner Paul Devlin gives you a ringside seat at the most compelling verbal slugfest of the century. SlamNation chronicles The National Poetry Slam - the Olympics of verse, in which spoken word artists (the adrenaline junkies of the literary world) compete fiercely in battle poetic.

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"Gripping!  A Real-Life Thriller!" - LA Weekly

"Darkly Funny!" - Time Out New York

"One of the Highest-Rated Films of 2003" - Rotten Tomatoes

Power Trip Laurels

In an environment of pervasive corruption, assassination, and street rioting, the story of chaotic post-Soviet transition is told through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts. 

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Directed by Kevin Fitzgerald (aka DJ Organic), Produced by Henry-Alex Rubin (Murderball),
and Produced and Edited by Paul Devlin.

"A rousing education in an art form that is too often misunderstood."
- The New York Times

"This fascinating documentary offers a rare glimpse into communities of gifted street rhymers who challenge and support one another in inspiring, creative ways."
- Jon Matsumoto, Variety


"Affectionate, wildly entertaining...Boasts a loose, spontaneous, free-flowing feel that's perfectly suited to the sharp-witted improvisation and brash gamesmanship at its subject's heart."
- Nathan Rabin, The Onion

Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme explosively documents the world of improvisational hip-hop, providing an authentic look into the life, music, and history of this undergound culture.  Packed with rare and archival footage of some of the most amazing hip-hop MC's ever to bless the mic!

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Paul Devlin’s first documentary, Rockin’ Brunswick, was shot near his hometown in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and edited while he was still a student at the University of Michigan.  Rockin’ Brunswick captures a thriving ‘80s music scene, championed by WRSU DJ, Matt Pinfield and featuring interviews and performances by Crossfire Choir, The Blasés, The Groceries, Jigs and the Pigs, D.P. and the Greys, The Nullset, The Deed and Rockin’ Bricks.  Also featured is Jim Wood, with his first band The Deal, the subject of Paul Devlin’s latest movie, Super Star Dumb.

Check out this 1980's commercial for Pa­trix, the "CBG­Bs of New Brunswick," one of the the clubs featured in Rockin' Brunswick!

RB was recently featured in the New Jersey Sentinel, read it here!

 

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Director Paul Devlin's television pilot captures the edgy sport of the spoken word as bards compete in the semifinals of a slam event held at New York City's renowned Nuyorican Poets Café. Evert Eden, Everton Sylvester, David Mills and Susan Ross perform, among others. Narrated by Bob Holman, this engaging program copped two New York Emmy Award nominations, and Devlin went on to produce the acclaimed film SlamNation.
 

Slammin’ is now available as part of the special double disk set of SlamNation.
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Paul Devlin directed this first in a series of National Poetry Slam Finals videos.

The hottest spoken word artists gather each year at the National Poetry Slam for a lip-slinging, mouth-mashing shoot out. If you think you know poetry watch this video and see the dusty, grade school memory turned upside down. Is it a new art form or a return to the raging roots of oral tradition?  Gather round and feel the heat of these poets words. The 2000 Finals Night features 24 poets performing 31 poems.

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Paul Devlin’s fictional short stars James McCaffrey, (co-star of Rescue Me) as Tony O’Neil a talented, but very distracted neon artist. 

Tony loses everything he touches.  And if he's not careful, that includes his girlfriend Corrin.  Desperate, Tony seeks the help of Shah, a strange and powerful mystic who has learned to use science to achieve spiritual goals.

Shah's newest invention is a pair of extraordinary glasses.  Try them on, think of an object that's lost and in a moment, it can be seen.  The glasses need field-testing and Tony is the perfect subject.

At first, Tony is back in control, finding all the things he's lost.  But the glasses are more complex than he ever imagined.  Tony is about to discover that sometimes, the worst part of losing things, is finding them...

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Produced by Sarah Bleakley and edited by Paul Devlin, CutTime is a survey of the independent, club music scene in the East Village of New York City in 1990.  

Shot in black and white 16mm and Super 8 film, the 24-minute movie features interviews and performances by John S. Hall and King Missile, False Prophets, HypnoLoveWheel, Woodpecker, The Gamma Rays, The Reverb Motherfuckers, Two Minutes Hate, Carry Nation, Kirk Kelly, The Holy Cows, and Gregpack.

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