New Missed Connections film shows what happens when you reply to every ad
MISSED CONNECTIONS is a pessimistic romantic comedy about Jamie, a misanthropic loser who becomes obsessed with a London newspaper’s Missed Connections column, in which lovestruck singles attempt to find a stranger who caught their eye the previous day, but failed to talk to. Upon realising the unlikelihood of any of its contributors finding their soulmate, he hatches a plan in a moment of cynical genius; he starts replying to all of them.
The film will be included as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner, which runs from May 12th-22nd. The film will also have a free public screening as part of Cannes in a Van, a mobile cinema parked along the city’s Croisette, on May 15th at 9:30pm, for which the Director Chris Presswell and a selection of cast and crew will be in attendance.
For more information on the film and screenings see http://www.papersunfilms.co.uk/missedconnections
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 20th, 2010 | Categorized as Art, Film, News
Sophie Blackall latest missed connection illustration
Sophie Blackall has given the world another wonderful missed connection illustration to enjoy: We Talked About Rent and Africa on the L
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on March 17th, 2010 | Categorized as Art
Missed Connections show at Yale
Just received a tip off about a new Missed Connections musical for those of you near Yale. You can find details (temporarily) at YaleStation and at the Yale Cabaret website.
For more background on the show and an interview with Chad Raines the show’s creator, check out the New Haven Advocate article: Only Misconnect – Chad Raines’ new pop musical gets personals
Send your missed connections news tips to eliot@missedconnections.com.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on February 11th, 2010 | Categorized as Art, Fun
RomCom Gone Wrong Short Film
Just found this gem – worth watching to the end, enjoy. Film comes from the creative talents at Reckless Tortuga.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on February 10th, 2010 | Categorized as Art, Fun
Documentary on Sophie Blackall and her missed connection illustrations
This is a great sub-5 minute doc on Sophie Blackall and her missed connections work. Really good to be able to put a face and voice to the artist and to hear her thoughts.
The documentary makers have done a top notch and fun job of live action recreations of some of her work (I’d have loved to have seen them recreate We Shared a Bear Suit and Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas).
Add to the comments on Sophie’s blog about the documentary here and see the latest illustration in the series: “Doing Laundry in Our Building“.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on November 19th, 2009 | Categorized as Art, News
Sophie Blackall’s latest: You Left Your Coat Here Last Winter
Check out Sophie Blackall’s latest missed connection illustration: You Left Your Coat Here Last Winter
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on November 5th, 2009 | Categorized as Art
Missed Connection illustration by Sophie Blackall “We Shared a Bear Suit”
Another wonderful illustrated missed connection from the consistently excellent Sophie Blackall: We Shared a Bear Suit
You can buy a selection of Sophie’s work as limited run prints from Etsy. For this one there were only 8 prints left last time I checked.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on October 30th, 2009 | Categorized as Art
Missed Connections movie in pipeline – based on comics
Variety has the news that there’s a missed connections movie in the pipeline inspired by Julia Wertz’s “I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections” book, a collection of comics by artists and Julia herself.
Full story on Variety here.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on October 29th, 2009 | Categorized as Art, News
Even cats are getting missed connections now
In between checking email and doing serious research on cartoons from my childhood I found this entertaining missed connection for a cat posted by Marie on her blog. Thought it might tickle some of you.
Update Just read in the comments of Marie’s blog post that she has been reunited with the cat 
Missed connections for cats do work is the lesson to learn here.
BONUS: As its a Saturday morning, and Saturday mornings are for cartoons, to give joy to my fellow children of the 80s here are the cartoons who were pulled from the brink of extinction in my memory today thanks to exploring Amazon and Wikipedia:
Mysterious Cities of Gold (currently watching this on DVD), Ulysses 31, Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds, Willy Fog, Thundercats, Real Ghostbusters, He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, Shoe People, Raggy Dolls.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on October 24th, 2009 | Categorized as Art
Missed Connections Maps
I think the artist behind these maps is Dorothy, and I could try to explain each one, but they do such a great job of that themselves. Briefly, each map shows data about missed connections in the US, such as the average hair color of people being looked for:
- Missed connections mapped by specific locations, e.g. Walmart, LA fitness map 1, map 2
- Missed connections mapped by type of location, e.g. store, gym
- Missed connections mapped by hair color
- Missed connections mapped by age
- Missed connections mapped by gender4gender (w4m, m4w, m4m, w4w)
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on October 16th, 2009 | Categorized as Art
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