The Japanese Chinese explain the Jay and Conan dispute....

HEALTH announces their Australia tour....

After seeing this tour promo, I'm sold

80's local news promo is 80's

Beany Babies

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

Weekly World News

This is by far my favorite headline of all time. I stumbled on this huge cache of WWN magazines in Google Books...insane.








LINK to all the craziness.

Really, really, good compositing

I guess the demands of a weekly TV show, with scripts that require a worldwide shot list, necessitated that most of these shots be composites...and you can't tell.





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worst street names...ever

Yeah, just meet me at the corner of 3rd ave and 6th st.

LINK to google maps Hickory, NC

The Vat-Grown Meat Revolution

I know it sounds like a post-modern novel, but this article raises some interesting points about how this new food will change our lives. To Summarize:

1) More Healthy
2) Cheaper
3) More Humane
4) Better for the environment

LINK to article.

Playstation 1.0, how I love thee

I like this thread where people talk about their first experiences with the original Playstation...

I remember fondly getting one after thanksgiving in '95, and then being utterly consumed with Metal Gear Solid. My lovely wife can still remember the dialogue and music (after being forced to listen to it for ages).
Liquid - "You're out of time! It's going to blow!"
(punch, punch, kick)

Axel F, lasers, soccer ball

...that is all.

Fancy spinning top from Mark Frauenfelder on Vimeo.

Taybor Tobacco

A little experiment...

Atari Ballblazer

I remember thinking "this is the ultimate...there's no way they can make a game better than this..." (probably because of the kickass bass line in the musical intro).

Royksopp

Ain't we a pair, raggedy man.

Röyksopp 'This Must Be It' from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Japanese creepy/funny MRI

I'll say it again: We're years behind the Japanese when it comes to entertaining TV.

Flip the dining table game

Finally! And just in time for Thanksgiving too.



LINK to KOTAKU post

Battle of the Network Stars "77

If you can sit through this intro, you will have some valuable insights into my psyche.

The Love Police

Actually, I'm very surprised they weren't beaten and arrested.

ಠ_ಠ

80's eligible batchelors

Dating Montage
by smithy00101

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Tooth Decay

Hot off the presses...

Cycling with the Germans

How can this be completely lame and totally sweet at the same time?

ticketed for excessive awesomeness

A woman noticed this on her bike in Toronto...I like the random(art)ness big cities give you.

LINK to torontoist.com article

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Which one isn't a magazine?

Well, I scored pretty bad on this quiz...probably due to the fact that I've seen magazines titled: "I'm Pregnant!", "Crappie", and "Varmint Masters".


Score: 27% (4 out of 15)


LINK to Which one isn't a magazine?

low...ri....der...is a little higher.

My lowrider is finally done, after some sweat and run-in with a criminal enterprise (masquerading as a bike store).

In the Know

"...if we start using Griffins we're no better than the terrorists."

Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

Emails from an Asshole.

This isn't trolling...it's an art form.

"I added $50 for you trying to haggle me. I'll remove this $50 haggling fee if you let me break an empty vodka bottle over your head."

LINK to Emails from an Asshole.

amazing Yoga video

ways to be cool

click for large version

Detroit is evolving

Usually when you think of Detroit you think of abandoned properties and rust-belt decay. But it seems that there is a quiet revolution going on...starting with the "Powerhouse".

LINK to Powerhouse Project


There's also a blog, which is an interesting read...


LINK to Powerhouse Blog

Minutemen

Their prolific double album, "Double Nickels on the Dime" turns 25 this month. This record was my anthem in high school. I never saw them live; I did see "fIREHOSE", the band Mike Watt formed after D. Boon died, at the Southgate house in 1989. Here is a huge thread from BoingBoing:

LINK to Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen turns 25


I also stumbled upon this user on youtube, who is uploading all SST stuff. SST was the label that Greg Ginn (Black Flag) founded, and my youth was spent listening to Hüsker Dü, Black Flag, and the Minutemen. I learned to play bass by figuring out the bass lines on these albums. Also, I am old.

LINK to Our Band could be Your Life

this is a little insane

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

New "Green" computer

The harder you work, the faster your animation will render.





















LINK to Skymallrev

Robots invade vintage postcards

this gave me a chuckle...

LINK to slideshow "Robots invade vintage postcards"

The world is changing around us

Due to all the global warming/pollution, there seems to be a shift in equalibrium between populations of vertebrates and non-invertebrates. Not convinced? Just look at Red Lobster's new entree: Jellyfish appetizer with a savory cyanobacteria sauce.

we're eating all the fish

more invertebrates

again with the jellyfish

mysterious algae blooms

global warming leads to dead zones leads to algae blooms

creepy swarm of bacteria-loving worms

Modest business proposal

did he just say "jello puddin pop, flippity flop, call me back muthafucka I'll slap yo ass..."?

rundown of notable Cincinnati stories...

artist with sharpie in Sears' electronic department

family buys punching bag with stinky surprise

dude loves sleeping in Port-O-Lets.

..."I keep it now!"

woman sits in front of TV for 2 1/2 years...except...

Michael Bay finally...

...made an art movie. One of the most hilarious film reviews I've read.

And every single performance is so ridiculous that it looks down on "over the top" as if from a great height. It's the part of your brain that thinks it would be awesome to see robots with giant dangling testicles, or hot chicks turning into robot tentacle monsters, or "ghetto" robots that talk in inept hip-hop slang and smash each other playfully, or funny Jewish men who talk about their "schmear" and randomly strip to their G-strings. Is that going too far?

LINK to Transformers movie review

Fisheye photos

This is a seriously cool effect...

LINK to article

Boris

...that is all.

Black Moth Super Rainbow

I'm way into them for the same reason I like Boards of Canada...kind of beautiful darkness to their sound. I saw them last night and took some video of their wacky visuals...



This is the video for "Sun Lips", which is bittersweet and maybe has subtle Buddhist undertones? (death is a part of life...discuss)




They also showed this clip, taken from a movie called "Street Trash", which has no redeemable properties whatsoever, and was part of my High-School-crap-horror-movie-education program. Seriously...watch at yer own risk.

Very, very bad demo songs

This guy runs an indie record label and has a backlog of terrible submissions by eager musicians. Click on the link below...

Mind-Melting Demo Disasters

More Zach Galifianakis

Were you not listening the first two times?

EVERY Zach Galifianakis clip from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job.

spam

click on image for larger view

N.A.S.A. "A Volta"

Quay brothers meet Daft Punk meet Scarface. My jaw is still open...



The "making of" cleverly hides any hint at how they did it. Although, it may have been entirely CG.

Bendito Machine episode 3

Enigmatic, twisted, simple and compelling.

click the link below...the older episodes are available to watch too.

LINK to Bendito Machine

District 9

I've seen bits and pieces of a realistic sci-fi scenario involving alien refugees for years now. This clip is from 2006...


It seems there's finally a movie getting made.

Plug-In America

Plug-In America is my colleague's concept to raise awareness for electric vehicles, meet some great people, and create an awesome documentary. He needs money to accomplish his goals. Please donate whatever you can!

Downtown excursion

Netflix local favorites

No, not the remake, the original. I mean It's a great movie and all, but at the number 1 spot? What does that say about our fair city? I'm not sure.

Tweet Twits

There's a fine line between regular tweets and TWEETING TOO HARD.

Vacation Part 1 - Deerhoof

First up was a whirlwind trip to Chicago on May 7 to see my favorite band Deerhoof play at the Bottom Lounge. They have a childlike joy to their music, even when they're rocking heavy duty. The show was great, even if the guy in front of me thought he was at a Arsenio Hall taping. By the way, their drummer, Greg, is totally insane on a two piece kit. 

Here's some crappy short videos, with a link to some equally crappy photos.











LINK to slideshow

K and K Mimes

Get ready to get catapulted to a new dimension of worship.



Be sure to watch the flash intro (courtesy of Michael Bay) for their website...
K AND K MIMES!!!

Futurama mashups

In the "Bender's Game" DVD extras, there is a DNA combiner of various characters. Pretty much anything that you mix with Zoidberg, Hypnotoad, Bender, or Farnsworth is gold.

"GOOD NEWS!!"

...this has been the catchphrase at work for the past week.

The Imperial Theme...

...arranged for ukulele and tuba.

Plenty more where that came from VIA aprilwinchell.com.

If you ingest the Higgs Boson...

...follow the steps outlined in this article.

In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

Revolutionary new video game

Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face

Also, BOBBIE BATISTA NOW WORKS FOR THE ONION??? We've finally completed our trip around the mobius strip of reality which began when Brian Unger left the daily show for MSNBC.

My NCAA office pool record is...

...1 for 10. So in the past ten years I've lost $50, today I won $45. Totally worth it.

more restaurant FAIL

My friend saw this and noticed the pair of purple "panties" in every glass...but I disagree, they're more like tighty whities, or some kind of grandma britches.

Jean Robert at Pigall's - FAIL

This was the front door of his now defunct restaurant on 4th street. Looks to me like a completely different type of establishment. Huh? Ah? Nudge nudge wink wink?

the BEST LP cover art

Add yer caption in the comments...I'll get you started:

1) "God I hate long division..."

2) "Did you take your shoes off? Because something smells."

3) "Hmmm...what rhymes with 'rim-job'?"

LINK to lpcoverlover

All Aboard the Freedom Train

TO: NBC
RE: get off yer ass

Dear Sirs,

Upload the skit where Neil Diamond and Bigfoot shill for their new duet album "All Aboard the Freedom Train." You can do it NBC, you fuckers.

Warm Regards,
Dave

•••UPDATE!•••

Apparently the desire to see this clip reached a threshold and convinced some dude to rummage through his old VHS cassettes...here it is!

Big Foot & Neil Diamond - watch more funny videos

big ups to BigHutch!

all the Knight Rider turbo boosts

Not once did I see Michael wearing a seatbelt. And, since you already have a metal band name from the Mack Bolan post, now you have readymade tour visuals...just need to learn how to play.



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Roku box rocks

I bought one of those Netflix TV boxes ...it's friggin' sweet as Peter Griffin would say.

The compression on the movies is pretty good too. The only time I saw it really struggle was on very dark, shadowy or smoky subject matter. Otherwise, looks better than broadcast to me.

Yesterday I watched a little bit of "Silver Streak", which sucks so I had to turn it off....a movie called "SixtyNine" no, not a porno, but a thai film noir which was awesome...and started Spiderman 3, which kinda sucks so far as well.

Okay, so it looks like I'll have to choose more wisely, right? Wrong! It doesn't matter what I put in the queue..it's all FREE and UNLIMITED (with a netflix account)...so if it sucks, just move on to something else!

Mack Bolan!

In the days before first person shooters, boys actually had to go out and buy toy guns, and live the action themselves. Or you could subscribe to the "military porn" of pulp fiction, namely any book written by Don Pendleton and his underlings. I did both. I got a book a month in the Mack Bolan executioner series of milporn, which consisted of graphic descriptions of guns, explosions, and people's heads turning to red mist.

I put some of the cover art into a slideshow, and you can see how easily any book title could be a death metal band name. I especially like the covers which show Mack and his lady friend of the moment fighting side by side...cause you know...chicks and guns.

Oh, and I just finished Halo 2 (finally), Bioshock, and am in the middle of Half Life 2 (finally). Thanks, Amy and Rob!


LINK to slideshow

Japan is alive...

...and I will stop trying to decipher your commercials.

"My Little"... (insert pop culture reference)

LINK to a photo set of re-mixed My Little Ponies: 

Space 1999

I have very fuzzy memories of this show, but one thing I do remember was that the design was pretty cool...sort of like the design for "2001". I stumbled on this huge cache of screen grabs of every episode. Sweet.
LINK to Season 1 images
LINK to Season 2 images

Hack a road sign

Let's get busy people. LINK to hacking tutorial. By the way, that's a felony.

Michael Pollan on TED

Okay, my friends are probably sick of me tootin' this guy's horn, but this talk will make you understand why I like what he has to say so much.

Erin Gray

I don't know how it happened but two of my boyhood fantasies have collided. Sheena Easton sings to a montage of Erin Gray (from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century). This guy won't let me embed...click the link.





LINK

How I see the world

I swear I saw these two signs on my recent travels. Granted, I was driving both times which may account for my temporary dyslexia.

From Ludacris to Suicidal

Real life Manga

This is Creepy.


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NPR interview with my friend Brian

I was driving back from Nashville today when I heard "...Brian Peshek, a diemaker who's been with Chrysler for 11 years..." and my ears perked up. Brian's been my friend since college, and works in the auto industry...I can't imagine what he's going through right now.

LINK to interview

Bikini Calculus

If you need to prepare for a math test, may I suggest "Bikini Calculus".
Start crammin'.

I stumbled on this whilst perusing the
past slacker gift guides from The Morning News.

Maximum the Hormone

Maximum the Hormone's "Koi no MegaLover" makes me want to hug strangers, and then punch them in the neck.

Chandni Chowk To China

This movie looks pretty entertaining. Like Kung Fu Hustle on Ketamine.

LINK to movie trailer

Also, Deepika Padukone makes Jessica Alba look like a pile of puke.

And, those last two metaphors were almost as bad as this one: "The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."

bad movie night part trois

This time around it was Ryan's choice of "White Fire". A "French-American-Italian-Turkish thriller", with an incomprehensible plot, nice awkward pauses between dialogue, full-frontal nudity, a chainsaw fight, but strangely, only one car chase...hmm.



Ok, this is the president of the diamond mine. For a brief moment, I thought this was some kind of space movie, what with the fancy sliding doors and super-high-tech scanning room. Maybe the art director read a couple scripts at the same time and got confused.



What naturally follows a bloody chainsaw fight? Boobies.



A little character development, some rifle training, and off-road driving. It's too long and complicated to get into here, but essentially he's dating his sister.



Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme; Fred Williamson is represented by the mini Moog.



Ok, there appears to be a huge continuity flaw in this scene...see if you can spot it. But no! Actually, it's the director doing his job. Whatever...looks like a mistake.



Wait for it.

meta meta meta: EBERT VS. STEIN

I love this metafilter thread commenting on Roger Ebert's recent smackdown of Ben Stein in relation to some creationsist documentary. This is a great thread for no other reason but the sporadic "evolution" of the phrase:
"I say this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude." (sic)

I sap this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude.

I sag this on Bad Astronomy the other day, and enjoyed it a lot. Ebert's a pretty smart dude.

A pretty bad smart astronomy dude says the other day, 'Ebert on this. And I enjoyed it a lot.

I was this on Sad Astronomy the other way, and unfolded it a dot. Ebert's a pretty start frood.

I sat this on Sad Astrology the mother way, and unfolded it a dot. Peebert's a pretty stamp froot.


LINK to thread

New Deerhoof

Okay, the video is really nothing special, sort of a feel-good trip down memory lane, but It's well executed...and I'm a huge Deerhoof fan (paid $20 to see them do 2 songs...I was late).

my answering machine message

Best use of tilt shift technique

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Little Dragon

gets with some chocolate company for a sweet spot. 




Here's the music video for the song "Fortune".

NEW Egyptian HULK

Let's see my HULK checklist here...

1) can bend coins with his eye
2) has sex 15 times a day with each of his 4 wives
3) is prohibited from working (due to his enormous strength)
4) drinks melted butter and eats raw mutton
5) has never slept a night in his life

Highland Park = Raccoon City?

Check out these pics from an abandoned municipal building in Highland Park Michigan. This is eerily similar to the Raccoon City police station in "Resident Evil 2". I spent many a night jumping out of my skin playing this game, and it seems awfully weird that there are firearms, ammunition, and crime scene photos still laying around, just like the game, where you are constantly on the search for ammo, and you need to examine the environment for clues to continue the game.

Original source

Gameplay from Resident Evil 2, go to about 15:00 for the police station...

rust belt decline

The entire northwest Ohio region (Toledo and Lucas county) has
one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. I've been up here for the past two weeks, and almost every day there is an announcement of new layoffs.

I don't like the idea of an auto bailout, but if it doesn't happen, it's curtains for Toledo.

By the way, "Joe" the plumber worked on my mom's toilet. Then it broke two weeks later. Also, he's unemployed.

The hardest working troll...

on the internets. Really...how can people think this is legit? Well, read the comments, because "she" reels them in consistently.

"Havenworks"...

kicks it old school!

MST3K boys reminisce...

God, I miss that show. I distinctly remember every Thanksgiving, when Comedy Central would run a MST3K marathon. Here's a link to an interview with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Jim Mallon, who were the originators of MST3K.

It doesn't sound like they're going to start another series, but they have this project, Cinematic Titanic, where you can download and burn DVDs.

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I voted

..the place was Barackin'.

I f%*ked up

John Hodgman has a new book

Here's a quick interview with "Roger Numbers".

Experimental 3D applications

Kudos to Rich for sending me these...



RabbitHoles 3D Motion Holograms: Gnomon Gallery, SIGGRAPH, and Pixologic / Gnomon Party from douglas johnson on Vimeo.



ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

random links

garbage cars Self explanatory.

clusta Sweet design blog.

GOOD -video Political and other short video essays.

Art of the Title Great hi-res movie title sequences. They have a limited selection, though.

Star Wars comes home

You may have seen this already...which proves my point again - anything is cool if it's motion tracked.



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Foreign accent database

I can't tell you how many times I hear a weird accent on my morning commute on the subway and want to find out what country they're from. Oh, right...anyway, this is pretty cool. You can even submit one of your own.

All the foreign accents.

Dodgeball group

A bunch of guys from work are into this...maybe a little too into it. Be sure to click on "meet my balls" to get an accurate description of the arsenal.

Link

What I've been watching all week

Really, you can only take Tim and Eric in small doses. The show is so dumb and over the top that it gets me every time. It's like you're falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, and you have a fever dream that was shot with a tube camera. Oh, and then someone went apeshit with photoshop filters and clip art.

Link to loads of Tim and Eric clips.

Will Forte's "Lazy Horse" mattress commercial

More of the "Lazy Horse" nightmare sequence

Cinco "Facts" machine "Makin' it E-Z!" Why send faxes when you can receive FACTS!