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

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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!

Elis Regina + Dosh = Cibelle

Elis Regina...pure Braizilan soul.



Dosh's "Calling the Kettle Black"...electronic looping auteur.



Cibelle. Sounds like she's got one mic for singing and one for looping and effects. Plus she's got a great set of pins.

Thanks for the link, Rich!

The Onion has political blog

This is good. Some of their bloggers include "Gary Brunson, a 4-week old fetus" and "Dac Kien, a retired vietnamese torturer".

Link to blog.

My first geocache

My friend Todd and I went geocaching a couple weeks ago. Basically it's like a treasure hunt, only instead of a map you use GPS, and instead of treasure, it's junk. The best booty was a playing card with "Robert" scrawled across it...also, I'm just recovering from the poison ivy I got while we ran around Avon Woods park looking for another cache. So...success!

Did anyone see Beowulf?

I know it was all CG, but I found some raw footage from the shoot somehow. I'm pretty sure this is the party scene right before Grendel shows up.

Bubbles and jazz...

...at a 1000 frames per second. Sort of a follow up to the previous post about things that are automatically awesome.


Bubbles from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

Minilogue video

You can motion track anything into some handheld footage and it looks awesome. Not to slight this animation, which is cool, but just sayin'.

Get Your War On

"...you wanna impress me, eat a car stereo, or a..a..deep fried encyclopedia..."

VH1 top 20 at Lightborne

They shot this out our 4th floor window...

I've got an attempt at the world record for "being on hold" going on right now...going past 4 hours.

Animation test

...something I was messing with today...

Don Caballero

I saw them last night at Northside Tavern. This clip isn't from that show, but it's one the best sounding ones I could find on youtube. What's weird is the drummer's snare is down by his ankles!

Sarah Palin...?

This could very well be photoshopped. In any case...wa-wa-wee-wa!

Naive New Beaters

This video is pretty sweet. The band holds green boards, in which is keyed other takes of the same setup. The choreography between the two is what sells it. Nice. Shades of Michel Gondry. The song is good too.



BTW, I found this on upl8.tv, which is a random youtube flash player. Hit the space bar to go to the next clip.

Link to UPL8.TV

Spam

Here's a sampler of some of my spam:

For: dave Black Panthers Sue White Guys For Stealing Copyrighted Gesture

For: dave "I Won't Raise Taxes," Says Schwarzenegger, "except For The Indians."

Bring back time when girls were yours.

For: dave I hate you.

(also, some classy gifs...)













































I would love to hear the conversation between the client and the graphic designer on this one:

"...no, make him sadder...and put a bandage on his head..."
"Should we give him wheel chair gloves?"
"...nah, he looks more pathetic without the gloves..."

Convincing CG

This company Image Metrics analyzes video of an actor's performance, then creates a facial animation that matches pretty damn close. They say they eyes are 90% of the performance, but to me it's the subtleties around the mouth that are the give away.

Local celebrity sighting

So we were in Yellow Springs today, and I took my camera because, ya just never know what you'll come across. In the back of my mind I knew that Dave Chappelle lives there, and wouldn't it be great if we ran into him and were able to have our picture taken with him.
We had lunch at the "Winds", which was great, and just as we were leaving the restaurant, who should be strolling towards us but Dave. Looking back on it, he was smoking and looking everywhere but at us...probably for fear of exactly what happened next.

"Hey Dave!"
"...hey..."
"Hey, uh can I get a picture with you?"
"...nah, man."
"Oh. Ok."
(mumbles something incomprehensible)

Later, I remembered he hated fame and celebrity, and that was why he likes to live in Yellow Springs...to avoid people like me.

Oh God, "The Stabilizer" rocks

Okay. So we had another "bad movie night" last night, and it's definitely up there with "Gymkata". "The Stabilizer" is an Indonesian action flick from 1984 which has some very tasteful nude scenes, is littered with expletives, and is so relentless in things blowing up, people getting shot, and cars jumping off ramps,...it's mind-numbing. I decided to share some scenes, and don't for a second think that this is an exhaustive sampling, because this film brings it, and brings it hard.




These are literally the first frames of the movie. I mean, c'mon. I was laughing non-stop from this point.




This scene is timed brilliantly. Love the stock 747 shot too.




Uhh...beergasm?



This is the takeaway catch-phrase of the movie. Wait for it.



"Just a little anti-American sentiment running around..."



The physics involved with this action sequence are so wrong they're right. Watch the dude on the right when they go back to get the gun..he just smacked his ass!




Oh, If only my conversations were so effortless.




Yeah, I got hit in the head with a bucket...what about it. How about I just jump up and bust yer ass through the floor?



Wait...what? What was that? That's not spit!




What just happened here? There's an explosion, then she carefully lays on the ground?!




Again, wait for it.




I was imagining all sorts of great death scenes for the bad guy, but this wasn't it.

Re: Cephalopod

Matthew Baldwin of Defective Yeti fame, writes for The Morning News.

Here's his most recent piece, a dystopian comedy of errors, with pleny of typos.

Link to Re: Cephalopod

Tomorrow I'm going to the Cincinnati ATP night match...

Some pics...

Apparently we're putting employee photos on our company's website. Here a few, I think I'm going with the car wreck one. Enjoy.

Tracy Morgan - How to be Black

Here's my favorite one liner: "Have you ever broken a puerto rican man's arm for sweatpants money?"

Volvo thinks you're a dumbass

Is there really any way that an intruder can discreetly break into a modern car with a modern security system and wait in the back seat to strangle you? No. The truth is that Volvo can't market this invention the way it is used in real life (e.g. forgetting your baby in the backseat while you get a mani-pedi) because it would imply that people who buy Volvos are jackasses. A couple people have hit on this in the talk around the web too.





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Weekend Pussy Hunt etc.

John Kricfalusi, of Ren and Stimpy fame, went on to make some flash webisodes of "Weekend Pussy Hunt" (starring Cigarettes the Cat) in addition to "The Goddamn George Liquor Program". Incidentally, it looks like there may be new episodes of the latter.

John K. also has a blog called "All Kinds of Stuff" where you can keep up to date with his projects.

This one starts off slow, but there's a couple good gags in the middle, one of which involves a part of the body giving birth (it's not the part you think).

"Weekend Pussy Hunt" #1

Cosplayers in repose

link

Veggie Option blog

I stumbled across "The Veggie Option" today. It's pretty easy being a vegetarian in this city, but we could use a few more spots to hang out...I'm glad this blog is around to get the word out.

Patton Oswalt...

...gave a commencement speech at his old high school.

"First off, I want to thank the teachers and faculty of Broad Run High School for first considering and then inviting me to speak here. It was flattering, I am touched and humbled, and you have made a grave mistake."

Congress passes FISA

If I'm not doing anything illegal I have nothing to fear...right?

link to ACLU press release

(quoted below)

“With one vote, Congress has strengthened the executive branch, weakened the judiciary and rendered itself irrelevant,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “This bill – soon to be law – is a constitutional nightmare. Americans should know that if this legislation is enacted and upheld, what they say on international phone calls or emails is no longer private. The government can listen in without having a specific reason to do so. Our rights as Americans have been curtailed and our privacy can no longer be assumed.”

South Park - World of Warcraft

I know this is late to the party...but it's still a good one.

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My Green Screen Challenge...

...for Colbert Nation. Befittingly titled "Double McNasty". Enjoy.

Drummer nerd break

Terry Bozzio and Chad Wackerman were both drummers in Frank Zappa's band...and they're both insane. I saw Chad play in Detroit with Zappa in '87...I don't remember much about that show due to some chemicals, but the drum solo was somethin else. Terry was in "Missing Persons" with his sister Dale, and after that he did some solo stuff. I've never seen anyone play like him.

Guess What?

There's been a neighborhood kid going around lately telling everyone he farted. This was a couple of weeks ago, the kid is probably about 8 or 9, old enough to know that he is basically screwing with people. Today I was mowing the lawn and he comes up to me.

"Hi"
"Hey"
"Guess what?"
"I know, you farted. That's awesome...congratulations."

He looks at me with a blank stare and then shuffles off on his scooter.

The World According to Monsanto

I'm still not sure if all the genetically modified food is bad for you, but the way that Monsanto runs it's business leads me to believe that they're up to no good. If you have a spare hour or two check it out...

LINK to video.

More local news

Peeping tom hides the evidence...

Pre-fab houses

My latest wish is for a plot of land in the city and put a cheap pre-fab house on it.
The LVL home is pretty sweet, and only $42,000. Here's a link to a flickr slideshow of an open house.




Clever Homes has some cool designs as well, I like the CH5 model with a courtyard and a rooftop garden. Too bad it's $300,000.

Modern Shed has some small simple designs that would make a sweet backyard.

Garth Marenghi's "Darkplace"

"The Twilight Zone" + "General Hospital" x "Police Squad" = Darkplace

Cincinnati gets street view

I was looking at real estate the other day and noticed that Google street view has finally hit Cincinnati!

Japanese game show 3.0

Not sure if it's a game show, really...maybe just an exhibition.