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"Off the Wall"* is an electro-pop ditty by French artiste Yuksek** with a
video that uses a mirror effect*** for maximum delightfulness. Bonus fun:
a 'Making Of' video that just replays the whole thing
without the mirror.****
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at 6:57 PM on February 22, 2012
(10 comments)
The Comedians, The Mob and the American Supperclub, all about the years when mobsters controlled not just Las Vegas but most of the clubs where singers and comedians performed all across the U.S. (many old-timers say they preferred the mob-ownership to the modern corporate-ownership), and the sad story of one mobbed-up comic, Allen Drake.
By Kliph Nesteroff, who also wrote the semi-related
Why Shecky Greeene isn't just another 'Shecky' (plus a
two-part interview from his blog)
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at 6:27 AM on February 20, 2012
(23 comments)
Taking the idea of a 'laptop computer' to its logical-but-absurd extreme, a pair of Dutch designer dorks have come up with
a pair of jeans with a built-in wireless computer keyboard. Enjoy.
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at 1:21 PM on February 18, 2012
(37 comments)
"Inception Park" (SLVimeo) where roller coasters and other amusement park rides,
without their tracks or frames, move excited riders around downtown Buenos Aires.
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at 12:02 PM on February 17, 2012
(19 comments)
Darkness "Sometimes you meet people like that, they have one adjective that fits them like a glove. They could be that word's picture in the dictionary..."
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at 3:29 PM on February 2, 2012
(49 comments)
The New York Times Public Editor asks "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?" As of this writing, 98% of registered commenters are saying (often in all-caps) "Yes".
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at 9:05 AM on January 12, 2012
(169 comments)
The James Dean Story Directed by Robert Altman, Starring James Dean two years after his death "by means of a new technique... dynamic exploration of the still photograph".
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at 9:32 AM on December 30, 2011
(9 comments)
The art/design blog
Booooooom (with 7 O's) held a contest
"to remake famous works of art using photography". No Photoshoppery allowed (but ironically, Photoshop was part of the Adobe-provided prize). A couple hundred entries were received and shown off on the blog (
all on this big page, some NSFW), and the winner is...
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at 9:32 AM on December 27, 2011
(22 comments)
When the world is going crazy and life is just awful, you can count on The Internet to
MAKE EVERYTHING OK.
Service provided 'as is' with no warranty implied or suggested. Your perception of what's OK may vary, but that's YOUR problem.
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at 2:05 AM on December 19, 2011
(40 comments)
There's Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Punk Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock, Alt Rock, Art Rock, Acid Rock, Indie Rock, Grunge Rock, Schoolhouse Rock, 30 Rock, and now there's
Third Rock, an internet radio station "powered by NASA", yes, NASA. (Think of it as 'New Music' with commercials for something you already like)
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at 6:48 PM on December 16, 2011
(20 comments)
You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything esle. You use FIGHT CLUB brand soap. From the real-life
Omni Consumer Products Corporation, a product development company focusing on "licensing, defictionalization, and reverse-branding". Previous products include
Brawndo,
Tru Blood and
Stay Puft Marshmallows (giant monster mascot not included).
Disclaimer: This post is NOT intended to help sell the product, just to inform you that it exists in this atrophying universe. Previously.
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at 10:03 AM on December 14, 2011
(84 comments)
Krampus. the Christmas Demon of Germanic folklore whose job it was to punish the kids on Santa's Naughty List has been featured
here before. And while most people assume he is a better-left-forgotten relic of less gentle times (
or less gentle places), he appears to be having a resurgence this year, being featured everywhere from
Buzzfeed to
FearNet to
The Awl to
NPR. He's getting a piece of the
Christmas merchandise blitz and of course he has his own
website. There is
Krampus music and he even
speaks in his own defense. And of course, he has
a 'Folk Death Metal' band named after him.
But the biggest Krampus Kontroversy today is via travel/food TV maven Anthony Bourdain, who wrote and had animated a cautionary Krampus story for the holiday edition of his show, which was
rejected by his bosses at the Travel Channel. Fortunately,
you can still see it on YouTube. Happy Holidays!
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at 5:40 PM on December 12, 2011
(30 comments)
The cautionary tale of the shiny new device that's smarter than its users and ends up taking over is pretty much cliché... but it took Australian pop musicker
Gotye (prounced like Gaultier, if that helps) to apply it to a
Lowrey Organ (the
Cotillion D575, a vintage model he acquired for $100 and uses both in his recordings and concerts). Add retro-style animation, and you have something scary yet whimsical and truly
"State of the Art".
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at 3:51 PM on December 11, 2011
(19 comments)
D. on Ice, in honor of the 110th birthday of Walt Disney, kinda.
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at 9:51 PM on December 5, 2011
(13 comments)
PacMan is SO
last year. The current king of retro gaming 'look' is the Space Invader, with
Waffles (as part of an
art installation, or
DIY) and
Chocolate! Or you can knit an Invader with a
free pattern or take the
San Diego Space Invader Walk.
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at 12:27 PM on December 1, 2011
(18 comments)
When you're the 44th largest university in the UK, how do you set yourself apart and gain some attention in the era of viral video? You release
a short film showing an alien invasion and your student body's reaction to it. And, yes, that is the voice of Locutus of Borg (
he is the University's Chancellor).
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at 3:44 PM on November 29, 2011
(27 comments)
Missed "The Muppets" in theaters this weekend?*
"How They Felt" is a short film co-starring a Muppet (apparently a
Muppet Whatnot with custom wardrobe) that was part of this year's
Boston 48 Hour Film Project, where it placed 2nd for Best film, won Best Actress (for the woman behind the Muppet) and also... "Best Sex Scene". Yeah, now you wanna see it. But be warned. Not a happy ending. It will either make you cry or make you want to strangle the filmmakers.
*then it's YOUR fault "Breaking Dawn" was #1 at the box office (does not apply to non-USAians)
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at 12:17 PM on November 27, 2011
(69 comments)
Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85 (obvious NYT link), best known and most often noted for covering the assassination of President Kennedy, but also a columnist for 25 years and 6 Presidents
as contrasted with today's NYT columnists by the always-critical
NYTimes eXaminer.
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at 7:02 AM on November 26, 2011
(7 comments)
What do you give a spoiled brat who has everything? His own monster, of course.
"My Bloody Lad" is two manic minutes of imaginatively morbid mayhem* from a team of four French student animators who call themselves Dead Walter. SLVimeo for now, but we'll be seeing more from these warped toonsmiths for sure.
* probably enough cartoon gore and ghoulish content to earn an NSFW on the weekend
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at 1:45 AM on November 19, 2011
(10 comments)
With all due respect, today (11/11/11) is not just for Veterans or those remembering the end of World War I. It is also...
Nigel Tufnel Day (
facebook group) (
RL event)
"It goes to eleven." Whatever you do loud, today do it one louder.
Eleventh Doctor Day "GERONIMO!!!" Wear a bow tie, fez and/or stetson because they're cool.
Pocky Day for the snacks shaped like, well, 1's.
Corduroy Appreciation Day for the material that... oh, if you don't know, don't bother. BTW, what are Christopher Guest's and Matt Smith's pants made of?
But the less said about
the movie the better.
11+11+11=33%? Close.
Also, it's 1 year 1 month and 11 days until the end of the Aztec Calendar. Which makes a few too many 1's, so sit back and watch
this clock turn to 11:11:11.
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at 12:59 AM on November 11, 2011
(120 comments)
Le Internet Medley, a shockingly well-produced (audio AND video) LinkBait YouTube featuring The GAG Quartet (yes, there are only 3 of them, THAT'S THE GAG).
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at 2:11 PM on November 9, 2011
(17 comments)
Armstrong is an online graphic novel in 3 parts (with more potentially to come), each on a long-scrolling 'infinite canvas'.
1,
2,
3. It has everything, Superheroes, Zombies, Pirates, Cowboys and Cooties. Cooties? Well, it is set in a playground full of 4th graders.
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at 4:03 PM on October 28, 2011
(7 comments)
Alfred Hitchcock's Angry Birds and other movies-based-on-video-games the way they
should be done (Duck Hunt & Donkey Kong) from the G4 people. (SL3Videos, NSFW language, gore)
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at 2:11 PM on October 27, 2011
(6 comments)
"Before you make a complete fool of yourself when you send a link to your friends,
colleagues or twitter followers (or post it to Metafilter) use
ISITOLD.COM to make sure it's fresh enough." May not work on some long urls.
=== That's "IS IT OLD", not "IS I TOLD". ===
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at 2:24 PM on October 25, 2011
(49 comments)
The "South Park" creators get the "South Park" treatment OBVIOUSLY NSFW 27-minute SLYT
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at 1:33 PM on October 24, 2011
(45 comments)
Too many great animated music videos lately for SLYTs, so here's a Multi-Link Mostly-Vimeo...
"Fantasy", Song by DyE, Video by Jeremie PerinNSFW as it goes from naughty to nightmare in record time.
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at 7:51 AM on October 23, 2011
(20 comments)
The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer circa 1937. Still relevant today. HEY YOU WITH THE CAMERA! STEP AWAY FROM THE EGG!
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at 1:16 PM on October 17, 2011
(47 comments)
Is Dr Pepper Ten's "NOT FOR WOMEN" marketing Sexist, Satirical or just Stupid? Well, the first commercial for the new low calorie soda
is very tongue-in-cheek (yes, he yelled out "Catchphrase!"). But the brand's Facebook page actually excludes women (did you know Facebook can do that?), yet a marketing executive has bragged that 40 percent of the people trying it ARE women (who apparently can't read the signs saying NO WOMEN).
The soft drink biz is watching to see if it works. Of course, if the Dr wants to raise the stakes,
Slacktory.com has some ideas for ads (including "Grow A Penis", "Make Me A Sammich" and "We put Netflix in charge of our marketing decisions...")
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at 1:30 AM on October 13, 2011
(172 comments)
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the debut of
"The Dick Van Dyke Show" (chosen
"All Time Favorite Sitcom" by the readers of a blogger who used to Write and Produce M*A*S*H and Cheers, fergunisakes), there was a
salute/reunion staged by American Cinematheque at which series creator Carl Reiner (aka Mel Brooks' straightman)
told of the genesis of the show (if you have problems with the video, here's
someone else's written account of the same thing) and Dick Van Dyke
sang (with backup) the never-broadcast words to the show's iconic theme song.
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at 8:14 PM on October 10, 2011
(40 comments)
M.C. Escher Meets IKEA for some impossible items you WISH you could buy. Of course, this
isn't a totally new idea, in fact, even an IKEA fansite
has played with the concept. (Dedicated to anyone who ever suspected the assembly instructions were written in an alternate reality) But sometimes, even without intending, a do-it-yourselfer
can achieve something pretty close. And now, IKEA itself has
embraced the Escher influence in one ad.
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at 5:09 PM on October 9, 2011
(28 comments)
A brief history of lyrics that aren't lyrics (1964-2008) SLYT
yeah, I'm kinda disappointed they didn't start at an earlier date, with all the potential doo-dahs, shooby-doos and weem-a-ways...
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at 1:25 PM on October 1, 2011
(37 comments)
Last week's season premire of
Community featured a bumper crop of pop-culture parodies, including
a Glee-style opening number,
a 2001 homage (with excellent use of Old Chevy Chase) and most significantly, the Instant Meme of
a 22-second take-off of Doctor Who*. In the few days since, the intersection of Community fans and Who fans have been reverse-engineering the 49 year run of
"Inspector Spacetime" with a
forum board, a
TV Tropes page, and, of course, a
tumblr.
* overshadowing the addition to the show's cast and college's faculty of John Goodman and Michael K. "Omar Little" Williams.
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at 1:16 PM on September 27, 2011
(151 comments)
Ten years later, one of the greatest mysteries arising from 9/11 has been solved:
the guy who faked the 'tourist guy atop the WTC while the plane approaches' picture has come forward.
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at 3:56 AM on September 11, 2011
(72 comments)
The best animated gif about hats you'll see this year.* by
Micaël Reynaud, who has other
cool morphing things on his
Google+ page, as well as videos, photos, drawings and stuff. If your animated gif tastes go more to abstract/geometric/optical-illusion/seizure-triggering (that's a warning), check out
david ope on tumblr (where you expect to find the gifs).
* may load slowly; be patient to get maximum 'wow'
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at 3:37 AM on September 10, 2011
(21 comments)
"The Art of Clean Up" is where OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Design. (More examples in the
"bildergalerie" here) From neat-freak Ursus Wehrli who previously gave us
"Tidying Up Art".
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at 12:52 PM on August 28, 2011
(17 comments)
Vance Gilbert is, in his own words, "big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping". Performing solo with acoustic guitar, his
original music (including songs about
Old White Men,
Gilligan and
the planet Pluto) and some
well-chosen covers, as well as his
on-stage banter, have
charmed audiences all over* for umpteen years. He has
made a reply to CeeLo's infamous song,
performed alongside Arlo Guthrie while having an attack of gout and in his spare time, he makes
free-flying models of
antique airplanes. But sadly, he has just gotten the most publicity of his career... as an
unwilling participant in one airline's Security Theater. (Story picked up by
The Consumerist,
the Economist, and
James Fallows at the Atlantic.)
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at 6:52 PM on August 26, 2011
(55 comments)
Nerds Triumphant? The one-liner judged as the Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is about computer passwords (also SPOILER a classic Disney cartoon). Runners-up and the joke judged WORST also listed. Warning: jokes contain drugs, sex, food (including broccoli and McDonald's), voicemail, crime, time, The Cure and a British chain store you Americans may never have heard of.
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at 3:19 PM on August 25, 2011
(146 comments)
Black Dynamite is COMING SOON to Adult Swim (
who the PTC accuse of corrupting children - what part of the word ADULT don't they get? - but I digress). It's based on the
blaxploitation parody movie and
comic book of the same name, and the
pilot posted online has a special treat for anyone who thinks MetaFilter loves the Muppets too much... the villain is
That Frog Kurtis, leader of a familiar looking gang of puppets turned evil. Felt will fly, stuffing will be torn out and puppet ass will get kicked. Enjoy.
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at 3:42 AM on August 22, 2011
(24 comments)
Did "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" Invent the Hipster? This blog says so*. The
AV Club loves it unironically. But so do the professional comedians at
Splitsider and the sci-fi geeks at
Tor.com. And the show definitely seems to have some
influence on some young folk**. (Recently discussed as part of
Rhaomi's epic Nickelodeon post)
* BIG disclaimer: the blog is on MTV's site, same corporate parent who is currently rerunning the show on TeenNick's '90s block, so there is some Pepsi Blue involved - or Krebsi Blue
** Yes, it's real, it shows up in later pictures on her tumblr.
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at 1:22 PM on August 14, 2011
(55 comments)
The All Time Top 100 Stars Credited Actors at the Box Office at the-numbers.com has an interesting #1:
Frank Welker, who did voice work in
95 feature films since 1980 totaling over 6-BILLION-dollars gross in the U.S. and 12-BILLION worldwide. Over a third of these roles were "Special Vocal Effects" or "Additional Voices" or such. But, hey, a hit's a hit and a credit's a credit.
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at 9:11 PM on August 7, 2011
(24 comments)
In 1979, the producers of "Taxi" were hot, and got carte blanche to make another sitcom for ABC. So they adapted John Jay Osborn's novel "The Associates"*, his follow-up to "The Paper Chase" (which, as a TV series, had just been cancelled by CBS) about young lawyers at a prestigious New York firm. It starred a very young Martin Short as a very young (and surprisingly normal) Junior Associate, Wilfred Hyde-White as a very old Senior Partner and some other folks you may or may not recognize. It bombed. But the next-to-last episode to be aired before the plug was pulled was something you would never expect any broadcast network in 1980 (or maybe even now) to show, in which young lawyer Short represented a network against a rebellious producer, titled
"The Censors". And yes, that is John Ritter as a Hollywood actor in character.
Bonus content: "The Associates" pilot episode in
two parts.
via the world-class blog by Ken Levine of M*A*S*H, Cheers and the Seattle Mariners
* TOTALLY not related to John Grisham's "The Associate"
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at 6:24 PM on August 3, 2011
(15 comments)
The Muppets in Thor is NOT another fake trailer for the upcoming movie. It's a 24-page mostly-24-hour comic by the guy who does
Max Overacts. Note: contains discrete male nudity, pig-on-Norse-God violence, obscure references (Junior Woodchucks!), sentimental time travel and IMO very good use of a lot of familiar characters, including Rowlf (MY favorite Muppet) putting it all in perspective.
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at 3:53 PM on June 17, 2011
(22 comments)
Shea Hembrey created an "inaugural biennial" showing the works of 100 artists - all fictitious. (SLTED) Over a two-year period, he created over 100 pieces in a wide variety of forms, media and styles as well as profiles and bios for the 100 artists (plus two fictional curators). Is this Meta-Art, Art Deconstruction, open fraud, parody, large-scale pranking, the worst case of Dissociative Identity Disorder ever or All Of The Above?
(exhibition website and catalogue)
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at 11:08 PM on June 14, 2011
(12 comments)
Dem Phones, Dem Phones, Dem iPhones! The Delta Rhythm Boys' most iconic song brought up to date (well, as of 2007).
An unadulterated original for comparison. (via every link blog I follow, traced back to
everlasting blort;
previous bones)
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at 10:54 AM on June 11, 2011
(8 comments)
What better way to show your mom you love her on Mother's Day than to send her as many spammy email forwards as she sent you all year?
Momspam.net This is why the Internet was invented.
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at 12:09 AM on May 8, 2011
(44 comments)
Before the iconic Power Rangers, Toei Productions tried some other "Super Sensei" series including 1977's
JAKQ (pronounced jah-kuh) with their playing-card-themed identities. With online poker sites down, maybe it's time for them to make a comeback?
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at 9:45 AM on April 27, 2011
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