Bleep Labs Thingamagoop
Bleep Labs has a wonderful video clip of their new ‘thingamagoop’ synth-toy-robot. It is so cute and funny and bleepy - it had me rofl-ing .
Add comment June 30th, 2006
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C’était un rendez-vous
C’était un rendez-vous is a 1978 cult short film by Claude Lelouch in which a ‘Ferrari’ races at high speed through the streets of Paris in the petit hours of the morning. While probably driven by a professional driver, this was not a closed course - but claims of of going over 100 mph are exaggerated, and the soundtrack with its gear changes and high pitch engine whine is also cleverly overdubbed. See the video. See the ‘making of’ video which features the much-less-glamorous-than-a-Ferrari Mercedes. Oh the wonderful illusion of filmmaking!
Add comment June 30th, 2006
Entire Book written at Apple Store
Homeless model writes 250 page book at the Manhattan Apple Store.
Add comment June 30th, 2006
The Principality of Sealand
“Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortress is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The official language of Sealand is English and the Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S. dollar.” - so sayeth the Sealand website. Quite conveniently, the Sealand site lacks and photos of this glorious offshore data haven / pirate radio base- most likely because it looks like their precious ‘principality’ is just a tiny offshore platform! And now, it has been abandoned due to fire… Ha!
1 comment June 26th, 2006
Weird Conventions
Going to an Anime con is pretty surreal experience. Full-on no-holds-barred otaku frenzy. The weird thing is that by the time your days at the con are done, people traipsing around in Inuyasha & Naruto outfits *shudder* is nothing unusual. It’s a strange tolerance expanding experience. Someone unfamiliar with the subculture might think anime con attendees are completely loopy. Here are a few other cons that are a bit on the fringe:
Furcon: “Further Confusion, or Furcon is an annual fandom convention celebrating the anthropomorphics genre or furry fandom”. Riiiight, you can call it anthropomorphics, I call it dressing up as furries.
Penguicon: according to Wikipedia. “Penguicon is the only convention in the United States that brings together the often-overlapping communities of science fiction fandom and Linux User Groups.” More geeky, less freaky.
Star Trek conventions are not that uncommon, but are themselves quite unusual.
Add comment June 26th, 2006
J-Video Craziness
J-Video Craziness
The Japanese are cruel and unusual. No war crimes… just TV. Skip to 5 min into the clip.
Add comment June 22nd, 2006
Happy Morning
‘Happy Morning is a really wacky but catchy Folgers (!) ad that has such awesome lyrics as “Get up, get out of bed, you can sleep when you are dead” and featured glowing gold singers. Perhaps my favorite part is the golden fellow playing some sort of funky vibraphone! Diggin’ it!
Add comment June 20th, 2006
Chinese Paper Offerings
I visited Chinatown recently and amongst the fascinating range of weird things on sale were a variety of paper offerings. I’m familiar with paper offerings - they are typically paper money that is burned in furnaces at a temple in the belief that the offering will be received by the spirits of ancestors in the after-life. In one store I found some unusual paper offerings - a box containing a paper shirt & tie, paper Ferrero Rocher, paper cigarettes, even a paper model yacht. All the comforts of home in the after-life! We’ve not come far since the days of the Egyptians!
Add comment June 19th, 2006
GAP Destruction
Funny ad by Spike Jonze of a GAP store getting totally messed up. Good fun.
Add comment June 16th, 2006
World of Warcraft Addiction
World of Warcraft Addiction = No Blogging
WOW Addiction = Lack of Sleep
WOW Addiction = Dreams about WOW
WOW Addiction = Stupid WOW jokes
WOW Addiction = Watching WOW videos
World of Warcraft = Evil.
Must…. be…strong!
Add comment June 16th, 2006
hindustani glitchtronica
jesse stiles’ tabla machine freaked out and began outputting crazy squarepusher-like drum rhythms.
Add comment June 16th, 2006
Mecha Musume M4A3
‘! (n@men!cht’ has some great photosets on Flickr of Japanese toys, including shots of the Mecha Musume characters which I saw recently at Fanime Expo 2006 (Yes, I’m an anime nerd, no I didn’t cosplay). The Mecha Musume figures are quite unusual, blending your typical over-sexy anime figurine with parts from military vehicles. Some of them look too weird, and some of them a a little too *ahem* revealing, but I like the M4A3 Sherman figure.
1 comment June 16th, 2006
The Lyrebird
You have to check out this clip of David Attenborough doing a documentary about the Lyrebird. This bird likes to imitate the sounds of other birds, and even man-made sounds. Their elaborate songs are used to court females - this clip has the bird copying the sound of a camera shutter, forestry noises and a car alarm. Very trippy. Puts the noise-making-guy from Police Academy to shame.
Add comment June 16th, 2006
consyoumer kultcha
chris jordan is a photographer that creates great images from the remnants of our consumer culture.
Add comment June 12th, 2006