Entries from June 2012

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

To The Sky: Carl Sagan on the Implications of Technological Progress

Aaaah Carl Sagan! Was there ever a wiser man? Probably, but they didn’t have the internet around back then. Plus, Carl’s voice is the kind that could be telling you your mother’s a hyena and you’d still be smiling and nodding in agreement, such is its power. Now listen and learn people.

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

The Fall of Pinterest

It’s long been a female safe-haven, a place where girls can put up pretty pictures of cute looking plates and ornately decorated ballpoint pens so they can coo over them and share them with all the other girls of the world. Well no more! Now the trolls, the memers, the haters and all the other [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

Teleparky

Every sane person knows that there are forces beyond our control that are out to eat ours minds using technology that isn’t common knowledge. The Illuminati, aliens, the CIA, cats. Who knows what it is, but it’s out there and the only way to combat it is by wearing a tinfoil hat. So wear one [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

Meanwhile, On The Interwebs…

Health – ‘Plus-Size Friendly’ Gym Bans Skinny People
Om Nom Nom – Walter White’s Heisen-Brrr-g Crunch
Society – 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
Interwebs – Facebook now lets you opt out of notifications.
Society – Solitary confinement in prison ‘is driving men insane,’
FILM – IMDb User Believes ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Ripped Off ‘Harry [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Lead Breakfast (’Pulp Fiction’ Remix)

Now this is some serious gourmet remixing. Using the same style he’s honed in his many movie cut ups Pogo takes samples from what must be one of the most quotable films of all time and turns them it into a Big Kahuna melody. With cheese. M’mmm you’ll find yourself thinking, this is a tasty [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

‘I’ll Be Gone’ – Mario Basanov & Vidis feat. Jazzu

It’s music video time and this video is a lesson in keeping it simple by director Korb. Because this is a simple idea but well executed. It uses a four cardiographs to represent different audio lines within the track and from that something totally mesmerizing is born. There’s no visual clutter, nothing extra to bling [...]

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

TimeScapes: Rapture 4K

Watching this will make you come over all Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, you’ll find yourself uttering “whoah” every now and then without even consciously meaning to do it. The raw beauty of these images will just automatically elicit that kind of response from you. Like, whoah.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Meanwhile, On The Interwebs…

Weird – So This Guy Got His Ears Cropped
Tech – Microsoft Unveils New ‘Surface’ Tablets.
Food – Cookbooks Are Headed for Extinction—and That’s OK
Health – Insurance companies sell injuries to the highest bidder
Celeb – Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis announced their separation
Celeb – J.D. Williams of ‘The Wire’ – Cops Forget He’s Not a Drug [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

Jerry Sandusky + Call Me Maybe (Pedo Remix)

This is a video remix that is essentially saying, yo! Fox, ABC, and all the other networks, why don’t you stop exploiting victims’ suffering by plastering their horror all over the TVs and interwebs for everyone to juicily lap up all the gory details and your ratings go sky high. A pedo-zombie-apocalypse-mashup. Grimmo.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

Christopher Walkenthrough Legend of Zelda

Who better than Christopher Walken to take you through the popular NES game, explaining the bad guys and what to avoid. The only thing that could make this any better is if Werner Herzog joined him and the two of them went off on some strange surreal narration about the Great Gatsby.

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Stop Motion Surfing Awesomeness with Perfect Holiday

Surf artist Karim Rejeb follows up his first stop motion surfing video, Lino, with this, called Perfect Holiday. And if you were a fan of the first video then you’ll certainly lap this one up, as little Play Mobil figures head out on a totally rad surfs up adventure gnarly awesome dude!