
It’s a battle of the synthesizers, with the reining champ the Korg Monotron being challenged by the young pretender the WerkBench. One’s digital the other’s an app, so the challenge carries with it the old resentments of the analogue vs. digital debate rising to the surface to fuel the passion on both sides and widen the divide. Or maybe it’s just a bit of fun.
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In this information age we all unwittingly and wittingly share our lives with the network. We love it, we hate it.This short film (created & directed by Stefan Haverkamp, Jan Jaworski, Branden Kramer & Tom Kropp) was shot entirely using a laptop computer’s web camera and it tells the story of a girl who unknowingly shows her entire world to a hacker who has hacked her laptop’s webcam. Uh-oh.
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Blade Runner has been a staple of the sci-fi noir aesthetic since its release in 1982. Now, we get a new incarnation of the story that thrusts it into abstraction and psychedelia. Swedish artist Anders Ramsell is recreating the feature film frame by frame using watercolor paintings. So far, he’s completed 12 minutes of the film, which has taken 32,85 aquarelles painted over 11 months of painstaking work.
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Kitty ‘Rap Game Taylor Swift’ Pryde and Riff “Rap Game James Franco” Raff are in Daytona Beach for the video for “Orion’s Belt,” the new cut off of Kitty Pryde’s recent acclaimed EP, Haha, I’m Sorry. It features beachside carnivals and good clean, wholesome fun for all the family. Well, maybe not grandma.
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How did you fare this month? Any embarrassing mishaps happen to you? If they did then congrats! You may’ve made it into this compilation for the months best (worst?) fails, but don’t be dismayed if you didn’t, because while you’re a failure at failing, at least you didn’t fail. If you get what I mean.
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So you think you are a pretty good skater, eh? Before you answer that i’d take a look at Chris Cole and ponder your reply. Maybe it’s from years spent falling over and injuring himself which he’s sick and tired of, but this guy really knows how to fall over without snapping his ankles in two. So here’s four minutes of him trying to do a trick and failing and falling, but we all know that practice makes perfect.
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Ladies and gentlemen you are about to get a glimpse into the underground world of bicycle messenger racing. Yes, it does exist, it’s as scary as hell and is now a global phenomenonmenonmenomenon. Meet Lucas Brunelle, he’s been keeping it real on the bike racing circuit for over a decade racing all kinds of crazy mofos–and because he’s so kind he’s recorded it all on his custom helmet camera so you can get in on the action.
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After watching this you’ll probably never buy drugs from a suspicious-looking online website ever again. Or maybe you’ll start. Depends on whether you think what happens to these people is a good thing or a very, very bad thing. It’s time to step through the looking-glass people and be careful where you tread. Very careful.
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You comfy? Good. Because you’ll want to sit back and enjoy this dark animation about a rabbit called Oswald, which’ll suck you in the minute you set eyes on it and then keep you gripped with its twists and turns. That urgent task for the boss can wait five minutes. If there’s a problem with that then get him/her to talk to me.
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This song was SO ripe for the picking when it came making a dirty version of it, so hats off and three big cheers to these guys for doing the deed. Because seriously, after hearing this song everywhere you turn on the internet at the moment, it’s enough to put you off having anything to do with it ever again. EVER. But not this, this is worth your time.Trust me.
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