Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Sunday, March 16th, 2014

Synth Britannia: Brilliant BBC Doc About 1970s/1980s Synth Movement

It was the end of the 1970s, guitar music was on its way out and on its way in was a new type of music, influenced by sci-fi and Kraftwerk: synth pop! This pretty damn awesome documentary from the BBC follows the post-punk music makers whose god was the electronic sounds of the synthesiser.

Friday, March 14th, 2014

Lee Hardcastle’s Claysplotation Movie Spook Train – Official Trailer

It’s got Cyriak Harris doing the music with Hardcastle writing and directing—and after watching the trailer you’ll be eager to see this violent claymation horror movie about a haunted fairground ride, but first Lee needs to get it funded on Kickstarter, so you can go and donate if you’re feeling all Harvey Weinstein.

Friday, March 14th, 2014

Feature-Length Documentary on Beat Legend William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within explores the controversial writer and junkie, who infamously shot and killed his own wife and wrote about his debauched lifestyle as a narcotics fiend, travelling the globe inhabiting and haunting cities like a phantom. This documentary, looking at the life and work of this celebrated American counterculture figure, is [...]

Friday, March 14th, 2014

These Actual Domino’s Pizza Complaints Are Hilariously Stupid

This whole video featuring the dumb comments from Domino’s Pizza Australia Facebook page is just one facepalm after another—and if that isn’t enough to make you want to watch this and laugh in the face of these idiots then it also has the complaints being read out in silly voices, just to ram the point [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Parents Sing Disney’s Frozen (Love Is an Open Door)

The worrying thing about this is, not only can this mom and dad perfectly lip sync along with the music, which means they’ve listened to this soundtrack far too much—but they also seem to be enjoying it way more than their daughter who’s sitting behind them in the back seat. For the moment it’s just [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Photoshop Has Gone Too Far

The ubiquity of Photoshop in the images we’re bombarded with on a daily basis means that pretty much everything you see now is fake and gay—and to fully see just how crazy this retouching phenom has got, watch this video from College Humor which shows you the photoshop process in reverse—and boy is it eye-opening. [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

First Kiss – Filmmaker Asks 20 Strangers to Kiss for the First Time

If you were put in a room with a complete stranger and then left to start snogging, what the heck would you do? These people seem to handle it remarkably well, naturally it starts off a little awkwardly, with them shuffling on their feet and smiling nervously, but then once they get into it, some [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Street Fighter Red Tape: Vega

Comedian Pete Holmes continues his Street Fighter II reality check series with everyone’s favorite be-clawed, beauty-obsessed Spanish narcissist, Vega. And while he might be a great fighter who’s agility means he can be a right pain in the ass to anyone getting to the later stages of a SF2 sesh, those claws are a nasty [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

Meet Babymetal, Japan’s Teen-Fronted J-Pop Hard Rock Band

Only in Japan would they have a cutesy teen metal band, Babymetal, who are an unholy mix of Industrial rock riffs & thunderous rhythms with the bubble-gum, schoolgirl sensibilities of J-Pop—the result of the clashing styles is kind of terrifying & fascinating, like musical performance as car crash. So sit back & let the furious [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2014

Freaky Fractal Music Video Will Trip You Out

Get ready for some eye-candy overload – French animator and musician Alexandre Lehmann has decided to mess with your mind today, because he’s unleashed this psychedelic tripfest of a video onto the internet, created using fractal software that generates otherworldly weirdscapes of architectural forms and alien lands. It’s part of his Musicians With Guns series [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2014

The Exorcist Recut as a 1980s Sitcom

Gone is the iconic Tubular Bells track, replaced with canned laughter, lamewad opening credit music, and adverts for popular fast food chains— in what is a funny and shrewd reworking of the original film’s audience-frightening, pant-soiling tale of devil possession. Gone is the terror and with some neat editing we get The Exorcist, a [...]