It’s a recurring movie moment that, in the quieter moments of your day, you reenact endlessly in your mind’s eye, with you in the position of the hero, pushing some innocent out the way as the camera, in slow-mo of course, closes in on your contorted face as you shout “GET DOWNNNNAAAAA!!!!” before unleashing a torrent of bullets upon the enclosing bad guy/aliens/evil robot from the future. And here’s a collection of just such moments.
Four years in the making, Japanese artist Takahide Hori (aka “Yamiken“) has created this incredible 30-minute stop motion animated sci-fi film—being stop-motion and being created by just one person means it must’ve been a mind-numbingly laborious process, so he gets extra points for that. The story looks at humans and clones and the conflicts that arise between the, with stylistic influences from manga, specifically artist Tsutomu Nihei. The end result is quite amazing.
There’s nothing like unnecessary censorship to awaken the 11 year old in you and make you giggle like a school kid—which is exactly what this fake, sweary version of Disney’s Frozen will make you do, turning innocuous and perfectly innocent dialogue into blanks so your dirty mind can fill in the rest. It’s bleeping hilarious.
Freelancers in the creative industries can get a bit of a rough deal, instead of getting paid in money like the rest of us, they get paid in magic beans—and that’s if their lucky, if they’re not so lucky they get paid in the currency of social media posts, which isn’t going to pay the rent—the least they could do is pay them in Litecoin.
Members of one of the greatest bands in the history of greatest bands discuss the recording of their album Wish You Were Here and their one off performance at Live 8 in 2005—Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters dissect each song on the album, talking about what it means to them and how they went about creating it, interspersed with archive footage of its inspiration: Syd Barrett. For fans of the band it’s essential viewing. And for everyone else, it’s also essential viewing.
If social media has brought with it a lot of problems and stupidity from people, then it does have some benefits too—this is the story of Amanda, or @trappedatmydesk, who was diagnosed with brain cancer and decided to spend the last few months of her life travelling around central America to make the most of her remaining time. The tribute video above tells her story via the tweets she made and it’s heartbreaking stuff.
What if American Psycho wasn’t set in 1980s New York but instead was relocated to modern-day Hipsterville, UK? Stay with me on this – You no doubt remember the classic, highly intense business card scene in American Psycho, where a group of yuppies try to out do one another with their raised lettering and pale nimbus eggshell business cards. Now replace that with every true hipsters calling card, skinny jeans —but not just any jeans. Otaku jeans, the holy grail of Japanese denim. New vintage is something definitely worth killing for. Right?
Hollywood loves to dance and if you were ever in any doubt about that, then this video should put it to rest—featuring 73 films, from The Mask to Saturday Night Fever to Dirty Dancing and, you know, lots of other dancey movies, all synchronized to the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance.” Go on, tap your foot.
In this modern day fairytale directed by Peter Szewczyk and set in a dreary and nameless European city, a young girl randomly encounters an enigmatic old lady who reveals a strange, freaky secret and before you know it the protagonist starts to ooze color from blackened hands and it all goes a bit FUBAR for her, as the world around her starts to unravel.
This is not only a great song, from a great movie (Dead Man’s Shoes), it now has this awesome music video featuring an eagle in flight, swooping around amongst the tree tops with mountains as a backdrop—so just smoke something herbal, sit back, full screen, volume maxed and if a co-worker asks what you’re doing, you’re “researching”.
Coming across like a forgotten segment from Lord of the Rings, the BBC have really upped the game for Winter Olympics trailers, as Charles Dance (that’s Tywin Lannister to me and you) narrates a foreboding poem about dreadful menaces and conundrums and stealing dreams and vast mountains and holy shit, mommy I’m scared!
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