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Hesher Vision: Old Men With Lightsabers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's new film Hesher seems to be building up some viral promo. Check out Hesher's own YouTube and Facebook pages.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Irina Werning: Back To The Future
Take a look at Irina Werning's lovely photo project Back To The Future, which re-creates childhood photos years later.
28th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Oscar Predictions
It's Hollywood's big night tonight and while The King's Speech might have cleaned up at the BAFTAs, the winners aren't as easy to predict here. Luckily, Heidi the boss-eyed possum (bossum?) is providing some tips to the betting German.
27th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
iPhone Camera Upgrade
turn your iPhone into a slightly more complicated camera with this TurtleJacket add-on
"Turtle Jacket turns your iPhone into a unique multi-purpose digital camera. There are 2 tripod mounts, 2 strap holes and a 37mm thread (female) for conversion lenses."
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26th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Low Flying Aircraft
Great shot of a low-flying airplane over Russell Square. Via Google Maps.
25th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Games Of Thrones
quite like the look of this new epic fantasy show - coming to Sky Atlantic a day after US HBO transmission, Apr 18
24th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Tyler The Creator - Yonkers
new bug-eating vid from the latest XL signing
24th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Chimpomatic 5000
just noticed that we've hit the 5000 news items mark here on Chimpomatic. thanks for stopping by over the last decade, stick around for more chimp-based diversions… as a little bonus, here's the first track from the new TV On The Radio album
24th Feb 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Hesher
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets in touch with his inner hesher, in Sundance hit Hesher. Starring Natalie Portman too, of course.
21st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Radiohead - Lotus Flower
It seems to be UK only, so I haven't actually watched it here in Berlin - but I'm assuming the new Radiohead video for 'Lotus Flower' will be worth a few minutes of your time.
My copy of the new album will arrive in approximately 14 minutes. German WIFI. Bah!
18th Feb 2011 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture: World Press Photo winners
The Big Picture has a round up of some of the winners from the 2011 World Press Photo awards.
15th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Foo Fighters - White Limo
Sabotage-esque video up for new Foo Fighters track White Limo. With added Lemmy.
14th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Radiohead - The King of Limbs, out Sat 19
"Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together." New Radiohead album The King Of Limbs dropping on Saturday in either £30 hardcopy w/ download or £6/£9 digital only versions.
14th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
#Meateasy
glad to report that this burger/cocktails New Cross pop-up combo totally works
13th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: X-Men - The Mad Men Years
"Charles" and "Erik", not exactly the most badass superhero names you'll ever hear... Enjoyed Kick-Ass from director Matthew Vaughn so this might be ok; on the other hand, as Wolverine: The Wonder Years showed, there's very little peril involved in these prequels where we know who makes it to the later films.
11th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Babelfish in your pocket
Google's Babelfish gizmo now comes in app format for iPhone - allowing you to stick a mic in the face of some innocent Japanese person and translate what they are saying to you. Or vice versa.
Android version here.
10th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Strokes: Under Cover of Darkness
First Impressions of this: they've turned their back on the critically panned (but awesome) sound of First impressions of Earth for the casual pop sing-a-long style of their debut.
MP3 here.
10th Feb 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Creme Bru-log
Wacky pranksters M. Ward and Jim James have a new website - reviewing crème brûlée from around the world. Possibly including Paris, France.
Let's hope they put this much effort into each of their new albums.
9th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Superbowl Special
At $3m for 30 seconds (or something like that), a spot during the Superbowl ad break is advertising nirvana, with many advertisers creating special spots that air only once. Nothing particularly flashy about this one ...just a clever idea, well made. With a very large licensing budget.
7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: The Psychology of Mad Men
Great article over at the BBC Blogs looking into some of the psychology and thinking behind the advertising boom of the 1950's and 60's.
7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fleet Foxes Sighted
new Fleet Foxes album on the way, from the sound of Helplessness Blues it's more of the same, which is fine by me
2nd Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture: Space Shuttle Challenger
It was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster last week - a traumatising event that I remember watching on live TV as a child and one that would set back the space programme by many years.
Via The Big Picture
1st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Beginners
Indie alert: trailer up for Mike Mills' new feature - Beginners, with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Think there might be some idea-pooling going on in the Mills' household. Wife Miranda July's latest movie The Future is narrated by a cat.
31st Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: She & Him
Promo up for "Don't Look Back" from M.Ward / Zooey Deschanel side-project She & Him.
28th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
My Morning Jacket v American Dad
weird team-ups of our time: My Morning Jacket on American Dad
24th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spy Cruise!
no, it's not an 80s comedy starring Dan Aykroyd... but a real 7 day cruise for spies
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14th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Animal Kingdom UK Release
looks like the excellent Animal Kingdom we've enjoyed so much is getting a UK cinema release, 25 February
12th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Blue Tongue Films
I was so impressed by David Michod's debut feature Animal Kingdom that I've spent the last few days stalking him and his friends on the internet. Turns out they have a film collective called BlueTonguefilms that have put out a swathe of excellent short films, including Crossbow (something of a precursor to Animal Kingdom) and Oscar Nominee Miracle Fish. Also don't miss the excellent Netherland Dwarf, or Nash Edgerton's Spider.
11th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
MCA Health Update
Good news, Beastie Boy MCA is apparently in good shape after battling cancer. Hot Sauce Committee Part II will be arriving soon and alter-ego Nathanial Hornblower even has a film in the Sundance Film Festival.
7th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Mick Karn
one of Mick Karn's great Japan basslines here from Swing, 1980. RIP
7th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Animal Kingdom
nice use of Air Supply in this recommended Aussie underworld thriller
7th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Slow Motion Fruit
What's so special about a cheesy ad with some slow motion fruit?
31st Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Prince live at Madison Square Garden, 29 Dec 2010
the superfresh @JanelleMonae supporting, Cyndi Lauper randomly joining him on stage at the end, and clips from Wattstax during the interval: a five star night from the man in purple
30th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The 1930's in Colour
Been meaning to put this up for a while: a great set of early colour photos from the Library of Congress. It's so strange to see an era we are so accustomed to seeing in black and white represented in such vivid colour. For the first time, you feel that these are real people that you can relate to as humans. So real that the photos look magically art directed.
Via Vincent Laforet
30th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Xmas, North Korean Style
More killer visuals from The Guardian's Dan Chung. It's the East vs West on the technology front too, with the North Korean reporters still packing suits, wooden tripods and film cameras.
29th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Babelfish is here...
...but only in Spanish for now. Amazing video of an augmented reality app that converts written text between English and Spanish. In reality it's apparently not quite as slick as the video, but not far off.
Via Engadget
21st Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Captain Beefheart dies aged 69
Avant garde musician and visual artist Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.
18th Dec 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Tree of Life
I rate him as one of the greatest living directors alongside Peter Weir, so you can imagine how excited I was when the trailer for Terrence Malick's Tree of Life came online today. I already watched a hooky bootleg last week, but now it's in glorious 1080p over at Apple.
Looks great, but still no real expalnation of what it's about ...with a retro life story seemingly juxtaposed with some sort of sc-fi element. I love movies.
15th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
This Year's Biggest Pictures
As the end of the year approaches, The Big Picture have curated part one of their annual pictures of the year article. Some great photos as usual.
It's not all chimp friendly vistas of Hong Kong skylines and snowboarding however, with earthquakes dominating this year's selection.
UPDATE: Part 2 of 3 can be found here.
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15th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Assassination of Yogi Bear, by the Coward Boo Boo
Great Yogi Bear / Jesse James mash-up online at YouTube, giving the bears some real emotion.
14th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
NBA UFO sighting
San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili spotted something in the sky
13th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sour Mirror
Another incredible HTML5 video, not unlike Arcade Fire's recent effort - but actually a bit cleverer.
As with all these smart ass things though, it won't work on phones or ipads - and you need to allow pop up windows.
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10th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
14 Actors Acting
Nice photo + video piece over at The New York Times, with 14 Hollywood A-listers playing 14 classic film archetypes. James Franco comes out well as usual, but so do Michael Douglas, Tilda Swinton and others.
Shot by photographer Solve Sundsbo, on the forthcoming Red Epic digital cinema camera.
10th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mad Men: Starring You
We're a little off the bleeding edge with this one, but here's a great lazy greetings card template for you: Mad Men starring YOU.
9th Dec 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The All-new Beastie Boys
Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride will play the Beastie Boys in MCA/Nathanial Hornblower's short film "Fight for Your Right Revisited", which will debut in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Details are thin at the moment, but it appears the film will address all those unanswered questions of what happened following the original video....
8th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gorillaz Advent
enjoying the Gorillaz advent calendar (almost as much as Christmas Angry Birds)
8th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet