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Simpsons v Fox News (Taiwan style)
the Next Media animation bots have been at it again: here's their take on the Simpsons clash w Fox News, including an actual shark to jump over
7th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Nice Beaver
It's release has been on ice since his recent meltdown, but Mel Gibson's new flick The Beaver could just break that ice....
6th Dec 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Storytime With Johnny Marr
The time Happy Mondays tried to kidnap Johnny Marr and take him to Barbados.
1st Dec 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Girl Talk - All Day
thanks to Marmot for the heads-up on this new Girl Talk download
30th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Techniques
how to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors: Wikihow has a lowdown
30th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Irvin Kershner
More sad news today, director Irvin Kershner has died. In many ways he's a little known director, but to every chimp he is the man responsible for lifting the Star Wars saga from 'blockbuster' to 'epic'. His fantastic touch on The Empire Strikes Back elevated Star Wars into a totally different league, with classy assured direction and some beautifully storyboarded scenes - particularly those light on effects. A true master.
29th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Leslie Nielsen
RIP comedy legend Leslie Nielsen. And don't call him Shirley.
29th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Samples
source samples from Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: inc Black Sabbath, Aphex Twin, Bon Iver and Mike Oldfield...
29th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google Googles
Ever since Shazam wowed the world with their call-this-premium-number-to-ID-some-music trick, I've been wondering when the concept will expand to other searches - such as faces, book covers, posters and more. Google goggles does that through their Google App.
Only problem is, if it's a book cover you can probably already tell what it is, by the power of eyes. Check out two tests below of stuff in my office. Goggles ID'd Jennifer Aniston OK, but for some reason they think the Chimpomatic logo belongs to The Misfits...
28th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Guess The Lighting
v interesting photography blog: guess the lighting
"Armed with only a wacom tablet, less-than-mediocre drawing skills and an acute sense of smell, professional photographer Ted Sabarese guesses how individual images were lit by other photographers and then sketches corresponding lighting diagrams. It's what you always wanted to know but didn't know who to ask."
26th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Wilco, Wil(coffee)
you are a target audience and you will(co)nsume with us
23rd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Source Code
Groundhog Day meets Inception anyone? new WTF sci-fi from Duncan "Moon" Jones - Source Code. thanks to a top secret US government dept with some cool tech, soldier Jake Gyllenhaal can relive 8 minutes of someone else's life - is it long enough to find a bomber / fall in love on a speeding train?
22nd Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
BFI Printstore
cool collection of posters from the BFI's online store
19th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Plane Graveyard
Ever wondered where that airplane graveyard that looks so good in films and on TV is? It's here.
18th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer park: Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern
couple of new trailers up at Apple: yeehaw UFO tale Cowboys & Aliens with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford; and Green Lantern - aliens give Ryan Reynolds a magic ring;
18th Nov 2010 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Beatles on iTunes
Bore me again. The Beatles are finally on iTunes, and as usual it's in their own rip-off style. £10.99 for each album, £17.99 (!) for the double disc greatest hits albums and the white album.
The Rolling Stones meanwhile are happy to stick to the standard prices that everyone else uses. You can even get Beggars Banquet for £4.99 or Hot Rocks for £8.99...
16th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
1080p is the VHS of the future
How's that 47", 1080p, Full HD-ready TV working out for you? Nice try, but it's already out-of-date. What you really want is a Super Hi-Vision plasma screen, capable of a resolution of 7680x4320 - 16 x better than 1080p.
OK there is a projector, but while the TV sets don't exist yet (you can use 4 x 4K sets together) the camera does - and the BBC and Japan's NHK just did a test broadcast of a studio session from The Charlatans. Not quite sure how that content decision came about.
The quality is so clear that a special lens had to be built to cope, and much like 3DTV, the format has dictated a shooting style of its own - with a single camera wide-shot being so big and clear that the viewer would be distracted by too much editing and can just cast their eyes around the screen instead.
Watch more at the BBC
16th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Muji Apps
With smart phones and iPads starting to replace old-school hardware like the notebook, Muji must have started to question the future of their cute little business. Luckily, they decided to digitalise their offerings and now have a range of iPad Apps out.
Muji Notebook
Muji Calendar
Muji To Go
Muji Apparel App
Muji Notebook could be fun, but at $4 I don't really need to find out. Calendar doesn't suggest it will work any better than Apple's own calendar, but Muji To Go sounds like fun ... and it might just help me to wear the right clothes for the weather. A problem I have never quite conquered.
15th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Arrrr! Real-life pirate-fighter
great story about Max Hardberger who takes back ships stolen by pirates. videos on his own website here
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15th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Battle Los Angeles
Only the use of autotune seems to differentiate the trailer for Battle Los Angeles from Independence Day, but it might just be enough.
12th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Blitz
The boys are back in town for this Jason Statham-led UK serial killer thriller, also starring Paddy Considine and that irish guy that's the mayor in The Wire ....who steals this trailer with one of his lines: "I want a lawyer and a sandwich. And I want to update my Facebook status."
11th Nov 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Call of Duty Black Ops
BC and I spent a good amount of time shooting stuff with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and I doubt this update will be any easier to resist. Clever ad too.
All-digital trailer below.
10th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Break it down...
Ever wondered who that was ranting about parking tickets on DJ Shadow's Stem/Long Stem? Turns out it was Murray Roman (not Elliot Gould, surprisingly). A question I finally answered thanks to www.whosampled.com - a database of beats and pieces listing all types of loops and lifts.
"Traffic offences! Bah! Parking tickets!"
9th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Prawns
The land of advertising is a dangerous business. Post-meerkat, a high-concept ad campaign is likely to fall flat on it's face, but drafting in Sgt Elias AKA Willem Dafoe is one way to seal the deal.
Newsflash chimps: Prawns.
8th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria
Great short from David Blair the director of WAX: Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees, which still stands as one of the craziest, most original films I've ever seen
3rd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Neil Young - Angry World
Neil Young's playing with his delay pedal here
2nd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tapes 'N More Tapes
new album from Tapes 'N Tapes coming. MP3 of Freak Out over at Gorilla Vs Bear
1st Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fire up the Chimp-O-Matic?!
not quite sure what to make of this until we've talked to our Chimp-o-lawyers (especially as we're lovers, not fighters), but there's a Chimp-O-Matic weapon in PS3 game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
"The Chimp-o-Matic was a weapon that turned enemies into chimpanzees and, according to its demonstration video, was originally designed as a party gag by bored GrummelNet engineers. Robotic enemies were turned into toy monkeys with cymbals, while organic enemies turned into normal chimps."
30th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Back to Back to the Future
The Back To The Future Blu-ray box has hit the shops and some of the extras are popping up on YouTube - including some rushes with Eric Stoltz in the Marty McFly role ...before he was replaced by Michael J Fox.
As a double geek-out, a recent episode of Fringe set in their parallel universe featured two of the watchers coming out a movie theatre, showing the Eric Stoltz version of the film.
26th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Life On Board The International Space Station
alarm music: Muse, Macho Man and the Wallace & Gromit theme tune
25th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hot Sauce Update
OK just to be clear, here's what's going on with the new Beasties record (TRANSLATION: some songs you haven't heard yet are now going to be replaced by some other songs you haven't heard yet but you'll still get to hear the other lot later):
BEASTIE BOYS HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 2 TRACK LISTING REVISED, REPLACED ENTIRELY WITH SONGS ORIGINALLY RECORDED FOR HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1
In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have verified that their new Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be comprised of the same 16 tracks originally slated for inclusion on Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The record (part 2 that is) will be released as planned in spring 2011 on Capitol.
The tracks originally recorded for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 material. Wait, what?
"I know it's weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end." says Adam "MCA" Yauch. "We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we've come full circle."
Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 marks Yauch, Mike "Mike D" Diamond, and Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz's first full length effort since 2007's Grammy winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. The new track listing of the album is now as follows:
1. Tadlock's Glasses
2. B-Boys In The Cut
3. Make Some Noise
4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
5. OK
6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS)
7. Say It
8. The Bill Harper Collection
9. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)
10. Long Burn The Fire
11. Funky Donkey
12. Lee Majors Come Again
13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
14. Pop Your Balloon
15. Crazy Ass Shit
16. Here's A Little Something For Ya
UPDATE: The Beasties also have a new website.
25th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Piracy Comics and Sales
interesting case study of piracy and sales
23rd Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: More Mark Gonzales
Following a successful art career, legendary skater Mark Gonzales can be seen out and about again more and more.... Here's a nice little day-in-the-life from 2009.
21st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vile 7"
Kurt Vile is putting the finishing touches to his next full length album, but to tide us over he's putting out another 7" first. Tracks are In My Time (mp3 here), with 2 b-sides: Early Dawnin' and Sad Ghost.
While the MPFree format usually means filler, if Kurt Vile's recent EP is anything to go by that will not be the case here. I even bothered to buy that last free EP.
In the words of Matador themselves:
"...although you're likely to hear one of these tracks on Kurt's next album, this 7", like every other of his releases, is an item that's worthy of it's own recognition."
21st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hot Sauce Committee 2, Part 1
The Beastie Boys' new album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 was delayed last year, due to MCA's illness, but to keep us on our toes they'll be releasing Part 2 in the spring ....to tide us over until Part 1 is ready....
Via Beastieboys.com:
18th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Back To The Future Merch
$15k auto-lacing Nike's too steep for you? You might have to settle for a copy of Oh La La.
Via Uncrate.
18th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Titus Andronicus
OK, technically, it's not a promo - but check out this live clip of bearded-heavyweights Titus Andronicus kicking out an epic rendition of The Battle Of Hampton Roads for FORNOONE.tv
15th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mara Carlyle: Ikea cat lady
interview w Mara Carlyle - voice of the Ikea cat ad / duetter w Jon Snow
15th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
DIY Stormtrooper Halloween (1977)
great homemade Stormtrooper costume from 1977 (via @boingboing)
15th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: Guy Mariano
Nice little video series over at VBS.tv following the career of Guy Mariano, who made his name as a kid in Ban This and Video Days, then as a teenager in Mouse - before disappearing until a come back in 2007's Fully Flared from Lakai. Look out for some extra footage from skate-classic Video Dayz with a young Jason Lee doing his thing.
14th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Matthew Herbert: One Club
new club record from Herbert out now - all made from one night in a German club. it's all streaming at Spex. tickets available for his Nov 20 Jazz Festival gig made up of stories/news/data from an issue of The Guardian
13th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short: Bistro
"A surreal dark comedy about hunger." The Thick Of It writer Sean Gray has roped in Peter Capaldi and Alex MacQueen for this dining short
12th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Way Back
Un-HD trailer up for Peter Weir's latest movie - The Way Back. Not the most inspiring trailer I've ever seen, but only a mug would overlook Weir's outstanding Star Status ...and Oscar buzz is already building ....according to a Colin Farrell fansite.
11th Oct 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Loose, White Denim
They're still working on their new album, but while we wait - here's a free new album from White Denim.
"This record is something we made as a little summer retreat from our ongoing work on the third full length. Many of these tunes have been bouncing around since the formation of the band back in 06. We were super pumped to utilize a few fresh and casual musical approaches on this record."
11th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Conchords Simpsonized pt2
Featuring Stephen Hawking: "a brief history of rhyme".
6th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Conchords Simpsonized!
Flight of the Conchords are back ....with a cameo in the new season of The Simpsons.
5th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet