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BNP = Bad Graphics
Charlie Brooker asks why the BNP cant get themselves a decent graphic designer.
14th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Instapaper
Click read later, and website articles can be added to your Instapaper account, then compiled for iPhone reading at a later date.
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Sacha Baron Cohen on Finding Terrorists
Letterman gets a non-Brüno interview
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Cinemash
Cheech & Chong do Tron? 500 Days of Summer vs Nancy & Sid? Cinemash tries them all.
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Blast Radius
Think we already covered this way back when, but there's now an updated blast radius calculator available - to let you work out just how vapourised you would be in the event of a nuclear attack. Lucky for us, the bad guys are only suspected of packing low-kiloton weapons at the moment.
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Real Megabots
Gizmodo has some data on the mega-robots that have been surfacing in Japan recently here and here.
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Promo Promo: Beck's Record Club - Sunday Morning
Beck's got a new project - re-recording his favourite albums in 24 hours with his pals - more here
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Hitchcock App
The forthcoming iPhone App Hitchcock sounds like it could be fun and even useful, allowing for easy storyboarding of your potential film projects.
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Promo Promo: Jonathan Glazer vs the Dead Weather
Promo legend Jonathan Glazer has been back in action, with a new promo for the Dead Weather's single Treat Me Like Your Mother.
More info at Creative Review.
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Flashy Handbag
Love this anti-paparazzi handbag, which has a slave flash inside and a glittering facade. Any pap flash guns cause the bag to instantly respond, ruining any potentially embarrassing photos.
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Solved: Crop Circles
One of life's mysteries seems to have been solved - in Australia at least. Turns out Wallabies like nothing more than smoking a bowl and then heading out to make some crop circles.
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My MAD mentor
Terry Gilliam explains the genius of Harvey Kurtzman, who as creator of MAD magazine, inspired a generation of satirists.
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Trailer Park: Art and Copy
Trailer up for Art & Copy, a new documentary about the advertising industry from Doug Pray.
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Pimp My Sith Lord!
The Vader Project - because not every evil ruler of the galaxy has to wear black
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Turn your Big Mac into a Gourmet Dinner
At fancyfastfood.com Erik Trinidad transforms convenience food into gourmet creations
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Trailer Park: District 9
Some lazy posting this week. Here's another trailer - for Neil Bloomkamp's V-esque sci-fi movie District 9, out this summer.
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Beastie Boys Cruiser
Fun, if slightly pointless tie-in from the Beastie Boys: cruise the earth in your own Sabotage style cop car. It's hilariously inept, and all gets a bit Repo Man when you hit a hill and take off.
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Extended Johnson
Antony & The Johnsons have a new double-A side out - featuring Aeon and a cover of Crazy In Love, which is sure to become a downbeat party favourite.
‘Aeon’ is one of the glowing highlights taken from the hugely acclaimed album The Crying Light which debuted at #1 on the European chart. The band recently appeared on Jonathan Ross and The Late Show with David Letterman in the US. Antony and the Johnsons’ audacious and impassioned cover of Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”, a long time live favourite, is being released officially for the first time.
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Sunset Rubdown On Tour
I was going to make some lewd innuendo about getting a Rubdown in Europe or something, but with this supplied press shot it's just too easy.
Sunset Rubdown play the following venues in support of their excellent Dragonslayer.
September 10 Glasgow, Stereo 7.30pm, £9 adv
September 11 Belfast, Spring And Airbrake 9pm, £12.25 adv
September 12 Dublin, Crawdaddy 8pm, €14 adv
September 13 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 7pm, £9 adv
September 14 Manchester, The Deaf Institute 7.30pm, £9 adv
September 15 London, Garage 7pm, £10 adv
September 16 Cardiff, The Globe 8pm, £9 adv
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You're Just Too Darn Loud
While often noted as the 'loudest band in the world' in the 90's, it seems like Dinosaur Jr may have mellowed in their old age.
As reported on The Guardian, due to a mastering problem which bumped the sound level up by 3 decibels, the band have recalled European copies of new album Farm (review here).
You can exchange your CD on this website. Wimp.
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Prepare The White House Couch (Updated!)
Obama and Sarkozy both snapped sneaking a peak at the G8 summit.
Update: Gawker now has a frame-by frame analysis. Obama looks like he might be in the clear. Sarkozy, less so.
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Trailer Park: Funny People
'Dirty version' trailer up for Judd Apatow's new movie Funny People, about hit comedian Adam Sandler hiring Seth Rogan to write his jokes. Looks good - and could provide some redemption for Eric Bana.
You have to type your age into the teeny-tiny boxes to make it play.
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They Promised Us Flying Cars
Come on Russian scientists! What's up with the flying car programme?!
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2012: The Disastersploitation Remix
2012 remixed as a 70s disaster flick
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Iller Communication
The Beastie Boys re-release-a-thon continues. Ill Communication is now available, with 12 bonus tracks and rarities....
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Promo Promo: Chairlift
Nicely shot promo up for the iPod-soundtrack-track Bruises, by Chairlift - which is getting a post-ad re-release.
Nice to see people still putting effort and money into promos.
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Return to Spiral Stairs
Pavement cohort Scott Kannberg is re-booting his Spiral Stairs persona - and releasing a 'debut' album in October on Matador and Domino. Much like Batmans 3 and 4, he's decided to overlook the overlooked Preston School of Industry releases.
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Jeff Goldblum: Not Dead
Jeff Goldblum spoofs exaggerated rumours of his own death ("Jeff Goldblum's performances combined the muscularity of Brando, the pathos of Streep, and the musky sensuality of a pride of baboons")
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HP Calculator apps
just in case you need to work out some important COS functions, here's a classic HP calculator app for the iPhone
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Trailer Park: The Box / Couples Retreat / The Informant!
Steven Soderbergh has another movie in the can - The Informant! stars Matt Damon and former time-traveller Scott Bakula - and plays like a comedy Insider.
And then ....coming to the back of an airline seat near you, Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman and Jon Favreau star in the comedy Couples Retreat about a bunch of couples who head out to a retreat to work on their marriages.
Plus, Donnie Darko's R-Kelly (Richard, that is) has a third attempt to fulfill his potential - The Box.
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Ad Nauseum: Unpimp My Ride
Nice ads for VW here, featuring a nihilist.
Via: La Calidad
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Michael Mann: Public Enemy No. 1
Michael Mann interview up at Aint It Cool. Not catching Public Enemies until next week, but looking forward to it.
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The Big Picture: Glastonbury
Excellent Glastonbury round up posted over at The Big Picture.
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Yim Yames
Looks like Jim James Yim Yames might be outgrowing the traditional roots of his old band. Maybe they just aren't wacky enough.
In addition to the previously announced Monsters of Folk album, the newly re-christened front man has a solo EP of George Harrison covers on the way, entitled 'Tribute Too'. Recorded on 8 track in 2001, they are now being dusted off and are available to buy from 7th July - although you can sign up and download Behind That Locked Door now.
Yimyames.com also mentions that a 'full length solo record' is 'coming soon'.
The craziness continues.
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Out of this world movies
Indie moviemaker site Shooting People don't seem impressed by the contents of the video shelf on the International Space Station - which is disclosed here. Regarding classics such as Beverly Hills Cop (an easy 5 stars IMHO) as inferior, they are running a poll to select more suitable 'highbrow' titles to suggest.
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Playlist: 2009 ...so far
We're half way through 2009 and this quick recap shows it's been a pretty strong 6 months so far. Some of the best songs have come from debuts with Titus Andronicus and Japandroids particularly doing it for me this year. Let's hope the next half holds as much promise.
Listen to this playlist of Spotify.
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Promo Promo: Dirty Projectors
Nicely shot promo up for the new Dirty Projectors single - Stillness Is The Move.
Directed by Matthew Lessner, the video was shot on location out in Vermont and 'features siberian huskies and rare llamas'.
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The Boys Are Back In Town - Again
Entourage kicks off season six this Sunday - in the US at least. Sure, it's as mindless as they say - buy what's wrong with a little lifestyle envy? SUIT!
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Pirate Treasure
Looks like the Pirate Bay are making out like ...bandits.
With a £2.4m fine to pay, they have sold the Pirate Bay to a Swedish investor - for £4.7m. Not sure where that leaves the recently launched Video Bay.
More info on Wired and BBC News.
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Lovin' An Elevator
Check out Marco Brambilla's art installation in the new Standard Hotel in New York - a video piece that takes lift passengers from hell up to heaven.
Headline and tip-off nabbed from VSL.
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Pixies Do Doolittle
With the 20th Anniversary of it's release upon us, the Pixies are touring pre-grunge indie-classic Doolittle in it's entirety - plus b-sides.
Tickets on sale Friday.
OCTOBER
Thursday 1st - Olympia, Dublin, IRE TICKETS
Friday 2nd - Olympia, Dublin, IRE TICKETS
Sunday 4th - SECC, Glasgow, UK TICKETS
Tuesday 6th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Wednesday 7th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Thursday 8th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Friday 9th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Sunday 11th - Jahrhunderhalle, Frankfurt, DE TICKETS
Tuesday 13th - Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, NED TICKETS
Wednesday 14th - Forest National, Brussels, BE TICKETS
Thursday 15th - Zenith, Paris, FR TICKETS
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Michael Caine Leaves Clue about the next Bat-villain
??? Who's it going to be?
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Obey: Behind the mask
Nice little video up to promote the Shepherd Fairey-centric edition of Arkitip magazine, with the Obey mastermind knocking up an artwork in his studio.
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Promo Promo: Dan Black - Symphonies
someone's seen a lot of films...
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Dizzee V Paxman - Round Two
It's Dizzee Rascal v Jeremy Paxman, Round two at Glastonbury. KO Rascal (again)
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