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The Email Game
Most people respond well under pressure, so setting a clock when you're dealing with email can make decisions a bit easier. Try the email game. Though I'd suggest swapping points for beers. Or just toughen up in general.
4th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Trailer Park: 500 Days of Community Mash Up
Nice mash-up of chimp-approved US sitcom "Community" and 500 Days of Summer.
Via @JoelMcHale
#CSF
#Film
#Stupido
#TrailerPark
#TV
27th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
What Is Internet Anyway?
PS: CBBC Tony Anstis LOLZ web URL below.
25th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tuna vs Lion
A quick highlight from the recently viewed Will Ferrell LOL-athon The Other Guys.
21st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Boo, Hiss
A deadly Egyptian cobra has escaped from the Bronx Zoo (via BBC). Luckily, he seems to be updating his status on Twitter.
31st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Best Use Of Facebook So Far
Photoshopping your Facebook friends' faces - it's a meme waiting to happen
21st Mar 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Nazi 3D Films Discovered
I thought this was an Onion spoof when I first saw it, but apparently the Nazis were shooting in 3D as far back as 1936 - 16 years before Hollywood first started its tedious flirtation with the gimmick.
They probably invented it so they could shoot Iron Sky in the format.
8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The War On Twitter
"Just noticed Twitter keeps prompting me to "Add a location to your tweets". Not falling for that one."
I'm loving the official Al Qaeda Twitter page (unverified).
2nd Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Viral Exorcism
Check out this clever/creepy viral promotion for The Last Exorcism. The viral played on the potentially dirty minds of users of Chat Roulette - a webcam site that hooks you up with a random other user...
8th Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Detective Twitter
Following her arrest for drug possession, Paris Hilton claimed that the purse with the drugs in wasn't hers - but an archived post on her own Twitter feed suggests otherwise.... Gawker has the details.
3rd Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
May The $$$ Be With You
In possibly the first bit of exciting Star Wars news for 10 years, Darth Lucas has announced that the original trilogy will be released on Blu-ray in Fall 2011.
The unaltered original trilogy is now being referred to as the 'classic trilogy' by Lucas, in a not dissimilar way to how Coke back-pedalled out of their new recipe fiasco in the 80's. He has previously put them down as 'workprints' for the eventual grand-vision cartoony versions he released in the 90's and re-tweaked in the 00's.
Of course it was obvious that he would re-jig the films back to their 'classic' state at some point, so if the franchise hasn't been poisoned for you too much this may hopefully be the first time you can get the original films in any kind of decent format. Or more decent than the 90's Laserdisc box at least.
All this info is coming from the Star Wars Celebration V convention being held this weekend, which is providing all sorts of tidbits, articles, links and clips:
- Great article about producer Gary Kurtz vision for a darker Return of the Jedi
- Great Today Show footage from 1980 with Mark Hamill, plus Harrison Ford discussing how much he likes Empire.
- Revelation that Harrison Ford has only seen Empire once.
There was also a screening of one of several deleted scenes that will appear on the Blu-Ray as bonus material. The originally planned opening for ROTJ (below) shows Luke receiving bad vibes from Vadar, while building his own lightsaber and hiding it inside R2D2 - a trick that paid off later in the film. Back when kids couldn't watch the films whenever they wanted I was sure this was the opening to the film - probably as it was in the novelization of the film that I had as an 8-year-old geek. The same goes for Luke watching the space battle at the start of Star Wars through his binoculars.
Nearly all via La Times or AICN
UPDATE: Woodward & Bernstein might suggest a second source on this. AICN is talking original, original trilogy. No one else is that specific. Lucas just talks about the 'highest picture and audio quality' and how the old versions needed a lot of re-mastering, but StarWars.com doesn't actually specify if Han shoots first.... Whatever. Pick 'em up in the 2012 HMV Biggest Summer Sale Ever.
15th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Phone Sex
iPhone users get laid more. And that's a fact. Apparently.
12th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hurley Burly
Weezer are out of their major-label contract and are now signed to Epitaph. Surely this means they have just been fulfilling their obligations to the label for the last 2+ albums and will now return to Pinketon-era awesomeness.
Their new album is already ready to drop on September 14th and it's called Hurley, not unlike the now-famous fat bloke off that TV show Lost. Uh oh, maybe this doesn't bode well, as the cover is that fat block from Lost, cropped from a photo of Jorge Garcia and Rivers Cuomo. Irony doesn't even abound.
10th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Expendable
Sly Stallone's certainly pulling out all the stops on the PR machine for The Expendables. Check out their amusing custom YouTube page.
Here's the trailer again. In classic 80's style I'll be renting the VHS of this one.
4th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Diss Is It
"I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behaviour ....and I don't like you, jerk-off."
Hardly an editing masterpiece, but pretty sure I've seen at least 98 of the movies featuring the 100 best insults of all time.
Via Defamer
1st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Six Degrees of Black Sabbath
Like an automated version of the Six Degrees game you can play counting the clicks between items on IMDB, Six Degrees of Black Sabbath will link two artists together ...though not always in exactly 6 clicks.
I have yet to defeat it.
17th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
@ferris_bueller_? @ferris_bueller_?
in another pointless/brilliant exercise from the online world, someone has tweeted the whole of Ferris Bueller - twitter.com/ferris_bueller_
13th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fight!
just in case you missed any of the Boulton meltdowns on Sky News, here's a handy recap
#chimp71
#CurrentAffairs
#Stupido
12th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hair Lift
Got a lot of hair lying around? Donate it to Matter of Trust's Hair Lift program, which is collecting hair from salons all around the world to help soak up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
This is no joke. I might shave my biker tash just to chip in.
Via BBC
10th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rollins and Danzig Forever
Love the sound of this mini comic - Henry & Glenn Forever, documenting the fictional civil partnership between Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins. Hall & Oates are their neighbours.
Via Ian C Rogers
7th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Crank 2: High Voltage
We've totally missed the boat on this one, as I caught the end of it on TV last night - but thought it was worth a few bytes of your time for a couple of reasons:
1) It's the loopiest concept I have seen in a long time
2) The production is also bonkers, shot entirely with hand-held consumer video cameras - mostly at super-fast shutter speeds of 1/1000 or 1/2000th of a second
Check it out here. The trailer's probably enough for most people.
5th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
My Pen! And other Kids in the Hall Highlights
Stumbled across a gold mine of Kids in the Hall highlights on YouTube, including My Pen! (above) and The Ham of Truth (below).
Their new show Kids In The Hall: Death Comes To Town has screening in the United States of Canada already. Not sure if/when it will show up in the UK.
Here's more old clips... Wait. No habla english?
26th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Trustworthiness Of Beards
see, Team Chimpomatic is basically trustworthy!
22nd Apr 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Star Wars Uncut
The crowd-sourced remake of Star Wars is 'finished'. The film stiches together scenes from hundreds of fan-recreated elememts to fill out the entire original original movie. Better than Attack of the Clones ....but it's not even widescreen.
That's the trailer above and a scene called 'The Escape' below. See more on the project's website.
Via Wired
13th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
You Played Yourself
Ice T still got it. Aimee Mann just felt his wrath.
12th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fresh Pots!
Dave Grohl has a coffee problem.
Via Sound Theory.
And speaking of drumming, I'm starting to feel like I may have under appreciated Will Ferrell's Chad Smith's drumming...
18th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
20 x 5 second Films
Watch the 20 best five second films. It'll take less than two minutes of your time. http://bit.ly/9fqZfM (via @dannydoom) RT @wired
12th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Nirvana On Ice
yes, nothing says grunge like ice-skating as one of the comments puts it
5th Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Unfortunate Names
Hilarious piece on the BBC website about some of the worst names in Britain. Stan Still, Hazel Nutt, Paige Turner...... and I thought chimp75 was bad
1st Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S>! Star Wars Vs Adidas
in another one of those crazy tie-ups where they've targeted two key markets with massive venn diagram crossover potential, Adidas have teamed up with George Lucas's evil empire to bring you a whole new range of stuff that will have you holding them and thinking things along the lines of "no, I'm not ten. But shit - it's a Skywalker trainer! A Deathstar Superstar! How can I resist the power of tying my Tie-Fighter laces?" oh to be free of target audiences.
might just draw a rebel alliance sign on my old superstars and leave it there
19th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Coolest Guy in the World...?
Not quite sure what to make of the multi-faceted talents of this dude...
14th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Best Fails of 2009
Here's a 2009 round up with a difference. Best Fails Of 2009 is like a skate slam section crossed with You've Been Framed crossed with every other police chase show but there's some real gems in there.
13th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Phantom Menace Review
Finally... it's here. Part 1 of 7.
Don't bother going to Film School. There's a film-making 101 right here.
11th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S>! Parrot AR.Drone
an iPhone-controlled wifi helicopter?! ooh it's the first A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S> product of the new decade! think the shot of the dude bugging his girlfriend on the sofa who's sensibly reading a magazine is a little bit too accurate
7th Jan 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Adidas Death Star
I'm not quite sure what Adidas and Star Wars have in common, but check out the Adidas Death Star - a Google Maps mash-up that lets you destroy your friends houses with the Death Star.
22nd Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet