Child Solider Rebels - US Placers

hell.fuckin.yeah they have a video now!

Turn up the violin

Hip hop, classical, and turntablism at it's finest


Hip Hip Violin And DJ - The funniest videos are a click away

Work Talk

"It's going to cost you this much money to get your tentacle back."

Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton is on board to direct a film version of Alice in Wonderland!

Can I say, fuckyesthisissoawesomeIcantwait!

Starts filming in May 2008, for a 2010 release

Looks like I'll be blogging about this subject for a bit.

Pac-Man Christmas tree!

supposedly in Madrid

Fall From Grace

Last night on Showtime, they aired the documentary, Fall From Grace, which is about the religious zealots the Westboro Baptist Church, led by pastor Fred Phelps. Practically everyone has heard of these mid western haters now that they picket dead solider funerals along with any gay pride they can get to. The whole church is basically Fred's incestuous family who gets beaten and yelled at to spread the word of hate.

The documentary itself is not edited very well, or maybe that was the look they were going for, but overall gives you a general overview on a small niche of people who thrive on attention (including this post) because well deep down, they must all know they're pretty pathetic, and no Christian in their right mind would interpret the bible in such a hap hazard way to make it seem like their making sense.

The best part of the whole documentary is when the Westboro clan go to picket at a dead solider funeral and eight guys on Harley Davidson's show up, line their bikes up in front of them, and rev their motors, so no one at the funeral has to hear the stupid shit coming out of their pie holes.



Dear Fred Phelps and family,

Gays are here and not going anywhere, no matter how much you picket, so have fun wasting your time with a lost cause.

More info on the doc here: Fall From Grace

Cloverfield

Going to the theatre for this one, could be fun.



Double Negative in London did the VFX

Check out the trailer here:

Cloverfield

Sara Conner Chronicles

The company I work for is the primary visual effects company on the new Fox TV show, The Sara Conner Chronicles, which is a spin off from the Terminator film franchise.

We had nothing to with these promo posters, but they are FUCKING RAD!

And Summer Glau is a hottie

The Vinyl Frontier

A Documenatary Exploring The World of Vinyl Toys

can't.fucking.wait



The Vinyl Frontier is an upcoming documentary by Daniel Zana about the world of vinyl toys.

Featuring some of todays top designers, collectors and toy producers including: Attaboy, Tim Biskup, Luke Chueh, Dalek, Tristan Eaton, Ron English, Huck Gee, Thomas Han, Frank Kozik, Joe Ledbetter, Tara Mcpherson, Sket One, Joey Potts, Jermaine Rogers, Bwana Spoons, and many many more…

HAVOC

Movie Review Wednesday
Havoc
2005



Mannn, is this film inconsistent. First off, white people trying to be gangsta is hilarious in real life, so actors trying to play them is even more funny and unbelievable. There are a few random sing along outbursts of random rap songs that you can't help but laugh at and the story of a bored affluent white girl looking for some excitement in East LA is not the best plot. Overall the flick is shot pretty nice. Good color and some of the shots are great of them riding around in the car, especially at the end with the 180 degree pan of the intersection with the gangstas and white boys. You should only watch this film if you think Anne Hathaway is kind of cute like I do.

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19

A fan of Tegan and Sara made this animated video for their song, 19, off The Con



Pretty good animation. I recruit artists like this for a living and I was pretty impressed with the Linklater like look. Rook approved

Chumscrubber

Movie Review Friday
Chumscrubber



Ok, so this flick came out in 2005, but I just watched it recently, and highly recommend it if you're into films like, Donnie Darko

It's shot rather similar in some cases and has a pretty cool soundtrack. There's also a whole slew of very talented actors and actresses including, Glenn Close, William Fichtner, Allison Janney, and Rita Wilson

Growing up in a affluent suburban town in California, this was like watching my city on hyper speed. Just a little more out there and sarcastic.

The idea that all suburban kids are on meds and live video games....

Ian Kim

Saw this guy's illusrations on the blog, MashKulture

Awesome work, pretty thought provoking images


Title: Guilty


Title: Journey


Check it out here: Ian Kim

Go Boston

Sweep!

Bitch Slap

A small collection of bitch slap clips from you tube


These women almost sound like they're enjoying it.


Sneaky motherfucker


Don't mess with a Russian bitch slap.

War Monger

According to CNN: The Bush administration on Monday asked for an additional $42.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the 2008 request for total war funding to $189.3 billion. He said the new request means the overall cost of the widely unpopular war now approaches $650 billion since March 2003

If you voted for Bush and you're reading my blog, please close the window and never look at it again. We're not friends.

So Called

You are never alone
from the album: Ghettoblaster



pretty cool video

Showtime

Thank the heavens for this channel!!!

Money Talks

no joke.

Weekend Film Review

Resident Evil: Extinction



Is "BADASS" a film review? This film was zombie/violence awesome. Ashanti even shows up wearing a mag of rifle bullets, who would have thought?

3D Painting

This was floating around at work
Pretty cool

Familjen

Det snurrar i min skalle

Taken from the blog: Boing Boing

Old footage taken from some sort of religious gathering, cut to a modern European dance track
Director: Johan Söderberg



hiFUCKINlarious

Levi's Change

cute and rad vfx

The Black Ghosts

Any Way You Choose To Give



Dedicated to my weekend
Favorite

Cutest Protest Ever!

Anime fans in Singapore staged a micro-sized protest against a Singapore animation distributor by attaching tiny signs to plastic robot and monster statuettes and placing them in public.

The Singapore authorities responded by sending four riot vans. The organizer of the protest, Zer0 told reporters that the police removed the figurines and that plainclothes officers filmed them.

According to the Yahoo News brief, "public protests are rare in Singapore, where outdoor demonstrations are banned and any public gathering of more than four people requires a permit."

6 Years Later

our government is still a bunch of greedy assholes



"What people must remember about 9/11 is that the cops, firemen, EMTs, all had very physical jobs. These were healthy people who had these jobs. We had to pass a physical every year. The question now becomes, if all these people were healthy, why are they all sick now? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. What is the common denominator? 9/11 - Ground Zero."

Link to Allan Tannenbaum photos and writings on the neglected American heroes of 9/11

9/11: Still Killing

Pictures for Sad Children

cool website comic.

he's a little ghost



Pictures for Sad Children

Feel Me Flow

Was watching a snowboard video with some friends yesterday and this song was in one of the rider's part.
Forgot how much I used to love this music video.

Salad

old school, but still cool.

Maps

Some people out there in our nation is right....
what is this?



Let's watch the Yeah Yeah Yeahs instead

I love cheese

Even when it is metal


Bruce Gray is a sculptor in Los Angeles who has created everything from giant insects to model motorcycles to this massive hunk of Swiss cheese all from metal.

Flowcharts

Make everything easy to understand

Get Naked

On Saturday, more than 600 people posed nude on the Aletsch Glacier near Bettmeralp, Switzerland for a photo by Spencer Tunick. The shoot was a collaboration between Tunick and Greenpeace as a symbol of vulnerability due to climate change.



Link: Greenpeace

No one belongs

so funny.

Miranda July

Star with comet's tail

Taken from the blog: Boing Boing

Astronomers have captured the first image of a comet-like tail behind a star. The star, Mira, is named for the Latin word meaning "wonderful." The tail is 20,000 times the distance between Pluto and our sun. Mira is hurtling through space at 291,000 miles per hour.

Maryilyn Manson

I forget how good Mechanical Animals is. I had a lot of cds stolen from me at one point and I think it was one of them. I picked it up on iTunes for seven bucks.



I'm not attached to your world
Nothing heals and nothing grows

Skittles

Has some good advertising

Jen showed me this one:



Rocco showed me this one:

J.U.S.T.I.C.E - Dance

I want every t-shirt in this video. now.

The Fart

Great moments in bad advertisting

My favorite comment listed below the video:

Tariq2000XL (1 hour ago) Marked as spam

Corporate America is always sooooo late.


Make your own here:
Heineken

Homicide Map

war everywhere

The Homicide Map >> Los Angeles County victims

UNKLE

Burn My Shadow Away
Watch this video all the way through to see why it's banned from tv

Turkish Star Wars Mash Up

I spend far too much time on youtube. I guess the first step is admitting you have a problem.



I wonder if the Klaxons have actually seen this? They might enjoy it.

Gags - Dan Goodsell

Chris Dent

Go to the link Chris Dent to really see this drawing.

Insane.

Rhinos

A rhino's horn is not a true horn. Rather than being attached to the skull, it grows from the skin and is made of keratin fibers, which are also found in hair and nails.



Rhinos are cool.

Take me back to your house

I just feel like chillin with you.

Can't tell me nothin

Happy Monday.

Weird morning

Word of the Day for Saturday, August 4, 2007

jeremiad \jair-uh-MY-uhd\, noun:

A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; also, a dolorous or angry tirade.

Walk It Out

It's Friday.
I don't know.

I heart HRDLAND/HEARTLAND

because they make funny things like this

Ebony Bones

Don't Fart on My Heart
A little Ebony Bones to get the day started right.



I swear this shit is from the jungles of outer space.

Sicko

Rook roc approved

Sunshine

So many flicks I want to see right now Simpsons, Sicko, Hot Rod and this crazy looking Sci Fi thriller directed by David Boyle (The Beach, 28 Days Later), Sunshine

Miller Lite "Break from the Crowd"

Interesting idea for a beer commercial. Human monster? Hmmm

Jen's loud mouth stalker

So the vagina portion of the Tegan and Sara show is on youtube (what isn't on youtube?)

Sneaking in

So I somewhat pride myself on being able to weasel my way into free events and such when they are "at capacity"....I also enjoy the task of getting to the front row, so when my homie IM'd yesterday and invited me to see Tegan and Sara's live performance at Amoeba on Sunset, I figured hell why not? I don't follow music very closely, but I had heard songs and it sounded fun. By the time I got there it was around 5:30p and they were playing at 6....my homies had been waiting since 2! The line was around the corner and I thought to myself after paying 6 bucks for parking..."there's no way I'm getting into this thing" Jen gave me specific directions on what to say to the door people, and after contemplating other scenarios, I decided to stick with her plan and the third person I talked to let me cut the line and get in.

Amoeba did a webcast of the show, but I'm not sure if they'll archive it or not. I hope they do, it was fantastic (except for Jen's drunk stalker yelling vagina a bit too much - it was funny the first time)

My camera phone sucks, but I wanted a pic with the eye of the pyramid



And besides what's tomorrow?



Fun week for sure.

In the woods with Julian

This short is on the splash page of youtube right now. The style is obviously Richard Linklater, but the candidness of Julian is what makes this short absolutely amazing.


like shedding your skin, seeing your bones...

Worst Movies Ever

The Worst Movies Ever
(In six categories)

Apple stores charge 5 bucks a pop to enter:

Cupertino, CA – If you want to see the iPhone at an Apple store, be sure to bring some cash. Large crowds flocking to see the iPhone and next generation iPods have forced Apple to begin charging a $5 entrance fee for Apple stores. Many analysts anticipated the move, and expect a positive response from customers.

"Part of the move was to limit crowds to keep the stores safe, but also we wanted to keep the right kind of people in the stores," said vice president of retail outlets, Vince Sciopiano. "By 'right kind of people' I mean true Apple customers with money, willing to pay just to look at our newest wares."

While Apple Geniuses patrol inside the store, Apple "Muscleheads" will guard the window displays and entrances.

For the $5 fee, customers will get an Apple button which will allow them entrance into the store and is used to track the customer's movements. Sciopiano noted that the $5 fee could be applied to purchases on that visit.

Customer reaction at a pilot project at the Apple Store in Canoga Park, California was positive. Alexander Hu, an avid Mac user, said, "I don't mind paying $5 to get into the store, if it keeps out the iPhone gawkers and Windows lusers who want to drool over the new Macs."

Not everyone was pleased though. Kyle Martin said, "Five dollars to just walk into the store? It's like they want to be elite snobs or something."

When told of the criticism, Sciopiano said, "That's exactly the case."

Apple shares were up on the news.

A big portion of my life lately has been drama. This is a little light hearted animated short about a Kung Fu Crab. I like it because as of recent I'm reading more about East Asian philosophies, Martial Arts, breathing, and anything else I can get my hands on in regards to turning negative energy into positive and not letting other unhappy people affect this great life I have. I feel more free than I ever have and really ready for anything.

Today is going to be hot girl on my blog day and with that...

Ms. Brittany Murphy


Those high heels are not your friend....

I'm missing one of my favorite bands tonight, Killola, so I can go play sidekick to my homie who is meeting some gal off the internet. Good to have a friend around is case 1) they're lame 2) they're crazy 3) a combination of the two

My buddy George shot this video for the band back a couple of years ago and is the one who got me hooked, so thanks George! haha



Lisa, the front gal also acts in the online series, Girltrash, which is pretty funny. She's great in it.

Check it out here:
Girltrash

They're just a rad interactive band, who care about their fans and love multimedia

Band website to check out
Killola

Phil Hansen



A closer look at this artist can be found here:

Phil Hansen's Video Bio

All his work can be found here

Phil Hansen

Ok, I'm not sooo into bacon, but this Wendy's commercial cracks me up



It's the cut out heads, not the burger - which would probably make me barf.

This a repost from my boss' blog

Wooster Collective - Barcelona

Another documentary to check out is showing on Showtime right now
In Pot We Trust

Here is a youtube sample of a person who cannot get medical marijuana in her home state.
She made me cry.



The whole documentary is awesome. Shows all sides, but what stays with you is the people who need marijuana to be happy and to feel right.

Take God I live in California.

Zane Lewis
Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica



Link to other work
Zane Lewis Info

Bat for Lashes
What's a girl to do?

N.C. Winters takes a stab at Shepard Fairey and Obey
Pretty awesome.

Friday film review

Last night we went over to a friend's house and watched, Cocaine Cowboys.



It came out in 2006, and is a complete overview of how Miami as a city is essentially built on a bunch of launder drug money. It was really long and violent, but I still thought it was good, because most of the time when you think of cocaine you think of Pablo Escobar, and he was but a small portion of this trade.

I'd recommend it to anyone interested in how illegal drugs have shaped American life and our connections to other countries.

The best part of 4th of July now is looking up mishaps on youtube

Someone should buy this for me
thanks

Funny, demented, and clever
plus a good song

The Foxhole Mainfesto
me like.

Someone drawing Mona Lisa in Microsoft Paint to some ravelish techno beat.
Time on one's hands?

I always forget how cool this video is

Tribute to Skeme

photoshop
Artist: Tymoteusz Chliszcz



Link to large version
Tymoteusz Chliszcz

Was in Minneapolis last week for work, picked up a scarf/bandana by local artist collective, Hyper Lush



Link to blog
HyperLush

Happy Birthday Mr. West

Advertising at it's finest.
Love it

Pretty Girls Make Graves played their last LA show last night at the Troubadour
Tears in a big fuckin bucket
I'm going to miss this band
The show was unforgettable

These are my crappy photos from my Blackberry

Nice diddy for summer: The SoftLightes - Heart Made of Sound
Cool stop motion video

David Paul Flores


I'm the ODB as you can see, every eye, don't you be watching me

A Friday ode to Richard Linklater:




So funny....on acid


A Scanner Darkly




MY ALL TIME FAVORITE