Monthly Archives: November 2011

Francis Lai: Paris – New-York

This rocks. Super mellow and spacey. Some of his other stuff is pretty rad too, check it out on YouTube, love the cover art as well. I can see some Stereolab / Dungen parallels with some of his other tracks like The Blue Rose. Francis Lai – Paris – New-York Label: Warner Bros. Records Catalog#: [...]

Lil’ B the Based God Documentary

Bay Area’s rapper Lil’ B in a three part documentary exploring his use of social media as a promotional tool and his honest philosophies on approaching life. He seems like a pretty likable guy and a down to Earth character. Apparently he really likes the wharf.

Fingerbobs – Beautiful British Finger Puppets from the BBC

via Wiki (so funny they destroyed the puppets at the end of the series). Beautiful stuff, Fingermouse rocks : Fingerbobs was a British children’s television programme made by the BBC in 1972. The first episode was broadcast on 14 February 1972 on BBC1 as part of Watch with Mother. The show was created by Joanne [...]

IRAK Earsnot Interview + Nemel x Earsnot Mural Art Basel 2011

Nice 12oz interview with IRAK’s Ear Snot, and some photos of a recent mural him and Jesse Geller did for Art Basel 2011. Interview here. 12ozProphet: How long have you written Earsnot? Earsnot: Since ‘98 I guess. So around 13 years. 12ozProphet: What’s the first tag you ever caught? . Earsnot: I think the first [...]

Places to Visit #6: Miniatur Wunderland – Hamburg, Germany

Wowzee. World’s largest model railway in Hamburg, Germany and the city’s top tourist attraction. It has a working airport (which cost 3.5 million euro), over 200,000 figurines, and a working police and fire fighting force. This puts the Flemington, NJ Northlands Railway to complete shame. I love how it has working ships and computer controlled [...]

Lemurs Enjoy Thanksgiving at the San Francisco Zoo

Soooooooo cute.

Dischord Records Releases 800 Fugazi Live Shows

Sounds too good to be true, but it is. Fugazi has recorded almost all their live shows since the band’s inception on cassette, DAT, hard drive and CD-R, and now Dischord Records is releasing the 800 shows, starting with 130 shows December 1st. The shows cost anywhere from $1-$100, depending on how generous you feel. [...]

Transforming Dracula Owl – One Owl Three Versions

Wow, this is so cool. Love the Japanese TV show sensibilities.

Alexander Calder’s Circus – 1927

It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to see the circus in operation. This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the [...]

Brothers of the Weird Show with Todd James

Love Todd James’ work in this show. The show also features artists Devin Flynn, Ian Flynn, and Billy Grant. The show runs through January 22nd in the Canadian gallery. This is a show amongst friends, some who are actual brothers, all of whom are actually weird. The artists in this show are brothers in art, [...]

Wearing 134lbs of Bees

Craze… Reminds of one of the enemies in Metal Gear. This record was attempted on the set of our TV show filmed in China but was unsuccessful. The record to beat was set by Vipin Seth (India) who was covered by a mantle of bees weighing 61.4 kg (136 lb 4 oz). It was calculated [...]

“Camera” – A short film by David Cronenberg

Great short by my favorite director David Cronenberg from 2000. Remember kids, a camera is death. A short film David Croneberg made commemorate 25 years of the Toronto film festival. It star Les Carson who plays Barry Convex in Videodrome. This was released as an extra on criterion 2 disk set of videodrome.

LEGO Victorian Houses, The Fantastic Art of Mike Doyle

Stunning LEGO art by Mike Doyle. Made of 100% LEGO Pieces (no glue, etc.), it took him over 600 hours to create this spooky victorian house and approximately 110-130K pieces. You can purchase fine art prints of the work at Bumble & Bramble, or take a quick gander over to his sister LEGO inspired site [...]

Brinicle Finger of Death Time Lapse

This is amazing how they captured this phenomenon for England’s BBC nature. Check out the full article on BBC. The icy phenomenon is caused by cold, sinking brine, which is more dense than the rest of the sea water. It forms a brinicle as it contacts warmer water below the surface. Mr Miller set up [...]

Cat gets owned by Dove

So funny. This video is great.

Amtrak Wi-Fi Posters

Clean, iconic, route specific posters for Amtrak’s new wi-fi service onboard by Arnold.

Staccato du Mal – Solo Baila Sola

Filming is a bit like Richard Kern’s classic HardcoreM.. Dark and brooding release on Weird Records.

Places to Visit #5: The Parker Hotel, Palm Springs

The Parker is a Palm Springs hotel designed by interior designer Jonathan Adler. Going there this Christmas, and I can’t wait. I love these juicy video cuts filmed by Kiki Allgeier, which are so classy and inspirational.

Bob Ross feeding a squirrel

Lol.

Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival: December 1st

Opening Streaming Festival 6th edition, 1 dec. 2011 The program starts at 20.00 with the American Juggalo documentary made by Sean Dunne, followed by a selection of recent films from Dutch video artists. The screening will then be completed with a reloaded Tiltisfth & other video experiments program. Simultaneously, IntergalacticFM will broadcast the event on [...]