I’ve watched this way too many times. The Katie Couric duet is my favourite … very thin ice, indeed. Auto Tune The News.
Via Kottke.
April 2009 Archives
This guy is Fucking Amazing.
Via kottke.org.
Dustin Diaz takes photos. He also takes photos of the setup.
The setup:
And the finished result:
Interesting to see how it’s done, huh?
Via Flickr Blog.
Beautiful sci-fi book covers, by Sanda Zahirovic.
Everyone knows owners look like their pets, right? Creative Review is showcasing a great campaign from George Patts for the Australian RSPCA: owners behaving like their pets.
Reminiscent of the popular trailer mashups (such a trailer for The Shining edited so it appears to be a sweet, heart-warming tale), this is the original opening of 80s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes set to a creepy score: Disturbin’ Strokes.
Get out of there Willis! He’s evil!
Via kottke.org.
Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh runs around impaling people with a big nail in this video for Kasabian’s “Vlad the Impaler”.
Via CR Blog.
It’s not as good as when it was in Crown Street - hoo Lord, that was amazing - but when the sun is shining, the Surry Hills Festival is a damned fine place to be. And it’s on this weekend.
I discovered Rich Hall at the Comedy Store in London’s Leicester Square. The guy’s a deadpan genius. Here’s one of his standup routines, in two parts:
The parallels to a certain fictional band are just too weird. An aging, once-popular metal band reform for a North American tour that falls apart. Here’s the trailer for “Anvil! The Story Of Anvil”. And it’s real! This looks awesome.
Via Jon.
Adrian Shaughnessy with counterintuitive observations regarding the world of design.
The single most important thing we need to remember when presenting work to clients is that they are terrified at the prospect of what we are going to show them. For clients, commissioning design is like going into a furniture showroom to buy a sofa and being told by the salesperson, “Sure, I can sell you a sofa. But I can’t show it to you.” Who ever spent money on something they couldn’t see? Yet this is precisely what we ask our clients to do when they commission us.
Plus a nod towards Spinal Tap never goes astray.
Via kottke.org.
Danish photographer Peter “There’s No Such Thing As A Free” Funch hangs out on street corners taking photos for a couple of weeks. He then picks a theme, and Photoshops the images together. Check out the beautiful, funny, results.
Via John Nack.
It was my brother, not me, that was into stamp-collecting, but I think even I’d spring for these Simpsons stamps.
Via Eye On Springfield.
Creepy beautiful claustrophobic mind warping sci-fi. Here’s a trailer for “Moon”.
Via Daring Fireball.
The latest film from Sacha Baron Cohen – Bruno is a gay Austrian fashion reporter. Same formula as Borat and Ali G: lampooning unwitting Americans. It’s slated for release in the US on July 10.
Brüno trailer. Slightly NSFW. Very funny.
(Also worth linking to this classic Bruno interview from a few years back.)
A photo from my primary school in 1957, teaching road rules in little pedal cars. They sure don’t teach ‘em like this any more … I love that they’re using hand signals.
I’ve had email addresses that were difficult to explain down the phone, but they were trivial compared to these beauties.
Via Daring Fireball.
