Johnny Love “Weight of Tomorrow” [music video]

•May 2, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Macklemore’s Can’t hold Us featured some brilliant New Zealand scenery, naturally of course, kiwis know where the real hidden gems are. Late night channel surfing put me on this neat, stop-motion photography music video. Johnny Love (real name) walks from Bluff to Cape Reinga visiting all he can of this amazing country in over 20 days worth of traveling. Hmm, I should probably say something about the song too, huh?

Directed by Rajiv Raj / Produced & Concept by Ivan Slavov /
Crew: Trent Hall, Kay Sasse, Josh Finnigan

Yeah, New Zealand is beautiful.

Creativity With Food by Hong Yi

•April 30, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi (nicknamed Red) played with her food for 30 days and managed to create some impressive pop culture homages, animals and landscapes:

Day 5: ‘sonny, if anything, just stay far far away from colonel sanders’

Day 6:  ‘all you need is love…’ cherry tomatoes, nori and soy sauce

Day 14: Arctic melting

Day 19: ‘Owl-nion!’ Made of onions and mint leaves.

Day 22: ‘Carnivore vs herbivore.’ Made of beef, spinach, and parsley.

Day 25: ‘Field of tulips!’ Tulips are made of chilli padi, or baby chillis.

Day 28: ‘Red cabbage Marchesa Salad!’ Cabbage, mayonnaise, basil seeds, silver dragees.

…Aah, I thought she looked familiar:

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Day 29: ‘Goldfish in my consommé!’ goldfish made of pickled ginger, eyeballs of century eggs (google if you haven’t heard of them…they’re Chinese black eggs!), grass made of dill and jelly made of chicken consomme and gelatine.

“31 Days of Creativity with Food”

Way to set the benchmark for playing with food, Red. Kids, you’ve got some catching pfftthaha just don’t do it OK kids. Unless you want to be laughed at or growled, wait until you’re older. See all her works on her blog: ohiseered and photos on her instagram: redhongyi#

Anzac Day occurs on 25 April. It commemorates all New Zealanders and Australians killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women.

•April 25, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Anzac Day commemorates the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.

This is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand; nowadays Anzac Day honours all those who died and served in military operations for their countries.

Takaske Is ‘DanceDanceRevolution X3’

•April 22, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Even though he’s barhugging, this dude is a barefoot master! He should learn to salsa:

Pfft, amateur, he only got a C-ranking. At least he now possesses the skill to run on water, can’t complain about that.

The ABCs of Death…

•April 21, 2013 • Leave a Comment

…Cannot be unseen. So much death, the unfathomably wrong kind. Is there such a thing as eye soap?! ARGH!!!

I understand what Ant meant in his welcoming speech last night about being proud but not necessarily of the content, lol. Some of those shorts were tough to watch and not always because of their obvious grotesqueness. They just fucking were!

Err, recommend isn’t a term I would use to encourage anyone to see this, rather, Ant’s bloody alphabet soup would be better appreciated by the more curious sorts. Put it this way; If you’ve never sat through an entire movie with sadistic undertones then The ABCs of Death will probably embed your brain with nightmares of bigfoot and the opposite sex, for life. Subtlety wasn’t one of the most favorable techniques among these radical filmmakers — some intense imagery to say the least.

Several standout crazy insane segments had me in stitches, while other shorts found my boots scraping away at the carpet of the Civic as a cat would claw away at its scratching post. Never done that before, which just goes to prove how utterly out of control some of these narratives were. Did I get my money’s worth? Holy WTF yes and then some.

D is for Dogfight

J is for Jidai-Geki (Samurai Movie)

L is for Libido

O is for Orgasm

T is for Toilet

V is for Vagitus

Z is for Zetsumetzu

Music Videos Without Music: Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” & New Single “Can’t Hold Us” [music video]

•April 19, 2013 • Leave a Comment

I never got into this song, but now I see it as genius! CollegeHumor deliverers another Music Videos Without Music and exceeds their earlier version of Gangnam Style Without Music by a long way:

Hardy har harr. Whatever your thoughts are don’t let them put you off watching his valorous new single featuring Ryan Lewis and Ray Dalton: Can’t Hold Us”

Macklemore holidayed in the Coromandel following his New Zealand tour and shot some iconic Kiwi scenery that — if you failed to recognize — he included in Can’t Hold Us ~ as cited by http://www.facebook.com/I.Love.New.Zealand ~ which I think is pretty neat.

THE ABCs OF DEATH [RED BAND movie trailer]

•April 19, 2013 • Leave a Comment

The ABCs of Death to me is what black sheep are to the flock, rather fluffy. Unique too. Though I don’t usually go for body-horror (everything Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg aside of course) this is going to be an absolute splatter, and it premieres in Auckland tomorrow night!!!

Kiwi film-buff maverick Ant Timpson, notorious for presenting audiences with some of the most offensive creations ever shunned from human awareness on behalf of decency, has a new bloody bag of tricks. 26 directors from around the world were each given a letter of the alphabet to inspire a short film, under the guise of death. An anthology brought about by Ant Timpson himself, with special help of course:

“You are cordially invited to the New Zealand Premiere of THE ABCs OF DEATH, a feature film I produced with Tim League of Austin, Texas and Magnolia Pictures NYC. The film screens in The Mighty Civic Theatre on Sat April 20th, 10pm as part of the Autumn Season of the New Zealand International Film Festival. By the way, when I say ‘cordially invited’, I mean buy a ticket to the event and support my premiere.” ~ Ant Timpson

A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.

The ABCs Of Death looks like the complete opposite of whatever romantic imagery I have floating around in my head. I’m not missing this. I’m going because I’m interested in what ideas people have extrapolated out of death and also to support Ant — Thanks for reading my “inane pop-culture blog” 😛 Sonofaguilttrip!

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Marriage Equality Bill Passes in New Zealand – Definition of Marriage

•April 17, 2013 • 2 Comments

Live and let live I say. Well done New Zealand. Parliament has voted to make same-sex marriage legal, 77 votes to 44, making New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage:

“It’s a declaration of love and commitment to a special person … ” ~ Louisa Wall

DO NOT TOUCH [interactive music video]

•April 17, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Have yourself a laugh and take part using your mouse cursor in this interactive music video for Kilo by Light Light. To get started, make sure you click on the info button top-right, then close that pop-up info box to activate the video:

Try pressing the F11 button to go full-screen, make sure your volume is on, and enjoy:

Created by Moniker.

The View: A “Back-to-the-Camera Shot” Supercut [movie montage]

•April 13, 2013 • Leave a Comment

A collection of “back to the camera” shots. The character stands center frame (most of the time), looking out at some epic landscape.

Petition Signing – Demand CNN Apologize For Their “Disgusting” Steubenville Rape Coverage

•April 13, 2013 • Leave a Comment

To live in an era when a rape report is televised publicly in a First World country as a victimless crime is loathsome, and these so-called professional reporters and the station should be held directly accountable for their brazen indiscretion. Hopefully they feel some degree of emotional accountability for the words they spoke, but more so for the words they didn’t. Implicit or not, this coverage expressed to the world that CNN indirectly (tacitly) promotes the continual normalization of rape culture.

I can’t believe a petition has to be signed before any action is taken. Isn’t the issue obvious enough? People are being hurt by keeping the real issue silent. How many more women are going to be sexually objectified to the point where suicide is considered an appealing means of release from the hurt, before prevalent ideals about rape are properly vindicated by the media and taken to heart by society? Please sign the petition by clicking the image link below:

And then we have internet hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ who claim not to approve of “vigilante justice” but are taking matters in to their own hands anyway. They also claim to have confirmed the identities of two of the four alleged rapists to the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canada teen who hanged herself after reportedly never emotionally recovering from an alleged rape by four teenage boys:

Rehtaeh’s mother said one boy took a photo of the alleged rape in 2011 and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral. After a year-long investigation, police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys because of insufficient evidence. To truly enforce positive change, I personally agree with the signing of petitions.

Azealia Banks “No Problems” [music video]

•April 12, 2013 • Leave a Comment

‘No Problems’ is a diss track aimed at rapper Angel Haze. These two got in a public spat through twitter earlier in January. Azealia Banks released ‘No Problems’ in response to Haze’s ‘On The Edge’ and ‘Shut The Fuck Up’, but who really cares about that jazz? It’s the music that matters and ‘No Problems’ is sick!

21-year-old Azealia Banks brings her Harlem, New York style and slick language to another BAMF of a track — NSFW:

https://vimeo.com/62975320

The video, directed by Rony Alwin, follows some Bank’s behind the scenes moments on this year’s ‘Ultra Music Festival’ in Miami, Florida.