Neil Gaiman as Jareth with the cool Amanda Palmer as Sarah in their reimaging of ‘Labyrinth’

•January 9, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Great movie, one of the few in which I’m able to remember all the people I’ve ever watched it with. Neil Gaiman sir, you are one strange fellow, and from me, that’s a compliment 😀 and Miss Amanda Palmer’s coolness is effortless, what’s her secret? – it must be in the lips and her cool tattooed eyebrows.

Dresden Dolls singer (and Neil Gaiman inamorata) Amanda Palmer has released a cheeky low-budget reinterpretation of Jim Henson’s 1980s cult classic Labyrinth.

Palmer plays Jennifer Connelly, sock puppets replace Muppets, and Gaiman assumes David Bowie’s role as Jareth, the Goblin King:

Cool, but it needed more ‘Ludo.’ While snooping I was pleased to also find Amanda covering one of my favourite songs – LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great”.She and friend Cassandra have fun with it which is most important:

Goodness I love that song. Thanks Amanda and Cassandra!

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Subcarpati “Am crescut pe la Romana” [stop-motion animation]

•January 7, 2011 • Leave a Comment

The amount of preparation that went into this is truly something to applaud, and all on a no-string budget. Great light work guys!

Follow a neon blue sprite as he chases an unattainable orb of light through the night scape:

We hope with this no budget clip to inspire creativity and resourcefulness among young creatives. ENJOY!

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Good Fortune For Us All ♥

•January 5, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Cute Tron Legacy Derezzed to 8-Bit

•January 5, 2011 • Leave a Comment

No, creative people will never let pop culture idolizations die because they are for the sake of popularities sake, popular and because there are too many people like me in the world that are more than keen to showcase them.

Not true 8-bit, but that doesn’t change my enthusiasm to want to play as a cute Tron sprite, plus that 8-bit Daft Punk track is getting me amped up!

Here’s the full Daft Punk 8-bit soundtrack conversion/remix/derezzing in all its glory:

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$EX [F]

•January 4, 2011 • Leave a Comment

So there was this guy at work; during my needed tea break, he told me stories about brothels and escort services in the area. Really. Mind you, I didn’t exactly tell him to shut his filthy f***ing mouth. His first-hand accounts certainly made his stories sound (I can’t lie) interesting.

But… He’s a married man, with a nine-year old child! Was he trying to come off as cool and connect with a younger generation? Should I be hearing these sorts of things? His idea of love and love-making is completely different to how highly I hold it in my head. I respect women and chemistry between two people. Anyway, that was my strange incident that took place today.

Don’t get me started about his stories of bottle parties and nude smoke sessions. I’ve had an earful of sex, it pisses me off. Married men can be wolves too apparently.

Surely a women must have some sort of sixth sense towards filtering out the good men from the bad, if they pay attention hard enough? It should be legal to just kick-scum-ass every now and then. They should call it ‘a gentleman’s beating.’ I’m sure there’s a quote in all of this too; whores attract whores?, or something.

 “Their kisses may be sweet but it’s not right to cheat.”

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Cardboard Gundam

•January 4, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Geekcraft at its best!

I’m sorry, but I don’t know who to credit as the artist?

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Halo: Combat Devolved

•January 3, 2011 • Leave a Comment

8-Bit Halo ! I WANT IT !

The de-make craze shows no sign of abating. Pixel Force, following its successes with Left 4 Dead and DJ Hero homages, will reduce Halo to an 8-bit platformer (with top-down Warthog driving) next month. But, erm, about Cortana …

Promising all of the action – and extra-curriculars with the cutscenes – of the original Halo, Pixel Force: Halo this is Eric Ruth’s third interpretation of a modern console hit. He promises the game will feature 8-direction Contra-style shooting in the platform sequences and, of course, a bitchin’ chiptune soundtrack.

Real Men Masturbate to Cortana? *sigh of relief*

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WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR “2011”

•January 3, 2011 • Leave a Comment

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R A L L

Beautiful photos from around the world celebrating the turn of the New Year, courtesy of T H E B I G P I C T U R E! 2011 will be observed as the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac, a year with attributes of gentleness, persistence and luck. Enjoy 😀

In this time exposure photograph residents use sparklers to welcome 2011 during the New Year’s festivities in Manila, Philippines on January 1, 2011. [Photo: ROMEO GACAD]

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year January 1, 2011.

Local authorities planned for over 1.5 million people to crowd the Sydney Harbour foreshore and welcome in the new year under the massive fireworks display. [Photo: Tim Wimborne]

Members of Sao Paulo’s Commerce Association release balloons with the colors of the Brazilian flag to celebrate the end of the year in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. [Photo: Andre Penner]

Children wear bear furs during New Year ritual dances in Comanesti, Romania on Friday Dec. 30 2010.

In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. [Photo: Vadim Ghirda]

The Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball is tested they day before New Year’s Eve December 30, 2010 in New York City. The 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball will descend a 141-foot tall flagpole to mark the beginning of 2011. [Photo: Mario Tama]

Zoo owner Manny Tangco holds up a rabbit and a tiger cub while surrounded by local children at the Malabon Zoo in Malabon, in northern Metro Manila, Philippines on December 28, 2010 to illustrate the shift from the “Year of the Tiger” to the “Year of the Rabbit”. [Photo: NOEL CELIS]

A woman holds an offering of fruits as shamans perform a ritual for good luck for the new year in Lima, Peru on December 29, 2010. [Photo: Mariana Bazo]

Fireworks explode above Singapore’s financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year celebrations Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. [Photo: Wong Maye-E]

People release balloons as the Tokyo Tower is illuminated to celebrate New Year at a countdown event at the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo January 1, 2011. [Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon]

Revelers wave during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Hong Kong’s Times Square on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. [Photo: Vincent Yu]

A Taiwanese performer plays a drum during the New Year’s eve ceremony, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan.

The events marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, Taiwan’s official name, after a revolution led by Sun Yat-sen toppled China’s last Qing dynasty. [Photo: Chiang Ying-ying]

John and Anne Pham wear Santa hats as they pose for a holiday photo with their granddaughter Amanda Pham in front of the downtown Los Angeles skyline, on December 31, 2010 at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles, California.

Unusually low temperatures have brought the snow level down to between 2,000 and 2,500 feet (610 and 762 meters) in the surrounding mountain areas. [Photo: ROBYN BECK]

Fireworks explode over Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, celebrating the new year in Dubai January 1, 2011. [Photo: Ahmed Jadallah]

Pakistanis watch the New Year fireworks in Karachi on January 1, 2011. [Photo: RIZWAN TABASSUM]

Fireworks illuminate the Quadriga sculpture atop the Brandenburg Gate during a New Year’s Eve party in Berlin, January 1, 2011. [Photo: Tobias Schwarz]

Skiers hold flares as they make their way down the mountain in Angel Fire, New Mexico on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 to celebrate the new year. [Photo: Eric Gay]

Fireworks explode over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2010. [Photo: Felipe Dana]

Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York City on January 1, 2011. [Photo: Gary Hershorn]

Chris Abaire (left) kisses Kirsten Razz after proposing to her after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped during celebrations in New York’s Times Square on January 1, 2011. [Photo: Jessica Rinaldi]

A group of revelers watch fireworks illuminating the scene, from their high vantage point over the city of Davos, Switzerland, at the beginning of the New Year, early on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. [Photo: Keystone, Martin Kappler]

The New Year is greeted by a fireworks display on the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. [Photo: The Seattle Times, Jim Bates]

This gallery is full if WIN! I couldn’t tell you which picture is my favourite, but Switzerland, the photo with the granddaughter and the Taiwanese performer playing the drum, fill my head with all sorts. Take more photos folks and have a good one.

Also, be water safe this time of year, and mindful of the ones around you too. Later 😉

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MORE POWER – 2011 New Year’s in the City

•January 1, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Here’s to another year to get things right. Don’t give up on love and don’t follow the norm so much “If You Want To Achieve Greatness Stop Asking For Permission”

I think I have my motto for the year LOL. Super shaky mobile-cam and low-fi audio of the 2011 New Years fireworks display in Auckland City. There were fireworks all around us and the inner city was packed with the young and old of all creeds.

Fireworks aside; highlights of the night were the ‘Hare Krishna’ jamming all night long in the crowd, meeting some new fresh-faced cool cats of mutual friends, noticing all the uuber awesome t-shirts people had on, and the floating new year’s condom. How it elevated to such a hight is beyond me. Maybe someone had yeast breath? Reminded me of the plastic bag scene in ‘American Beauty’, only it was a condom and way more beautiful 😀 I should have been a comedian.

With my friends by my side looking at the lights and thinking of memories gone by and future ambitions; it was, a great start to a New Year. Live happy folks.

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Happy New Year in 43 languages

•January 1, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Forty three languages with one simple message — Happy New Year!!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

•January 1, 2011 • Leave a Comment

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Subway Flasher Messes With The Wrong Woman – Happy New Years Eve and let’s not have any of this tonight please

•December 31, 2010 • Leave a Comment

This woman is incredible! Way to stick it to the perv!

Perhaps the last thing this guy figured when he went out with the purpose of flashing women on the subway was that he’d encounter someone like this and that he’d end up as the butt of ridicule on the entire train and later the entire internet. Sir, you’ve flashed your last dong.

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