Wawaweewa! 1000,000 hits, 1 year to the month! Happy Birthday Dark In The Boy!
These look so cool… Ahaha, I almost missed that one.
Make no bones about it: Fred’s Fossiliced ice cube trays are more Ice Age than Jurassic Park, but we’re chill with the idea of serving up Triceratops tonics and T-Rex tequilas.
If you like those, you might be interested in some Space Ice Invaders!
Get behind the scenes of Halo 3: ODST’s epic live-action trailer with this Making Of featurette; factoid: the uniforms were made by Saving Private Ryan’s costume designer.
He sure has nostalgic taste. To follow up his time lapse Voltron painting, Robert Burden went for another influential cartoon of the ’80s – He-Man!
See 420 hours of Battle Cat painting distilled down to 3 minutes:
Amazing Story. Really puts life into perspective. Self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village.
Nothing short of monumental is right. Persistence and determination are great tools, or rather “Imagination is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein. This article is in part is about a new book based on William Kamkwamba’s life story:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence, and William Kamkwamba has it in spades. At age fourteen, while many of us were sneaking out of classrooms, William was struggling to sneak into them—his family was unable to afford the $80 annual tuition. As is bound to happen to most students, he was caught. But instead of being sent to detention, he was barred from the school. In a show of the driven man he would become, he didn’t allow that to hinder him and instead started spending his days in the local library. While there, he encountered a book called Using Energy:
Using Energy described how windmills could be used to generate electricity. Only two percent of Malawians have electricity, and the service is notoriously unreliable. William decided an electric windmill was something he wanted to make. Illuminating his house and the other houses in his village would mean that people could read at night after work. A windmill to pump water would mean that they could grow two crops a year rather than one, grow vegetable gardens, and not have to spend two hours a day hauling water. “A windmill meant more than just power,” he wrote, “it was freedom.”
This book is what changed his life. And I don’t mean that as an exaggeration. It was truly what made a difference in his life. Because of that book, and the potential he saw in its ideas, William began to build…
For an educated adult living in a developed nation, designing and building a wind turbine that generates electricity is something to be proud of. For a half-starved, uneducated boy living in a country plagued with drought, famine, poverty, disease, a cruelly corrupt government, crippling superstitions, and low expectations, it’s another thing altogether. It’s nothing short of monumental.”
My dad told me this story yesterday, and I found it to be way too ridiculous to actually be legit. But as it turns out, yes it is real, and there are idiots in the advertising agency business. Who knew?
From Australia, the country’s national snack, Vegemite is a disgusting spread made from the carcasses of diseased koalas… Kidding! It’s made from yeast extract. But I prefer Marmite!
iBlunder – The name came from a failed case of crowdsourcing on Kraft’s part:
I think it has since been pulled off the shelves.
One life here with me and it’s magic ♪
Here it is! The exclusive new video for the fifth and final single from Ladyhawke’s self-titled debut album. This is Magic:
You probably already noticed, but once again Pip and her artist Sarah Larnach joined forces and came up with the creative concept for this video. Sarah was kind enough to go on a rant of epic proportions to explain just how they arrived at this quirkily dark video.. and here you have it:
Sarah Larnach talks Magic:
“Earlier this year, I crashed Pips holiday in Los Angeles, so that we could conceive the music video. Amidst the distraction of the Santa Monica Pier fun park, Hollywood vegetarian restaurants, and the comfort of air-con’ hotel rooms and the C.I. channel (Crime & Investigation network), we puzzled over how best to represent the song and the spirit it was written in.
As per usual, our current and classic obsessions dominated the creative process. We looked at loads of film clips from the early days of cinema, taxidermy animals and natural history museum diorama displays, creepy trees that Tim Burton might like, and all sorts of harmless-yet-scary iconography.
One point that were we sure of was that the ‘journey’ referred to in the song was as much of a ‘mystic summoning’, as it was of a ‘physical’ voyage. With a hint of mysticism in mind, and a whole lot of darkness as the objective, we also wanted to figure out a new way of using my artwork for a Ladyhawke music video.
My Delirium was a great success, and an amazing project to make, but both being obsessively creative, we weren’t satisfied to use the same production methods. So, referring to the early film production and dioramas we’d been looking at, and a particular hand drawn Broadway set for Dracula from the 1970’s, we hoped that we could make a scaled-up set from my drawings to create a world for Ladyhawke to journey through.
When we were steered to look at the films Shelly Love had directed, Pip and I were really thrilled and shared a very positive intuition that Shelly would interpret this video in a very beautiful and dark way, as is her style. Me and Pip came up with the creative concept and we kept a fairly tight reign on the art direction of the clip, but at some point you have to hand over some control to the director and her production team. I dig the results.”
Congratulations Ladyhawke – taking home six Tuis from the New Zealand Music Awards
Gosh…
‘It was like a scene from the Hitchcock movie The Birds. One second all was clear, and the next thing you saw were these birds swarming over the plane,’ said an onlooker.
I don’t think the starlings have been blogging about the incident, but I recognise this to be pretty tragic. I’d like to quote a comment by a vegan sharing the same opinion who was told to chill out:
“Just, FYI, you’re telling a vegan to chill about the needless slaughter of a couple hundred innocent birds by a fuel-guzzling monstrosity. Don’t push my buttons, jerk.” [Gizmodo]
Nicely put. The controversy being; better 200 dead birds than 80 passengers.
An advertisement for Portuguese juice company Do Bem, this Wafer Keyboard music video is perhaps a little too sweet: put one in front of us and we guarantee we’ll gobble up the keys.
In the name of, art?
“A Taiwanese blogger is out to kiss one hundred different strangers in Paris and take a picture of each one. Yang Ya-ching, a twenty-seven-year-old music student living in Paris, thought of the project three years ago, but only acted on it this summer.
The desire for a lasting memory of Paris is what inspired Yang. According to her blog, the first kiss was from a worker installing outdoor advertising and was like “an autumn leaf falling into my pocket by accident.”
Quickly becoming an overnight sensation in Taiwan, Yang has created quite a bit of controversy with her project. According to an article in the Taipei Times, many Taiwanese men feel left out and wonder why she didn’t do the project in Taiwan. Others are criticizing her project as “just an excuse to kiss handsome young men.”
When finished, Yang intends to write a book about her experiences…
Let me guess; 100 pages long on a scale from 1-10. I shouldn’t be so harsh, Yang is a creative.
My friend Caitlin is “a great believer in self expression; whether sleazy or not, I respect her free-spirited attitude” and I find that very cool. What are your thoughts?
Attention Whore? (or) Life is Short!
More Japanese eccentricity brings you, the iGallop! An exercise device obviously made for other purposes, ‘hint hint’:
LOL, you lazy Japanese. Letting machines do all the work huh?
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