Weezer make fun of the Tinder dating app, as frontman Rivers Cuomo uses the “Winder” app and emulates a myriad of personas to create the perfect picture, but his every attempt fails to impress Winder user Bethany Cosentino (songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of Best Coast). Until, that is, he finds a creative way for them to meet:
Directed by Brendan Walter + Greg Yagolnitzer / Produced by Green Glow Films / Off the album “Everything Will Be Alright In The End” — download on iTunes http://apple.co/1I0FzMd.
Echinopsis cacti have some of the most brilliant flowers of any cactus, with vibrantly colored petals and explosive blooms — The trick is actually seeing it. The cacti bloom only late at night, and even then the peak moment of beauty may only last an hour or two at the most. Lucky for us, Echinopsis enthusiast GregKrehel has a knack for catching these blooming succulents in the act.
When one of his specimens looks like it’s about to bloom, Krehel brings it inside and films it overnight with a special HD time-lapse setup. Gathered in this video is a montage of his favorite shots from the 2014 season, and he’s already posting new videos from this spring on Vimeo (via National Geographic):
“The evening when it looks like a plant’s flowers are about to bloom, I bring it indoors to image. Most of the clips in this montage show approximately 8 hours of change as the flowers open and bloom. A little more than halfway through the montage, there’s a series of three clips showing different views of a 24-hour period in the life of a yellow-flowered ‘Daydream’ plant.
I hope you enjoy “Freaky Flowers” and invite you to contact me via my Vimeo account and/or visit echinopsisfreak.com where you’ll learn more than you ever wanted to know about these cacti.” ~ Greg Krehel
Visit either one of Krehel’s links and it is clear to see that this man has fallen in love with Echinopsis cacti, so much so that he even gave them an endearing pet name. Endearing in the sense I suppose, because these beautiful plants really aren’t that freaky at all.
If they were to spring legs and decided to literally dance about and burst like fireworks, now that type of behaviour would be freaky.
I never used to watch The Walking Dead, but decided to give it a go one late night during an omnibus screening, and now I think it is unmissable.
The Walking Dead returns for a new season on AMC on October 11, 2015.
Looks intense!
Speaking of television shows to get into; Fear the Walking Dead is a new spin-off series set in the same Walking Dead universe and stars New Zealand’s own Cliff Curtis in a title role, most probably playing a character with a Hispanic ethnic background, as usual. Cliff Curtis is one of our best Kiwi exports, so it could be really good:
The series takes us inside the early days of the virus and what is bound to be a harsh transition as the characters see their world torn apart and civilization fall before their eyes.
I liked it the first time. I enjoyed it the second time watching it with my brother. Having watched it for a third time, I can honestly say I absolutely love it and you all need to know how insanely good a movie it is! What can I say about “Mad Max: Fury Road” that hasn’t already been said; it is a heart-pounding, high-octane, destined to be cult classic — you must “witness” the madness for yourself.
I assume you’ve already seen the trailer (or movie for that matter), so what better way to contribute to the hype and epicness than this mashup of “Fury Road” with “We Don’t Need Another Hero” music video from legendary singer Tina Turner, the title song of “Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome” from 30 years ago!
Music video by Foo Fighters performing Big Me. (C) 1995 Roswell Records, Inc.
And the cheesy-amazing 90s commercials that inspired it:
Oh nos, what have I started, I think I want to see every last one of these mentos adverts ever made. The Foo Fighters didn’t need to make fun of these commercials, they’re bad and laughable enough as they are!
The idea of just doing shit and instantly being forgiven is pretty sweet. How come this fantasy died in the 90s? Totally needs to be rebirthed as memes, me thinks — like so:
Sitting atop his own throne of rock instruments, Dave Grohl spotted a fan, Anthony Bifolchi, holding a sign in the front row who had a birthday wish to drum with the Foo Fighters. Faithful to Grohl’s no-nonsense name, he and drummer Taylor Hawkins agreed to take a chance on their eager fan and grant his wish. With the audience’s expectations put in jeopardy, Dave Grohl swore; “you better not suck!”
“Dave Grohl saw my sign and called me up on stage to play a song. Sorry for the fuck up at the end but It was fucking amazing. Best experience ever. 09/07/15” ~AB
Dave Grohl injured his leg on tour in Gothenburg, Sweden after falling offstage during a Foo Fighters concert on 12 June. Enduring such an injury would incapacitate anyone from continuing in the activity that caused the injury in the first place, but not Dave. For the Foo Fighters 20th Anniversary, commemorating the release of their first album in 1995, the Foo Fighters returned to their live performance in the US with a new tour called, the Foo’s “Break a Leg” Tour.
Joe Pesci discovered a discarded tape from 1998 and on it was a public conversation held at the Simons Auditorium at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute between mathematician Bob Osserman (1926~2011) and Steve Martin. Sitting in the audience is Robin Williams (1951~2014) who is invited on stage to share in the interview with. This is a gem of a find and really quite funny:
“I found this at my job in the paper recycling; tape was beat up but playable. It says 1998 but on the cassette it was typed 2002.”
San Francisco native Giraffage and the sultan of summer Viceroy meld their styles together to create a sultry sonic cocoon with “Impression Of You.” The vocal-driven ballad features Patrick Baker’s lovelorn lyrics floating over pulsating synths, tight 808 snares and fast looped hats.
Whoa. That’s right, a car commercial currently airing on UK television for the Hyundai i20 appears to steal the work of at least half a dozen street artists in just 30 seconds:
I suppose the advertisers for Hyundai think they have street credibility now. No, wait, I was thinking of human-beings who give a shit about something more than money, my bad.
The Monkey stencil and — The boom box using a drain pipe for one of the speakers. Two pieces likely based off of work by Dotdotdot and Banksy respectively.
In the ad’s “making of” video, we see that the pieces were executed by JPS and it is implied that they are JPS’ concepts, but that seems to be a lie.
The Cheerleader. Original by Sandrine Estrade Boulet again! This time, it seems Hyundai was ‘inspired’ by her “Pom Pom Girl”.
The teeth. Original by Sweet Toof, with his many pink gums and pearly whites on garages and security shutters. Really, the teeth are like Sweet Toof’s logo.
The saluting bollards. Original by Sandrine Estrade Boulet from a piece called “Army Street”, making this Boulet’s third stolen work by Hyundai before the commercial is even halfway through. Political street art now made to sell cars.
Leaves on the crosswalk. A clear copy of Patrik Prosko‘s “Genius Loci”, except that Hyundai completely reversed the meaning of the piece from “look at how civilization and cars and roads conquer everything, even at the expense of beautiful nature,” to “look at how this car conquers everything, even nature.”
The eyeglasses in the snow. Original piece by Pasha P183 and perhaps the worst theft of them all. What’s really shameful about this one is that P183 died in 2013 (aged 29), so Hyundai could not have possibly gotten his permission for the piece. I suppose we can hope that Hyundai reached out to his family, but I doubt it.
The bather. Hyundai tries to pass this one off as an original creation by Marco Sobreviela. Sobreviela’s sculpture however is basically a happy-go-lucky version of Isaac Cordal sculptures (see more here).
Photos from the websites of Oakoak, Sandrine Estrade Boulet, SpY, fra.biancoshock, p183, and Patrik Prosko, by Alex Ellison, courtesy of Isaac Cordal, and of course taken from Hyundai’s ad.
I like the above artist a lot (see more here). Isaac Cordal had this to say;
“A Spanish ad agency contacted me and I refused to be part of the ad because I don’t want to have my work linked to a car company. After that, they made what they wanted and the result is quite obvious. This ad affected my work in a negative way because my work is about the opposite of what it represents to appear in a car advertisement. A lot of people that follow my work are disappointed or confused. I’m very frustrated with people using the creativity of others to benefit themselves. The things we do are for everyone, not to sell cars.” ~ Isaac Cordal
This post was originally written by RJ Rushmore of vandalog.com (see, strange feeling isn’t it, reader, knowing someone else did most of the work you’re enjoying), they did the research and went out of their way to contact the various street artists for comment on the advert — visit their page for more info. For a look into the strange mentality behind this advert, check out the making-of video. They feature works apparently stolen from other artists that didn’t make it into the final cut of the ad. I understand the concept of inspiration and creativity, but not at the expense of blindly “emulating” other artist then claiming the efforts as their own works. This making-of video is so topsy-turvy to me because their all so proud of it!
To recap: Hyundai undeniably and unapologetically stole a bunch of street art for a commercial while trying to make it look like they were supporting artists. Damn corporate advertisers aye. Here’s one for ya, I call it “generation shame”:
“I cycled past their wall on the way to work for years. I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was “buffed” with red paint. however, graffiti outside of the red area would be removed via pressure washing. This prompted the start of an experiment. Unlike other works, I was very uncertain as to what results it would yield. Below is what transpired over the course of a year.”
This affective animated documentary by Swedish animator Jonas Odell is based on candid interviews (conducted by Benjamin Wolff) of regular people describing their first sexual experiences. Each story is unique, in keeping with the experience of having sex with someone for the first time. Some of the stories can get funny and familiar, others are touching and enlightening while another unfortunately is really sad. But even though the stories are all very personal, they’re all relatable and the animation style is great.
Odell is the founder of Stockholm-based studio Filmtecknarna, and works in mixed media techniques combining 2D, 3D animation and live action. Never Like The First Time! won him the Golden Bear award at the Berlinale International Film Festival, and his other awards include a Grammy nomination and win at the MTV Music Awards for the Franz Ferdinand music video ‘Take Me Out’.
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