$tarting July With Commitments [F]
•July 3, 2014 • Leave a Comment
ARHG! Last month began with a speeding ticket ($81), followed the next week with a parking ticket ($200), the next week after that with a failed warrant of fitness check and service ($300), shortly after, rust repair to the left-hand passenger door at a panelbeater who only accepted upfront payments by either cash or cheque ($200), and finally, today, all that stress had come to an end as I renewed my registration for the next three months ($70). Believe it or not, I actually have a life (and don’t let the pictures fool you I am a good driver), but these past few weeks have been all about getting my car and expenses sorted. What a relief it is to not have to think about money. I AM FREEEEEEE!
And the cherry on top; I came home and fixed the toilet which made me feel productive and rather proud of myself. Turns out there was a twist tie obstructing the flush valve from sitting on the release pipe properly, but those are details I will keep to myself when the household wishes to thank me for my natural talents. Free plumbing is like a miracle in Auckland. It was meant to be.
July is film festival month so I’m happy about that too. Unfortunately however, before I was able to properly settle and enjoy my semester break, I was reminded with a phone-call from Tim about the commitment I had made to helping him fix instruments during this time. It figures; just when I was mentally free to have fun and drive wherever I wanted. Why do I feel like every situation of angst I face is somehow directly related to my faults as a human being? Dammit July!
If you have a wind instrument that is in need of service and repair, contact Tim Berger of Accent Music®, www.saxfix.com. Chances are, if the problem’s big enough it will probably be couriered to him anyway. He also happens to be an inventor with several patents pending, so you can trust that your instrument will be in exceptional hands.
「ポレットのイス」 directed by Ishida YuYasushi [animation]
•July 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentTranslated, I think the title is “Chair Poulette,” and this nice story is about a girl and her, happiness, I suppose. There is no dialogue so anyone can interpret the visuals:
Basement Jaxx feat. ETML “Never Say Never” [♬]
•June 30, 2014 • Leave a CommentThe first official single from the forthcoming album “Junto”, Basement Jaxx present “Never Say Never” featuring South London school-leaver sensation ETML:
“Junto” is released on August 25th 2014.
That is one funny concept for a music video, but the truth is, the depiction of technology and its application isn’t too far off:
Jordan Wolfson’s piece (Female Figure) 2014 is an animatronic robot that dances in front of a large mirror, while at the same time seeking eye contact with the spectator.
Save Your Progress the Final Fantasy Way
•June 30, 2014 • Leave a CommentI want it! The best part is, I can just print one off. The iconic blue box and white glove is undeniably recognizable to those who have given hours of their life to playing the quintessential role-playing game this comes from. I never thought of it before, but save-game dialogue boxes would make for the neatest/geekiest bookmarks:
Shut up and take my Gil! …Oh wait… ↓ Print.
→ Pwingk! ← Pwingk! Talinglinglingling! (my cursor sounds)
Rest in Peace Bobby Womack 1944 ~ 2014
•June 28, 2014 • Leave a Comment“Game of Thrones” Time Warpped
•June 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentLuigi Donatello produced a version of the GoT theme song that makes Westeros sound like the decade of big hair and bigger synthesizers. In the name of Blog DarkintheBoy of the House WordPress, First Of His Name, you’re hereby deemed, blog worthy:
If the 80s-early-90s vibe rubs you the right way then you might like seeing the Game of Thrones crew dressed for the fashion period — heck, they already have the theme song. Mike Wrobel aka Moshi–kun, is the artist responsible for these too cool images, and has no association with Donatello whatsoever; I just think they complement each other well:
All available as t-shirts, pillow casings and iPhone covers, in exchange for your coin.
Middle Aged Doppelgängers
•June 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentNapoleon Dynamite and his sidekick Pedro:
Still friends as middle age men, that’s true bromance. Of course, they probably don’t even know one another, but the photo opportunity must have been too strong to resist.
Dildo Safety PSA [WTF commercial]
•June 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentYou know what happens when an advertising agency tries to juxtapose a serious issue in regards to child safety with something sexual, believing their own crude humor can be harnessed into something creative and profound? We get a lame, ineffectual waste of everyone’s time. And I hate seeing good dildos put to waste!!!
The only thing gun related in that video was the word, superimposed at the end of the announcement, and as short as the video is, it just seems pretentious. The fact the mother’s didn’t actually react, at all, proves that this advert doesn’t address the issue of ‘safety’ on any level of concern. They just stand their watching their kids whack each other with vagina instruments. As a viewer, I just watched two kids whack each other with vagina instruments. Embarrassment doesn’t save lives [advertising] people. Although, it might still be worth a laugh, depending on how well this is received by the gun & Bible folks. Their valued opinions could grace us with a punchline we were all hoping for.
‘If you thought yo-yos and chatter rings were cool, wait until you’re an adult!’ — Pitch for a new line of toys; introducing, the Gundo. If that public service announcement is anything to go by, I think I may have found a market. See how easy that was? Someone should fire someone and give me their job. No jokes. Dildos are a serious matter.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto
•June 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentWe all know enough about nuclear weapons and explosions to understand their one and only function, but this video illustrates their usage throughout human history like no text-book has the power of conveying so graphically. All you need to know is that pretty much every country with nuclear capabilities, are all a little crazy, in my opinion.
The video is 14 minutes long, so if you don’t have the patients to watch, just let it play in the background. The amount of blips is sure to shock you:
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing “the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
“This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”
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