February 28, 2008
Monotonik: Jet Jaguar - 'Biddy Bids' [mtk198] (Latest on my Creative Commons-licensed netlabel - New Zealand-based dubby idm, very relaxing.)
Improbable Research on Thomas D'Arcy's stinky feet ('My feet stink. I have over the past 43 years conducted a series of experiments to establish that this is true.')
February 27, 2008
Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Toy Box: Toy Fair 2008' (Action figure geek out alert.)
The Beat: 'JMS at DC' (Oo, J. Michael Straczynski doing stuff for DC Comics, including perhaps some Babylon 5 goodness.)
YouTube: Kanye West's 'Flashing Lights' video (Co-directed by Spike Jonze, apparently. And brutal.)
February 26, 2008
Pink Tentacle: Edo Period Monster Paintings By Sawaki Suushi (These are creepsters.)
Stereogum: 'Jake Shimabukuro Makes His Ukulele Gently Weep For Conan' (Very neat.)
Blue Cat: 'Guardian Online Travel Section Radically Underestimates Readers' Hatred Of Skins, Nepotism, Skinny Jeans, Self.' (Ouch, privileged gap year students in trouble.)
February 25, 2008
Rich's ComixBlog: 'The 10 Doctors' (Totally awesome Who fancomic - via Blue Cat.)
GSW: 'GDC Gallery: Game Developers Choice Awards 2008' (Also helped to organize this, the other half of the awards night at GDC.)
GSW: 'Portal Takes Game Of The Year At 2008 Choice Awards' (Congrats to the Portal team - Erik was endearingly terrified onstage.)
February 24, 2008
GSW: '2008 IGF Awards Topped By Crayon Physics Deluxe' (Awesome year, some great winners.)
GSW: 'GDC Gallery: The 2007 Independent Games Festival Awards' (On stage, with jacket, two surprising things.)
Gamasutra's GDC 2008 coverage page (Covering where I've been all week.)
February 17, 2008
SuperDeluxe.com: Tim & Eric Nite Live (All available on demand for streaming, too!)
February 15, 2008
Dethroner: 'Unbeatable Banzuke: G4’s Latest Weird Japanese Game Show' (From the Ninja Warrior folks, I think, and lots of fun :))
The Warner Bros Store Is Closed blog (Discussing the rather smart WB Stores, when they existed - via Cartoon Brew.)
February 14, 2008
TV Shows On DVD: Shout Factory releasing 21-show '50s Saturday morning TV show compilation (Properly licensed, those Shout Factory folks are awesome pop culturalists.)
The Beat: 'Hewlett’s PHOO ACTION on BBC3' (I feel like this will be very silly.)
Walls & Bridges at Alan Moore's recent Lost Girls signing in London (I want to look like that when I'm Moore's age - via Journalista.)
February 13, 2008
Lowculture on the end of Neighbors on BBC1 (Tragedy, I say.)
Kottke: B&H is selling a used Canon Super Telephoto 1200mm lens for $99,000 (Also: 'Carl Zeiss designed a 1700mm lens for a 6x6 medium format camera. It weighs 564 pounds!')
NAMM Oddities for 2008 (Oh, those music geeks!)
February 12, 2008
Music Thing: 'The many wonders of the Canford Audio catalogue' (These all-encompassing catalogs are wonderfully oldschool.)
Shots Ring Out: 'Owen Wilson is a funny, funny man' (Wilson's cameo in Spike Jonze's skateboarding film 'Yeah Right!', which I also found to be pretty hilarious when I saw it on DVD recently. Scary image when you first click thru, tho!)
Reality Blurred: 'Survivor Supercharged Sunflower Seeds debut in March' ('While that corny alliteration and odd choice of product makes this seem like a joke, it’s just part of an increased effort to pimp out the brand.')
February 11, 2008
Billionaire Boys' Club blog (Pharrell and Nigo's clothing label - far too expensive, and I'm not cool enough to wear it, but I like the style.)
Barstool Sports: New Jersey Freakshows (Pretty sure they're not all from New Jersey, but awesome nonetheless, visual subculturally speaking.)
Beyond The Beyond: 'Indigo Delta Kilo' (Bruce Sterling's blog on 'an unknown USA "Black World" military-entertainment outfit''s awesome logo. Via Warren Ellis.)
February 10, 2008
Yahoo! News photo of the year so far (for me) ('In this image released by NBC, Conan O'Brien, center, of 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' mock-punches Jon Stewart, left, from Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and Stephen Colbert of 'The Colbert Report' during an appearance on O'Brien's show, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008.')
YouTube: Harry Enfield's commercial reel (Both directing and starring, interestingly. I do like those Angus commercials, which even played in the State for a while.)
Happy Notes: 'akari coming soon page' (More web-based visualization Flash stuff, plz!)
February 09, 2008
BoingBoing: 'Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on Google Video' (Surprised so many of these are available.)
February 08, 2008
Idiot Toys: 'Approximately 40-year-old EVEREADYs' (Battery geek heaven.)
Cartoon Brew: 'Rubik the Amazing Cube' (Lots more info about the animated series, lest we forget.)
EW PopWatch: 'Sarah Silverman + Matt Damon = Comedy Gold' (Indeed, good stuff, swearing ahoy.)
February 07, 2008
YouTube: 'Kid Acne 'Worst Luck'' (Thoughtful British hiphop for the win.)
WFMU: 'DJ/Rupture now has a podcast!' (Tres interesting ethnic-tinged noise stylings.)
YouTube: 'Alyssia feat Panjabi Hit Squad - Deewana' (Really interesting British-Indian dubstep/D&B, whatever you call it.)
February 06, 2008
NYMag: 'The Happy Hickster' ('Clay Aiken sounds like Tootsie, looks like Opie, and hates to go out after dark. How will he ever survive New York?')
Fast Company: 'Is the Tipping Point Toast?' ('Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.')
Pitchfork: 'Neon Neon (Gruff Rhys + Boom Bip) Debut LP Revealed' (Check out the super-'80s mixtape, it's Debbie Gibson awesome.)
February 05, 2008
WFMU: 'The Sculpture and Animation of Joseph Seigenthaler' (Really scary post-Uncanny Valley animations.)
The Rap Up: 'Video: Erykah Badu - Honey' (Cute record sleeve concept.)
Pitchfork: 'Kid Sister Signs to Downtown Records' (Yep, the Kanye-guesting video is pretty awesome.)
February 04, 2008
Pink Tentacle: 'Pollen Robots' ('A pair of eyes glow 5 different colors — white, blue, green, red and purple — to indicate the level of Japanese cedar and cypress pollen in the air.')
Music Thing: 'What could a scratch DJ do with a home organ ribbon controller?' (Lots of scratching, apparently!)
Guardian Arts Blog: 'Why is Terry Gilliam cursed with bad luck?' ('The director put his latest film on hold after Heath Ledger's tragic death. Surely he must be the unluckiest film-maker ever.')
February 03, 2008
YouTube: 'Robot High School' ('Despite how it may appear, the video was shot in a single take with no significant computer-generated effects added, just some minor post-production cleanup.' Via someone I forgot, sorry.)
Blue Cat: 'Something that really annoys me about Paddington station.' (British humor writing++.)
BarnesAndNoble.com: 'Rolling Stone Cover to Cover -- The First 40 Years' (Reduced to $25 from $125, the full 40-year Rolling Stone digital archive, + a year's subscription and a coffeetable book - they also have the Playboy 1950s digital archive (w/1st issue reproduction!) at the same price.)