La Puerta

Beautiful stop-motion animation - enjoy!

John Mikl Thor on Merv Griffin - "Action"

I heart Thor. Thor is good. Thor is strong. This clip is multidimensionally wrong.



Happy New Year by the way.

Here, as an aural palate cleanser (aural palate? what?), is The Sweet version:

Mercury Theatre on the Air!

So, I was looking for the Mercury Theatre version of "Heart of Darkness" (reading Lucius Shepard's splendid novella "The Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life" put me in mind of it). Anyway, imagine my delight at finding an entire catalog of Orson Welles' radio dramas, all downloadable. Besides "Heart of Darkness" and "Dracula" there is a short conversation between Welles and Wells (Orson and H.G.!)

Rewarding indeed...

Digital Magazine Concept

Of course, I would like future reading gadgets to be like the Primer from The Diamond Age, but this is the nicest concept for a digital magazine I've seen so far:

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Christmas in Japan

When I think of Christmas, I think KFC...

Designing a Society for a Generation Starship

Here's a fascinating conversation instigated by science fiction writer Charlie Stross.
The deal is: if you're going to put a large population into a generation ship for 500 years or so, what sort of government, social structure, etc. will insure that the colonists will reach the new planet with a minimum of strife? Lots and lots of great comments:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/designing_society_for_posterit.html

This One Time...

Incredible hand-drawn animation...

This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo.

Helicopter Boyz

Two kids dancing with a couple dozen Nikon Coolpix S1000pj projector/cameras strapped on to them... Cool...

In the Rotating Kitchen, If It's Not One Thing, It's Another

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.

The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers was put into motion during the opening of the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, last Friday. It will keep rotating slowly till February 28th 2010.

Glenn Branca on "The End of Music"

Glenn Branca's blog entry on nytimes.com provokes some serious reader's comments...

Dr. Grordbort's Rayguns

How to throat sing:



Amazing!

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck - Heaven Can Wait

Beautifully weird...

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.

Trucker's Delight - Completely offensive, sexist, NSFW, brilliant.

FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT from 3rd Side Records on Vimeo.

LBJ orders some pants.

Evil Bee

Beautiful animation

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Rabbit

A really, really nice cartoon.

Warning: slightly disturbing animal slicing - don't watch with the kiddies!

The World's Most Important 6-Second Drum Loop

The history of the ubiquitous "Amen Brother" drum break.
Great.