Love & Theft: Iconic cartoon images morph into one another
Here’s a super psychedelic animation from artist and director Andreas Hykade. Enjoy!
Thanks Henry Baum!
Here’s a super psychedelic animation from artist and director Andreas Hykade. Enjoy!
Thanks Henry Baum!
Sad—and also disturbing—news about DJ Kutmah, the popular record producer, visual artist and record spinner for the Dublab collective. Reports from the LA Weekly and elsewhere indicate that Kutmah, a.k.a. Justin McNulty, a British national born of a Scottish father and Egyptian mother, had been taken into custody by U.S. immigration officials last week and is being detained in a facility in New Mexico.
Kutmah was to be a part of Flying Lotus’ live band during a performance this week at the Echoplex, but obviously will not be able to attend the event. Over the weekend, news of his troubles began to make the rounds via Twitter. Fellow DJs J. Rocc, Flying Lotus and the Gaslamp Killer tweeted their support, urging friends and fans of Kutmah to sign an online petition on McNulty’s behalf and to add the above graphic to their Facebook pages.
Xeni also posted at Boing Boing about this and there are some interesting comments there.
A limited edition of his DJ set from the Erykah Badu show mentioned in Xeni’s post will be for sale as a fundraiser within a couple of weeks.
(Germs from left to right: Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, Darby Crash and Don Bolles)
Back in 2000, I vaguely remember the documentary Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock, West Coast Style coming out, but never caught up with it—my gut told me it wasn’t gonna be no Decline! (plus, doesn’t the math seem off? 2000 - 20 only equals, like, what…1980?) Anyhoo, thanks to YouTube, I can now present to you a few of its highlights.
First up, here’s Germs drummer Don Bolles discussing singer Darby Crash’s well known fascination with both Nietzsche and Scientology:
Next up, here’s Dead Kennedy‘s frontman Jello Biafra discussing how it felt to be first a witness then a player in San Francisco’s exploding punk scene:
Bonus clips: The Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris, T.S.O.L.‘s Jack Grisham
Bonus Germs: Lexicon Devil, live @ The Whisky, 1979
Prahlad Jani updated: casting doubt on the possibility he’s sneaking Clif bars, super-extreme faster Prahlad Jani has now gone without food, water, crapping and pissing for 15 days, all of them under the round-the-clock eye of surveillance cameras and closed-circuit TVs.
A practicing breatharian, Jani claims to derive all his necessary nourishment from sunlight and meditation. This seemingly miraculous ability to withstand the ravages of starvation has vexed both Brentwood housewives and Jani’s doctors in the Indian state of Gujarat:
“We still do not know how he survives,” neurologist Sudhir Shah told reporters after the end of the experiment. “It is still a mystery what kind of phenomenon this is.” “If Jani does not derive energy from food and water, he must be doing that from energy sources around him, sunlight being one,” said Shah. “As medical practitioners we cannot shut our eyes to possibilities, to a source of energy other than calories.”
During Jani’s 2-week period of observation, doctors subjected him to a variety of tests, the results of which will be released in the months to come. Jani, meanwhile, has returned to his village to resume his routine of yoga and meditation.
Previously on Dangerous Minds: Super-Extreme Fasting With Prahlad Jani
If you’re in or near San Francisco you still have a few days to catch Sonny Smith‘s extremely fun looking show 100 Records at Gallery 16. My first reaction to this was “Hey ! That’s a total Mingering Mike rip-off !, but then I noticed that he’s a contributor, so I suppose it’s all good. Indeed this whole idea tweaks my vinyl fetishist/record maker pleasure receptors in a big way. Can’t wait for the book !
thx Sakae Yoshimoto !
I think I might have once sent a professor of mine a long-dead fish in the mail. I know—boring! Where was CrabRevenge when I needed it? Who knew it’s not illegal (not specifically, and not in England, anyway) to deliberately infect an ex, loved one, or unsuspecting friend with crabs?
The site goes out of its way to let you to know it in no way, like, endorses infecting people with crabs. But, proving once again a good rhyme is hard to resist, its apparent motto is, “make that bitch itch.” For the still-curious (or still-scheming), Crabrevenge offers a choice of 3 color-coded crab packages:
GREEN: Single Crabs Colony. This colony may contain as many as 30 individual eggs in a single clutch. These will hatch within days of arrival and mature within the following week. This package is great for any one person and will definitely do the job.
BLUE: Three Crabs Colonies. Contains three batches of around 30 eggs. Use the first one straight away and you can freeze the other two batches for over 160 days, or…you could get revenge on three people at once or carpet bomb someone’s car or house to have them itching for a long time. Maybe your friends want in on the action and you would like to take advantage of the discount pricing?
RED: Shampoo Resistant F strain Crabs. One colony of F strain super crabs. We have gone through a lot of work but now we are finally able to introduce the F Strain Lice! These crabs are almost impossible to get rid off and have been through over a year of selective lab breeding to be the most aggressive and most reproductive species on the planet! This species can take up to two weeks to get rid off and apparently bite so much they cause the victim to scratch themselves raw and we can guarantee than nothing apart from two washes of everything the victim owns and a 100% delousing solution coverage will get rid of them!
The payment system at Crabrevenge seems to be down right now lending one, naturally, to suspect a hoax. If that’s so, you can visit its possibly more legitimate competitor site, RevengeCrabs.
Before she became the International Nerd Goddess in “The Fifth Element,” Milla Jovovich was a minorly-famous alt rock diva whose 1994 album “The Divine Comedy,” released simply as “Milla,” weirded the hell out of the MTV 120 Minutes crowd. They used to play her songs after midnight, for the most part, largely because clips like “The Gentleman Who Fell,” the first one below—a haunting tribute to Maya Deren’s “The Meshes of the Afternoon” combined with a lyrical invocation of the Gnostic Lucifer—were a lot more Kate Bush than Bush, and certainly not the flavor du jour. I’ve spent the last couple of days digging out her album and playing ad infinitum, and remembering that, for the most part, it was Really, Really Good, a lost gem from the labyrinth of 1990s alternative radio. The album was released in 1994, but the bulk of the songs, including the ones below, were recorded when she was only 16. Now that is a formidable talent and one I wish we’d seen more of. How many action stars can you point to who could beat This Mortal Coil at their own game? Only one, my dears.
This video demonstrates:
1. India is badass;
2. India was badass hundreds of thousands of years before you can even count years back to;
3. India will be badass hundreds of thousands of years from now;
4. You can’t kill Ram, don’t even try;
5. Holy shit India is badass.
Score 1008 points for the Sanatana Dharma.
Deep down, all that (even nominally straight) men really want to do is kill everything that moves and then fly away on a badass wyvern with all of the naked barbarian maidens in sight, likely while “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin plays in the background. This was the great revelation that drove Frank Frazetta, god rest his soul, to the top of the world of fantasy art. His style has been imitated by every fantasy book cover artist and prison punk trying to draw some art to trade for cigarettes since. For his work perfectly captured the pure essence of the teenage male libido in as unvarnished of a form as “Dirty Dancing” did for the teenage female libido. Jah bless.
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(Feuilliton: RIP Frank Frazetta)
(Coilhouse: RIP Frank Frazetta)
Note: Badass wyvern. I just wanted to type that again.
