Here’s a really unfortunate typo on a billboard spotted in South Bend, Indiana. Ummm, errrr… A ‘pubic’ school sounds like it could be kinda fun, tho.

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More of these at Bostworld.

 
Hand-sculpted illustration by artist Jessica Fortner.

Freud Puts On His Thinking Cap

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This bizarre video was found in the vaults of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” enacted by plastic dolls. Whoever put this together had a very kinky mind.

 
Probably not an actual firm, but still clever.

 
Thanks Michael Perry Goodman !

 
“And if I keep blinking, it weakens me.”

 
Of the Tron/Lebowski mashups on the interweb, this new one by elektronique is the best…so far. Skillfully done and quite amusing.

 
One of my favorite genres of exploitation films is Filipino action flicks. I’m thrilled that Mark Hartley who directed the fabulous documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild Untold Story Of Ozploitation has a brand new film screening at this years Fantastic Fest (which DM will be covering) called Machete Maidens Unleashed, an overview of legendary Z-movies from the Philippines.

During the classic grindhouse era of the ‘60s and ‘70s independent producers began turning out more and more exploitation features for less and less money. As the cycle wore on, there was a demand from audiences for more variety in settings and situations, and a demand from producers for lower budgets. Since it already had an infrastructure conducive to the making of inexpensive films, the Philippines fit the bill to a T. Labor was cheap, there were skilled technicians and equipment and, possibly best of all, the military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos looked upon the enterprise favorably, contributing everything from tactical assistance to military firepower. One interviewee refers to the Philippines at this time as the “wild east”, and that assessment certainly seems apt as we hear story after story of gunfights in hotel lobbies, rats the size of poodles and the most insane, irresponsible stunts imaginable. As shocking and lurid as many of the women-in-prison, jungle action, mad scientist and martial arts movies made in the Philippines were, the back stories may actually surpass the films in their shocking details. But when the films being discussed and shown in Hartley’s trademark montage style are as wildly entertaining as For Your Height Only, Mad Doctors Of Blood Island, The Twilight People, The Big Doll House and TNT Jackson, it may be a tie.

I will be interviewing Mark Hartley during Fantastic Fest (Sept. 23-30), so stay tuned.

Here’s a clip from the classic For Your Height Only (aka For Y’ur Height Only) featuring the 3 foot tall martial arts master Weng Weng, the Filipino James Bond.
 

 
In a promotional campaign for the new Resident Evil film, grotesque looking arms were strategically placed throughout the streets and buildings of Madrid to spook the living shit out of unsuspecting pedestrians. Funny and effective.

Music by System Of A Down.

 
Austrian filmmaker Virgil Widrich and his crew truly turned it out in 2003 with Fast Film, an amazingly obsessed confluence of film history, paper-craft and pre-digital animation.

Born from the scraps of Widrich’s equally well-crafted short, Copy Shop, Fast Film imbues its surrealistic qualities with familiarity, humor, anxiety, dread and hints of sexuality.
 

 
After the jump: How this incredible film was made…