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Hazel Hill: Living on the Edge
12.15.2009
07:27 pm
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Hazel Hill, the designer of Thee Psychick Bible and one of the masterminds of Show Cave, showed this video to an awe-struck crowd this weekend at her art space. Jaws dropped.

(Via Made of This)

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.15.2009
07:27 pm
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Bill O’Reilly pwned by Law and Order SVU, gets his panties in a twist
12.12.2009
05:36 pm
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Watch as Bill O’Reilly gets his panties in a twist! This REALLY bugs him. It’s obvious that this got under his skin and really drove him nuts! At approx 2:10 he says something so ridiculous I am surprised he didn’t spontaneously combust from the hypocrisy. Bill, tell us what you really think… And then he pulls out Laura Ingraham to help back him up, and she of course, obliges. It a classic! (Something tells me John Larroquette and Ice-T had a good time with this dialogue!)

From Yahoo News:

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly lashed out at “Law & Order” franchise creator/executive producer Dick Wolf Thursday night. The bombastic host, upset over how he was recently characterized on the long-running NBC drama, called the “far left” Wolf a “despicable human being” whose show is “out of control.”

Sparking O’Reilly’s ire was an episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” that aired earlier in the week, in which a crazed anti-immigration activist set out to murder the children of illegal immigrants. In one scene, a character named Randall Carver, played by veteran actor John Larroquette, is sitting on a park bench talking to Fin, the detective played by Ice-T. In defending the actions of the man who killed the immigrants?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.12.2009
05:36 pm
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Jersey Shore: Best Show Ever?
12.11.2009
09:38 pm
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While not a general fan of the reality TV genre, I did catch the first episode of MTV’s new “Jersey Shore” show online recently and have to say it’s some of the best TV ever. Largely because there’s nothing funnier than NJ Guidos. Especially the prime specimens MTV has picked to star in the show: utterly self-obsessed, plastic freaks with names like “The Situation” (in honor of his abs) and “J-WOWW.” Apparently the MTV offices are getting regular death threats from real guidos incensed at the portrayal of their ilk. Amazing. Cracked did a rundown of the show so far here:

MTV?

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.11.2009
09:38 pm
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4chan: Lost in the Filth Simulacrum
12.09.2009
04:30 pm
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A long article I just wrote about the bizarre, hallucinatory, sickening, purgatory, Bardo-like experience of browsing 4chan has just been published on R. U. Sirius’s h+ Magazine blog. Check it out!

In the last decade, we’ve seen the increasing acceleration of information (a la Terence McKenna and Moore’s law) heralded as the key to new business development, though it has, in fact, so ruined our attention spans that it is almost impossible for modern man to get any kind of productive work done. We’re too lost in the datastream, too focused on taking in new information to complete a task that takes more than a few minutes, at best. I think a direct correlation can be made, for instance, between the rise of social media and the fall of the economy. The kaleidoscope of the Internet is more endless, more distracting and more mutating than even the most potent psychedelic drugs could have ever prepared us for. And 4chan is the ultimate, final trip.

If the mainstream Internet-using world has driven itself to distraction and insanity with social networking, the denizens of the Chans have upped the ante past all conceivable boundaries, like switching from a light alcohol problem to crushing and injecting Oxycontin. This is the place where all senses are deadened, where the mind cannot function because it is trapped in its own overstimulation. This, I am sure, is where media theorists from Marshall McLuhan to Neil Postman to Douglas Rushkoff assured us that the inherently liberating force of information technology was leading us. And though I am sure they knew that the filth and fury would follow, I’m not sure they ever expected it to look quite like… this.

My own 4chan addiction crept up slowly. Once a casual user of gateway drugs like icanhascheezburger.com, ytmnd.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica, I followed a link to the black hole itself one day and—sucked past its event horizon—have since been unable to escape. Stuck there now, I am clicking back and forth from this article to peruse the halls of 4chan’s /x/ forum, afraid that I might have missed the latest spew from the Internet’s collective maw. It is the car crash that cannot be looked away from. Ever.

(h+: Lost in the Filth Simulacrum)

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.09.2009
04:30 pm
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“Hit The Bitch,” The Danish Domestic Volence Awareness Campaign
11.17.2009
03:44 pm
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From the annals of good ideas gone horribly, horribly, wrong, comes this seriously misguided attempt at a domestic violence awareness campaign.  As hatched by a Danish advocacy group, the “Hit The Bitch” website allows you (or someone like you), in the guise a meaty male hand, to beat the crap out of a woman.  And, for the sake of convenience, to simulate the beating, you can use either your mouse or your webcam.  Here’s what Gwen Sharp at Sociological Images has to say about it:

The woman gets increasingly bruised and bloodied as you hit her.  I forced myself to try the site and hit her twice, and it was honestly sickening to watch her head jerk backward or to the side and hear the sound of the slap and her reacting.  At the top, a counter keeps track; you start out as 100% Pussy, 0% Gangsta, but your Gangsta rating goes up every time you hit her (below).

Apparently, though, when you get up to where you?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.17.2009
03:44 pm
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Everything is Terrible: Colby the Christian Robot
11.17.2009
03:39 pm
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Everything is Terrible is a stoner video art collective from Planet Nibiru or some such shit. They are, in my opinion, the funniest and most creative video producers on the Internet (yes, even more than Jandrewedits). Maybe it’s because I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and all the crap they sample is hardwired into my soul: after-school specials, weird toy commercials, Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, Xuxa, Barney, etc. etc. Enjoy the video. It peaks at 4:20 when the Christian youth do the Quan Yin.

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.17.2009
03:39 pm
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Discovery Channel: New “I Love the World” Ad
11.11.2009
04:27 pm
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As the editor for the site After These Messages from 2007-08, I waded through and curated the world’s advertising looking for the best, most creative, most socially responsible ad campaigns to hit the mediawebs every day. Out of those two years, the absolute best commercial I saw was the Discovery Channel’s I Love the Whole World spot. It’s one of those rare instances that you can say that advertising has actually raised itself above the morass of lies and hucksterism to become something like actual, uh, corporate folk art. And, lo and behold, the Discovery Channel and agency 72andSunny just released the followup.

AdFreak reports:

Eighteen months ago, the Discovery Channel made people very happy with its “I Love the World” commercial, in which the network’s talent sang about their passion for life, the universe and everything. The promo did so well (4.5 million views on this YouTube version alone) that they’ve gotten the agency, 72andSunny, to do a sequel. Same song, different visuals. Still catchy. The tagline remains, “The world is just awesome.”

Check out the new spot below.

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.11.2009
04:27 pm
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The Hapa Sushi-Medical Marijuana Marketing Blitz
11.05.2009
04:49 pm
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Today’s NYT shines some light on a new print campaign created for the Boulder-based Hapa Sushi chain.  Hoping to lure customers to Hapa, a map was created which shows the area’s 59 medical marijuana dispensaries (blue dots) and their close proximity to the 4 Hapa outlets (red dots).

As Hapa owner Mark Van Grack told the Times, ?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.05.2009
04:49 pm
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The Huffington Post’s Playboy Omission
11.03.2009
02:32 pm
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As everyone probably knows by now, Marge Simpson appears on the current cover of Playboy.  In order to capitalize, I suppose, on this pop-cultural moment, The Huffington Post launched a “Who’s Hotter?” slide show contest whereby its readers could rank their favorite, “celebrity models—from actresses to TV personalities to still-hot supermodels-turned moms.”

Well, as the eagle-eyed folk at Sociological Images note: “Ironically, the slide show did not contain the Playboy cover that inspired the Simpson drawing.  Behold Darine Stern (above), the first black woman on the cover of Playboy (1971). “

And, for those of you keeping score, other than Marge’s “yellow,” the HuffPo’s slide show was composed exclusively of white women.

 

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.03.2009
02:32 pm
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GOOD: The Language of 30 Rock
10.25.2009
05:53 pm
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Excellent GOOD Magazine essay on how 30 Rock has enriched our cultural lexicon.

Since it?

Posted by Jason Louv
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10.25.2009
05:53 pm
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