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Pornies vs Piracy
04.30.2010
06:58 pm
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Anti-piracy public service announcement from a group of “all star” pornies, including “hedgehog” Ron Jeremy, a bunch of sluts I’ve never heard of and Sarah Palin porn-a-like, Lisa Ann (I’m no fan of Palin’s but this woman looks like Sarah Palin maybe after she’s been hit in the face with a shovel).

This PSA will have perhaps less of an effect even than anti-marijuana messages, which is to say next to none. How many horny guys dialing up LubeTube will have second thoughts about stealing their product after seeing this? I’d wager zero is the winning answer to that!

Thank you Marc Campbell!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.30.2010
06:58 pm
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The Wrath of Kali: Spurned ex-girlfriend shreds poor bastard’s Starcraft 2 Beta access codes
04.30.2010
06:54 pm
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This is just stone cold. I can barely watch it.

This girl, whose gamer boyfriend apparently cheated on her, HACKS HIS EMAIL and SHREDS HIS STARCRAFT 2 BETA PASSWORD. Holy FKK THAT’S COLD. And as if that wasn’t enough, she then goes to his house and BREAKS HIS WINDOW WITH A BRICK. GOOD DEAR GOD LORD. I’m not sure which one is worse!

To paraphrase Al Pacino in “Heat”: “You might break a man’s window with a brick but YOU DO NOT GET TO FK WITH HIS STARCRAFT 2 BETA CODES.”

I hope this wasn’t one of OUR Brads. I’m gonna go hide in a corner now!!!

(Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty)


Posted by Jason Louv
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04.30.2010
06:54 pm
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Lady Gaga and Beyonce song remade by bored soldiers in Afghanistan
04.30.2010
06:38 pm
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F*king epic remake of “Telephone” by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé by a bunch of bored soldiers in a base in Afghanistan. Clearly they are as bored there as I am here. I’m glad I know that all the money I got reamed for this year out of my hard-earned pay for writing about Lady Gaga went to Lady Gaga YouTube remakes in the desert.

(Thanks, Josh McCafferty!)

(Examiner: Soldiers in Afghanistan remake Lady Gaga ‘Telephone’ video)

(Lady Gaga/Beyonce—Telephone: The Remixes)

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.30.2010
06:38 pm
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John Cale on I’ve Got A Secret
04.30.2010
04:53 pm
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On a prior Dangerous Minds post, pioneering architect Frank Lloyd Wright was the game show guest on I’ve Got A Secret.  Today’s guest is a pre-Velvet Undergound John Cale.  What’s Cale’s secret?  His participation in an 18 hour and 40 minute piano recital of Erik Satie‘s Vexations.

Cale and a number of performers—including John Cage—all took turns playing the piece that’s just 3 lines long, but needs repeating 840 times.  Cage, it seems, also organized the event, having been introduced to Vexations in Paris in ‘49.

The man sitting beside Cale is off-Broadway actor, Karl Schenzer.  His secret?  He was the only audience member ballsy enough to stick out the entire concert.  Schenzer went on, possibly, and according to the New Yorker’s Alex Ross, to become a bit player for Francis Ford Coppola.

 
Bonus: John Cale live performing Paris, 1919

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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04.30.2010
04:53 pm
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Snuggling up to the Better Marriage Blanket
04.30.2010
03:57 pm
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Question: in the above photo, is it the wife or the husband sleeping in the blanket?  Either way, it’s made by a science teacher from activated carbon—how could such a miracle device not save a marriage?!  As The Better Marriage Blanket site stresses, “This is a real product, not a joke!”

Experience the Fresh Air!

Every Couple Should Have One!

A Fun Solution to a Common Problem!                                                                 
                                        
Almost everyone knows the silent but deadly effects of flatulence on relationships.  For couples, nothing can spoil the romantic aura more quickly!  It can be funny but it can also be a nuisance.  The Better Marriage Blanket is made using the same kind of activated carbon fabric found in Military Chemical Suits.

As a science teacher, I had used activated carbon in my laboratory lessons and was aware that chemicals and gasses are absorbed in millions of microscopic pores in each tiny particle of activated carbon.  This principal is what makes The Blanket so effective!  Activated Carbon is well known in Science and Industry for its odor absorbing properties.  It is safe and non-allergenic.

This beautifully made, soft, warm, medium weight, 300 thread count comforter will work for many years.  It can be machine washed normally and is dry cleanable.  Simply drying in an electric dryer or in the sun will re-activate the odor absorbing qualities of the carbon.

And if there’s some married couples out there still on the fence, by all means check out the testimonials.  And you Dangerous Minds readers in, well, unconventional relationships, call in for your group discount!

 
The Better Marriage Blanket
 
(thanks, Tara!)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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04.30.2010
03:57 pm
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John Cassavetes: fed up with Los Angeles!
04.30.2010
03:23 pm
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Take a ride through the Hollywood Hills with independent film God, John Cassavetes.  At the time (‘65), the famously intense actor-writer-director (Shadows, Opening Night, A Woman Under The Influence) expresses nothing more than mild contempt for L.A. 

 
In this second clip, though, and as Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara look on, bemused, he really goes off on it.  And don’t get him started on television!

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04.30.2010
03:23 pm
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Welcome to Arizona!
04.30.2010
02:33 pm
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04.30.2010
02:33 pm
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Pope Song (NSFW)
04.30.2010
01:22 pm
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04.30.2010
01:22 pm
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DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night
04.30.2010
04:41 am
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Yo dawg we herd you like staying up all night so we put some Rhythm of the Night in your night so you can can dance to the beat of the rhythm of the night while you’re up all night

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.30.2010
04:41 am
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Let there be keytars!
04.29.2010
11:56 pm
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“To me its the most ultimate musical instrument you can get”

“You can get lost in time with the QChord”

Via Robert Popper

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.29.2010
11:56 pm
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
04.29.2010
11:37 pm
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After seeing the below trailer, I’m excited to see director Tamra Davis’s documentary portrait of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child. The other day I found a photo I took of him at a New York nightclub opening in 1986 in a box in my garage. He’s just glaring at the camera, like he’s pissed off, but he looks cool doing it. The same roll had photos of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.

A friend of the graffiti/Neo-expressionist painter, director Tamra Davis paints her own portrait of the artist, who died at age 27, and offers an indictment of celebrity culture.

Davis met Basquiat while she was attending film school and working as a gallery assistant in Los Angeles. In 1985, she filmed an interview of Basquiat, which comprises the centerpiece of this film, along with rare footage of him painting.

“I saw anger in him but I also saw this whole other side of him, very intelligent, funny, filled with life, smiles, dances and super-flirty, super-charming,” said Davis. “That was the person who, I felt, people were getting it wrong.”

Davis said being around Basquiat there was “always so much happening, let’s do this, let’s go here, let’s see how far we can push this, what would happen if I did this, let’s go as fast as we can, let’s fly to Paris, let’s go out to dinner to the fanciest restaurant and order the best wine. Pushing the limit the furthest, so being around him was really fun but also crazy.”

The documentary, which will have its theatrical release later this year, is a collage of period footage, including the interview with Basquiat and new interviews with his friends/colleagues, such as Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Fab 5 Freddy, Glenn O’Brien and others.

 

 
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child: Director Tamra Davis Paints a Portrait of the Artist (WSJ)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.29.2010
11:37 pm
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Giant Animatronic Baby
04.29.2010
11:35 pm
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HUGE robot baby alert! From Sociedad Estatal para Exposiciones Internacionales:

Miguelín is a 6.5 meters tall baby, electronically animated. It breathes, blinks and dreams with the cities that we will leave to future generations will smiling visitors as they walk into “Sons”, the last of rooms that integrate the pavilion, which is managed by the Spanish Agency for International Exhibitions (SEEI) [...]

The baby’s “Mother” is film director Isabel Coixet who has pointed out that with this collaboration she has wanted to stay accurate to the Expo Shanghai’s Theme, “Better city, better life”. Also that Miguelín is a reminder that tells us that “all our actions have direct consequences on our children’s future and that we have to react to this”, said the filmmaker in an encounter with the Spanish Press at the Instituto Cervantes in Beijing.

Spain Pavilion unvelis the contents of the exhibition rooms created by Basilio Martín Patino and Isabel Coixet
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Creepy: Giant Babybot With Giant Head
 
(via Everlasting Blort)

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04.29.2010
11:35 pm
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Vivian Stanshall: The Ginger Geezer
04.29.2010
10:16 pm
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Last night when I stumbled across the Bob Dylan/Bette Midler bootleg on Vimeo, I saw that the poster, dagb (that’s all I know about him and I suspect he would like to keep it that way) had also uploaded One Man’s Week, the 1975 documentary about the late great British eccentric and Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band singer, Vivian Stanshall. Erudite—and alcoholic—Vivian is interviewed and seen working on his African-influenced album Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead.

If you’re a Bonzos fan, this is a little bit of heaven, I promise you.
 

 
For a quick overview of who Stanshall was and why you should care, I suggest watching this, first:
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.29.2010
10:16 pm
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Ancient weapons emerge from Arctic ice
04.29.2010
09:49 pm
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When I read a headline like “Ancient weapons emerge from melting Arctic ice,” three things immediately pop into my mind:

1. Oh f_K, they’ve discovered an ancient spaceship under the polar icecaps which contains Aliens, Predators, Alien-Predators, Terminators, Terminator-Alien-Predators and/or the Da Vinci Code;

2. These things will probably kill all of us as they see us as little more than pawns in an epic game/hunt that has been conducted across the universe for millennia and which we have just reactivated by finding this Arctic trove which should have stayed buried;

3. Lance Henriksen will be involved.

However, all that happened is they found some old caveman spears. *Phew.* Headlines should know better than to scare me like that.

A treasure trove of ancient weapons has emerged from melting ice patches in the Canadian Arctic, revealing hunting strategies thousands of years old.

The weapons, which include a 2,400-year-old spear throwing tools, a 1000-year-old ground squirrel snare, and bows and arrows dating back 850 years, have been found high in the remote Mackenzie Mountains, a region where Mountain Boreal caribou abound in the summer months.

Dotted with ice patches resulting from accumulation of annual snow that, until recently, remained frozen all year, the mountains have been the caribous’ shelter for millennia.

Seeking relief from the heat and annoying bugs, the animals huddle on the ice patches, becoming an easy target for hunters who recognized this behavior millennia ago.

(Discovery News: Ancient weapons emerge from arctic ice)

(A 24x36 poster of LANCE HENRIKSEN about to take down a perp aka the SWEETEST FREAKING THING IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY)

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.29.2010
09:49 pm
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2050 visions
04.29.2010
09:40 pm
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The image above, “The Scallop Divers of Enceladus,” is from an exhibition in London that asks artists to imagine the world of 2050, with some very unexpected results. I want this screen-printed on the hood of my car.

“An exhibition in London right now asks artists to imagine the world of 2050, and the answers are weirder than you could possibly imagine. Just check out this print, “The Scallop Divers Of Enceladus.”

The Life In 2050 exhibition is taking place right now as part of the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. Organized by design studio Transmission, the exhibition brings together 22 artists, showcasing their visions of the world 40 years from now.

The image to the left comes from awesome artist Tom Muller, and the print is for sale. Here are a few other images we love.”

(io9: The World Of 2050 Will Be Trippy And Pop-Arty)

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.29.2010
09:40 pm
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