Artist Andres Amador created “Mussels II,” a gorgeous large scale sand art installation at Ocean Beach in San Francisco last Saturday. The temporary installation was created by Amador and an assistant in just two hours. For more of Amador’s sand art, see our previous post.
photos by Fabien Bouchard
via UFUNK
Christopher Lantzshared for @rosalin Pastel Goth
a few of Grimes’s super groovy stage set-ups
She’s so lovely
I can’t help thinking she’s just coolest lady ever !
Christopher LantzIt's true. Infomercials makes us all seem incompetent.
Christopher LantzI love this videos.
Mario Wienerroither has stripped the music out of the music video for “Breathe” by The Prodigy. He then dubbed over the video with odd sounds and random sneezes from lead singer Keith Flint. We previously wrote about Mario’s musicless version of the song “Firestarter” by The Prodigy.
Here is the original music video for comparison:
Christopher LantzA good use of a drone.
It’s been reported a number of times that honey badgers are tenacious little animals. Such is the case with Stofle, a honey badger and former domestic pet who could not be released into the wild. Instead, Stofle was brought to a sanctuary in Kruger National Park where his stubborn nature almost got him killed by a den of resident lions. Keeper Brian “knew he had to get his honey badger under control” and despite the many different designs, locks and materials Brian used, it began to appear that no enclosure would be able to cage the incredibly clever honey badger.
In the end, and at great expense, Brian had no choice but to build his own “Badger Alcatraz“. “I said ‘Stofle, the days of your escape of over pal.’ That night they called me and said, ‘Brian, Stofle’s out’ I said, ‘Impossible’ but we had trees in there and he’d climb up the trees and he’d lean over onto the wall and he was out. So we cut all of the branches out of the trees near [the wall] and left the trees in the middle. Then he dug up the rocks and he’d roll them with his back feet to the wall and he pile them high enough and then he’d get out. So we took all the rocks away. This was like a game for Stofle. Every time I’d devise some plan, it was like a game for him to work out how could he get over this.”
After all, honey badger don’t care.
Christopher Lantz#NSFW but agreed. Definitely agreed.
Best and probably only reason to watch this movie.
In this hilarious HBO Go ad campaign, several different scenarios are presented in which agonized teen siblings are paired with at least one or both of their inquisitive, well-meaning and over-sharing parents while watching awkward scenes from HBO shows such as True Detective, Girls, Game of Thrones, True Blood and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The ad then promises that HBO Go’s availability on many different devices will allow them to watch the shows “far, far away from their parents”.
Game of Thrones: What’s He In?
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Happily Married Parents
Game of Thrones: First Cousins
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Belgium based B-Classic has started The Classical Comeback Video: “a new music video format that gives classical music the same recognition as pop and rock music by combining the timeless emotion of classical music with the visual talent of a contemporary director.” It’s open to submissions. “The Classical Comeback is a creative format open to anyone” and they have just a few rules, such as submission length under five minutes.
Above is the first entry for the project, Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 Allegro con fuoco in E-Minor (From the new world – Smetana The Moldau IV Allegro con fuoco, Herbert Von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker, Deutsche Grammophone – Universal Music). It’s directed by Raf Reyntjens with choreography by Ari & Miu (Waveya). And, it has been making the rounds on blogs and linkbait sites without any of its interesting context or explanations. B-Classic tells us,
Raf Reyntjens shot B-classic’s first Classical Comeback video in South Korea. Where the local Wayeva group performed their unique choreography on Dvorak’s New World. Asia today is what America was 100 years ago: the new world. Great composers like Dvorak did write their music for everyone. Their goal was to give people a break, let them escape from reality and to move them.
In this fourth and final episode of AT&True Detective (previous episodes here), impressionist Ross Marquand goes for broke, brilliantly channeling an extremely tormented Rustin Cohle from HBO’s True Detective asking a group of children about the pivotal “Spaghetti Monster” drawing.
First Little Girl: Maybe he was making spaghetti and the spaghetti had pesto sauce in it and the spaghetti got too hot and it blew up in his face. Rust Cohle: You remind me of my daughter (breaks down crying). Second Little Girl: Can we go now mister?
Christopher LantzIt's amazing how many people fail to take note of the source of articles (in this instance, the Onion)
Christopher LantzSilent Cage
In tribute to “4’33″,” the classic silent song by avant-garde composer John Cage, Brooklyn-based graphic designer Adam Lucas has created “Cage Does Cage,” four minutes and 33 seconds of silent mugging from National Treasure star Nicolas Cage. The 2012 video is built from clips culled from across Nicolas Cage’s career in which the actor doesn’t utter a single word.
via WFMU
French photographer Olivier Grunewald captured these stunning photos of blue flames emanating from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The striking phenomena is caused by molten sulfur, which is emitted from the volcano in vast quantities, and ignites when exposed to air.
photos by Olivier Grunewald
via National Geographic, Amusing Planet, Lost at E Minor
Christopher LantzMy apologies.
Audio visual remix collective Eclectic Method celebrates the 4/20 holiday with their “420 Mix,” a video remix that catalogs memeorable marijuana references in popular films. Set to a sample of Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man,” the video features clips from Half Baked, Friday and The Big Lebowski, along with appearances from Snoop Dog, Richard Nixon and South Park thrown in for good measure.
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Christopher LantzLove the artwork for this.
French graphic designer Kadavre Exquis, who created the live visuals for the recent Skrillex tour, directed an animated music video for “The Lava” by Parisian electronic group Equateur. The video features a robot journeying to the center of a volcanic structure in search of a humanoid target. Exquis has also posted the storyboards that were used in creating the video.
images via Kadavre Exquis
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Christopher LantzEBN was truly a pioneer in pre digital pre internet mashup.
Taken from their 1995 TVT album Telecommunications Breakdown, “Electronic Behavior Control System” is a prime example of the work by 1990s Rhode Island School of Design video remix artists Emergency Broadcast Network. Featuring iconic 1990s clips of Bill Clinton, Ted Koppel and Ross Perot, the video is one of a many that have been archived on EBN’s YouTube account.
“What is totally motionless all day and night? SpongeBob SquarePants! So did you know sponges are hermaphrodites?”
Animation Domination High Def has created “Scientifically Accurate SpongeBob SquarePants,” a new animated short imagining how SpongeBob SquarePants‘ underwater world of fun and friends might be in the real world. We’ve previously written about ADHD’s ongoing scientifically accurate web series.
Spongebob’s show would be a lot less exciting if it took place in the real, scientific world. The ocean is a weird place, full of strange creatures and James Cameron.
Christopher LantzI kind of love this.
Veritasium host Derek Muller gets a good look at the Pyro Board created by YouTube channel Fysikshow. Pyro Board is essentially a 2D version of a Rubens’ tube, a physics demonstration of standing waves using flammable gas.
The pressure variations due to the sound waves affect the flow rate of flammable gas from the holes in the Pyro Board and therefore affect the height and colour of flames. This is interesting for visualizing standing wave patterns and simply awesome to watch when put to music.
Christopher LantzI don't know why I think this is so funny.
Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju), leader of a group of wildlings on HBO‘s Game of Thrones, takes some time out of his busy schedule to show us how to properly grow and shave a beard.
videos via Lene Seested
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