UK-based street artist JPS creates playful site-specific stencils that turn puddles into oceans, wall cracks into rushing rapids, and CCTV cameras into Johnny Five. His clever creations remind us of the whimsical work of French street artist OaKoAk (previously featured here).
You can check out lots more work by JPS via Facebook or Instagram.
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. I have been here in the basket the whole time…
this was in response to what happened at my university, James Madison.
reblogged it before, rebloggin’ it again
ok do you see this Legendary Epic woman right here? this is wendy fucking carlos and i’m going to describe to you why wendy carlos is 30 thousand times better than you
- she is a 74 year old trans fucking woman. she remembers having dysphoria at age five and started hrt in 1968. you think transitioning is difficult now? try doing it in 1968. the thought scares the shit out of me.
- her first album, switched on bach, is a literal hour of her playing bach’s music on synthesizers. that’s classical edm. edm wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t brought synthesizers to prominence. the catch? synthesizers in 1968 were monophonic. that means you can only play one note at a time. wendy carlos sat there and played each instrument’s piece of bachs music at least 6 times per symphony, painstakingly overdubbing and rerecording each line, one at a time.
- oh yeah, switched on bach was the first classical album to sell more than 500k copies and she won 3 grammies and stayed on the billboard #1 pop charts for 17 weeks.
- you know tron? that really awesome movie whose sequel daft punk made the ost for? wendy is the original daft punk. tron’s soundtrack was all her; not only that, but so was a clockwork orange and the shining.
- in 1998 this piece of shit momus (aka nick currie on wired) made a song mocking wendy’s sexual orientation. $50k of currie’ money later, she forced him to remove that song from his entire collection, have the master destroyed, and his music career fucking died after that.
figured i’d post this since daft punk keep getting a lot of love. i love daft punk, but they owe their lives to this fucking badass.
HOLY. CRAP. I did not know this.
work work work work work!
Wendy Carlos also scored Kubrick’s ‘Clockwork Orange’ and ‘The Shining.’ She’s a big deal, people.
Holy shit.
Alright, this is war.
For a year or two, some dude has been using my Gmail address as his own. Actually it’s my Gmail address with a dot in the middle, but MOST of the Internet doesn’t care about the dot and ignores it, so I get MOST of his email. I registered my account on the first day that Gmail was available to the public. I don’t know why they even allow the name.name@gmail.com addresses when most email servers see that as namename@gmail.com. It’s been a huge hassle. I’ve gotten his dating profile responses, I know why kind of ladies he’s into, I know what he shops for, I know what kind of porn he likes, and NOW I know that he’s heavily involved in his Church River Rafting retreat because SOMEHOW I AM GETTING HIS GOOGLE DOCS ON THE MATTER.
I was just deleting all of the Google docs as they came in, but then I read this article and now I’m fighting back. From now on I am renaming every doc I didn’t ask for.
I hope the River Retreat Group enjoys ALMIGHTY SATAN FUCKBEAST.jpg.pptx
happy first birthday, marlow. i love you more than i can count on all of my fingers and toes (and yours, too)
With the news that Sony is fast-tracking a superhoine movie that will hit the big screen before the turn of the decade (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41823), I thought this would be a good time to weigh in with my suggestions for My Top 11 Superheroines in need of the big screen treatment! Just in case the studios were wondering…
BATWOMAN
I’ll be honest with you. I’d sooner watch a movie featuring this fantastic new and improved version of Batwoman than another Batman movie.
BLACK WIDOW
I know. She’s already received the big screen treatment. Still, rather than play second banana to Iron Man and the rest of The Avengers, I’d love to see Natasha Romanoff headline her own big screen adventure. Less alien swarms invading the Earth and more espionage, counter-espionage, and reverse counter-counter-espionage with a twist of lime.
DOMINO
Yes, there was a movie called Domino that came out in 2005. A terrible movie. And a different Domino. A kick-ass protagonist with a bit of a mean streak to boot.
ELEKTRA
Like Jennifer Garner, let’s forget that other movie never happened and start fresh.
GHOST
Mystery! Suspense! Intra-dimensional travel! And one awesome heroine!
JENNY SPARKS
A great character with a narrative that spans most of the 20th century. There’s potential here for a dozen movies. Also, love the accent.
KABUKI
Agent for a super-secret government organization called “The Noh”, operating in near-future Japan.
POWER GIRL
A female superhero to rival Superman!
PROMETHEA
Magic, mysticism, and a provocative and engaging narrative. If the big screen version could look half as good as the comic, it would be spectacular.
SHE-HULK
Brilliant attorney by day, kick-ass superhero by – er – also day. As far removed from The Hulk as Spiderman is from Superman. Number two on this wish list after Batwoman.
SILVER SABLE
Because I have a soft spot for female mercenaries.
WONDER WOMAN
Come on. This one’s way overdue.
The movie had only been out for three days before sherlocksmyth wrote the definitive NC-17 work, told from the perspective of Groot.
A while ago at a HALO release party, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk were busy playing the game when Justin Bieber arrived and asked Nathan to stop playing because he needed the whole room to himself. Naturally, Nathan behing the awesome nerd that he his totally turned him down. Be sure to jump ahead to 28:32 in the video below to hear the tale from Alan Tudyk himself.
[The Nerd Machine | Via TMS]
Last week, we got a look at the easter eggs in the Marvel Cinematic Universe up through Thor: The Dark World, but Guardians of the Galaxy is particularly packed with references to Marvel's comics, and this video lays out a bunch of them.
Because it amused me earlier today to think on them:
Just saw someone praise someone else for "destroying" me online. I rolled my eyes so hard I just nearly gave myself a migraine.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
"Dude, you called John Scalzi names SO HARD that the very next day he woke up and did the same thing he does every day! BAM! DESTRUCTION!"—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
If I remember this particular "destruction" correctly, I commented on this fellow's poor sentence construction and he was enraged.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
He cast aspersions upon me, I condescended to him, our various fans got het up and we retired to our corners. In other words: The Internet.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
Actual damage to anyone: Negligible at best. There may be a lesson here.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
In terms of author feuds, I'd give a C+: momentarily entertaining for everyone involved but otherwise of no consequence.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
With that said, I have no author feuds scheduled for August, so if you'd like to be considered, please contact my agent.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
Sorry, folks, at this point I am ONLY entertaining feuds with authors. I might feud with an artist in 2016, but that's VERY tentative.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
Don't get me wrong. I'd LOVE to feud with someone who ISN'T an author. But it's a business thing, see. Readership synergies, etc. You know.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 04, 2014
Update: ALL my slots for feuding are now booked up through 2017. If you're not booked, sorry. Please try again in 2018.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 05, 2014
I think I'm going to seriously starting using that as an excuse when someone wants to start a beef with me. "Sorry, booked through '17."—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 05, 2014
It’s nice to have a schedule.
