In mid November, New Zealand internet company Orcon Broadband enlisted punk legend Iggy Pop to make their phones and services look cool. Shot October the 30th in Pop’s studio in Miami, the ad features 9 local contest-winners musicians (out of the 200 who attended the audition) and of course Pop, performing his 77′s hit Passenger which was on the album Lust for Life. All of this being made possible via skype.
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It might be just a trend but documentaries about bands seem to be a little too pompous sometimes. I don’t know if this one about Blur will be any good, but the trailer looks like Damon Albarn and his friends were not just a band but some kind of heroes who fought the nazis or discovered the cure for cancer. Lire la suite
Tags: documentary, oldies, uk
Human computer interaction has made a big step forward. The d-touch drum machine is an augmented reality technology that enables with visual markers recognition systems, “the development of low-cost tangible user interfaces and mixed reality applications”. Lire la suite
Tags: augmented reality, computer, electronic, experimental, techology
A mirror-face horse riders in the desert, a tambourin man up the hill, two fighters with aluminium gloves: the new Yeasayer‘s music video “Ambling Alp” from their upcoming album “Odd Blood” reminds a lot the 1973 Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain. Lire la suite
Tags: desert, music video, new york, psychedelic, yeasayer
As usual in a zombie movie (like Zombieland that came out last october), the world is a nest of living deads. But in director Marc Fratto‘s attempt, instead of being run after by thirsty blood-covered retards, the humans become the no-mercy chasers, and the zombies are simply reduced to second zone’s citizens. Lire la suite
If you hate your kids, this might be the perfect christmas gift
Meet Hans, a poorly paid german truck driver, heading back home to spend christmas with his family. Hans didn’t have much time to look for a gift for his young boy named Ralf, 12. So when Hans stops by to the gas station shop in order to buy some cigarettes, what a nice surprise to see that they’re selling some stupid video games too. Ralf loves videos games, he owns a Wii and really wants this Call of Duty thing where you shoot other people. Lire la suite
Tags: animation, germany, netherlands, videogame, weird
I’m not afraid to say it, I’m a conspirationist. I don’t believe that Bruce Lee is dead nor that Jamie Lee Curtis is actually a woman and to me, Sonic Youth’s appearance on Gossip Girl was fake (they can do crazy shit with computers nowadays).
New World Order is a documentary by Luke Meyr and Andrew Neel about people into conspiracy theorys such as “9/11 as an inside job”, “The Bilderberg group is a secret group meant to rule the world” and more recently “Climate change is a hoax”. Lire la suite
Tags: Alter-globalization, america, documentary, politics
Before Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, there was Josh Harris
Critically acclaimed director cult rockumentary Dig!, Ondi Timoner is back with a new documentary on the effect the web is having on our society. Lire la suite
Tags: documentary, drugs, internet, new york, sex, tv, weird
The american debut of early synthesizers
This is a wonderful gem that somehow just appeared on the Tube a few weeks ago. Legendary electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey makes a 1966 appearance on popular game show “I’ve got a secret”. Lire la suite
Tags: 60's, electronic, france, oldies, synth
Like Syrup? Get the recipe in Lil Wayne’s documentary.
Famous for his “syrup”, a combination made up chiefly of promethazine and codeine, usualy prescribed for colds and pneumonia, New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, is getting his documentary at 27. Lire la suite
Tags: america, documentary, lil wayne, new orleans, rap
If you’re not satiated at the end of this post, go on youtube and type in “Saudi Arabia Drift mix”. What you’ll see is the new Saudi Arabian craze: the Saudi Drifting. Lire la suite
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