Mar/100
OK Go.
OK Go is redefining the way bands utilize internet media. An otherwise no name'r of a band, their last two major singles have spawned viral internet videos. Some pretty sick work to boot. Check it, yo.
Mar/100
Best pictures, ranked.
Courtesy of my most trusted movie critic website, Rotten Tomatoes, here is a ranked list of all 82 of the best pictures, following what was an interesting Oscar Sunday.
On that note, I would like to express my relief that Avatar did not win best picture this year. James Cameron made quite a film, but all he really did was combine Dances With Wolves, Titanic and Pocahontas with a rediculously amazing technical backdrop.
Mar/100
Make it viral!
A couple of contributors made a video for a Doritos Viralocity contest. Spread it all over!
Mar/100
Top 2000’s artists.
The CBC recently released a list of the top visual artists of the past decade. Is this list relevant, or should we not lump talent into piles of subjective speculation?
Banksy is one of my personal choices, his work can be seen here.
Feb/105
Brad Nowell.
Ever since about 1997, shit, when I was fourteen, I’ve been in love with Sublime. I remember paddling down the Sand River in Lake Superior Provincial Park, bobbing my head to the killer sound of Wrong Way and April 29, 1992 (Miami), in a canoe and on my Sony Discman… Wow, those were the days. There was just something perfect about the ska/punk sound, the lyrics, which were so easy to pick up, and Brad Nowell’s voice rivals any of the greats, living or dead and you all know it. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a party or a cottage or the beach without someone righteously demanding and playing Sublime, it just goes without saying. Sublime means summer and is essential to it; one cannot be without the other. I've always been intrigued by what really happened to Nowell, so I figured you guys would too.
Jan/100
Exquisite game.
Last night I threw away my vow of staying in and doing my readings and catching up on homework, as I was convinced by my friends that that idea was just way too boring and lame. So being the artistic thinking dude I am, I borrowed an idea I got from a good friend and had the group at the party play a game. It's based on an artistic concept called Exquisite Corpse, where an artist would draw the head of a person and then fold it up on the paper and hand it off to the next artist who would complete the torso and so on.
But, instead of drawing parts of the body onto the paper, each person writes down a sentence, folds the paper so no one sees it, and then someone who can yell over top of everyone's drunken giggles reads out the hilarious quotes and blurbs. This game can form some of the most hilarious monologues you'll ever hear. Try it out, yo!
Jan/102
Rare photos of the cool.
Found a website that rivals The Impossible Cool. Nothing better than perusing photos of the coolest people eva!
Jan/100
Apocalypse Now.
I'm heading up a lengthy, two class seminar on Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, showcasing how the Movie was adapted from Conrad's Novella. Although inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the film deviates extensively from the source material. The novella, based on Conrad's real experiences as a steam paddleboat captain in Africa, is set in the Congo Free State during the 19th century. This scene sets up Willard's mission into the Cambodian jungle and showcases Coppola's killer talent for great film making.
Kurtz and Marlow (who is named Willard in the movie) both work for a Belgian trading company that brutally exploits its native African workers. When Marlow arrives at Kurtz's outpost, he discovers that Kurtz has gone insane and is lording over a small tribe as a god. The novella ends with Kurtz dying on the trip back and the narrator musing about the darkness of the human psyche: "the heart of an immense darkness."
PH0T0ADAY.
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