May 29, 2008
Northcape - Some Bright Valley [mtk202, idm] (Latest on my net.label: 'A Monotonik debut for Brighton, UK-based electronic artist Northcape, then, with the sublimely mellow 'Some Bright Valley', all chilled-out strings and gently departing sunsets.')
May 28, 2008
Kevin Kelly: 'Loving Robotic Jellyfish' (I want a few.)
Pink Tentacle: 'Highway interchange photos' ('Photographer Ken Ohyama has a magnificent Flickr photoset of highway interchanges in Japan.')
CNet News Blog: 'Look out, Apple TV: The $100 Netflix Player has arrived' (Oo, getting one of these - if their ordering site works properly, sigh.)
May 27, 2008
The Orb's MySpace: 'A few words from Alex and The Orb on Tour.....May 2008' (Some danger of a U.S. tour in Aug/Sept, Dr. Alex claims!)
PW The Beat: 'John R. Neil’s OZ' (Wonderful art.)
Cartoon Brew: 'Portishead Videos by Nick Uff' (Beautiful hand-drawn stuff by an English gardener.)
May 26, 2008
AICN: 'Have You Checked RickyGervais.com Lately?' (Indeed, some really funny set reports from his new movie (but no RSS, sigh).)
Wikipedia: Weezer's 'Pork & Beans' music video (Useful for defining who is in it, for the non-meme-obsessed - semi-via Waxy!)
Guardian UK: Massive Attack talk to Miranda Sawyer ('It's always a terrible and crucial time with us ... that's Massive Attack')
May 25, 2008
Flickr: My burgeoning collection of alt.watches. (Making like William Gibson and becoming a watchgeek - a lot of these are sourced from the AMAZING Alexander Hi-Tek collection, an obscure '80s brand that I'm adoring.)
NYT: 'Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds' (Definitely wired, not tired or expired.)
The Pirate Bay: 'Izmar - I Love P2P (2008 Chillout-Triphop)' (A sometime Monotonik-releaser puts his music releases up for free on ThePirateBay - neat use of P2P.)
May 22, 2008
Flickr: 'Los Angeles - May 2008' (Wandered around LA, Disneylands, met Asimo, went to Arcade Infinity, awesome.)
May 16, 2008
The Bird And The Bee - 'Polite Dance Song' (Directed by Eric Wareheim from Tim & Eric, suitably bizarro.)
Gelf Magazine: 'Christmas Ape Kills Michael Tunison' (Bloggers, alter egos, and the Washington Post clash.)
May 15, 2008
Quick Stop Entertainment: 'MASTERS OF SONG FU - The Battle Begins!!!!' (Quick Stop is stealth neatness, as per usual.)
Google Sightseeing: 'Street View Sabotage!' (Don't like Google Street View? Plastic bag over camera!)
GameSetWatch - where I'm doing most of the updating (You're all keeping up with this if you like video game culture, right?)
May 14, 2008
Twitch's regular cult film trailer Top 10 ('Up at the top it’s all Finland all the time with the one two punch of Sauna and Iron Sky perched comfortably at the top of things.' Some awesome stuff in here.)
MySpace: Dark Horse Presents - new Evan Dorkin strip (Poor ol' furries, eh?)
Shots Rings Out: 'SRO guide to VBS.tv' (I need to get more clued up on VBS.tv, it has some neat stuff on it - add it to Pitchfork TV, Adult Swim, Hulu as clickable online video sites.)
May 13, 2008
Cartoon Brew: 'Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua' (Nuff said!)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: 'The Robot in Japan, 1920-1938' (Amazing early Japanese robot dreams.)
Twitch: 'SFIFF51: GONZO—Q&A With Director Alex Gibney' (Looking forward to seeing this doc about the Doctor.)
May 12, 2008
ValleyWag: 'Turner shuts down comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, and "no one could deny they were crying their asses off"' (Shame, but shows the issues in monetizing online content.)
Reality Blurred: 'Fox Reality cancels Reality Remix, orders “cynical” Reality Binge' (More cynical is what 'all media' is inevitably getting to be punchy, sadly.)
AICN: Spaced coming to U.S. DVD (With, uhh, Quentin Tarantino and Diablo Cody on the commentary track? Nice.)
May 11, 2008
Blackdown: 'The flow dan' (Explaining the lyrics of genius grime MCs.)
AICN: 'Criterion is going BluRay!!!' (Later this Fall, some of its top titles - nice!)
the antvilleQuarterly! - .torrents of great music videos (Really nice idea, and (reasonably) legal too - via WaxyLinks.)
May 10, 2008
Takara Tomy: 'Wonderful Shot dog/cat camera' (Complete with dachshund model. )
The Independent: Will Self's columns (Oo, Ralph Steadman cartoons, gorgeous - via Rossignol.)
May 09, 2008
Pitchfork Media: 'The Month In: Grime / Dubstep' (Immensely fascinating scene.)
Music Thing: 'The Pod: Community Techno Unit' (Total hilarious early Boosh-related silliness about rave in the community.)
YouTube: Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental (Totally British colonial awesome - via RPS.)