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Stuart McBratney
Stu's directed 500 commercials, a tv series, and will soon shoot his second feature. But what he really wants to do is dance! He also sometimes jokes about wanting to dance.
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Silver and Light: a photo series by Ian Ruhter
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Ian Ruhter travels America taking photos with his home-made camera, which could fit in your pocket. Well, that’s assuming you have ridiculously large pants.
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Faux movie trailer by David Walton Smith
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Autographs are so last millenium. Filmmaker David Walton Smith seized a chance opportunity with Bill Murray to homage the “‘buddies walking in slow motion to cool music’ trope. The result is a faux trailer only slightly less evocative than Lost in Translation’s. Whether he can frame it and sell it on eBay is a different [...]
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Oversized Cassette Tape Table by Jeff Skierka
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What do you get if you combine woodwork, 80′s nostalgia, and some nifty home decoration ideas? An oversized mixtape table made of maple, walnut and lucite, that’s what. And if Jeff Skierka’s creation isn’t already cool enough, you can always flip over to the B-side.
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Time-lapse: daily pics from three and half years on Photobooth
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We’ve all seen those time-lapse vids, where the doting dad documents his daughter daily for a decade. Done to death, right? Not so fast! German blogger and artist Rosella Vaughn, now residing in Hawaii, snapped pics daily for three and half years on Photobooth, documenting antics usually reserved for Larry Clark films. If you’re averse [...]
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9 y.o builds cardboard arcade inside dad’s auto part store
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As a kid, I made my own pinball machine. It almost worked. But 9 year-old Caine Monroy from LA has taken youthful craftsmanship to new heights, constructing an entire arcade from old boxes. All he needed was a customer or two, and thanks to filmmaker Nirvan Mullick, he got ‘em.
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Insanely cool sunglasses made from old skateboard decks
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Imagine the coolest thing ever. Let’s say, you take old bebop records from a beat poet’s secret stash, melt them down, and turn them into t-shirts for a band you’ve never heard of. Farfetched? Not as much as you may think. Brisbane’s Holloway Eyewear are taking old skateboards, and handcrafting insanely cool sunglasses from the [...]
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Akaname: an instrumental opus by Akaname
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If you crave a big dose of metal without the guttural growls, Akaname’s self-titled third album hits the spot. This instrumental opus is epic without being brutal, rhythmically dextrous without devolving into mathcore, and musically layered without succumbing to Scandinavian-style symphonic bombast. Enjoy this compelling, dark adventure at midnight. And play it loud. Akaname (2010) [...]
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Good Music Fox: a music blog for purists
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When so many modern bands strive to sound like Radiohead, its easy to forget that modern music stems from jazz and blues. A new site has no such amnesia. The Good Music Fox shares its love for new works bluesy and traditional. There are no electro-blues-click-grime hybrids here. This is a site for purists.
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Acoustic techno from Berlin trio Brandt Brauer Frick
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‘Acoustic techno’ sounds like an oxymoron. Yet this is exactly what German trio Brandt Brauer Frick produce. Those familiar with the pops and clicks of Berlin’s minimal sound will find their sound strangely familiar. For the rest, just sit back and enjoy the poker-faced musicality, it all its faux electro glory.
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Incredible short film dedicated to Wakeskating
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Could this be the coolest sport in the history of the world? Hyperbole aside, Wakeskating is pretty damn awesome. It’s a hybrid of, well, you join the dots. Check out this stunning video and try not to feel pumped.
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Finnish designer Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen
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Finnish graphic designer and illustrator Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen is kept busy helping Nike, Nokia and T-Mobile sell things. He’s also happy making art just for the sake of it. Commercial or otherwise, his work would make Salvador Dali proud, and possibly even hang up his lobster-shaped paintbrush.
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Don Hertzfeldt’s award-winning animated short REJECTED
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Chances are that many of you have affected a high-pitched voice and uttered the phrase, ‘My spoon is too big!’, much to the knowing chuckles of your awesomely cool friends. For those unacquainted with Rejected by animator Don Herzfeld, prepare to laugh your black and white socks off.
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