El Duderiños lazy Sunday
„I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.“ Vom besten aller GIF-Tumblrs: If we don’t, remember me. Auch sehr super: Jules Whinfield beim Burgerrunterspülen und David Sumner vs Rednecks.
@shitmycatstype
@shitmycatstype: „I have two cats. They like to climb onto my keyboard when I’m not around. This is the shit they type. (100% cat generated)“
Politics’ Election-Afterhour-Parties are full of Porn
Eine Studie hat festgestellt, dass die (männlichen) Gewinner von Wahlen (und ihre Wähler) erhöhte Testosteron-Werte aufweisen. Das führt dazu, dass sie vermehrt Porno im Internet schauen. No shit: Wahl-Afterhours werden mit Porno gefeiert.
According to a new study in this month’s Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers expect a significant increase in Google search terms like “xvideo,” “tits,” and “boobs” in states in that voted Republican in yesterday’s midterm elections—and a significant decrease in those that voted Democrat.* This phenomenon is likely because victory increases testosterone levels, creating a biological impulse to go out and spread one’s seed. […]
So if elections leave some voters feeling victorious, then we would expect to see this behavior dominate in regions where the majority were rooting for the winning side. According to this research, that is exactly what we have seen in the past three major elections in the U.S. In the week following the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Google searches for pornography increased above the average for the year in red states and fell in blue states. After the midterm elections in 2006, when the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Google search terms for porn increased in blue states—and fell (rather dramatically) in red states. And in the week following the 2008 presidential election, porn searches were up again in the blue states and down again in the red states.
An Online Porn Traffic Surge in Red States? (via Atlantic Wire)
Victorian Ladies and their Brains
Zwei der neuen Porzellanfiguren von Jessica Harrison: junge Damen im viktorianischen Zeitalter, die ihre Gehirne spazieren tragen. Lovin’ it. (via Beautiful Decay)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Kitsch with Guts
Beyond Black Mesa: Halflife-inspired Shortfilm – Neuer Trailer
Schöner neuer Trailer zu Beyond Black Mesa, einem NoBudget-Kurzfilm basierend auf Half Life.
This is the official trailer for Beyond Black Mesa – a short independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series. It centers around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.
Independent short film – 2 years in the making – $1,200 budget – Endless hours of post – 1 Canon HV20
Directed by Brian Curtin
Producer: Matt Hall, Mat Powell
Actors/Grips: Joy Gravel, Walt Thomas, Andrew Gothard
Special Tracks: Nate Quarterman
Narrator: Taylor Robinson
Audio Mastering: Eric Chapman
Remember, remember the fifth of November
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine — the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone’s death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?
Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than 400 years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked.
But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
Minidoku über Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul
(Vimeo Direktskate, via DrLiMa)
Schöne Minidoku über Skateistan, die Skate-Schule in Afghanistan, über die ich hier schon mehrfach gebloggt hatte.
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Graffiti-Sk8decks for Skateistan
Skateistan on the Radio
Skateistan – The Movie (plus: Photography by Noah Abrams)
Skate-Schule in Afghanistan – Banner-Designcontest
Batman, Inc.
In der letzten Ausgabe von Batman and Robin kam Bruce Wayne, nachdem er zunächst in „Batman RIP“ scheinbar gestorben war und schließlich in „The Return of Bruce Wayne“ durch die Zeit reiste, Grüchten um seine Geheimidentität zuvor und gab bekannt, dass er der Geldgeber des dunklen Ritters sei: „Some of you may have wondered…How does a man like Batman afford to constantly update his crime-fighting technology? Where does his money come from? Well, the answer is me.“
Damit nicht genug: Bruce Wayne ruft Batman, Inc. ins Leben, einen multinationalen Konzern, der überall auf der Welt Ableger des Fledermausmanns rekrutiert: Ein Batman-Franchise – McBatman. Und ich habe keine Ahnung, was ich davon halten soll.
Underwire: Grant Morrison’s Batman, Inc. Births Comics’ First Zen Billionaire: “Batman, Inc. is the idea that we can all be Batman, if we want to,” the acclaimed Scotland-born comics writer told Wired.com by phone. “Batman travels the world recruiting new Bat-men and stamping them with his seal of approval.”
Comics Alliance: DC Comics EIC Bob Harras Breaks Down Bruce Wayne’s ‘Batman’ Reveal: „I think what Bruce is doing is trying to battle crime in a unique way, going to each country and looking at what challenges they have there. So I don’t think it’ll be a McDonald’s approach. He’s just looking for people and heroes that he thinks can assume the mantle in Batman, Inc.“
AP: A big admission ahead of bigger mission for Batman: „In doing so, Wayne is free to take his crime fighting international by building what Morrison calls a “global, international army of Batmen. Batman in China, Batman in Japan, Batman in Russia. Expanding the Batman brand to areas where he really hasn’t been before.“
William Shatner singtalks „Fuck You“
(Youtube Direktfuck, via Mister Honk)
(Youtube Direktceelo, via Testspiel)
Oben erstmal William Shatners kaputtgebeeptes „Fuck You“-Cover gefolgt von Cee Lo Greens neuer Single „It’s Ok“, nach dem Klick die tollen Japanther, Toxic Avenger mit nem schönen Retrogame-Video und weitere Clips von LCD Soundsystems, Lapti, Tiger Love, Pearl Fiction, Kim Ann Foxman, La Sera und New Mexico.
Pogo does Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
(Youtube Direktsnowwhite, via Laughing Squid)
Hier der neueste Track von Pogo, diesmal mit Samples aus Disney 1937er Verfilmung von Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Pogos official Dexter-Track
Neuer Pogo-Tracks aus Toys-Samples (UPDATE)
Bangarang: House-Track aus Hook-Samples
House-Track aus Marry Poppins-Samples
Scrumdiddlyumptious: House-Track aus Willy Wonka-Samples
Bei den Filmfreunden:
Techno-Track aus Terminator2-Samples
Spiders on Drugs-Bowls
Ihr kennt wahrscheinlich dieses Video eines Experiments, in dem man Spinnen verschiedenste Drogen verabreichte und den Einfluß der Substanzen auf den Aufbau ihrer Netze beobachtete. Das Experiment wurde 1995 von der NASA durchgeführt, um eine neue Methode zur Feststellung von Toxizität zu erforschen.
Und Guillaume Lehoux hat aus den Mustern der Netze ein paar schicke Schalen gebastelt: Spiders on Drugs-Bowls. I break together und: WANT!
The project SOD for Spiders On Drugs, is based on the results of a NASA experiment.
This experiment was designed to study the influence of certain psychoactive substances on the behavior of living things. The researchers inoculated the test substances (marijuana, caffeine, benzedrine and chloral hydrate) to spiders and then let them weave their webs.
In nature, spider webs are traps, they are used to catch unwary insects which venture to them. This project uses the graphic results of the NASA experiment to design a serie of five “retaining objects” like the spider web (fruit baskets, loose change trays, …).
Das Video und ein Scan des Artikels zum Experiment nach dem Klick.
German Google Streetview-Commercial
(Vimeo Direktstreetview, via Feingut)
Schönes Commercial für Googles Streetview, das ja grade wegen der dämlichen Diskussion demonstrativ nur mit ein paar Sehenswürdigkeiten und einem kompletten Kaff – Marktgemeinde Oberstaufen (Oberallgäu) – in Bayern gestartet ist. Ich musste da ja schon ein bisschen schmunzeln, ich sehe das als ein ganz klares In Your Face für die Bedenkenträger.
100 YEN: The Japanese Arcade Experience
(Vimeo Direktarcade, via Japan Probe)
Schöner Trailer zur kommenden, superinteressant aussehnden Doku „100 YEN: The Japanese Arcade Experience“ über japanische Spielkultur im allgemeinen und Arcade-Maschinen im besonderen. Die Jungs und Mädels hinter dem Film finanzieren das ganze über Crowd-Funding durch die Website Indiegogo. Das ganze sieht tatsächlich so dermaßen interessant aus, dass ich mir überlege, da tatsächlich was dazuzugeben.
IMAGINE a world where video games reign supreme. Five stories of arcade cabinets, new and old, dominate the streets of downtown Tokyo. Welcome to Japan. A place where the arcades of the 80s and 90s not only still exist, but thrive and have evolved into elaborate environments of pleasure for any gamer.
Our 8-bit childhood has come a long way. A complete sensory overload is brought on by the multitudes of arcade games, they call out to you as you wander the vast expanses of these game havens. What was once a table top amusement has become an escape from your mundane existence. If you have a couple hundred Yen in your pocket, be prepared for The Ultimate Arcade Experience™
Following gamers such as DAIGO UMEHARA (arguably the world’s best STREET FIGHTER player) and speaking with gaming aficionado BRIAN ASHCRAFT (chief Japanese editor for Kotaku.com) we will explore the world of Japanese Arcades from a North-American perspective and compare/contrast the current trends of East and West gaming cultures.
Other experts include: Satoshi Numata, a professor of video games at the Osaka Electronic University; Ryan “Gootecks” Guitierrez another professional gamer from the Street Fighter scene; Bear Trickey, a game designer for Q-Games based out of Japan; and of course, we will be speaking to as many Japanese people as possible!
Shortmovie: To Claire; From Sonny
(Youtube Direktclaire, via Laughing Squid)
Schöner, toll fotografierter Kurzfilm „To Clair; From Sonny“ vom erst 17jährigen Josh Beattie. Ein Tumblelog-Posting zum Film hat laut URDB die meisten Kommentare („32,694 notes [and counting]“)auf Tumblr, ever. Und womit? Mit Recht. Und mit Recht dürfte Josh Beattie mit diesem Kurzfilm eine Karriere im Film sicher sein.
