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Monthly Archives: November 2010
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlQfT44Oww
Nic Cage growls at the camera while the poor man’s James Woods (William Fichtner) hunts him down. It looks like it’s full of the stupid along with explosions, muscle cars and girls in hot pants. Irresistible, no?
Release Date (Ireland): February 2011.
The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, then alcohol would be ranked as a class-A – alongside heroin and crack cocaine.
Study: Alcohol Most Harmful Followed By Heroin And Crack (CNN)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orjALWsyaR4&feature=player_embedded
Artist Phil Hansen is a resourceful guy.
He ‘paints’ in a variety of unexpected styles using everything from typography to used matches, peanut butter and jelly, wooden slats and dandelions to create portraits and homages to Jimi Hendrix, Mother Theresa, Bruce Lee, Che Guevara and others, including (above) da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, rendered in burger grease.
Lots more of Phil’s work here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk
Film-maker, Matt Goldman of AKJAK Moving Pictures re-imagines Darth Vader as an unhinged composite of other characters played by James Earl Jones, the legendary voice of the Sith Lord.
The result is deeply weird and rather brilliant.
Central Bank Governor, Patrick Honohan. He loves austerity.
Bond Yields Over 7 Per Cent (Irish Times)
Bonfire in Sherrif Street, last night.
In this visual metaphor, the apparent conflagration is the economy. You are represented by the tree. We’re the little tyke in the middle pretending he’s a zombie.
(Photocall Ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csw3LrmHkUg&feature=player_embedded
The comedian/musician Reggie Watts turned up for a recent interview on SiriusXM, having forgotten to bring his recording equipment.
He then proceeded to improvise a trademark multi-layered riff about pancakes on his iPhone.
On his iPhone.
Previously: Reggie Watts One-Man Jam
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