just finished this flyer, happy with it thus far

how tight is this??? dare i say…amazing?

Fittingly, I think I’ll start this one off with just that title!

I forgot who sent me this, but aint that just the damndest? cute lil critters

Sculpture by Steve Bishop - Staring at Cat Staring at Cat Staring (2007)

reminds me…i forget who sends me things to post, totally my bad. gotta do better with that.  

anyways, other fun things:

MAN EATS 23,000 BIG MACS IN 36 YEARS (CNN)

Ditte couldn’t stop raving about this new Megapuss stuff, Devendra’s little side ditty, and I tell ya what…I dig it.  Monster Jams. Here’s their myspace

I’ve got some weird passion for Tesla Coils right now.  I mean, they’ve always been tight but for some reason right now they’re TIIIIIGHT.  Must be all the lazers in my brain. Tesla Downunder is killing as far as hot tesla websites out there right now, I mean I’d say top 3 Tesla Coil fansites goin right now. Definitely on their way to the top. Out of sight.

Oh you thought I was kidding? No, I don’t kid about Tesla Coils. They’re too tight for kidding.

Creation Nation - On the Street 2006

Give this some time. Kiiiiiinda fuuuuunnnyyyyyyy, like if dane cook were actually out of the closet and relatively funny and doing street interviews right? check it at 6:05, ooohhhh boooooyyyyy heeeyyyy everyyyyybooddyyyyyy  (thanks kelly)

Youtube user: Karaokephile has a hit here! holy lord save us from that freakshow. check out his other videos

Dancin in the Dark rehearsals
 

I think babyballs sent this one over…what a poof! take that, jersey!

Another from Ditte, is this old news? pretty cute. think i’m gonna do a subtitling for it. got any funny ideas? let’s make it!

Our favorite rapper/pit bull fighter/theoretician has spoken and the masses are a listenin, lemme tell ya what! This dude’s dead on, whatever he says, I do.  If he were Master P he would make me say “unh” if he were kris kross he’d make me jump.  Read the prophets words here:

Are you following the presidential race?

Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.

His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.

Barack?! Barack. What the f**k is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.

Barack Obama?

Yeah.

What the f**k?! That ain’t no f**kin’ name, yo. That ain’t that ni**a’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the f**k outta here.

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.

I ain’t really paying much attention.

I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black… 

Wow, Barack! The ni**a’s name is Barack. Barack? Ni**a named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his f**kin’ name. Ima tell this ni**a when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your f**kin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

And this reflection on the artist’s life:

What were you doing in between—from the last album to this one, that whole time? What have you been up to?

Life. I been up to that. It’s been crazy. Fuckin’ police keep on fuckin’ raiding my house and shit for nothing. They took all my fuckin’ guns. All they did is take is take my guns. All they fuckin’ do is fuck my house up and take my guns. That’s all they did. Straight robbed me—that’s what they did.

Check out the article at The Daily Dish w Andrew Sullivan

pretty sure this was on the soup. they should make a soup out of this kids brains.  and the kid who made this vid. me likey. from yo gabba gabba and the brain of some stoner

And lastly…Vero I’m terribly sorry but I just have to put this up, it’s too funny to be real.  Slow Mo Vero! Jerkinoff dude! hahahahaha

JellyNYC slipnslides  the highlight of the shows this summer for sure. 

that’s all, get back to work

I’m not sure what the point of this collection is, it’s a grouping of artists and musicians working within some neo-psychedelia, retro-futurism, day glo neon fluorescent trend.  I can’t pinpoint where it all stems from (recently, not like…the 70s or 80s) but the effects have been felt worldwide.  Starting small, then becoming a large art trend, then the neon fashion explosion last year, and all of the 8-bit pixeled art and music videos that have spewed out of its ass since.  The aftershocks are still being felt, so i guess now’s a decent time to look at a little bit from it.  

First, there’s definitely roots in the Japanese Superflat movement and Otaku culture (ie  Takeshi Murakami…that work spreading like wildfire in the states from the Little Boy exhibition to the Louis Vuitton collab to Kanye to the Brooklyn Museum show etc, also hello kitty, sanrio, anima/manga) 

Then there’s the Providence/RISD/Fort Thunder Collective, who were always way ahead of their time.  From Forcefield, to Lightning Bolt to Paperrad, all the members in between and all the folks they’ve influenced since. An innovative group who collectively incorporated bright visuals, theatrics, noise, and psychedelia on speed.

Of course then there’s the influence of raves/drugs/gays/germans/spandex/magic/lasers etc etc 

The whole notion of NewRave I think was fabricated out of thin air really and somehow the Klaxons were noted as the leaders- although on one hand they have nothing really to do with it, but on the other they certainly did embrace parts of it. The scene in London absolutely had a large role in that bomb of neon that went off around the world.  It probably has something to do with the fact that all they do in London is trip on K and E instead of smoking weed like the rest of the world.  damn ravers. 

Without getting too into a thesis here, let’s not forget a few other key factors:

-digital revolution: easy and accessible software, programming hacks found online, simple (poor) creations of websites, images and animations

-backlash from digital revolution: childhood nostalgia (innocence), animated gifs, lo-fi animations and websites, simple solid colors, fear of robotic invasion

-WAR - creates reactionary art - in a tech/digital/hypersurveillance/1984 kind of world and war - the natural response has not been one of revolution or anger but instead fear and escapism —leading to arrested development among youth and greater amounts of excess in partying -spending -drug use- and capitalism, loss of identity (self and nation) 

anyways, there’s more to be said about this topic and i probably will at some point but the following are the videos, ordered to some degree, unfortunately i dont feel like drawing a web to explain who and what connect to what else but you can get the idea:

forcefield  - video 3
 

 neon hunk

paperrad

Lazerlight show - Ryuji Takeuchi pink and green at the beginning is super tight, but get up to 2:21

pick a winner dvd (feat. lightning bolt, forcefield, paperrad, dearraindrop, wolf eyes. it’s like an hour long or something so pick and choose what you watch)

dearraindrop - the tar guys

takeshi murata-melter 02 clip

katamari damacy intro theme - highly addictive but very simple video game.  at once just a  cute video it also crosses between japanese kawaii sensibility and german playmobil figures

maya hayuk - forevers

maya’s a local williamsburg artist, who painted the mural on mollusk surf shop. i really dig all of her work not just the color patterns, but everything is super sexual, soft and vibrant

tussle- invisible cities
 

black moth super rainbow - count backwards to black

an example of a cross between intense color patterning and the faster pace of the wild vids, creating something meditative and interesting.

dan deacon - from wham city collective, kind of a poor man’s ft. thunder, like an afterthought. but there’s still some creativity brewing up over there and some interesting work being made. 

Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone

this is probably the closest to rave that they came, and even though i really dig the glowing ooze in the magick video, and golden skans is a gorgeous video, this one just seems to fit this group properly. note the special K logo on the drumkit.

natalie portman’s shaved head - sophisticated sideways ponytail.  these kids piss me off to no end and yet i really like this video. super quality stuff in there

MGMT - Time to Pretend

this last one’s kinda the culmination of all of these devolutions in quality, mixed with talented animating and a decent budget.  and pretty much amazing.

anyways, i hope that burnt some time away from  your miserable day!

Here’s a crazy story from the recent NEW YORKER: THE CHAMELEON.  Dude continuously changes his identity, assuming roles of missing persons and whatnot.

speaking of other identities:

hahahahah har har

Here’s some random images from the internet that were sent to me:

this is funny, i’m sure accurate or whatevs, but who designed this thing?? the length should go on the Y axis and the girth on the X axis, seriously ya retards….think next time

simple, funny, whatevs

Now THIS!! This little snippet is comedy GOLD!!

i like it, smart idea, good execution, just falls a little flat after the first thought. saving grace? japanese.  frisky little pervs.

surprisingly not japanese (pervs) unsurprisingly american (too stupid to notice)

NYTIMES(today): Steal This Hook? Girl Talk Flouts Copywrite Law

YTMND:Let’s Get Retarded!

Hutchy -  Gas Prices! what a revolutionary, what a patriot.  

sexy screenname - not bad, maybe goes on a bit too long but finishes strong

Guy Catches Marlin With Bare Hands! I don’t care if this is real or fake, it makes me super happy

Oh, have you seen the MGMT website or their videos? it kinda bums me out it’s so much right up my alley. like…i should have made all of that, i’m just too lazy and ignorant to have done it. ughhhhhhh

MGMT website

MGMT-time to pretend video

totally mega

It’s a Birthday Bonanza on Saturday.  Rory’s birthday is the 30th, Liz’s is the 2nd.  Mine’s the 1st.  My myspace bday thing showed me all kinds of people that I like a lot who have birthdays right around the same time.  Way.To.Go.  we really pulled it off.  

Anyways, there’s this party. and it’s gonna be tight. bring food for grillin, booze for drinkin, and weird things, whatever’s weird.  but dont bring a bunch of friends. no one needs em. seriously.  same drill as ever at the peach pit: party party party, get out fast and go to enids.  

Lastly, thank you to Hally and Matt for a monster of a flyer.  Matt’s like king-shit-of-designing-tons-of-things-really-well-in-a-short-period-of-time-mountain.  Back in the day Hally wanted to paint a portrait of me and I asked her to paint a mural sized-grandiose as hell-painting of me sitting naked on a throne surrounded by tons of hot naked black chicks and my dick’s massive, splits and becomes 2 cobras that are hissing at each other above my head.  4 years later I get this flyer with lazers, orgies and cheeseburger. My heart is weeping joy.     See you in the pit

Some Lazers from the CoooooDawg vaults:

First: lazer photos

FROM: LAZERS-THEIR PROBLEMS AND COOLNESS

probably the best summation of lazering i’ve ever read.

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Lazers have been around since the early middle ages. Their first known use was by King Richard of Hungry in the Battle of Los Arroz also known as The Day of the Corn. The King was under siege by his arch rival Sir Robin the Crow, a former senator turned turn coat. Sir Robin had constructed a large turtle made of bronze and coconut shells to use as a ramming device against the southwest corner of the castle. 

For four florescently moonlight nights the besieged suffered heavy losses one of whom was his wizard Dumbaldat who fell off the front of the castle from a shockingly large smack from the giant turtle. King Richard then pulled out his wand and preformed the killing curse, Avanaka, upon the hold army of bad guys killing them all, this was the first lazerized weapon ever. Sources tell us that he buried his wizard friend in a white tomb and mermaids sang at the funeral.

But lazers didn’t just appear. We all know that lazers are used safely in every household for more than a century. Without them daily life could not go on without them. That would be tough.

Although we see them everywhere in our cars, in our fish tanks (Finding Nemo), our fossil fuels, or even unnoticed in our flashlights there are still unanswered mysteries surrounding lazers. Why do they kick butt? Who isn’t the best? And what are they made of? Probably the biggest question is Why people don’t run away in lazer tag when they are hit by them.

Industry Corps Press is a large company dealing with a large problem. How to make people run from lazers that don’t kill.

What if you were suddenly surrounded by men with lazer guns and they all started shooting you. However they are toy guns not real ones. And say while playing with the toys the toymaker (aka someone hairy( not Harry as in Harry Potter (a book I just read( I being the hairy someone) ) ) ) wanted the lazers hitting your body to intiese (In-Tie-ssss) you to run away from the lazer toys and their wielders.

Solution #1
They are real lazers that kill people!

Solution #2
They aren’t harmful lazers, but they do lock up joints in the victims playsuit causeing not movement in that particular area.

Solution #3
They cause a buzzing sensation like the one Steve Marshall experienced when he was at the toy store in North Carolina and screamed like a little girl upon being buzzed at by someone hairy.

Solution #4
The lazers turn people into zombies, not just when they hit victims but also randomly turning people into zombies just because they exist.

Solution #1 and #2 are either too expensive or immoral to be any fun, because spending money is not fun and neither is killing people. Solution #4 is cool, however it would be a lot cooler if the toys were around dinosaurs.

So the obvious solution is Solution #3.

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BRILLIANT!!!!

See ya Lazer! CHOOF CHOOF!!

HERCULES LASER NEARLY AS POWERFUL AS THE DEATH STAR (if the death star were real. stop crying)

Putting my laser ignorance in check, google informed us today that the first working laser was developed on May 16, 1960. What a monumental day! And to think…prior to 1960 not a single person had large beams of neon light shoot out of their eyeballs to destroy anything in their path! There were no dogs with multicolored eyebeams! GASP!