Who would have thought a song sung for a dying mouse by fraggly imps could be this wonderful?
This is the single most awesome Tic Tac commercial of all time—in that I will never again eat orange Tic Tacs without thinking of a fat fuzzy guy’s belly button. Now that’s branding. [BF]
Have you ever seen something so stupendously strange, so uncannily odd that your brain was like, “Forget this mess, I’m out”? No? Great, then this will be a new experience for you. More »
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Melt Yourself Down – “Fix My Life”
Posted in: Today's Chili Great googley moogley. Watch this on full-screen and prepare to melt into your chair. The music of Melt Yourself Down, a London-based Jazz Fusion group some describe as “Afrocentric jazz-tinged tribal pop” (the what?), is crazy good and the animation from Morgan Beringer is enough to make your brain jump clean out of your skull and run screaming from the room. Seriously, get ready for a four minute trip through bat country. More »
It’s a good business model, sure. I mean you’ve got a captive audience, which any infomercial host would kill for. But what’s with actually killing them? Pretty sure murdering your marketing base is going to hurt sales and next quarter’s growth. More »
The world is brimming with haters ready and more than willing to tell you just how much you suck and can’t do a damn thing right. But never mind them. If you’ve got something to express, it’s your responsibility to express it. More »
Fans of forward-looking music have at least two things to be excited about this spring: new albums from Boards of Canada (which is teasing fans with the rarest vinyl released this year) and Daft Punk, whose Random Access Memories is set for a May 20th release. More »
Norwegian filmmaker Jakob Rørvik follows the daily routines of Thomas Duggan, a design graduate from Central St. Martins during his self-imposed exile in the British countryside. This introspective documentary examines Duggan’s slow transformation as he withdraws from connected society. Whether it’s a change for the better or the worse is for you to decide. [Nowness] More »
Hardcore pharmaceuticals turning an apathetic, anonymous public into exhibitionists while conventional relationships crumble to dust. This totally not safe for work (unless you work at the Power Exchange) music video for Bot’Ox’s latest single featuring Anna Jane was directed by Berlin-based Flokim Lucas. More »