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1:17 pm  •  14 March 2012

The bong water tinged theory of synching Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz has been floating around the Internet for nearly two decades. Its roots date back to a 1995 article citing an online discussion group. You can almost see the message board correspondences between SourDieSelDude73 (Yes, he’s writing from a hotmail account) and FloYdAnimMal264. Though Pink Floyd and the album’s engineer Alan Parsons deny any intentional links, there are some mesmerizing coincidences that are too strange to be ignored.

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1:11 pm  •  13 March 2012

Humphrey Bogart’s leading lady on and offscreen really knew how to give good face. That hair, those lips, the strong brows?! Va-va-voom.

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11:49 pm  •  12 March 2012

A well executed title sequence is hard to come by these days. Last summer when I saw Michael Rapaport’s Beats Rhymes & Life I thought “This is How it Should be Done”. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to much fan fare and a little drama. Disputes over producer titles, tears at the premiere, email beef, Phife Dawg’s ongoing issues with soda and Funyuns, along with the band’s sudden breakup in 1998 all indicated that this was going to be more than your average hip hop doc. Spoiler Alert: Beats Rhymes & Life is awesome and honest: giving fans a behind the scenes look of the broken relationships between the band members that led to their breakup. These colorful illustrations by artist James Blagden and animator Phillip Niemeyer with help from Doubleday & Cartwright really set the stage for the documentary: capturing the bold spirit of Tribe’s music and the visual style of the nineties.

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3:24 pm  •  1 March 2012

R U SERIOUS?! Just stumbled upon these amazing Drive inspired neons by 3D designer Rizon Parein. Drive + neon + hot pink = my funeral. Check out more of Rizon’s work here.

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7:46 pm  •  24 February 2012

All White Everything.

9:55 am  •  24 February 2012

In the moment that you meet Alex Witjas your first challenge is to keep up with her energy. She’s a living emoticon, embodying all of the silliness and giddy excitement of a teenager in the most endearing way. Your second challenge is to resist falling in love with her. Alex is one of those people that has this magnetic pull: a mix of shameless goofiness, talent, envious personal style, and genuine charisma that makes you wanna be around her. Never mind the fact that she is a total babe. As a talented graphic designer, her clever visual style captures her forever young spirit through fun layouts and quirky color combinations. She also has the most amazing parents whose antics she catalogs in a hilarious tumblr dedicated to their texts, loving overbearingness and adventures in LA. A photo of them at a Lady Gaga concert nearly had me filling out my own adoption papers and forging their signatures. As we used to say in Philly, Alex is all that and a bag of chips! Here in no particular order is Alex’s The Perfect Ten.

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10:35 pm  •  23 February 2012

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12:21 am  •  21 February 2012

If natural disasters are any indication than Mother Nature is one crazy unstable bitch. She also has a legion of furry, scaly, creepy crawly, and sea loving minions ready and willing to do her biding. Enter Peter and Marcia, a couple trying to salvage a marriage that has lost that loving feeling with a long weekend of camping. They begin their romantic trip by running over a helpless kangaroo, and then over the course of twenty four hours commit more crimes against nature by pissing off ants, an eagle, a tassie devil, a tree, ducks, and even try to kill an innocent dugong (Australia’s answer to the manatee). These bastards also litter, a lot!

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10:19 am  •  20 February 2012

Are you sitting at home staring at a glass of room temp boxed Chardonnay thinking “What am I possibly going to do tonight?”. Then Beverly Hills Madam is the movie for you! Faye Dunaway borrows a little from her performance as Joan “Mommy Dearest” Crawford to play Lil Hutton, a madam catering to only the most wealthy clients. Though she lives a cushy life, she has her own set of small business problems: Mainly in keeping her beautiful but very complicated stable of fillies in line. There’s the aspiring dancer (Robin Givens) who’s always late, the the law student balancing finals and accidentally getting knocked up by a client, and her most seasoned gal who gets engaged only to have her fairy tale ruined when an old John outs her. “Oh Steven, don’t be so naive! She’s a PRO! A high class whore! I’ve had her Steven, and so has any one else who has a grand to pay for it!” (Queue the groom’s horrified face and cut to commercial.) Damn, bros before hos never had more meaning. Rough stuff.

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11:38 pm  •  19 February 2012