Found on YouTube - 10 Amazing Practical Jokes
Video is pretty quick and it’s amazing how easy these tricks are. You basically go, why didn’t I think of that.
JUST A COOL MUSIC VIDEO - The Rifle’s Spiral by The Shins
What can I say, stop-motion videos are just cool. I didn’t do much research on the background on this one, but its very Tim Burton-esk. It’s pretty amazing how much of a story that is told in just 3 and 1/2 minutes and the amazing music of the inide band The Shins fit it perfectly. If this was expanded into a full length motion picture I would totally see it. Also to Nintendo 3DS owners, there’s a 3D version of this video, might be worth seeing, no idea if its free or not though.
Chairlift's Interactive Music Video
The indie band Chairlift is one of those who take interesting liberties with their music videos, some weird some cool. The one they made for their song Met Before gives a shot at the new interactive type. At different points in the video, 2 arrows will show up and you can pick an ambiguous path. Watched the video twice and it was completely different except for the beginning. Some of the other interactive videos I’ve seen are pretty gimmicky, but this one actually flows well.
Elders Scrolls MMO will arrive 2013
Just saw this in my tumblr feed a couple minutes ago, Bethesda confirmed through
Game Informer magazine that they are working on an Elder Scrolls mmo (and just when you started to pick up Star Wars The Old Republic or Guild Wars 2). Not much is known besides that, but we can probably expect some details at the upcoming E3 this or next year. In my mind, Bethesda has obtained the prize of being top dog in the video game industry (even over Blizzard) and somehow keep pumping out amazing game after amazing game from their studios. So I guess add this one to their list of potential upcoming hits including…
NEW JENNAMARBLES - What Hip Hop Taught Me
Don’t know why but I love the Ace Hood one, “he maybe gave a damn, but he never gave a fuck”. Classic Jenna, always making your Wednesdays better with her vids.
STUCK IN MY HEAD SONG - Houdini by Foster the People
It’s actually a second go of being stuck in my head since this was released as a single awhile ago, but it finally gets a music video for it. And gotta say, Foster the People music videos are pretty entertaining - the Mad Max kids, the bizarre mansion, the insane DMV test drive and now their version of Weekend at Bernie’s. I really hope these guys are working on their next album, I think we’ve pumped those kicks enough times now.
Brooklyn Nets New Logo - Fail In My Eyes
The first step of the new Brooklyn Nets identity came today with the unveiling of their primary and secondary logo. Hip-hop mogul and part-owner Jay-Z was behind the redesign. In my opinion, it’s just plain boring. I know simplicity is in now in graphic design, but flat black and white seems like not even trying (the Spurs and Raiders at least mix in silver). Reading the comments, someone did point out - the black and white is mostly for the apparel - which on caps and t-shirts does have a cool retro look to it, but I’m iffy on jerseys. Now its the fault of retaining the team name as “Nets” (not much you can do there with iconography), but really - we’re a basketball team let’s put a basketball on the logo, and we’re in Brooklyn now let’s put in a “B” instead of “NJ” - genius. I do however like the kind of “subway” font for the “Brooklyn”, but only when the letters are closer together, I have a thing against skinny letter fonts being enlarged (too much empty space).
But enough about logos and pictures, this team probably won’t have Deron Williams, Brook Lopez, Kris Humphries, or Gerald Wallace next season - have fun with the offseason Nets.
RADIO HIT PREDICTOR - Where They Do That At by Sabi feat. Wale
The future of the top 40 is pretty easy to predict especially if you look at the top of iTunes every once in awhile. Everyone once in awhile I listen to a pop song that I guess everyone will probably listen to in a couple of months (like maybe 50% of the time I’m right). Anyways I guessing the new one from Sabi will be big soon. She just recently broke out on a solo career and most famous for her singing the chorus line of Cobra Starship’s You Make Me Feel… and maybe you heard her other track Wild Heart. I’m thinking she might be the 2010’s version of Ashanti - a poppy R&B singer. Only gripe about this song, not enough Wale - he’s a pretty good rapper if you’ve heard his other stuff.
SOMETHING NEW - Don’t Trust the B—— in Apt. 23
This show kind of came out of nowhere and turned out surprisingly funny. 2012 definitely seems to be the year of female-leads in sitcoms, some of them pretty good (Zooey Deschanel in New Girl) and some I couldn’t stand watching more than 5 minutes of (Laura Prepon in Are You There Chelsea?). This one draws even more similarities to CBS’s 2 Broke Girls with its double roommate New Yorker thing going. In this case Apt. 23 has Krysten Ritter (the bitchy friend from She’s Outta My League) and Dreama Walker (one of Blair Waldorf’s minions from Gossip Girl). As a guy this whole girl-girl buddy buddy thing wouldn’t even consider a watch from me, but the sheer amount of WTF moments on this show is astounding. Really, you can’t go more than 5 minutes of the show without some scene making you go WTF (SPOILERS examples - the pervy neighbor with the sex doll, Ritter’s character fully nude, the pills in the sofa). And because this is a sitcom you need your weird secondary character and that ends up being James Van Der Beek playing James Van Der Beek (man you only get this kind of actor egotically playing themselves in Entourage). Anyways the first few episodes should be up on Hulu for awhile so give it a watch and see for yourself.
Are You Kidding Me? - The Talking Pineapple Question
After watching the latest Phillip DeFranco Show, he brought up this story about the most bizarre standardized testing question I’ve ever read. If it was a joke question then yes it’s pretty funny, but apparently 8th graders in the New York school districts had to read and answer a series of related questions. After reading it over once I can see there might be correct answers to the questions asked, but you are so taken back by the ridiculousness of the story that its hard to take any of it seriously. Read it the article for yourself to see what I mean and have your take at it all.
