Archive for May, 2007
Today, we’re dropping a new feature. Well, at least I am because I’ve been dubbed a “hater” here at the office. I tend to not really like a lot of stuff. Most stuff. Very few things hear the words “I like” coming out of my mouth. So, to let my hate out, I’m creating a new feature called “Beef with…” where I will detail a person, thing, place, etc. that I don’t like for some odd reason that only my weirdo self could stew up in the cauldron of my tiny head.
So, without further ado, I got Beef With…
YouTube.
Yes, the popular internet video site. What I hate about this site lies in the fact that some of the videos I posted on this blog have ended up with a “Video no longer available” sign over top of them because of copyright issues. What the fuck? Why would someone have a copyright issue with segments (SEGMENTS, not even full length stuff, I have yet to find a YouTube clip that’s over ten minutes)? Look, YouTube is basically a free advertising site. Shit on there is instant, quick advertising that can get you 3 million hits in a week, wayyy more than a print ad. Look no further than the success of the SNL digital short “Chronicles of Narnia.” It founds it way onto YouTube, got a ton of views, NBC got pissed for some reason, and it was curbed shortly after. Then, NBC pulled their head out of their ass and realized that YouTube is a viable option for getting people to think that SNL is funny again (it’s not, the digital shorts/Andy Samberg stuff is), so they started their own YouTube profile and uploaded a ton of videos. Same goes for music videos that are taken down for copyright issues/they don’t honor the contract your label has with MTV. The record industry sucks right now, and taking down music videos on YouTube is probably the worst thing you can do since it’s allowing people who stopped watching MTV to see a new video from a potential new favorite artist. YouTube is a place of discovery and you’re fucking it up copyright-worriers. So, perhaps my beef isn’t with YouTube, but with people with sticks up their asses.
-dan
May 31st, 2007
Watch out Guitar Hero, the next wave of virtual rocking out has just been released in Australia: the wearable instrument shirt.
“Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Geelong have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer, which interprets them and turns them into musical notes The wearer only has to act out playing the instrument to make sounds. ‘The left arm chooses a note and the right arm plays it,’ said Richard Helmer, a CSIRO chemical engineer who led the project. The arrangement can be reversed for left-handed musicians.”
“You can play with yours hands above your head,” said Dr Helmer. “You can turn around and jump. Whatever you like.”
Now all your air band practices finally have a purpose
Courtesy of t-shirt alert
May 31st, 2007
Check out this dope new viral video from Quicksilver. I think it perfectly executes the surfers desire to do whatever it takes to catch a wave. Peep it here
-slk
May 30th, 2007
Hell’s Yeah Tighten UP, them BASS is banging!
Caught Today 05.25.07
photos by jeff roddy & jay hall,
May 25th, 2007
Another YouTube fight for you-this time with punching!!! Watch Larry Bird and Bill Laimbeer go at it like a couple of awkward tall people. Forget Bird and Johnson, this was a true match-up. I love when Larry Bird throws the ball back at Laimbeer.
May 24th, 2007
This video is hilarious on so many levels. What the fuck is up with Beans? How many times does he say cool? This is too good. Listen to him take a few shots at Kanye and Pharrell. The last ten seconds are priceless. Beans is, and always will be, one of my heroes. (Sidenote: And I don’t mean to brag or nothing, but this dude I know used to have the same P.O. as Beanie)
-mr skinny jeanz
May 24th, 2007
The Hundreds released a lookbook for their Summer 07 collection. I like a lot of the graphics they use and they use and it’s kept pretty simple. But, the one shirt that sticks out to me sits on the far left: the backwards gun shirt. Now when I first saw it, I knew it look familiar. LA record label/former hipster gods Buddyhead released a very similar shirt years ago. Now, that’s not a knock to the Hundreds because their shit’s pretty dope. It could just be a coincidence. After all there’s no such thing as an original idea.
May 18th, 2007
Hells Yeah! Thats what i said when i walking through the streets of NYC this week for NB meeting, and stumbled upon this little piece of love from the OBEY crew. Yup Shep truly is the bank nowadays. Shit not only the bank but also the mint. Dude is straight up bringing the heat with his new promo tactic of leaving money on the streets to further push his OBEY movement. BIg UP’s to swindle mag, shep and my homie zach a lack over there on wilshire . Be sure to check out sheps new show coming to the nyc :
Jonathan LeVine Presents:
Shepard Fairey
Gallery I
Solo Exhibit
Opening Reception - Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 7pm-9pm
Show runs through July 21, 2007
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9E New York, NY
10011
212-243-3822
www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
May 17th, 2007
May 15th, 2007
Last night, I caught a little documentary on the history channel that dealt with hippies. Don’t get me wrong, I hate hippies, but I was attracted to this documentary not because of it’s Grateful Dead (or just “the Dead” if you’re so inclined) footage, but because the whole surrounding aura of the LSD movement was wayyy weirder than the people who took the drugs. The government tested it on military personnel and just regular humans, and it was pretty legal for a while, so all the LSD experimentation went down without a hitch. That is until the idea of a “counter-culture” started taking shape beyond just a bunch of dirty teenagers with long hair. Anyway, I started flipping around the channels when they stopped talking about Ken Kesey (tidbit, he took a job as a security officer at a mental institution to have access to LSD. This later turned into the basis for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), but came back every now and again. The most interesting point they made happened in the last five minutes and involved the hippies influence on technology. Yes, technology. It kind of puts away all the bullshit of Mother Earth and other hippie ideals. They just had such a new and different way of seeing things that once their “bad trips” ended and they kind of grew up, they created some of the most technologically advanced products of our time. Case in point: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. You might know them better as the brains behind Apple Computers. These two probably took a ton of LSD, touched a bunch of wires together, and had their minds blown when they “saw electricity” on a screen. Then they probably danced in front of a strobe light and hung-out with the Hells Angels. And you thought all computer people were dorks.
Jobs and Woz being totally tripped out.
May 14th, 2007
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