Lacoste
April 21st, 2009A cool ad campaign using stop-action video mixed with flash menus and pretty people:
via FormFiftyFive
Billy Dee!
April 20th, 2009Isn’t Lando a handsome devil?
I’d like to sing the praises of this man for just a minute. Who else could’ve played Harrison Ford’s old buddy / president of a cloudy oasis planet / Ewok air support commander Lando Calrissian with quite as much flair as this guy. Certainly not Mark Hamil….
What ever happened to dear old Billy Dee? He was great as Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman. Then POOF! Nothing.
Maybe it was that after playing Harvey Dent in the first one, he thought he’d get to play Harvey Two-Face in ‘That Horrible Batman Movie We’d All Like to Forget.’ As it turned out, no. That dubious honor was handed to other three-namer, Tommy Lee Jones, who chewed up the scenery like a termite.
Did that leave him with such a bad taste in his mouth that he left the screen forever? Did the industry just lose interest and relegate him to various TV and video game appearances (basically, the actor’s graveyard)? Or is he, as we speak, staging a comeback? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, here: let Billy Dee sell you some Colt 45. It’ll make him (and you) feel better.
via FFFFound
Badass!
April 17th, 2009Happy Friday
April 17th, 2009
Mesmerizing
April 15th, 2009I like this. Like a first-person-shooter but without the violence:
The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.
Thanks FormFiftyFive
Dirty Projectors
April 13th, 2009Submitted for your approval: yet another rockin’ Brooklyn band: Dirty Projectors.
I first learned about these guys (or this guy, I guess — it’s primarily the brainchild of musician Dave Longstreth) when they performed one of the most kick-ass Bjork covers on Stereogum’s ‘Enjoyed‘ (which you should definitely download now! if you haven’t already — they cover Hyperballad)
Their new single ‘Stillness is the Move‘ which they played at SXSW (to deafening applause, apparently) is really, really good. If it’s any indication of how their upcoming release, Bitte Orca (5/5), is going to sound I think we’re in for some good stuff.
Download your own copy of Stillness is the Move from Stereogom
Read about Dirty Projectors on NPR
Stream Dirty Projectors’ full SXSW concert from NPR
Buy a ticket to their concert/collaboration with Bjork to benefit Housing Works
Read Stereogum’s rave review of Bitte Orca
and thanks Stereogum for the low down, and for tons of free tunes
Hermitage Beacon
April 13th, 2009A few months ago a friend and I ventured up to Beacon on a whim (sort of). She’d been traveling back from Seattle and had met an interesting guy on the plane — who told her about a store he’d opened up in Beacon, NY, and invited her to come visit.
Naturally, since my friend Liz is the adventuresome type (and the proud owner of a car), the two of us took a little road trip the next weekend up to this gentleman’s little shop.
