+ all of the above

A quick post to say that I will be gone for a while. I’ll post again when I’ve reached NYC, hopefully with a few happy snaps as well. These are my last days in the ‘berra. I’ll leave you with a video which I think is fitting:

Definition:
Youtube Fart yoo·toob fahrt
The sudden and unexpected expulsion of offensive noise or sound from a computer. Most often occuring when clicking a link into a new window, resulting in a youtube video playing automatically and erupting violently into the surrounding area.

Man that was embarrassing, I totes youtube farted a japanese gameshow into the library.

Variant:
Pornotube Fart pawr·noh·toob fahrt
A specific type of Youtube Fart. Same conditions, but with Pornography instead.

Robert Jordan has passed away.

Glory Box covered by Powderfinger, and Wuthering Heights by Josh Pyke.

Led Zeppelin reunite for one concert only, with John Bonham’s son on drums.

Cheap, cool MP3 Player! And it uses SD Cards as storage! AND you can use it as a regular tape to play ALL OF YOUR MP3S ON ANY TAPE DECK! Impress your friends! Get Laid! Save Ferris!

This is awesome. I never played Zork, but I did play ADOM and it followed in its lead quite a lot. Unfortunately, I’ve just found out that ADOM has been released on a mac, so there goes all of my free time…

A couple of videos that I stumbled across recently. The first is latest single is from math rockers Battles, titled “Tonto.” I’m looking forward to catching these boys in New York. And the second is something that I’ve had scribbled on a piece of paper for almost a year now. I don’t know where it came from or who might have recommended it to me but thank you, I love it! It’s by Gogol Bordello, also from NYC, called “Start Wearing Purple.”

Have I mentioned how much I’m looking forward to this? When they first announced Heath Ledger as the Joker I was annoyed at their choice, but I’m coming around. I’m really looking forward to this!

(Plus Maggie Gyllenhaal has thankfully now replaced Katie Holmes)

Short but interesting article on Shepard Fairy and his assistants at Artinfo. Also, some Banksy works were stolen.

50 Manifestos. I especially like Jasper Morrison’s call to arms of “Preserve Normal, resist Special!”

Wallspankers graffiti zine

Last Exit To Nowhere T-shirts from your favourite films.

Crowd Farming. Apparently not a Soylent Green substitute.

Polish movie posters. Some of these are simply incredible. Others, frightening.

To make things better after my previous post, Apache before it was covered by disco. The original and the non-disco cover below:

Anyone remember this? Thinking about NYC reminded me. Hopefully my apartment is not nearly so bad.

This was their first stunt, before APEC had gotten underway:

This is the preview footage before the stunt hits television on the 12th:

As reported by ABC:

Ten Morning News

And Today Tonight, sometimes more (unintentionally) satirical than the Chaser itself.

Thank everything that is good and holy for the chaser boys.

Photos that I took recently of the Canberra’s own jazz star Ali. I think they came out quite well, especially considering that we were short on time.

The url for Jennifer Daniel’s website is fantastic: httpcolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotjenniferdanieldotcom. She also has some impressive illustrative work.

I’m in love with the work of Aya Kato. Particularly her works on the subject of myths and fairy tales. Beautiful and sometimes deadly, just like the original tales. Featured below is Rapunzel

Some great work from The Polaroid Kid

Check out this english documentary on Ron Mueck. Why do they all British art doco’s have the same music?

A sweet song and another great spin on the one shot video clip. How hard is this? I’ve never done something like it myself, but it makes my head hurt trying to work it out.

This is just surreal. It’s a video created by a Nigerian email scammer who thinks he is producing a video for a scholarship payment from a victim that he tried to scam. Unfortunately for this particular scammer, the “victim” is actually someone who has set out to bait and catch scammers. And these ones have fallen for it hook line and sinker.

Whether these actors are the scammers themselves or not is unclear. Regardless this has something about it that I can’t quite put my finger on. It reminds me about the new Jack Black and Mos Def film Be Kind Rewind, only more… harrowing?