When office supplies take the time to offer me sound advice I listen. Stop motion with a message from San Francisco based designer Mike Afsa. See the older hints here. Via Max and his Viewers Like You.
Wait, what?!?! Apparently Dave and the Late Show also tried to get Conan involved in CBS’ Super Bowl spot but ultimately “they had too much going on to consider it…” Which I’m sure involved “too much” of staying as far away from Jay “Let me Take My Show Back” Leno. Via Deadline Hollywood.
See the other million dollar Super Bowl spots via Hulu Adzone:
With generated greeting card holiday #1 (aka Valentine’s Day) right around the corner, The Cinefamily’s latest installment of Jerry Beck’s Animation Tuesdays series gets you in the mood for animated love with Toonstruck-Cartoons in Love. Screening features rare 35mm and 16mm prints Technicolor prints!
From the family at Cinefamily:
“Animation historian Jerry Beck (Cartoon Brew.com) opens the film vault and presents a collection of love-obsessed cartoon classics starring all your favorites — from the sex-starved Pepe LePew, to Tex Avery’s luscious Red Riding Hood. As usual, the program features rare 35mm and 16mm Technicolor film prints — cartoons suitable for cartoon lovers of all ages! Bring a date, and don’t be late!”
Toonstruck-Cartoons in Love Tuesday, February 9th, 8pm The Cinefamily 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Buy tix here
For the film and sports lovers, here’s what it might look like if Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard or Werner Herzog “directed” the Super Bowl. Have a great Super Bowl Sunday! Via Slate V.
(*note-It get’s better after the Tarantino bit.)
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (most trusted news anchor according to the interwebs) enters the lion’s den on Uncle Billy’s O’Reilly Fun Time Factor on Fox (most trusted news channel according to the very same interwebs) and more than holds his own despite Fox’s team of very, very talented editors and producers.
Watch the COMPLETE UNEDITED version of the interview here, and Fox’s edited versions in three segments below:
Birds “playing” guitar is an installation created by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot for The Curve, Barbican, in London. Almost as soothing as entrancing as a squirrel playing the harmonica, almost.
From the Barbican:
“French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/thecurve/blog/index.html”
In a follow up to last month’s post on the extraordinary Wu/Beatles mash album, Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers by producer Tom Caruana, comes the instrumentals for your mentals (or some other zany whacked out RZA saying). And if you haven’t downloaded the original album yet what are you waiting for, it’s PFG (pretty f’ing good) and FREE!
Download both Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers and the instrumental version here.
More from the maestro:
“Hope you’ve been enjoying Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers. Thank you for supporting by downloading, spreading the word and leaving messages. I had a lot of fun putting it together, and had no idea what kind of response it would receive. So far it has been downloaded around 40,000 times, written about on numerous blogs, and I have been interviewed by the New York Times for their Artsbeat Blog. Have a read…
Instrumentals and radio edits are now available for free download on the Wu vs Beatles page.
The Magical Mystery Podcast is also now available on the podcast page. It includes exclusive tracks that were left off the album, Beatles songs and covers, and some other Beatles related things found during the making of the album.”
My boy, the talented Ace Norton, directs an equally talented cast in the short comedy Nine Lives starring the always funny Nick Kroll, a moustachioed Elijah Wood, and Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as themselves-kinda.
P.S.-A belated birthday shout out to fellow dork, geek and nerd Elijah. Happy 17th buddy!
Keeping it Silver Lake-centric, the deadly duo of Daves of Secret Headquarters host the art of Lisa Hanawalt at their comfy comic book shop tomorrow night. I got a sneak peek at some of the illustrated pieces and I must say they are impressively detailed, a must see up close! Very affordable too!
More from the Secret Headquarterers:
“Lisa Hanawalt is some girl from Palo Alto, CA who has a fancy art degree from UCLA.
When Lisa isn’t seen drawing at the Buenaventura booth, or freezing in New York, she can be found creating work for The Believer, McSweeney’s, Vice Magazine, etc. The Secret Headquarters team thinks Hanawalt’s work is top notch amazing.
Do not fool around here - get into it!
Join the talented Lisa Hanawalt for a drink or two as she discusses the merits of Indian Jones and the craft of hand painted picture frames.”
The lovely ladies of Reform School, Billie and Tootie, open up their unique Silver Lake shop to get you in the Valentine’s mood with exclusive wares from a trio of LA’s finest stationers as well as a new limited edition print from James Gulliver Hancock titled Bicycle Made For Two (available in-store and online).
*Cupcakes and bubbly will be supplied!
Bicycle Made For Two print by James Gulliver Hancock
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