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Just how I always expected a re-imagining of The Shining: with an angry little squirrel yelling at a couple of distraught kids crudely colored in a coloring book. The Colouring is brought to you by the colorful minds of Dan Britt and Joseph Pelling and was animated frame by frame with coloring done in pencil by hand.

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Got time for things to do on a Saturday in Los Angeles? Sure you do. Hopefully LA will stop burning by then.

• Tony Alva’s Exhibit A Gallery on Fairfax goes Bipolar with the group show featuring the likes of Tim Biskup, Bigfoot and Tiffany Liu among others.

• Hi-Fructose and Gallery Nucleus present Sweet Streets, a group exhibition inspired by the ever-changing and uniquely unexpected Japanese fashion sub-cultures. Featuring Tim Biskup and
  Tiffany Liu in another weekend show, Junko Mizuno, Kozyndan, Yumiko Kayukawa and many many more.

• The Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo opens for Mike Shinoda (yes, the Lincoln Park dj) as he follows his highly-successful 2008 show, Glorious Excess (Born) with Glorious Excess (Dies), the next chapter in his series exploring society’s obsession with celebrity culture, consumer addiction, and fascination with excess.

• And why not end your Saturday watching werewolves while in a cemetery? Cinespia and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery screen John Landis’ classic 1979 horror film, An American Werewolf in London.

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Family fun for your Friday from The Sims:

“Meet Myron Lefkowitz, the man who makes sound effects using his own personal wind instrument. He is a fartist, a farteur, a flatulist, but above all he is a professional. Take a peek behind the scenes as Myron enlists his amazing talent to record the sounds for MySims Racing.”

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Partizan director Chris Cairns continues to make you scratch your head. This time he appropriately enlists the aid of the turntable crew The Scratch Perverts, as well as MCs Foreign Beggars, beat boxer Shlomo and drummer Will Clarke in this highly scientific video footage taken from the Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory.

How’d he do that you ask? The director answers via Motionographer:

“We shot the people spinning on turntables at 33.3rpm at high speed and then matched them to the turntables which were working with Serato. The film was made in collaboration with The Scratch Perverts, Foreign Beggars, Shlomo and Will Clarke with sound design by Will Cohen. Post production by The Mill London.”

Seeing this clip also reminded me of an impressive little viral video for cross faders I saw a while back. And wouldn’t you know it, after a little internet researching it turns out that that vid was actually directed by Chris Cairns as well. Chk-chk-check it:

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Maybe more fitting for a Monday, yet still appropriate for a hump day, here’s the latest promo for the upcoming 7th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. September 20th, the cast of Seinfeld, and Larry David being Larry David can’t get here soon enough.

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Starting with a Deerhunter concert on Wednesday, Joyride art show on Thursday, films on Friday and Saturday, and a closing street party on Sunday, the Bicycle Film Festival rolls deep through LA this week. Along with the art show featuring Cheryl Dunn, Geoff McFetridge, James Jean, Kenny Scharf, and Martha Cooper among others, the festival’s highlights also include the magnificent Made in Queens, one of the few bike films I have seen. Check the trailer here:

Check the rest of the Bicycle Film Festival’s lineup of screenings this Friday and Saturday.

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Ever wonder how many minutes it takes to earn a Big Mac compared to other workers around the world? The Economist did the math for you and, well, wow:

Via The Economist:

“The size of your pay packet may be important, but so is it’s purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities. Fast-food junkies are best off in Chicago, Toronto and Tokyo, where it takes a mere 12 minutes at work to afford a Big Mac. By contrast, employees must toil for over two hours to earn enough for a burger fix in Mexico City, Jakarta and Nairobi.”

Well, I guess that solves the mystery of this other chart.

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Los Angeles’ weekend warriors become Pacifists in Echo Park, put on Red Shoes in Alhambra, take a bike Tour da Arts in Santa Monica, watch the Jackson 5 in Africa, Junction on Sunset in Silver Lake, and do some unique shopping at the Mini-Mart in Hollywood.

• Skateboarders/artists Andy Jenkins, Mike Myers, Chris Pastras, Russ Pope and Michael Sieben become Weekend Pacifists at Shepard and Amanda Fairey’s Subliminal Projects in Echo Park.

• AMMO Books and Alhambra’s Gallery Nucleus invite you to a reading, artist panel, and signing with The Red Shoes illustrator Sun Young Yoo. On display will be original pieces from the book, a reading of the fable, as well as a discussion on childrens book publishing and the creative process behind the retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale.

• If you haven’t had enough Michael Jackson coverage recently head downtown to the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles’ closing night gala which features three special screenings of The Jackson 5 in Africa.

• URB Magazine and Asics illuminate downtown LA with the world’s biggest Lite Brite with musical performances by DJ Daisy O’Dell, 87 Stick-Up Kids and Mid City West.

• Silver Lake. Sunset Junction. ‘Nuf said.

• Sonja Rasula takes the local and independent artists and designers of Unique Los Angeles to Hollywood’s Space 15 Twenty with the Mini-Market. On top of good music and free Pabst, there’s a little something for everyone: clothing, art, jewelry, plush dolls, stationery, bath/beauty products, baby stuff, eco stuff, etc.

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It is now officially, and most definitely, time to add James Cameron’s Avatar to the already impressive list of must see films later this year. With Where the Wild Things Are, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus already in play, awards season is shaping up to be one of the best in recent memory.

You can also watch big beautiful Quicktime versions via Apple here.

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Music meets design meets America as musician Orba Squara (a.k.a. Mitch Davis) went on a 10 city tour in 10 days via bus to promote his latest album fittingly titled The Trouble with Flying. And tagging along to document the magical mystical tour across the country was Random Collective designer and former Wieden+Kennedy creative director José Ricardo Cabral Cabaco. What came of this trippy trip was a truly unique multimedia tour diary featuring “a 430-ft. lateral scroll that takes visitors on the road through lyrics, musings, photography, illustration and typography.” From New Jersey to New Mexico, Pennsylvania to Portland, you could side scroll for hours on their site while virtually visiting the stops they made on their epic journey at the equally epic Orbasquara.com.

Also you can read the AIGA’s interview with José Cabaco here.

The following is a selection of stills from the incredibly impressive Orbasquara site.

*And where might have you heard Orba Squara’s music before? Maybe from this little diddy in a commercial for something called an “iPhone”:

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