Japanese Design Absurdist Mental Health Clinic
Design company Nendo claims that their work on MD.net Clinic Asaka will help both patients and staff to “experience opening new doors in their hearts, one after the other,” reports dezeen Magazine. A bit kooky, but nothing too out of the ordinary, right? No. Hah. Wrong. Feast your eyes on this: They really were serious [...]
(Read more...)Movie Review: “The Road,” The Unrelenting Road
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.” Thus quietly begins Cormac McCarthy‘s 2006 novel, “The Road.” The context is unclear. We roll the overwhelming questions in our minds. Who is the child and why does this speaker [...]
(Read more...)VOTD: Kick-Ass Red Band Trailer Is Really Dirty [NSFW]
And most of it comes from the cherry chapstick lips of a 12-year old girl. Based on the popular comic by Mark Millar (creator of Wanted), the film is getting some serious buzz. Lots of comparisons to Tarantino for its stylized off-the-wall violence and eccentric dialogue. The synopsis reads as such: A twisted, funny, high-octane [...]
(Read more...)Artist Spotlight: Styrofoam Coffee Cup Designer Boy Obsolete
31-year old illustrator Cheeming Boey is a coffee cup artist. That stained cylinder of foam you throw away, he embellishes. His first piece of cup art came from Irvine trash can in 2006, when he found himself without paper to doodle on at a small cafe. A sharpie and a styrofoam cup later, he was [...]
(Read more...)The New York Times Makes A Hilarious Photo Boo-Boo
Apparently Hilary Clinton’s undergone a massive makeover. On yesterday’s web edition of the Times, the front page story was headlined “Clinton Arrives in Chile With Pledge of Aid.” The photograph to go along with it, however, was a bit different than expected. Its caption read “Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet,” though the [...]
(Read more...)Audio Exclusive: Listen to Gorillaz New Album "Plastic Beach"
It’s their first album in 5 years, and the wait has been more than worth it. Headed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn, this virtual electronic-pop-hop project has a week to go before the release of its much anticipated Plastic Beach. Their new album is expansive and unabashedly fun. Beeps, nautical accompaniment and Arabic orchestral flourishes [...]
(Read more...)Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours EP
French deejay Breakbot, recently signed to Ed Banger Records (its roster includes Justice, Busy P, DJ Mehdi and Uffie), is releasing his debut EP entitled Baby I’m Yours. The title track is groovy as hell — you can’t help but waggle your head to such infectious lightheartedness. Crisp production value, bombastic melody and funkadelic declarations [...]
(Read more...)Movie Review: “Shutter Island” is Voluptuous, Moody, Not Entirely Successful Cinema
The clouds hang like a dark omen. Two cigarettes sizzle blood-orange in the fog: an apprehensive reply to the island, a hulking shadow which has emerged from the brooding haze. Low musical notes swell to a loud crescendo, then ebb quietly into a nook at the back of the brain. From the start, “SHUTTER ISLAND” [...]
(Read more...)Exposed: Buzz Lightyear Is Really A Terran Marine
WHAT IF BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WAS REAL? 3D artist RAONI NERY of Seagulls Fly Studio in Rio de Janeiro has untooned the little toy that aspires to infinity. Really neat idea and execution, though we’ve seen this before with Pixeloo’s artwork (Homer Simpson, Jessica Rabbit, Stewie and Mario). The artistic style reminds me of Half-Life 2 [...]
(Read more...)In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In my Postcolonial Literature class my professor had us read Daniyal Mueenuddin’s copiously praised short story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. I’ve been missing out. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, raised in Elroy, Wisconsin, educated at Groton School, Dartmouth College, University of Arizona and Yale Law School, Mueenuddin is a man of both East and [...]
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