Showing at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, this should prove to be an awesome flick about breakdancing around the world.

by mandydale at 10am, Apr 30th, 2007 in dancing, hip hop, trailers (0)

It’s Saturday, and you know what that means…

TIME TO GO TO THE DISCO. Don’t forget your pecks, your mustache, or your cowboy hat, and definitely don’t forget the oil.

And their name has nothing to do with feces. Get your mind out of the gutter, son.

by cameron at 6pm, Apr 28th, 2007 in 70s, music (0)

This is the intro sequence to a new children’s television show that will be premiering this fall on Nick Jr. I love the surreal outfits and graphics. I wonder how the show will turn out.

by mandydale at 12pm, Apr 27th, 2007 in cartoons, children, puppets, tv (0)

A PSA from the 1990’s encouraging children to not put unfamiliar objects in their mouths. I’m not even going to start to talk about how this could be mis-read…

by mandydale at 12pm, Apr 27th, 2007 in advertising, children, puppets (0)

Equation for successful male-directed advertising:

wimpy guy + giant vehicle + bad-ass celebrity + hot women + innuendo = TOTALLY GOOD.

They decided to leave out the optional ingredient of hot women, but having the baddest-ass celebrity with the most gold chains compensates.

by cameron at 11am, Apr 26th, 2007 in commercials, famous people, food (0)

The depressed boys from Newcastle have a new album out, but I don’t like their new video all that much. Instead a classic video for a classic song, from their first album. This song is particularly good for breakups and pink slips.

by cameron at 8am, Apr 26th, 2007 in indie, music (0)

Bōsōzoku (暴走族) is a car/motorcycle culture where various “gangs” make crazy modifications to their cars. Sure, many Asian-American men have been stereotyped by their over-modded autos, but this is RIDICULOUS.

In a completely unrelated but interesting note, Canadian indie band Godspeed You! Black Emperor gets its name from a eponymous documentary about Bōsōzoku from the 70s.

Thanks Huck.

by cameron at 1pm, Apr 25th, 2007 in Japanese, cars, international (0)

The staff at Connected Ventures produce a most amazing lip dub of Harvey Danger’s Flagpole Sitta. Only a small company can take this on — at Yahoo! we’d have to take on something like Les Miserables or Near Death

by cameron at 9am, Apr 25th, 2007 in 90s, indie, lip dub, music (2)

When you’re feeling overcome by the stress of the work week, put on your favorite relaxing music and watch Super 8 movies of children playing in the 70s. It works for me every time.

From the description:

Super 8 of two young recruits training at the San Luis Obispo fire fighter training center, circa 1974

by cameron at 11am, Apr 24th, 2007 in 70s, children, super 8 (0)

These Japanese musicians make me smile. I hope to see them live someday.

by mandydale at 10am, Apr 24th, 2007 in Japanese, music (0)