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What a 5-Year-Old Thinks About Corporate Logos

Here’s a five-year-old child commenting with her impressions of various corporate logos, with that word-gargling baby-lilt little children have… It’s so aww: The KFC logo “looks like a person” and “he matches the color of the restaurant.” Wait. What? Read more »

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Sh*t Native New Yorkers Say

So, you complained that “Shit New Yorkers Say” is about transplants, right? Well, here’s a custom tailored response starring an older crowd: “Shit Native New Yorkers Say.” It’s mostly ejaculatory grumblings about things that once were like subway tokens, graffiti and hookers. Read more »

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Sh*t New Yorkers Say, Kind Of

The “Shit __ Say” meme rolls on and so, naturally, here’s a clip with some dramatized snippets of shit New Yorkers say, sometimes, some. Yes, they’re always shooting Law and Order and no, we don’t care and where’s the train? Read more »

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Most Googled Stuff of 2011, the Supercut

So, Google made this festive, self-promoting clip starring the most searched people, places and videos from the Internet this year and the Internet is very upset that Rebecca Black is all up in there mixed with Japan’s disaster and the Bin Laden assassination. Read more »

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This Minimalist ‘Drive’ Tribute Video Is a Spoiler-Fest

Is Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish LA mob drama Drive worth a cult following? Fuck yes. Yet, as much as we love new minimalist art, we’d advice against watching this lovely, lovely video tribute if you haven’t seen the flick. Read more »

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Cyriak’s Kitty City Midi Mind Bend

Here’s the newest animation from Cyriak, all very much in the signature style of cows & cows & cows but with felines and a more demented complexity of the spewing, sporing metamorphosis. Cue evil circus midi-harpsichord score! Read more »

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The World Runneth Over: How the Hell Did We Get to 7 Billion?

Here’s a helpful little video tutorial from NPR which demonstrates how just in the 200 years the world fucked itself from one to seven billion people, all illustrated by pretty beakers of happily hued water. Drip drip births. Drip drip deaths, and then not so much. Tick tick. Read more »

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Exploring the LA River Tunnels

Yesterday, I joined “discarted” and a like-minded crew for some subterranean urban exploring. We passed the hut of a fabled hermit along a bank of the LA River, entered a tunnel and went deep into the pitch dark, until the graffiti tapered off completely into nothing but walls replete with wild roaches and mineral formations. Read more »

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Skeleton Spike Jonze Humps SoKo in His New Short for Bags

So, Spike Jonze made this “short film”/cute stop-motion commercial for Olympia Le-Tan’s felt book-covers inspired clutches, possibly Smiths-noddishly entitled Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). Read more »

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Footage of the Lower East Side in 1983

Here’s a nostalgia-inducing short film by French filmmaker Marie Martine, shot in the wild days of the Lower East Side’s artistic happenings and urban decay, with glimpses of Scott Borofsky making street art and clip-board wielding Guerrilla Girls in full ape costume. Read more »