Kanye West All of the Lights video by Hype Williams

I haven't heard of Hype Williams doing anything since...well...since music videos became irrelevant sometime in the early noughties. Maybe before that, actually; I think the last clear memory I have of him doing anything was that first Missy Elliot joint or maybe Ma$e. Obviously he was at his patent leather best in Mo' Money Mo' Problems.

Anyway, I posted this video because the intro with the little girl followed by the neon type is just disgusting and amazing and great and ripped off from Enter the Void's opening credits, video below.



Hip hop is great and totally has a place in music, but come on. MAKE UP SOME OF YOUR OWN SHIT. This isn't even a sample from 20 years ago, this is a film that was released in 2010. Like, last year. If I was Hype Williams, I'd rather sit on my patent leather laurels than be in any way credited with producing this wholly unoriginal cut-and-paste disaster.

Saving grace: that Rihanna's a bit of all right, isn't she?

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Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage

Jose Carlos Meirelles, an employee of the Brazilian government's native affairs agency FUNAI, leads a BBC film crew into a remote part of the Amazon in order to film one of about 70 uncontacted tribes left in the rainforest.

While he has watched these people for 20 years from the air, recent events have forced his hand, and he brought the film crew with him for the purpose of proving the tribe's existence to the government, who according to Meirelles would rather deny the existence of these natives than take steps to curtail the illegal mining and logging operations which threaten their survival.

I think it's quite amazing that there are even 70 uncontacted tribes left, I thought there would be far less. As a wise fictional pirate captain once quipped, "the world didn't get smaller, there's just less in it."

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Cut Copy-Need You Now Video by Kenny Schofield

The video for Cut Copy's great new song Need You Now.

The album as a whole (Zonoscope, Modular 2011) is quite honestly stunning, and really sounds like an 80s supergroup that finally got their shit together and found a decent producer.

Well, it's actually better than that, but I just don't have the gumption for analogies at this hour. Euphemisms and innuendo are also right out. The ginsu replaced by the rolling pin. See what I'm saying?

AMURRICA: John Stewart's Country

I try not to get to serious here in my little corner of the internet, so it goes without saying that I zealously decline to pursue political topics of any kind, and especially talking heads (not THOSE Talking Heads) who are like poison in the veins of the Motherland. People who, for whatever reason, seek to stir up ideological fervor in the name of holy and just righteousness, but whose only real goal is shameless and parasitic self-promotion of their agenda. People who are, ironically, so blind to their own myopic ambition that they become little better than a virus: spreading, poisoning, devouring, moving on. People without shame. People who, at least in my little corner of the internet, shall remain nameless.

Bravo John Stewart.

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Paddling Peahi

Known far and wide as the Mecca of tow-in surfing, recently some intrepid souls hit up Peahi, AKA Jaws, the old-fashioned way: they paddled in. Dealing not only with the ferocious 20-foot-plus swell but intense offshore winds, Dan Healey and Greg Long (winner of the 2009 Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau) and a posse of others actually caught some solid waves.

Above is a pic of Ian Walsh doing dangerous things, and below is a pic of the surfer who made Jaws famous--Laird Hamilton--from the film that made Jaws and tow-in surfing famous: the 2004 documentary Riding Giants.

Grinon Industries' Bottoms Up Device

Hi, and welcome to 2011, which is set to be the year that we no longer have to wait for some inept part-timer to pour our beer at festivals or football matches or my living room on Monday afternoons.

The Bottoms Up device manages to fill cups of beer from the bottom up and can work on four servings at a time. This means that someone can fill up to 44 pints in under a minute.

If, like us, your mind is a tad boggled by all of this then here's an explanation. Each cup has a magnet in the bottom which locks into a slot. When it locks in, it gets pushed upward and the nozzle below fills it with the good stuff. It only fills the cup with the exact amount so no spillages will occur.

When the cup is taken off, the magnet bonds back to the bottom of the cup so no beer will be released.

To see how it all works, watch and learn below...

What did they give the Nobel Prize in Science for this year? I bet it had something to do with quarks or antimatter or god particles. You know what deserves a Nobel Prize? You know what...what...Mother of God that video is mesmerizing...I forgot what I was typing.

Anyway, I think I speak for everyone when I say that this invention certainly bodes well for a beer-soak-free 2011 as well as my New Year's resolution to get badly drunk more often. Cheers!

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MINNEAPOLIS: Where Important Things Fall Down

So apparently, the class of civil engineer that we had working the beat back in the 70s and 80s was not the type you'd care to have building, say, interstate freeway bridges and 65,000 seat domed stadiums.



On a personal note though, if this is, in fact, the death of the 'dome, it's a sad day for me. The World Series in 1987 and 1991, a couple Final Fours, four years of Gopher football mediocrity, and the 1998 NFC Championship loss of the 15-1 Minnesota Vikings to the underdog Atlanta Falcons. When I think about it that way, let it burn.

Tron Imposter Helm

This Les Ateliers Ruby motorcycle/scooter helmet is a passable aesthetic knockoff when it comes to the paint job, but let's be real honest here: any legitimate TRON helmet must begin and end with its scion: the legendary Cooper SK 2000, pictured below.

Made famous by the evergreen Mark Messier in his
professional playing career with both the Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers, the SK 2000 was the DeLorean of hockey helmets throughout the 1980s and 90s. Still utilized by goalkeepers such as Chris Osgood of the Detroit Red Wings, the helmet's main selling point was that you could adjust the length for a better fit. A real marvel of helmet engineering.

Anyway, hopefully you can grasp what I'm getting at here, which is that the perfectly-round Spaceball model on top really doesn't look like a TRON helmet at all, which is a silly thing to get caught up in an argument about, especially when I'm sure the French designers would be all "Oh ho! Well of course we did not want to copy ze helmet exzactly. Zere is more left to ze imagination, as well as better performance and safety from a motorbiking perspecteeve." Whatever. I've made my point and educated you all about an industrial design masterpiece from the 80s.

Also, the helmet will be available from colette at some point in the future, which means it will be expensive.

Finally, you may remember that we have previously discussed some proper motorbike helmet designs by Ateliers Ruby here.

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Tron Legacy Posters 대한민국 Style

Swagger Soccer Series Winter 2010

Some nice looking balls.





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