Stick this in your brain.

Eple from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Bowerbirds "In Our Talons" from Alan Poon on Vimeo.

Alot of interesting things going on here, but the action is so simple and rhythmic.

phat beats

Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo.

"Synesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."

I've written about this in my blog somewhere before. The idea of physically experiencing something through one sense, and then interpreting it through another is something that I still think about alot. I have a good friend with the 'disorder' and his experiences are really remarkable.

Video:

Synesthesia from Terri Timely on Vimeo.

I think I have alot to gain from this mode of thinking.
What does a color smell like? What does a sound taste like?

spectacular schizophrenia.

Haunting. via la blogotheque

Passion Pit, "Sleepyhead" from Neon Gold Records on Vimeo.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Nailed 'Em - Radical Knitting

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Haha, I actually really like her art. Brilliant

Herb & Dorothy are so contemporary.
Learn more about them here.

Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.
If I ever own a bar/lounge, this is going to be playing nonstop on a big screen.

yes!
I've always wanted to collect old people just like this. An old lady collection just like these.

The way they pulled this one off is perfect.

This is beyond engaging/pacifying. This is like watching dora explorer right after waking up in the morning... or like taking sleeping drugs and trying to stay awake. 

same difference.

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey brother.

Lars: If man had been physically able to give birth, men would have been better mothers. Girls aren’t cool. They can be pretty or “cute,” and with some serious dieting, even sexy. They can be nice. Dumb, but nice. But who wants “nice”? You want interesting people around you. Has a girl ever introduced you to any new music or recommended a book you didn’t already read in high school? Anything just slightly outside the mainstream? If so, she got it from an ex, her brother, her father. They just pretend. It’s worse here. On the East Side, they know they’re underprivileged. Here they think they have to have an opinion. And intrude on adult conversations…

Erik: Still, girls have to be busy with something, too? At least all the boys have an interest they become absorbed in. If it’s music, a band. If it’s football, it’s something. I don’t know what but there’s something. But what are girls into?
Lars: Horses and menstruation.
Erik: Okay, but not all girls are like that. You’ve got to agree with me on that.
Lars: No. Bullshit. Feeling guilty is slave mentality. Sometimes you have to be Zarathustra. Be mean.

No comment.

Helen Hunt's career should have ended after this role. 

Truly, her best work.

daft punk is timeless.

Objectified

A new documentary with the director from Helvetica (Gary Hustwit) about industrial design.

Look at that door handle j:

fantastisch.

Danielson: a family movie.

This was a really tragic music documentary. It's all about this family that tries to make indie folk/Christian music, but really... they just aren't any good. Eventually one of their collaborators, who happens to be Sufjan Stevens, totally overshadows them when he goes solo. I don't think that's what made it tragic though- I think it was 'Brother Danielson' (the lead singer) and his blind ambition. Behind his cheerful demeanor, he seems really sad and desperate.  

Really, I wish I liked the Danielsons music, but this movie just made me want to listen to Sufjan's old stuff.

all things leonard nimoy please. i'm collecting.

I read the graphic novel of this a few months ago and then rented the movie last week. It is definitely a must see/read. 

It's the autobiography of a young Iranian (Marjane Satrapi) and it explains the modern Iranian political situation and how it evolved in a really entertaining way. It definitely gave me some perspective on the Middle East today, and the stylized animation is A+.

It was somewhat anti-climactic, but what do you expect from a biography of somebody who isn't dead?