After the popularity of the first set of Simpsons decks done by Santa Cruz, the NoCal skateboard company is going back to The Simpsons well for another set of boards. Homer, Bart and two varieties of Krusty the Clown get the Santa Cruz treatment, tho the full-face Homer and Rat Fink-style Bart are probably the […]

Gearing up for another weekend of Coachella madness? Or perhaps your headed elsewhere this summer (Sasquatch, Bonaroo, Lollapalooza, Lightning In a Bottle, etc), and will need to keep your pickled liver hydrated and healthy? Pick up The Loyal Subjects vs. Joe Ledbetter’s Thirsty? reusable aluminum 10″ water bottle, equipped with it’s own keychain clip so […]

Nowness brings us this short animation by Spike Jonze, who created the film in collaboration with French designer Olympia Le-Tan: “Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the […]

16bit dropped his brand new video for “Dinosaurs” this weekend — a trippy and squishy romp of animation directed & animated by Kristofer Ström, Colonel Blimp & Blinkink. The video is to promote the London dubstep producer’s EP, Boston Cream, released today (August 29th) on MTA Records.

In tribute to a “band that no longer is”, someone took the time to create a shot-by-shot recreation of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” video… done completely with LEGO figures. Sure it’s a pretty basic video to redo, and no it may not have the engineering prowess behind, say, a fully functioning V8 engine but […]

Berkeley rapper Lyrics Born drops the video for “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” from his latest album As U Were (Decon Records). The Quannum/Latyrx emcee gets very croony on the latest track, leaving the purist hip-hop boom bap for a sound decidedly more disco. If you like what you hear pick up the As U Were album […]

While it’s not necessarily capitalism per se when you’re promoting an animation film festival, this still belongs in our odes to well executed commercials. Ogilvy puts together this really clever live action piece to promote the Anim’est International Animation Film Festival in Romania, which goes down the 7th-16th of October in Bucharest…

Did you read Tintin as a kid? No? Then you missed out. Or maybe you didn’t, cos Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed up to bring one of the best books from our childhood to the silver screen (in 3D, naturally). Of course I trust my favorite material to Spielberg the way I trust […]