Award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg casts his talented cinematic eye on the world of Pollination. The footage is taken from his film Wings of Life, which centers around the alarming global population crash of the honeybee. One of the most important processes to the sustenance of life on Earth, pollination still remains largely unseen by the […]

One of the best online boutique retailers, Oki-Ni, has initiated a series of mixtapes by some of their favorite artists. As they describe, “Working with world-renowned DJs, bands and producers the series aims to ‘venture off the dancefloor’, allowing the artists involved to produce unique and personal mixes to a theme of their choice. The […]

With the proliferation of cheaper and cheaper high-def cameras and filming equipment, the doors to independent filmmaking have been wedged open wider and wider in the last decade. Well, that’s not entirely true — sure it’s easier than ever to self-fund and film a movie, but the digital revolution has done nothing to help get […]

Websites succeed or fail for many a varied reason. Girls Making Gun Sounds will succeed for only one: because it’s genius lies in its boundless stupidity. Who doesn’t like to hear girls making gun sounds? You’d have to be a communist from the 5th Moon of Pussilvenus, and we don’t cater to alien readers…

Believe it or not, Madman Mundt was sent to Nicaragua on assignment all this week on a mission so secret it cannot be discussed (yet). So please bare with us if the postings are a bit slimmer than usual, we’ll try our best to stay current on all the awesomeness and stupidity that the modern […]

This is the first talk posted from TED2011, which is happening now in Long Beach, California. If you find yourself anxious for whatever reason from the revolutions overtaking once-stable areas of the middle east and northern Africa, fret not — there are many reasons to feel optimistic instead, as is argued by Al Jazeera Network’s […]

While flipping through your vinyl collection (or your dad’s, depending on your age and musical obsession), perhaps you’ve noticed all the omni-colored “Stereo” banners that brighten up some old records, screaming in loud design volumes that this piece of vinyl indeed boasts that cutting edge technology known as stereo. While some would think there would […]

Just in time for the holidays, the magnificent dubstep (and beyond) maestro Skream drops his Freeizm Album as a gift to the world  — the perfect soundtrack for tearing open wrapping paper, finding that Pneumatic Grappling Hook you were hoping for, and running around the room like a retarded chicken. Or if its after Xmas, […]