God this Chainsaw Maid video must’ve been fun to make. Sure clay animation is a laborious, time-consuming, meticulous venture, but when you’re molding a chainsaw-wielding Japanese maid, whose sole raison d’etre is the bloody dismemberment of virus-infected zombies, I think that must make the slow hours creep by a lot quicker. Beheadings, gauged eyes, gory […]

The San Diego Comic Con is quite unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, be thee commoner, X-Man, vampire, mutilated zombie, Star Wars cretin or garden variety fanboy. It is the ne plus ultra Mecca for geeks worldwide — but you don’t need me to tell you that. We attended it last week and had 3 […]

Mad Decent is launching a new Remix Contest Series, and the first challenge will be with a track off the great Yeasayer’s latest album, Odd Blood. All you have to do is go here, get the various parts, make a remix and submit it for both prizes and full coverage from Mad Decent. Finally, just […]

Yoav Kotik designs his Kotik Precious Metal collection of earrings, brooches, rings, bracelets, necklaces and pendents from discarded bottle caps. Although they’re called “Precious Metals”, I’m not sure I see any actual precious metals — unless he’s being ironic, of course. Absorbing the pop iconography of these brands and their well marketed images — eg […]

Apparently there’s a new genre of film burgeoning: animated horror movies. The business model actually makes sense, as the filmmakers only have to animate a compelling trailer and then find the proper funds to actualize the movie. Given the steadily decreasing costs of animation, and the steadily increasing costs of live productions, these films seem […]