Transcendent Man, the documentary on the life and ideas of fearless Futurist and Singularity visionary Ray Kurzweil’s has been uploaded to YouTube for all to see. Directed by filmmaker Barry Ptolemy, the doc follows the millionaire inventor and best selling author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology as he promotes his book […]

As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]

I don’t geek out too often, but when I do it’s like July 4th, Halloween and New Years in my soul. Before I saw the disaster that was the new Clash of the Titans I freaked (the original holds a special place in my heart), the trailer for the upcoming movie Hannah has me dancing […]

Stacy Peralta, the man behind the films Dogtown and Z-boys and Lords of Dogtown, brings us The History of Skateboarding, a mini documentary for MTV: 40 years in 15 minutes. From surf skating and empty swimming pools to street skating and punk culture, The History of Skateboarding attempts to distill 4 decades of tumultuous history […]

We don’t have any more rock stars. Sorry kids, thems the facts. Sure we have plenty of fame-reluctant indie bands floating around, talentless attention-starved pop stars clogging the airwaves, and more than enough material-obsessed rappers to fill the Mall of America, but we don’t have any Rock Stars. You know, guys like David Lee Roth […]

Australian custom motorcycle builders Deus Ex Machina created this video of the Boundless Enthusiasm Bike Build Off event they put on the 27th of November at the Deus compound in Camperdown. As they write: “Ladies and genitals, dust off your Whitworths and recalibrate your King Dongs in readiness. It’s time to close your eyes and […]

As I wound my way high up into the deep, dark Bel Air hills I thought to myself, “can’t these people splurge on a damn street sign or two?” It felt like a foreign country, and in a weird way reminded me of traveling around Costa Rica several years ago, where getting directions anywhere sounded […]

At first I was really confused about this documentary, because I couldn’t figure out if the death scenes depicted in these dollhouses were recreations of real murders, or simply the manifestations of someone’s really fucked up imagination. Turns out, it’s both: “The new documentary film, Of Dolls and Murder, explores our collective fascination with forensics […]