Remember in Michel Gondry‘s 2008 film Be Kind, Rewind when Mos Def and Jack Black filmed super low budget versions of famous movies? Oh, you didn’t see it? Well fret not young cinephile, you didn’t miss much — it pretty much sucked. Despite dropping the ball on that film, director Gondry — best known for Eternal […]
4
Jan
The French director Swedes Martin Scorcese's landmark film
9
Dec
Gülpen's $6,500,000 diamond-encrusted Barbie toy
When FoxNews and the parade of lunatics known as the Republican Presidential Nominees callously vilify the Occupy Movement as treasonous, all the protesters really need to do is hold up an image of this four-wheeled travesty and I’m pretty sure everyone will get it. German model carmaker Robert Wilhelm Gülpen is out to set the […]
8
Dec
The composer of "Children" proves his underground mettle
Robert Miles managed to do 2 things in the 1990s: 1. craft one of the biggest songs in the history of EDM (electronic dance music); and 2. annoy the world with one of the most over-played tracks in the history of mankind. The first was his doing, the second was not. The song in question, […]
27
Sep
Hot Toys' villain from Iron Man every nerd's daddy
The year 2008 was a great one for Robert Downey, Jr. The same year he played Tony Stark in Iron Man he also played Kirk Lazarus, the black faced “method actor” in Tropic Thunder. Both were big hits, but it was Iron Man that had legions of acne-pocked fanboys clamoring for more of the villainous […]
8
Sep
450 color album illustrations from the legendary comic artist
The work of legendary comic book artist/lech Robert Crumb has been gathered in numerous graphic novels and books, but this is the first hardcover compiling the hundreds of record covers he’s illustrated over his career. His first album cover was for Janis Joplin’s Cheap Thrills in 1968 when Crumb was just a youngin’ living in Haight […]
30
Aug
America's smallest four-seater feels like anything but
Although the first all new Scion to hit the US market since the tC way back in 2004, the iQ is hardly new. In fact, it’s been zipping through crowded cityscapes in Europe and Japan since 2008, the year it won Car Of the Year in the land of the rising sun. But it is […]
22
Aug
Tweaking Robert Indiana on what makes the world go round
Supreme knocks off American pop artist Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE imagery for their own take on what makes the world go round. Part of the heavily hyped Fall/Winter 2011 Collection that was unveiled this morning, Supreme teams up with the with Japanese label Gallery 1950 for the strong messaged rug. Set to drop this weekend, […]
28
Jul
Wooster Street Social Club opens its doors to human augmentation
Tonight at the esteemed Wooster Street Social Club the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game is manifested into the art world via some of the world’s top contemporary artistic minds. Artists from the U.S. and Mexico — including Sam Flores, 3rassiere, Estevan Oriol, Eyeone, Jeremy Fish, Jorge Alderete, N8 Van Dyke, Rico Deniro and Robert […]
