• Gardening

    Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

    January 6, 2016 /

    Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thru’s are killing more people than the drive-by’s.”

    “Growing your own food is like printing your own money”

    This is exactly why I’m a passionate gardener and starting my own seedling business this year.

    Keep your eye out for Under The Seed.

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  • Art

    The World’s First Vagina Beauty Contest

    November 18, 2015 /

    American sex toy entrepreneur Brian Sloan created the competition, so he could find the perfect vagina to replica on one of his sex toys.

    According to Elite Daily the sex toy manufacturer got ‘everyday women’ to upload pictures of their vulvas for people to rate from 1-10. The top three were used to design Sloan’s new product.

    The aim of the contest was to determine what type of vagina men prefer – all contestants had to do was submit a photo of their vulva with a piece of paper saying: #AutoblowVaginalBeautyContest.

    If you dare to see the winners up close and in the flesh then do so HERE

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  • Entertainment

    Murray Christmas

    November 18, 2015 /

    This winter, Bill Murray brings an extra-special dose of holiday cheer to Netflix with the premiere of an all-star musically-driven holiday special, A Very Murray Christmas. Set inside New York City’s iconic Carlyle hotel, A Very Murray Christmas opens with Murray preparing to host a live, international holiday broadcast. After a blizzard shuts down the production, he makes the best of the situation by singing and celebrating with friends, hotel employees and anyone else who drops by.

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  • Comedy

    Bike Lanes by Casey Neistat

    September 15, 2015 /

    This video goes out to all my fellow bike riders. A few weeks back I got abused by a motorist on Barkly St, Footscray for riding around a parked car in the bicycle lane. As the road works on Ashley St. slowed him down, I managed to get in front of him and gave him a little of his own medicine. Firstly I gave back the same abuse he gave me, I then proceeded to ride at a very slow pace on the road in front of his car. After he sat on his horn for a good 5 seconds, I turned to him and asked if he was in a rush or something? Let’s just say he wasn’t very amused.

    So this gave me a good chuckle!

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  • Music

    Tom Thum – Word to Spread

    September 8, 2015 /

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    Brisbane native and all round nice guy Tom Thum has a new track. It’s taken him 3 years to compile and a whole lot of kilometres in doing so. Turn this one up loud!

    “This is a song called “Word To Spread” I have been piecing together over the past 3 years. Each layer was recorded live in the locations you can see in the footage. It was filmed on many different things from an iPhone to a quality SLR. The audio was recorded on many different mics with many different devices in many different environments as you can hear. It’s not the best mix, some of the footage is wobbly and it took me a long time to get all the audio to match but it reminds me of some great places, great times and legendary people. Thanks to everyone who offered me a couch or a camera hand over the years.”
    – Tom Thum

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  • Environmental

    The Story of Bottled Water

    September 2, 2015 /

    I’m very conscious of my waste, I recycle and compost everyday.

    I’ve never been against tap water and drink it all the time. I buy 1.25Lt water bottles then refill (up to 3 times) and then recycle them.
    I guess it’s more the convenience of not having to go to the tap all the time and also my cat Minx loves to drink out of my glasses : )

    I’ll be using my thermos as my refillable water bottle from here on out.

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  • Art

    Linds Redding “A Short Lesson In Perspective”

    August 28, 2015 /

    Linds Redding, a New Zealand-based art director who worked at BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi, died last month at aged 52 from an inoperable esophageal cancer.

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    Linds kept a blog, and after his passing an essay he wrote about the ad business, titled “A Short Lesson In Perspective,” has gained a new and sudden life.

    Many people, not just “creatives” could learn from Redding’s last words,

    Oh. And if your reading this while sitting in some darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over whether housewife A should pick up the soap powder with her left hand or her right, do yourself a favour. Power down. Lock up and go home and kiss your wife and kids.

    – READ IN FULL HERE

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  • Entertainment

    10328×7760 – A 10K Timelapse Demo

    August 25, 2015 /

    To showcase the awesome power of the PhaseOne IQ180 camera, timelapser and photographer Joe Capra, a.k.a. Scientifantastic, had to become a surgeon of sorts. 10328×7760 – A 10K Timelapse Demo is exactly what it sounds like: a timelapse video constructed out of photographs with a resolution higher than your computer can handle. Full screen this. Seriously.

    “This footage comes from some shots I did while shooting 4K and 8K timelapses in Rio De Janeiro for a major electronics manufacturer,” says Capra in the video’s description. “Each shot is comprised of hundreds individual still images, each weighing in at a whopping 80 megapixels. Each individual raw frame measures 10328×7760 pixels.” In the video, Capra begins his footage at 14% scale, just to fit the frame into 1920×1080 resolution, the maximum size for many displays. He then zooms to a 50% view, and follows that with an extreme zoom to the full-resolution 100% scale of the footage—and the result looks as good as most of the highest-end HD cameras do.

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  • Art

    Today’s World Illustrated By Steve Cutts

    August 21, 2015 /

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    Steve Cutts is an illustrator and animator from London. Faced with the choice of working at McDonalds or studying Fine Arts, he chose the latter. He worked at Glueisobar as the main storyboard concept artist before making the leap to freelance work. Cutts makes videos and images that criticize modern life – he states that insanity of humanity is an endless pool of inspiration.

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    – CHECK OUT MORE STEVE CUTTS HERE

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  • Entertainment

    Guess Wu

    August 14, 2015 /

    Illustrated by Dan Evans, the custom version of the game is played the same as the original, with players asking questions like, “is your rapper wearing a baseball cap?,” or, “did your rapper appear on GZA’s 1999 album Beneath the Surface?” Depending on how your opponent answers your inquiries, you can slowly eliminate members until you figure out the rapper they’ve chosen.

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    The only real difference between the original and upgraded version is that in Guess Wu whoever can rap all of C.R.E.A.M. gets to go first—so it’s an important skill that’s strategic both in this game and in real life.

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  • Music

    Compton A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre

    August 2, 2015 /

    Dr. Dre has announced he’s finally got a new album coming out, it’s not Detox though.

    Compton: The Soundtrack, inspired by his work on Straight Outta Compton, the upcoming N.W.A. biopic. The album is out August 7, exclusively on iTunes’ Apple Music. It features the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jill Scott plus more. See tracklist below.

    Dre has announced he’s ditched Detox and here’s why;
    “I didn’t like it. It wasn’t good. The record, it just wasn’t good. … I worked my ass off on it, and I don’t think I did a good enough job.”

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    01 Intro
    02 Talk About It [ft. King Mez & Justus]
    03 Genocide [ft. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay]
    04 It’s All on Me [ft. Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid]
    05 All in a Day’s Work [ft. Anderson Paak & Marsha Ambrosius]
    06 Darkside/Gone [ft. King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar]
    07 Loose Cannons [ft. Xzibit & COLD 187um]
    08 Issues [ft. Ice Cube & Anderson Paak]
    09 Deep Water [ft. Kendrick Lamar & Justus]
    10 One Shot One Kill [ft. Snoop Dogg]
    11 Just Another Day [ft. Asia Bryant]
    12 For the Love of Money [ft. Jill Scott & Jon Connor]
    13 Satisfaction [ft. Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius & King Mez]
    14 Animals [ft. Anderson Paak]
    15 Medicine Mane [ft. Eminem, Candice Pillay & Anderson Paak]
    16 Talking to My Diary

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  • Art

    Upside Down Mural in Marijampolė

    July 9, 2015 /

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    New York-based artist Ray Bartkus has created a beautiful mural in the Lithuanian city of Marijampolė designed to use the surface of the water as its true canvas. Bartkus intentionally painted it upside-down so that the swimmers, rowers and swans he depicted would be reflected right-side-up onto the river Šešupė, which flows through the city’s center.

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    The photo below was obviously photoshopped but well worth it to really capture the full effect.

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  • Art,  Entertainment

    Bartkira

    July 9, 2015 /

    Bartkira is an animated parody mash-up of The Simpsons and Akira. Based on an idea by Ryan Humphrey articulated through comics, the concept was expanded with the Bartkira project, a comic collaboration of Simpsons fans, curated by James Harvey. In association with the comic, Moon Animate Make-Up producer Kaitlin Sullivan pitched the idea of an animated trailer to match and with the work of over fifty artists, produced the Bartkira animated trailer.

    “It is in no way officially associated with Fox Animation, Toho, or any other legal properties that own the rights to The Simpsons and Akira. We are a bunch of fans who did this for free and are profiting in no way off of this other than having a larf.”

    – BARTKIRA

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  • Environmental

    Tesla Powerwall

    May 8, 2015 /

    CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, landed an official message unveiling the Powerwall, a battery designed to power your home. The message came at a convention center powered completely by renewable battery power.

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    The battery unit itself contains the same batteries present in the Tesla electric cars. The 7kWh unit will ship for $3,000, while the 10kWh unit will go for $3,500 (get the big one). They will store electricity from the grid or from solar and wind generators on site and if the grid goes down, they will continue to power your home indefinitely This feature makes them ideal for developing nations that are leap-frogging power grids completely.

    Musk refers to it as changing the “entire energy infrastructure of the world.”

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  • Music

    One Day – S.D.R.O [Official Music Video]

    March 18, 2015 /

    Directed by Solo
    Producer / Assistant Director: Cole Bennetts
    DOP / Editor: Dean Lever
    Wardrobe / Stylist: Teighan Lee
    Drone Pilot / Aerial cinematography: Alex Peric
    Prop Design / Best Boi: Kathryn Wilson
    Catering: Nick Lupi
    Assistant writer / BTS guy: Raph Lauren
    Grade: Matt Fezz
    Car courtesy of Mike and Tom Hart
    Party times courtesy of the Poynting family.

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  • Entertainment,  Music

    It’s Pee-Back Time

    March 6, 2015 /

    Sick of drunk partiers peeing all over their walls, the residents of St. Pauli in Hamburg have decided to fight back. If you are going to pee on their walls, their walls are going to pee on you right back.

    Thanks to a special hydrophobic paint, a stream of urine forcefully projects right off the wall and directly onto the urinator’s shoes. Locals are calling the campaign “St. Pauli pees back.”

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  • Music

    The Paterson Project

    March 5, 2015 /

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    Aim: To make quality art and raise at least $15,000 for The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation

    Where: The Patersons Building, 173-181 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    When: Friday the 6th of March, 6:00PM til late. ONE NIGHT ONLY.

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    ABET, ADNATE, AIDA SABIC, AMAC, ARMED, ASKEM, AWES, BAILER, BURG, BUTTONS, CALLUM PRESTON, CHEHEHE, CHOQ, CREATURE CREATURE, CRISIS, CRUEL, DEM189, DEST, DIRTY BANDIT, DONOVAN CHRISTIE, DOSE, DUEL, DUKE STYLE, DVATE, DYNES, EARS, EEVIEN TAN, ELEVEN, ELLIOT CLAYFIELD, ENDS, ETHIX, FACTER, FENOM, FLETCH CUTS, FLUSTA, FRAME, FREDROCK, GHETTO, GOODIE, GRIZZLE, GUS, HAHA, HANCOCK, HEESCO, HUNTER, IME, INPAC, ITCH, JACK DOUGLAS, JAMES MCCULLOUGH, JORZ, JOSH SMITH, KEN TAYLOR, KEO, 23RD KEY, KID SILK, KITTY RITZ, KRINGE, LACHY HAMILTON, LEBOUEF, LIAM SNOOTLE, LING, LOSOP, LUCY LUCY, MAKATRON, MARIAN MACHISMO, MARINE, MAYO, MIKE WATT, MIT, MORDES, MYSETERIOUS AL, NASTE, NEVER, NICK MAHADY, NICOLE TATTERSALL, OHNOES, ORDER, OTIS CHAMBERLIAIN, PHOENIX, PIGEON BOY, PILFER, PLEA, POISE, PORNO, PRESTO, PUTOS, RACE, RASE, RAD, RASHE, REPEAT, RESUME, REWS, RONE, ROOK REM, RUS KIDD, SABETH, SAM YONG, SAT, SCALE, SEAR, SENEKT, 6SETA, SHAME, SHEM, SHIME, SIRUM, SKUBZ, SLICER, SMICK, STEVE CROSS, STOPEM, SWERFK, TANEA, TIM ROLLIN, TOGGLES, TREM, UNWELL BUNNY, VANDERLISM, WILL COLES, WONDERLUST

    Get down to support an amazing cause, have a few drinks and grab yourself a rad piece of art in the silent auction.

    – The Paterson Project

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