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For today’s Viral Video Friday, I got two cool songs that I’m jamming to on my iPod.
This neat looking music video is by AlunaGeorge. “Your Drums, Your Love” is a sexy uptempo R&B style track.
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“For My Sins” by Jess Mills is a nice pop ballad for the ears.
Happy Friday!
Take a look at this cool fan-anime project:
Attention Mr. Lucas, you NEED to do an anime version of Star Wars, at least one season with 26 episodes or something!
Cartoon Network’s DC Nation in the last few months have been showing short clips of Batman set in Shanghai. The animation is spectacular with nonstop action and awesome animated movement for all characters.
Produced by Chinese animation studio Wolf Smoke, they created this three part adventure which places Catwoman, Bane, and the Dark Knight himself in 1930’s Shanghai for an all-out battle of thievery and heart-pounding kung fu! Enjoy!
— Contributed by Karen Jang
Old Spice’s Terry Crews plays a one-man band with his muscles. Okay, I better stop eating at Mickey D’s.
So last week we gave you a Mad Men version of the Rick Astley…dare I say “classic?” If that tickled your fancy and are always on the look out for different versions of that heart-swooning song, may I present an 8 bit version?
Don’t pretend you didn’t like it.
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By Contributing Blogger: M. Do.
Canadian illustrator Ïve Bastrash reimagined these iconic posters with his own fresh cartoon style and, in my opinion, some look better than the original. A movie lover and a video game artist, Ïve also designs playing cards featuring Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Sonny Bono as the Jack, Queen, and King cards of a poker deck respectively.
Here’s a few more of my favs:
We’re starting a new weekly blog series here on Retrenders called Soundtype where I’ll cover emerging artists or indie music that have recently hit my playlist. New music is an obsession of mine – just listening to new tracks takes up most of my day – so it just made sense to write about and share with our audience which song or artist stood out that week.
Let’s start off the series with a remix from Tunogo, an LA based electronic music act helmed by Bass/EDM producer Jess Labb. She put together a nice dubstep/downtempo mix of After The Fall’s new single “Don’t Feel.” Here’s the track – After The Fall – Don’t Feel (Tunogo’s Benumb Remix):
If you like this, you can download the track for free (while it’s still available) or check out other tracks and EP’s by Tunogo on her Soundcloud page. Jess Labb is currently working on a follow up to the Intemperatus EP out on Sodio Recordings and you can find more info on Tunogo on their site – Tunogo.com
After The Fall (also hailing from Los Angeles) is releasing the “Don’t Feel” single later this month on September 25, and it includes this mix plus three others – here’s the teaser link for all the upcoming tracks.
Next week, I’ll highlight two recent remixes that just happen to share the same song title thus confusing me to no end as to which group sang what. See ya then!
ALHAMBRA, CA. Known for her “cute noir” art style in Japan and in the States, Junko Mizuno is an underground artist that has been featured worldwide on television and in print media. We caught up with Junko at Gallery Nucleus for her exhibition on Hansel & Gretel. Listen to Junko in her own words on her art and career by Project 760 Productions’ Richard Sze.
Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” will never go away! The cast of Mad Men, with footage taken from season 1-4, speak-sing the song. This mash-up editing is really good.
Are you a fan of HBO’s Games of Thrones? Are you confused with the many characters, alliances, and what not? Well use this:
Image via Paste Magazine
The Games of Thrones Visual Guide to the Faces of Season 1.
All they need now is to make a guide for Season 2 and 3. This would be plenty helpful since there’s so many characters involved – not that I’m complaining.
Whoa, here’s a paradigm shift in China, robot chefs making hand-made noodles in restaurants. It seems that human chefs take a longer time making noodles and cost more in wages, so restaurateur Cui Runguan decided to build noodle-bots. The noodle-bots named Chef Cui cost about $2,000USD each.
We fight Deceptions and make an awesome bowl of wonton noodles!!!
I can’t beatbox, but this girl can:
I found a new timesuck. Incredibox is an amazing website where you can create your own music by selecting various melodies, beats, effects, and choruses together to create a unique and distinct musical piece of your own. The best aspect of the application is that you can visually see all your additions at work by dragging and dropping various icons representing each desired effect onto the avatar. You can then record and share your creation with your friends and see among which of you is the most musically inclined.
Retrenders Spotlight took in the eclectic rhythms and musical tapestry of L.A.-based, Ozomatli, during part of the City’s summertime Stern Grove Festival.
A film festival that makes you feel good, the Feel Good Film Festival 2012, took place in North Hollywood, CA on August 3-5, 2012. Here are the highlights from the festival brought to by Azure Lorica and Project 760 Productions:
Image via Jay Mug.
Now that is a garage I would love to walk into – five of the most iconic Batmobiles all in one place. My favorite has always been Michael Keaton’s ride in Tim Burton’s Batman. The curves on that car blended perfectly with the gothic theme throughout the movie. Looking at it now, it still holds up. The other two Batmobiles afterwards were kind of cheesy, until Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler came along with its industrial stylings, and tore up the blueprint.
The French-Chilean musician, Ana Tijoux has been one of the most prominent independent MC hip-hop artists and has recently seen her popularity rise. She built her reputation from the ground up in the independent music scene with her group Makiza, in Chile, in the 1990s. Then in 2001, through some unforeseen moments in life, she decided to break apart from the band and the music scene all together, and went back to France.
It wasn’t until 2004 that she returned to Chile and connected with funk Chilean band Aluzinati, where she then became a featured artist in Control Machete’s album, Uno Dos Bandera, and worked on a soundtrack with Julieta Venegas. She even reunited with Makiza for a short time, but realized she really wanted to pursue a solo career.
In 2007, she released her solo album, Kaos, and she was nominated in Latin America’s version of the MTV Video Music Awards as Best New Artist.
In 2009, she released her 2nd solo album titled, 1977, which was a return to her rap roots and a homage to hip hop. The album was autobiographical and dealt with the complications she endured in life.
Did you ever wonder how LEGO began? Well, here’s a cool animated mini-documentary on the history of LEGO. If you have 17 minutes to spare in your office cubicle, put on your headphones and learn some cool wiki-style facts about LEGO.
Water – Light – Graffiti by French artist Antonin Fourneau:
The battle has begun! The two big comic giants – DC Comics and Marvel Comics – duel it out in this short, but sweet LEGO battle.
Art by Olly Moss
It’s been over 30 plus years that Star Wars first appeared in theaters. Here’s a collection of some incredible Star Wars-inspired art.
Art by Greg Peltz
These guys got a lot of time on their hands and a lot of post it notes. But it’s also damn creative.
For those that would love to find out more about Pacific Rim, Del Toro won’t tell! He shows us a bit of a trailer clip followed by some Q and A, and he leaves everything else up to our imagination.
Comic-Con was the director’s last and only sneak peek of what is to come for his upcoming film. He’s promising Clash of the Titans-type massive beasts that emerge from the sea against armored humans piloting gigantic robots into an apocalyptic battle for the human race.
The film will be Guillermo Del Toro’s most accomplished Sci-Fi work, with a whole city built to mimic urban Japan and a wardrobe production from human battle armor suits to enormous juggernaut robots to sea beasts over 25 stories high. And just like he has done for his past films, he will integrate only the necessary visual detail to every physical aspect of the film. So every film location will have layers of disaster elements and dust and every giant tank robot will have battle scars from past encounters.
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