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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.
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:
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.
These guys got a lot of time on their hands and a lot of post it notes. But it’s also damn creative.
Gaby Moreno is an eclectic singer and songwriter playing anything from the blues to ragtime jazz songs to Latin pop.
From Guatemala, Gaby is a very versatile and talented Latin alternative-rock artist that has been in the United States for over 10 years. She’s also won the John Lennon songwriting contest, sang the Charlie Chaplin song “Smile” for the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove, and wrote the theme song for the NBC comedy, Parks and Recreation.
Gaby can be compared to having the sweet soulful sounds of Etta James and Édith Piaf, whether she sings in English or in Spanish!
A cover version of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” using a Guzheng (Chinese Zither) instrument.
With the Olympics underway in London, here is a short film by Amael Isnard and Leo Bridle, to show what happens if animals took control of running the torch instead of humans.
It seems nobody can get the Canadian pop stars’ “Call Me Maybe” out of our heads. The Star Wars version.
The Punisher is one of my favorite characters in the Marvel universe, and was first introduced in the pages of Spider-Man in the 1970s and afterwards having his own ongoing comic book series in 1987 with writer Mike Baron and artist Klaus Janson. Marvel green-lit 3 films for the Punisher, the first film had action star Dolph Lundgren; the second film starred actor Thomas Jane; and the third, titled Punisher: War Zone, starred Ray Stevenson. All three of the films weren’t big hits at the box office or with critics, so actor Thomas Jane wanted to make his own version of a Punisher film. It’s gritty and violent – and that’s the Punisher.
“Don’t Go” featured a catchy, melodic and synthesized tune for the British New Wave band, Yazoo. It was released in May 1982 as the second single from their debut album, Upstairs at Eric’s.
This is 12 weeks and over 1000 hours of work, a parody of Chris Nolan’s “Inception”. This is one nifty student project.
Cookie Monster wants the world to share cookies! Carly Rae Jepsen got nothing on Cookie Monster.
I still remember watching Steve McQueen in the film Bullitt ripping up the hills of San Francisco with a green Ford Mustang Fastback. Now it’s Ken Block with an AWD WRC-style Ford Fiesta. The video was just released yesterday by DC Shoes and it already has over 4.5 million views!
Yuri Boyka is the complete Russian fighter. Move over Jason Statham – it’s Yuri Boyka time!
Here’s a rather opinionated spoof of the Gotye hit, “Somebody That I Used To Know” – of course, totally Star Wars style.
This Dora the Explorer parody stars Ariel Winter from ABC’s Modern Family. Can this be made into a “real” movie? Please.
The Muppet Show, produced by puppeteer Jim Henson, was a vaudeville-esque variety show that brought a host of lovable characters for child and adult, alike.
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