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[26 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 261 views]
The Horrors of Vintage Sesame Street

How do such creepy skits get made for children’s shows?

Technology, Visual Art »

[23 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 208 views]
Crawling Japanese Businessman Robot

The term ’salaryman’ refers to a (usually Japanese) businessman who must work long hours for a corporation, often giving up his youthful dreams of induviduality.
The average salaryman has a depressingly predictable schedule. Every morning he knots his silken noose, jostles his way through a packed subway car and finally arrives …

Headline, Music »

[18 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 1,152 views]
Rishloo’s Freaks and Animals: A Recommended Song

Ever since A Perfect Circle broke up, I’ve been on the lookout for a band that that combined elements of hard rock and progressive rock with heavy effects and melody. Tool, while very different from APC, ventures into artistic realms largely unexplored by mainstream hard rock, and it was a major plus that the two bands shared a vocalist, but it still wasn’t enough….

Lightweights such as 10 Years and Evans Blue emerged, but it wasn’t until I stumbled upon the Seattle based Rishloo, that I felt I had found something closer to the mark.

Rishloo has a great amalgamation of styles and techniques:

Music, type »

[17 Nov 2008 | 8 Comments | 50,345 views]
Extreme Metal Logos: The Good, The Bad, and The Illegible

Illegible metal band logos
Extreme metal logos have become a genre in themselves, spawning creative and sometimes baffling designs. The bands that adopt them are usually far from mainstream and cover a range of styles: brilliant riffs and technical chops at one end, and a chaotic mass of noise, squeals and …

Literature, Movies »

[15 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 892 views]
Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Guts’ and Fainting Fits

Do you have the ‘guts’ to read Chuck Palahniuk?
Most people hear of the author via the modern cult movie Fight Club, which was adapted from his novel of the same name. In the film, a disillusioned Edward Norton attempts to overcome the emasculation and hollowness caused by modern American life …