May. 16, 2012
Every once in a great while, someone creates an absolutely inspired visual gag that’s worth all the time and effort it took to plan and perfectly execute.
On a totally unrelated note, here are a butt and a pirate dancing to Big Sean’s “Dance (A$$).”
This music video was created to promote Future House Pictures’ web series Postponed, which turns out to be much less dancing-butt-centric than advertised.
(Sorta not safe for work, the aforementioned a$$)
[thanks, djgrambo!]
May. 16, 2012
Banksy’s famous Parachuting Rat, located on a wall in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Prahran, has been destroyed by builders doing drilling work for a café.
Local business owners were upset by the needless demolition of the piece by workers who apparently didn’t realize what they were destroying. The wall did contain other graffiti, but area taggers had avoided painting over the Banksy.
“Had it been 20cm higher or 20cm to the side this would never have happened,” neighboring business owner Jacqui Vidal told the Stonnington Leader, “This should have been avoided. It’s not a big piece, but it is one of the few remaining Banksys in Melbourne.”
The Rat was destroyed once before by cleaners who painted over it during a 2010 anti-graffiti campaign, but was later restored.
There is some good news, though: a possible new Banksy piece — showing an Asian boy hunched over a sewing machine and a Union flag — has appeared on the wall of a Poundland shop in London. It has yet to be confirmed as authentic on the artist’s website.
[heraldsun.]
May. 16, 2012
Mashup artists The Reborn Identity combine Adele’s smash hit “Set Fire to the Rain” with Baltimora’s ’80s classic “Tarzan Boy” in the aptly-named “Tarzan & Rain.”
[feingut.]
May. 16, 2012
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May. 16, 2012
Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., is doing some major damage control after he urged “negotiations between a vegetable and a dead man” in a recent letter to a constituent:
With the global war against terrorism, it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasir Arafat to clamp down on Palestinian extremists that have perpetuated violence and to restart a peace process that has collapsed.
The constituent happened to be the father of Ian Rhodewalt, a journalist working for Mondoweiss, a news site that covers the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Arafat died in 2004 and Sharon has been in a coma since 2006, Rhodewalt asks: “I wonder to whom Pitts thought he was giving those standing ovations when (current Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu spoke to Congress?”
May. 16, 2012
A bunch of austere British kids review Skrillex’s dubstep masterpiece “Bangarang,” and their responses are a riot.
The hands-down best review: “We. Rowdy. What is that?”
May. 16, 2012
If only poor Max could heed the advice of W.C. Fields: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
[sayomg]
May. 16, 2012
Brazilian Matheus Candido has made it his mission to right a serious injustice; he’s hard at work Photoshopping Nicholas Cage into the starring roles of the handful of movies in which he doesn’t already appear. Candido’s Facebook gallery is glorious.
[uproxx]
May. 16, 2012
Today on The Daily What Geek: The earth’s water supply, condensed into a big, blue marble
Elsewhere on the Internets:
Lunchtime Leisure: Star Drill
Lunchtime List: TV’s Most Notoriously Short-Lived Shows
[image: zdarsky]
May. 16, 2012
Fast-rapper Mac Lethal lays down a little Strunk & White to Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.”
Your move, Watsky.
(Not Safe For Work, your a f*cking idiot.)
