Raise your hand if you've heard the lament that today's kids don't have any mass culture touchstones. You know, "People don't all grow up with the same TV shows and same hit songs anymore. Everything is so fragmented."
Weezer's new video for "Pork & Beans" (which may or may not get airplay on MTV, one of those channels that mass culture no longer watches for shared musical touchstones) obliterates that notion by combining a roster of YouTube superstars that's instantly recongizable for anyone who spends a few hours every day with the 21st century's version of a remote control (or radio dial, to go back another generation or two).
If you're going to whitewash a graffiti wall, why not turn it into a long stop-motion animation that meditates on the notion of corporeality and the way people interact with their environment?
The artist Blu does just that with this intense and amazing graffiti project in Brazil, combining George Plimpton with the urban setting in a way that's simply astounding at first, but as the technique becomes "normal" looking and you accept his metamorphosing creature as alive, the sequence tells a tale of the suits we wear, the skin we put on, and the pressure we feel from the things that we build around us.
I've always thought Katharine Hepburn was one of the most awesome women to ever walk the planet, and this behind-the-scenes footage of her redecorating the awful '70s set of the Dick Cavett show proves it.
On the same theme as the young/old photo project at Color Wars, here's a woman dancing with a video of herself as a girl.
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This Lauren Thompson is quite a choreographer, actually. Even more entertaining than her self duet to Huey Lewis is this 5-minute (the whole thing's worth it!) video of walking down the street in New York City, to the tune of Queen's forgotten gem "Body Language."
Does Obama Do Yoga? If the past 4 years of yoga in Santa Cruz with Mark Stephens has any indication of the next 4 years of an Obama Administration, our country has a major crisis we better begin to prepare for. I took a...
Does Obama Do Yoga? Does Obama do yoga?
I think that this is a good question. If he doesn't, he sure had me fooled. If he does, how "cool" would that be! And not just for all of us yoga junkies, here in santa cruz, who...
Student Activists Flyer at Chamber of Commerce Dinner Thank you Elizabeth for exposing this on going struggle up on the hill. It is sad that the University of California received an award for organization of the year while it has continuously failed to ...
Neighbors concerned about Neary Lagoon Didn't I see something about psychically affecting the water in that Santa Cruz hit movie, "What the @#$%^ Do We Know Anyway?"
Answer: not very bleeping much!
It's swampy water, it's natural. Don't b...
