Archive: January 4, 2009
the-contract-poster

(This is the German movie poster) Without a doubt, The Contract, is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. How a film this terrible managed to suck in two good Hollywood actors is beyond my comprehension. Somebody must have drugged these two actors into signing onto this movie. As one Netflix reviewer put it: If you’re [...]

This is the most frightening and hilarious reaction to receiving a Nintendo Wii that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen plenty). [via] Oh, and you’ll want to lower your volume. Seriously.

china-young-children-imitating-adults-03

In 2007, several photos of two Asian (presumably Chinese) kids — one girl and one boy — were posted online. It depicted the two of them involved in “adult-like” activities in public. Nobody knows for sure how old the children are, but it is clear in the sequence of photos that they are involved in [...]

nickolas-muray

I simply love the photographs in this Flickr Commons set from the George Eastman House of pictures taken by Nickolas Muray. Nickolas Muray was a Hungary-born photographer who had a very successful career as a photographer. He was known for his celebrity portraits in magazines during the 1920′s and 1930′s before moving on to work [...]

This has been up for several weeks now, but I’m just getting around to catching up on missed videos over the holiday season and I wanted to share this particular episode because 1) it is my favorite online show and 2) it is funny and witty and a perfect way to sum up 2008. Check [...]

tambourine

I was watching the full-length feature animated film for Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555. The animated film is done in traditional old Japanese animation style and it really brings me back to the days of seeing Sailor Moon and Voltron on TV. Interstella 5555 is essentially a very long music video that serves as a visual [...]