This video of a Miss Singapore World contestant is making its social network rounds like… a video this amazing should. YAH LAH MY DESCLIPTION BLAIN NOT WORKING RIGHT NOW I KNO I IS NOT VELI SMART LAH. Just watch, OK???
If I’m feelin notti den I’ll wear someting red n loud someting… u know… BOOOMS
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Guys: Here’s your hilarious, awesome, and frighteningly serious instructions to shoot naked girls for no money in a 2007 article by The Naughty American.
Girls: Yes it’s amazing that guys will actually go this far just to see your boobs. What hideous and ill-intentioned creatures we are. PS: do you do TFP?? I IZ NOT CREEPI GUY I MAKE ARTS!!!!!!!
It’s a nude shoot, not a gynecological exam. That means working up to the spread shots by asking her to do relatively harmless stuff, such as run up the beach and back. While she’s running, you can scheme how you’re going to get her to open her legs. If you need more time, tell her to run up the beach again.
I do realize that photo above has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but it’s SO RAD.
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Josh Harrington in End Search. Holy damn I forgot how good this part was.
There is one thing that bothers me about his riding style though… He makes everything look too effortless. Like there are certain riders who make things look easy in the most stylish way (Bohan, Hawk, Cleveland), then there are riders who don’t make things look that ‘easy’ and it’s rad. A prime example of this is Van Homan. I mean, you know he’s definitely skilled enough to pull anything off, but it still looks like he’s putting in proper effort, and that makes it so exciting to watch. Like his tailwhips? Nervewrecking. You’re not used to seeing people land them like that because he has such a peculiar way of throwing them – and yet that’s just how he normally does it (and he obvoiusly does it on the biggest shit). Homan throws in his own take that really make you step back and wonder how the hell he did it, and often in an unexpected way. He keeps you guesssing, and you’ll watch Homan’s parts again and again just to try and break it down and figure it out
But Harrington lands tricks exactly how you picture them to be logically landed – like how they would look in a video game. Too inch-perfect, too possible-looking. Also, he’s so tall even the biggest things ‘look’ easy. Then he has this nochalant non-style that’s like, “double peg to over barspin into a huge grass bank? sure. hang-over tooth one mother of a rail? yeayea. cannonball roof drop? why not,” and he goes and does it like he’s riding a skatepark with full safety gear. It’s almost like the consequences of what he’s doing don’t register in the way he rides, so he barspins a 20-stair the same way he would a 2-stair with no extra personality. This would be absolutely incredible to watch in real life, but the style doesn’t translate well to video.
On one hand it’s a testament to how freaking next level this dude is, but on the other hand, it could be why this part only has 12,500 views on youtube. Yes, marketing and a rider’s following play a part, but anyone who watches this part knows that it should be getting way more views than that. Especially since it was uploaded in October last year. Whatever it is, that video section is really really fucking good. Props to Harrington.
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As if Nosaj Thing wasn’t rad enough already, Adam Guzman & Julia Tsao designed this Visual Show for him and it is bananananananas.
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In the last two years of my high school days, I was whisked from the throws of Singapore’s public education system to the prepindepity of a posh private school in Victoria which is located at the bottom left corner of Canada. St. Michaels University School it was called. Steve Nash attended that school, something the school’s marketers never ever let us forget.
It was here we were forced into a sport. And not wanting to join the rugby jocks, as I am really quite far from the jockism, I instead chose… Cricket.
I sucked at all aspects of the sport, but enjoyed it immensely. Our time involved standing around a lot and watching our eccentric genius of a British Chemistry teacher – Mr. Fisher – scream things at us, and sometimes, at thin air. “DIVE!” and “CCCAAATTCCCHHHH IIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!” were two of his favourite lines.
There were two students on our team who were exceptionally clever, endearingly naive to their nerdiness, and absolutely serious about cricket. One was Indan and the other Pakistani. You can only imagine how entertaining their antics were.
So I guess it can be said that I have very fond memories of the sport of cricket, made only better because one night (or more?) I had sex with a girl on the bowling lawn in the middle of the cricket pitch. Much to my roomate’s chagrin (since he knew this fact and also played cricket on that field weekly).
The Duckworth Lewis Method is, according to Wikipedia, “a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstance.” Yeah I don’t know either.
More importantly, it is also the name of an Irish pop group who have released an album revolving entirely around cricket. Needless to say, I’m in love. The song above – Jiggery Pokery – is my fav. Hit the jump for Mr. Miandad which is their first single.
New goal: Find this movie.
And how bizarre is that last scene. Wow.
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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View is a really great essay by Jon Rafman. If you are interested in photography, coincidences, art theory, morals and ethics, culture, the streets, kids in ireland giving cameras the finger, general facts, cool points of view, and even just Google, definitely check this one out.
This 1968 Oscar-nominated short film was posted on the blog of the media hipster kings the other day, and… I know I post a lot of stuff and I say a lot of stuff is amazing, but if you are to watch one thing that I post on here this year, please let it be this video. It is truly, truly inspiring.
Text below lifted from We Love You So.
“John and Faith Hubley were a husband-wife team of amazing experimental animators who created 22 films together, not to mention the classic “Letterman” segments on Sesame Street with the voices of Gene Wilder and Joan Rivers. One of their many Oscar-nominated short films, Windy Day, used a technique the Hubleys played with on several occasions: creating a vibrant, animated world set to an audio recording of their two young daughters’ meandering, playful conversation. The film beautifully captures the fluidity of a youthful imagination, employing a refined lexicon of visual language to tie together those wayward, impulsive narrative strands that make children’s stories so special.
In case you were curious about where these two girls with such amusing daydreams are today, Georgia went on to form a little band you might have heard of– Yo La Tengo. And her older sister Emily has been carrying on the family legacy, lending her sick animation skills to Nickelodeon and films like Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Whenever I get stuck in a creative rut from now on, I’m just going to watch this video over and over and over again.
Well I was going to post this on my davidlangphoto.com blog but I can’t figure out how to embed vimeo videos on it because I can’t figure out how to update its wordpress in the first place. So here it is on the deeper channel.
This was filmed on my little Canon SD780 point and shoot after I started playing around (and being totally astounded) by its macro movie function. Considering it can be had for >$270 at Futureshop, I’m still not quite sure how they fit so much technology into a camera the size of a credit card (actually) that is 0.7 inches thick and this affordable.
How did technology come this far? What’s next – cameras that make your breakfast and clean your house? Maybe they’ll call the nearest swinging website and invite an orgy over for you, then vibrate their way to satisfaction. Man, I don’t know.
Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy the video. This was filmed in the Welsh countryside starring, among other things, bees and ladybugs and me chasing sheep in a field. It’s short and shamelessly warm and fuzzy. =P
