Screenhead : Nifty

Munchausen

Paul Matusheski's short film in which the hero goes out to a resutrant every night and purposely chokes on his food "to make a hero out of some lucky restaurant patron." A cool idea well filmed.

Based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel Choke (thanks to Bidwell in the comments).

Moresukine

Moresukine is comic artist Dirk Schwieger's journal of his adventures in Japan. Slices of Dirk's life kept neatly in a Moleskine notebook ("Moresukine" being an approximation of the Japanese pronunciation for Moleskine) become a compelling online read as he books around Japan guided by suggestions from his readers. Dirk's style is crisp and to the point, and it makes for a fascinating bit of voyeurism. In the latest instalment, Dirk unflinchingly encounters the potentially deadly puffer fish dish Fugu, which is the exact opposite of how we ourselves once encountered it. We're usually willing to die for relatively little reward, but not for a thin slice of mucus.

Moresukine
ASSIGNMENT 24: fugu

Via American Walrus

Calder's Circus

Carlos Vilardebó's movie based on sculptor Alexander Calder's Circus, a complex automation composed of cork and wire and other bits of stuff which knocked `em dead in 1927. Vilardebó's surprisingly funny movie captures Calder making the tiny wire and wood circus performers do their thing after what must have been a maelstrom of painstakingly planning shit out. Via Metafilter.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Squeezytunes

Unfortunately the "Heavy Metal Accordion" video which was the initial tip off to this fine site seems to unavailable, we had such a good time at accordion-centric site Squeezytunes that we figured it was worth a link all the same. Anyone else run into a formerly acceptable roommate who bought a stylophone at a thrift store and you had to move less than 5 days later? Just us? Yeah, we didn't think so. The thrift store equivalent of herpes, they are.

Squeezytunes also has a fine post informing us that through the Delhi Musical Stores website we can design our own harmonium. You know, in case we wake up with a burning need for self-punnishment.

Squeezytunes
With thanks to The Eccentric Genius

Judas Priest Turbo TV ads

Real Judas Priest fans know that they went right to shit after 1982's Screaming For Vengeance because that's when we arbitrarily stopped liking them and we say so, but that aside, these short television ads for 1985's synth-ifed album Turbo are possibly the greatest things we've seen since the last post we said "this is the greatest thing we've ever seen." By the way, did anyone not know Rob was gay before he announced it? Turbo has a giant angry penis on it for crissakes.

tube'd by Infernolord

Joe Sacco

Two fabulous Joe Sacco "comics journalism" strips were made available earlier this month through UK news outlet The Guardian: Trauma on Loan, a look at our methods of making friends and influencing people in Iraq, then Complacency Kills, which is all about kittens playing with colorful bits of yarn. Both are downloadable as PDFs, which used to be a dirty word until Foxit rescued us from the vile bloated clutches of Adobe.

Trauma on Loan pdf, 3.20 Mb.
Complacency Kills Pdf 36.4 Mb.

Toothpick & the Microwave

This is what happens when you put a ToothPick in a Microwave. As seen on Brainiac: Science Abuse.

Via

Schmelzdahin -- City in Flames

"The basis of this film by Jochen M�ller, Jochen Lempert and J�rgen Reble is found footage from the French-Canadian feature film �Ville en flamme'. Before the pictures and soundtrack were reworked, the original footage was buried in the garden, deliberately exposed to bacteria and microbes, and copied when the emulsion began to liquefy. The dissolution of the images � that is, the visible decomposition of the layer of film bearing the pictures � provides a visual equivalent to the disaster that forms the subject of the original film."

In other words, the pitchers look reel purdy all messed up.

Schmelzdahin -- City in Flames [medienkunstnetz]
Via Metafilter

Negativland -- truth in advertising

A snappy little number from 1997 by everyone's favorite, Negativland.

Tube'd by pqbbc

And say, isn't it time we got on board with Squant? What with the Hi-Def and all.

A Scanner Darkly trailer remix

The SUPER!ALRIGHT! media collective remixes the trailer for Richard Linklater's upcoming film A Scanner Darkly.
We're willing to bet this is what it feels like inside Keanu Reeves' head nearly all of the time.

A Scanner Darkly trailer remix [SUPER!ALRIGHT!]

Inspiration

Carlos Lascano's crispy short made from only still photos.

If you're not careful, you may learn something before it's done

Artist Saxton Moore invited readers of his great blog Sacks10 to do their own take on characters from the Fat Albert cartoon. The end results are amazing, with appearances by other Cosbyverse regulars like Weird Harold and Russell. Albert the Fat, 13th century duke of Brunswick-L�neburg, does not appear. Limbless Later-Years Diabetes Victim Fat Albert also remains unmentioned. Sadly, Bill Cosby.inc will now have to sue every last one of these dirty infringers to a bloody pink pulp for their efforts.

Sacks10: ...and the winners are
Via Drawn

Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing

Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing -- a documentary from 1972 on the network which would become the internet, the ARPAnet. Interestingly, this network which was initially intended for use by the military to talk to itself after the tits have been blown off of everything else by commies would be the current administration's idea of "safe for kids."

Happy Day

Happy Day: A cool quick shot of colorful dishappiness from Prozac-depleted up-and-comers Bender Films.

We'd buy that for a dollar

Electronic act Ex Models let loose with Sex Automata. Feels like the bastard kid of Paris Hilton and Twiki from Buck Rogers.

Ex Models - Sex Automata [French Kiss Records]