Pubes ar hot this year

 

Hello Girlfriend Beautiful People to return to BBC Two

Sitcom based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan. The story (transplanted to the 1997 - 2009 time period) follows Simon's childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the 'Beautiful People' - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.


Reading 1997: Simon Doonan has a dream - the dream that one day, he and his best friend, Kyle, aka Kylie, will leave suburban Reading and move to London to be with the Beautiful People. But first of all, they have to wade through their teenage years, brave their extraordinary families and cope with small-town Britain in the Nineties.

Fortunately, home for Simon is far from dull. For the Doonans, every day is an adventure which usually ends either in hospital or at the police station, and nearly always at the bottom of a bottle of homemade chicken and mushroom wine. On top of that, family and friends all feel the need to burst into song at the slightest opportunity.

Bottle-blonde mum, Debbie, and her Irish husband, Andy, fight fiercely to protect not just Simon but also his "ghetto princess" sister, 16-year-old Ashlene. Debbie's best friend, "aunty" Hayley, lives under the same roof and her blindness doesn't stop her driving, looking for love and reliving her protesting days at Greenham Common.
The comedy starts in the present day in Barneys window, New York. Soon though Simon begins to reminisce and we're transported back to 1997 where a thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric.
Mum Debbie is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen. Then there's family the lodgers: blind Aunty Hayley, and lobotomised grandma Narg ('gran' backwards) who lost God and found a foul mouth.

 

Beautiful People - BBC2 every friday 10pm

Fallen Princesses

Dina Goldstein

Snowy

Cinder

 Belle

Beauty

 
Not so little Red Riding Hood

Back to Kling Klang: New Kraftwerk Album in 2010...

 

German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are planning on entering the studio to record their eleventh studio album, their first since 2003's Tour de France Soundtracks.
In an interview with Billboard, co-founder and sole original member Ralf Hutter revealed that the project is "still in its embryonic stage," but that the group are currently hard at work in their Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf.

"There's still time to go but in the winter it's pretty grey here, so it's a good situation to go into the studio," Hutter said.
The album will be the group's first without founding member Florian Schneider, who eight-disc box set due out November 17. The collection is being released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Kraftwerk's breakthrough hit, 1974's Autobahn.

 

Become a Saint

 

Big Top

 

Big Top

A colourful, upbeat comedy set in and around a travelling circus, Big Top stars Amanda Holden, John Thomson, Sophie Thompson, Tony Robinson, Ruth Madoc and Bruce Mackinnon.

What do you do when you've advertised a death-defying stunt that everyone has bought tickets to see, and the performer is just a little bit too injured? How do you manage a group of people who are so jealous of each other that they are happy to sabotage their colleagues' performances? What do you do about others who are so dedicated as performers that they are willing to sabotage their own chances of survival? How do you hold onto your star acrobat when he is being chased by immigration officials?

Fraught with problems and dealing with a cacophony of egos, Ring Mistress Lizzie must somehow keep the whole thing going.

Big Top... Coming soon to BBC One.

Well, I certainly never thought that was going to happen...

 

I mean, he is guilty, but who the fuck cares dude? America can be really retarded sometimes, if you disagree watch this, and let's discuss.

Don't forget the very best Polanski film!

 

Solar trees forecast a future where gadgets are charged on beaches

If our gadget dependency continues to worsen, this could be what our beaches will look like.

Shameless: Series 7 - Preview

 

Filming has begun on sixteen brand new episodes of Channel 4’s drama series Shameless, to air in 2010. Find out what's coming up!

Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) finds a new love this series with the arrival of local librarian Libby, played by Shameless newcomer Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Jam & Jerusalem). Libby’s passion for romantic literature wakes in Frank something that has been dormant for so long… and then he meets her mum Patty (Valerie Lilley – The Catherine Tate Show) who might just put a spanner in the works.
Eight months on from the tragic loss of Mandy, the Maguire family are preparing to welcome a new addition to the clan, a baby son for Karen (Rebecca Atkinson) and Jamie Maguire (Aaron McCusker). And baby Connor’s arrival doesn’t mean Joe Pritchard (Ben Batt) will loosen his hold on Karen, who soon discovers that motherhood brings on some unwanted Jackson family traits.
The Jockey’s got a new landlady – Mimi Maguire (Tina Malone) so Patrick (Sean Gilder) has to come to terms with their separate living arrangements.

While Kelly (Sally Carman) takes her new godparent duties to the extreme, boyfriend Shane Maguire (Nicky Evans) gets involved with wedding scams – and then thinks about a wedding of his own.
Micky Maguire (Ciaran Griffiths) and Ian Gallagher (Gerard Kearns) now share a bungalow together, as the perfect odd couple.
Meanwhile over at the Gallaghers, Liam (Johnny Bennett) hits senior school and develops his first crush, and Carl (Elliott Tittensor) and girlfriend Maxine (Joanna Higson) get adventurous in the bedroom.

Tron Legacy Trailer

I have to admit, when they first announced a Tron sequel at last year’s Comic Con, I was intrigued but not really all that sure how well the concept would work 28 years later. It’s true that digital graphics and computer animation are a thousand times more advanced than they were back then, but the entire idea of getting sucked into a computer’s grid-like world now just seems dated somehow.

Well, nevermind, you can forget all that because the first trailer for Tron 2 (now titled Tron Legacy) has finally been unveiled online, and it has completely blown me away! I guess this is basically the same footage that they Comic Con attendees got to see last year, and it’s just a single scene showing off an intense light cycle duel. But man, the look and feel of this is absolutely gorgeous… I can only imagine how it will look in 3-D. The movie is supposed to be out sometime in 2010, and I, for one, can’t wait. Check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.

 

Tent Camping for the City Dweller

 

Fun way to camp out in urban areas with this car shaped tent

 

Brüno is so 2009

DUST off your best D&G thong and Nair your kugelsacks, “the biggest film about a hot white guy since The Passion of the Christ” is upon us.

In case you have been living in a cave, the film, of course, is Bruno, and the title character is Jewish entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest incarnation -– remember Borat and Ali G before him -– an impossibly gay, anti-Semitic, promiscuous, Austrian fashion reporter.
Following an unfortunate incident involving a suit made entirely of Velcro at a runway show, Bruno is unceremoniously dumped from his own TV series about fashion and is “schwarz-listed” from Vienna’s hottest nightspots and glitterati events. 

Bruno heads to LA to become a celebrity, with his former assistant’s assistant in toe.
Once in LA, Bruno hatches a series of harebrained schemes to get famous quickly. He tries to launch a TV show, which is part pornography, part Parkinson he accessorises with an African baby, tries to broker peace in the Middle East and attempts to become a heterosexual “like Tom Cruise”.
There’s something to offend everyone in Bruno, including pygmy porn, fetishism, anal bleaching, dildo fights, a talking penis and Holocaust jokes.
Like 2006’s Borat, Bruno combines mockumentary narrative with his set-ups of unwitting celebrities, clergymen, rednecks, politicians and plain, ordinary folk.

It is the latter where the humour lies, but these set-pieces don’t always fit seamlessly within the narrative arc, although more often than not they are thigh-slappingly hilarious.
The film does suffer slightly from not having a fresh format -– for all intents and purposes it is the same as Borat, but with a different stereotype at its centre -– but Baron Cohen ups the ante, serving up more vulgarity, more peak-through-your-fingers, agape awkwardness and even less regard for his own personal safety.
It’s offensive, grossly inappropriate, and laugh-out-loud funny for the most part, although it does fall away towards the end as the film meanders to its star-studded, but unimpressive conclusion.
While Baron Cohen’s brand of rattlesnake poking still elicits laughs, getting reactions out of some of the bigots and religious zealots he picks on is like fishing at a trout farm.
In fact, sometimes it’s easier to sympathise with the misguided souls Bruno is bating than Bruno himself.
The format is fun, but it’s not cutting-edge any more and while the film suffers slightly from this, there are enough uproariously hilarious moments to keep it humming along nicely.

My rating:  

Upload bigger Youtube videos & new HD embed option

 

Youtube is getting loads of HD (high definition) video content. As expected, to prep up more HD content on the website Youtube has doubled the allowed video size uploads. Now you can upload videos upto 2GB in size as against 1GB. This means you can upload videos with higher resolution and longer duration on Youtube.

Besides the bump in video size, Youtube now has new embed option for displaying HD videos. On video page click on customize button on the right side. Check or tick the play HD option and copy the embed code to display HD video on your blog or website. This is welcome addition to existing HD video link sharing hack discussed earlier. Youtube gets bigger with better HD sharing options, cool! [via Youtube Blog]

The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010

 

The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft’s announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010. There’s even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting its three screens strategy, which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop, for some time now.

With the release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Visio 2010, we finally see the implementation of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s mantra. We had the opportunity to see an in-depth demo of the new suite of products from Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Office 2010, Chris Bryant. Here’s a complete breakdown of all the functionality that has been added, including screenshots:

The Move To The Browser

Most certainly a direct response to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions of these products have fewer features than their desktop cousins but still give users basic tools to edit and change documents.

PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint has been upgraded not only with a new browser version, but also a slew of bells and whistles have been added to the desktop version. Users now have the capability of editing video and images within PowerPoint with a basic video editing tool (not so different from the capabilities of iMovie) and an image editing tool, which is like a basic, simple version of Adobe Photoshop. Microsoft has also added the ability for users to launch a WebEx-like live sharing feature with other users. So if you create a slideshow in PowerPoint, you can share it with other people in real-time (which can be run on top of Sharepoint).

Here’s what the video editing tools look like in PowerPoint:

To share a deck with other users, you send an email to individuals with a link. Once they click the link, they will see the slideshow within the browser. This feature can also be used on a mobile phone’s browser. You can also create a slideshow in the desktop version and then publish it to the web version to access it via the browser. The browser version of PowerPoint doesn’t include the video editing features, but most of the functionality of 2008 is included in the browser version.

Excel 2010

Excel spreadsheets can now run in the browser, and similar to PowerPoint, spreadsheets can be published to the browser via the desktop version. The browser version of Excel has limited features, but offers more in-depth functionality than Google Spreadsheets. Microsoft has added a particularly innovative feature called Sparklines, which gives a visual snapshot image of a data trend over time within a cell. You can also share Excel via the browser with other users and set special permissions on who can access the document.

Here’s what the web version of Excel looks like:

Word 2010

Bryant says that the number one piece of feedback from users producing documents on Microsoft Word is that they want to preserve the look and feel of a document created in the desktop version in the browser. Microsoft calls this “document fidelity” and created the browser version of MS Word accordingly. In the browser, documents retain the same look and feel as in the desktop. The browser version still has the “ribbon user interface,” where you can change fonts, size, formatting, styles etc.

An image of the web version of Word:

Microsoft has also updated the desktop version to have collaborative features so that multiple users can be editing a document at once. This collaboration is not available in the web version, unfortunately. Microsoft says that users don’t want this feature but this might be a move to protect the Office revenue model.

When two people are editing the same document (in the desktop version) at the same time, Word will notify each user when there are changes that need to be synced with their document. The copy/paste function of the desktop version has also received an upgrade, where you can see see a live preview for the paste function. The paste function also has an advanced option to create and insert screenshots. To make moving around a long document easier, Word now has a visual navigation pane and section header breakdown which makes it easy to jump around different sections of a document.

Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 now has a ribbon user interface, like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The UI of email conversations has been upgraded to look almost like a message tree, allowing users a more visual view of sent and incoming emails. Search functionality has been improved as well, making it much easier to find content. Also, you can preview calendars in emails and choose to ignore selective email conversations.

Sharepoint 2010

Like Outlook, Sharepoint now gets a ribbon UI, making the document-hosting product more similar to Microsoft’s flagship products, like Word. You can tag authors of documents now and can share documents and files more easily.

Microsoft says that its browser versions have been tested on all major browsers aside from internet Explorer, including Firefox and Safari. Office 2010 is still being tested and reworked to function on Chrome. Microsoft also announced that it is streamlining the number of Office editions from eight to five. Office Web applications will be available in three ways: through Windows Live, where consumers will have access to Office Web applications at no cost; via on-premises versions; and via Microsoft Online Services, where customers will be able to purchase a subscription of MS Office. Microsoft says Office 2010 will be available in the first half of next year.

The key part of all of this news is the free, browser-based versions of Microsoft’s most popular Office products. Bryant says that Microsoft expects the browser products to be especially popular amongst student, but I think that the web-based applications will be hugely popular in the enterprise space as well, as long as there are security precautions taken to put documents in a secure part of the cloud.

But as more and more businesses are becoming comfortable with trusting cloud environments, Microsoft’s move to the browser could pay off in a big way, especially because it’s so easy to use both the desktop and browser versions of products interchangeably. The more successful Microsoft is in its browser strategy, the more they validate Google’s approach in the space, which will eventually put price pressure on Office.

Wikipedia a book?

 

Psychoville to air on BBC2

Psychoville, directed by Matt Lipsey and written by The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, is a seven-part, cliff-hanging comedy thriller that weaves the lives of several apparently unconnected oddballs into a complex tale of blackmail and thwarted desire.

The series features an embittered one-handed clown; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child, all of whom are being blackmailed by a mysterious black-gloved stranger. 

Starring alongside Pemberton and Shearsmith, the cast includes Dawn French, Dame Eileen Atkins, Nicholas Le Prevost, David Bamber, Janet McTeer, Christopher Biggins, Daisy Haggard, Debbie Chazen, and Adrian Scarborough.  

The series is also being supported heavily online - with a website promising "The Psychoville Experience" - including video and interactive comedy related to the show.

Psychoville begins on BBC2 on Thursday 18 June at 10pm

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The landing

 

Nieuwe bevlagging Christinastraat

Ik heb de nieuwe vlaggen ontworpen die de volledige zomer zullen wapperen boven de Christinastraat.

 

     

Amazing Chewing Gum Sculptures

Over the last 10 years, italian artist Maurizio Savini has been creating a series of sculptures using thousands of pieces of chewing gum. His works have been exhibited internationally and some of his pieces have sold for over € 55,000. Some of his best artworks below.

 

 

 

Ça plane pour moi ?

 

Lou De Pryck wordt de laatste jaren vooral geportretteerd als bon vivant en notoire vrouwengek, maar hij heeft in zijn rijk gevulde carrière bijna 20 miljoen platen verkocht. Lou is nu 59, resideert een groot deel van het jaar in Pattaya, maar brengt de zomermaanden nog steeds door in zijn geboortedorp Lessines.

Lou & The Hollywood Banana’s kennen we ondere andere van de hit ‘Kingston, Kingston’ lou was ook de ontdekker van muzikale ontdekkingen zoals Viktor Lazlo en David Linx.

Van hun ander hit ‘Disco Samba’ verkocht Two Men Sound plots 1.000.000 platen  Mexico?

Maar Lou heeft nog meer op zijn palmares staan. Vaak werd hem verweten dat hij niet echt muziek kon maken. Hij was dan ook gefrustreerd dat hij in het wereldje niet serieus werd genomen. Met die reden in het achterhoof maakte werd hij de man en zanger achter de  wereldhit ‘Ca plane pour moi’. Hij vroeg Plastic Bertrand als gezicht van het nummer.  Later echter toen het liedje al lang een monsterhit beweerde Plastic het nummer zelf te hebben ingezongen. Met als gevolg dat de strijd werd uitgevochten voor de rechtbank.  Het vonnis sprak in het nadeel voor Lou. Volgens de rechter kon Bertrand bewijzen dat hij de zanger was.

Japanse space-saving kitchen appliance

Somwhere over the rainbow

 

'WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE' temporary back in Rijksmuseum

Vermeer’s Milkmaid and Woman Holding a Balance will be temporarily reunited in Amsterdam after 300 years. Vermeer devotees will recall that these two paintings were auctioned off there to the same buyer at the Dissius sale of 21 Vermeer paintings in 1696, 21 years after the artist had died.

Although these works are divergent in theme and technique and were made years apart, I can’t think of a more revealing couple in all of Vermeer’s oeuvre. The Milkmaid is the personification of earthly sunlight. The Woman Holding a Balance, on the other hand, possesses a moon-like splendor that when observed directly, eclipses even it own complicated allegorical structure. The viewer has the sensation that it is possible to physically penetrate the space of picture’s crystal-clear penumbra had it not been for the sacral figure of the young woman who waits for her scales to  balance.

Woman Holding a Balance
11 March to 1 June 2009
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

So don't mis this exclusive opportunity

Watching sport on TV is a real art form

It is common knowledge amongst sports fans that players can hear you when you shout at a TV, and when you give them coaching advice after a bad decision, they always listen. This shouting often makes chairs useless as viewers stand up to try and get noticed.

Rafa nadal winner of the australian open 2°°9

Nadal became the first Spanish man to win the Australian Open, beating Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 in a momentum-swinging, 4-hour, 22-minute final that finished just after midnight on Sunday.

Federer, trying to equal Sampras’ record, sobbed at the trophy presentation.

 

 

“Maybe I’ll try later. God, it’s killing me,” Federer said, crying. He returned to congratulate Nadal within minutes, saying: “You deserved it. You played a fantastic final.”

 

It was the first Australian Open men’s final to go to five sets since Mats Wilander beat Pat Cash in 1988, the first at Melbourne Park.

 

Niels Albert World Champion Cyclocross 2°°9

In a race he stamped his mark on early, Niels Albert showed that he is fully back from that nasty crash in November and finished ahead of Zdenek Stybar of the Czech Republic and fellow Belgian Sven Nys.

Albert built a small lead by the end of the first lap and continued to build the gap during the course of the race. With two laps to go, he had 20 seconds on Stybar, who in turn was leading Nys by about 20 seconds. The gaps up front didn’t change much from that point until the end, as Albert was able to cruise home in relative comfort.

Defending world champion Lars Boom was right in the think of things early on, but he had to change bikes 20 minutes into the race and was unable to make up all that lost time.

 

Jongen A

Het werd duidelijk tijd om wat te lezen en dat ben ik dan ook de laatste tijd aan het doen. Ik geniet er van en snak de laatste tijd echt naar de wachtzaal bij de dokter of een ritje met de trein zodat ik wat verder kan lezen. 
Dit keer viel mijn oog op het boek
Jongen A van de auteur J. Trigel

Stel je voor: je bent vijfentwintig en hebt de helft van je leven in de gevangenis gezeten. Je komt eruit met een nieuwe naam, een nieuwe baan en nieuwe Nikes. Maar verdient Jongen A wel een tweede kans?

Andrew staat sinds zijn veroordeling bekend als ‘jongen A’. In zijn jeugd heeft hij een gruwelijke moord op een leeftijdgenootje begaan, maar na zijn vrijlating ligt de wereld aan zijn voeten. Hij kiest een nieuwe naam (Jack, van ‘jackpot’ en ‘blackjack’) en bouwt hij stap voor stap een nieuw leven op.

Vissticks en vrouwen
Alles is nieuw en onwennig voor Jack. Bakt hij vissticks, dan branden ze aan. Gaat hij uit, dan moet hij opletten dat hij niet al dronken is na drie biertjes. En vrouwen versieren, hoe moet dat? Jack voelt zich onzeker en naïef. Maar zijn collega Michelle ziet hem wel zitten en de twee beginnen een relatie.

Knokpartijen
Niet alles gaat van een leiden dakje. Hoe hard Jack ook zijn best doet om ‘volgens de regels’ te leven, een knokpartij en een pilletje zijn niet uit te sluiten. Zijn geweten – en daarmee zijn ware identiteit – speelt hem parten. Zelfs wanneer hij een meisje uit een autowrak redt, pakt het negatief uit. Want met een heldenfoto in de krant is het moeilijk incognito door het leven te gaan.

Hoewel Jack in het boek wordt aanzien door zijn medemensen als een gruwelijk monster. Krijg je als lezer sympathie voor deze persoon. Een confronterende roman, spannend opgebouwd in korte hoofdstukken, geschreven in een bezwerende stijl. Hoe verder je leest hoe meer je hoopt op een goede afloop.

je wil hem het liefst in één ruk uitlezen

 

Weeds

Ik zit de laatste dagen de serie Weeds te verslinden. Eén van de meest besproken en ieder geval ook origineelste Amerikaanse comedyreeksen van het moment is ongetwijfeld deze serie over de alleenstaande moeder Nancy Botwin, die na de dood van haar echtgenoot weed begint te dealen om haar levensstandaard enigszins op peil te houden.

Ook de tittelsong is super.

Een volmaakte kelner – A C Sulzer

‘Monsieur Erneste’ is al decennialang kelner in een Grand Hotel ergens in Zwitserland. Hij is attent, hoffelijk, onopvallend, onberispelijk: een volmaakte kelner. Maar achter die kreukloze façade brandt de herinnering aan een grote, verboden liefde van dertig jaar geleden.

In 1935 beleeft Erneste een zomer vol passie met de knappe, charmante leerling-kelner Jakob. Het zorgeloze geluk duurt echter maar kort. Jakob bedriegt Erneste met de beroemde en rijke Duitse schrijver Julius Klinger, die met zijn gezin in het hotel logeert. En als Klinger moet vluchten voor de nazi’s, gaat Jakob met hem mee naar New York als zijn privé-secretaris en geheime minnaar.

Dertig jaar gaan voorbij, waarin Erneste niets van Jakob hoort maar nog wel elke dag aan hem denkt. Dan krijgt hij een brief uit New York, die hij pas na twee dagen durft te openen. Een brief van ‘Jack’, zoals Jakob nu heet. Het gaat slecht, hij heeft geld nodig. Erneste moet dat voor hem gaan halen, bij de man voor wie Jakob hem in de steek liet…

'Een volmaakte kelner'  toont hoe de liefde soms wonden slaat die zelfs de tijd niet kan helen. Sulzer weigert hier echter elke vorm van pathetiek aan te verspillen. Dat maakt 'Een volmaakte kelner' tot een heel mooie, ingehouden roman voor lezers die aan één woord genoeg hebben.

Amazing song - Super Clip

What's wrong?

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends ?

A guy walks into a toystore and asks the salesperson for assistance...
"Tomorrow is my nieces birthday and I would like to buy her a doll", he tells the woman. "I seem to remember there's this doll that's very popular amongst the little ones"
The salesperson takes the man to the pink isle, full of Barbie-stuff and grabs a box. "This is Barbie as ...  Meer lezena stewardess, very popular. Only 29.95 euro."

"Another popular model is Barbie as Cinderella", she continues. "Also 29.95 euro."
"We also have barbie as a ballerina, again 29.95 euro"
The man doesn't know what to pick, so the saleswoman goes on: "This is our latest model: Barbie in divorce court, this is a slightly more expensive gift at 250 euro"
The box with Barbie in divorce court is no bigger than the others, so the man asks the woman why that one is so much more expensive.
"Ah, but sir, when you buy Barbie in divorce court, you also get Ken's house, Ken's car, Ken's speedboat..."

thx to J¨rn

Borsten?

Waltz with Bashir

I went yesterday to the film Waltz with Bashir at the Ostend Filmfestival.  Waltz with Bashir is a remarkable, haunting and intense work, quite unlike any animated film I‘ve ever seen... Hand drawn in a crude, colorful underground-comics style, it captures Folman‘s struggle to recapture his lost memories of what he saw and what he did during Israel‘s ill-fated 1980s war in Lebanon... While trying to work his way out of a severe depression, Folman contacted many of his former military comrades, along with a psychiatrist friend and a neurologist who specializes in memory impairment. The film combines pieces of these interviews with fragmentary episodes drawn from these men‘s memories, dreams and perhaps fantasies...

Waltz with Basir is an extraordinary film.

 

 

emotions - pick your favorite for today

New art from Cristo?

The end of the seagull

 

I really felt like wacking some seagulls today...

...When I grow UP...

 

Cool animated illusion

Animated Illusion, Solved! - Watch today’s top amazing videos here

The Supersizers go Restoration

Great New program on BBC 2, every saturday night @ 6:35 pm
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins try the food of Restoration Britain in the 1660s, a time of fire and plague.

In the Supersizers go Restoration, chef Allegra McEvedy struggles to make a 17th century style eel pie.

The Bristol Airport Express

 

What is it about people using mobile phones on trains that is so endlessly fascinating? This morning, a young boy stepped onto the Bristol Airport Express opened his mobile phone, and the following ensued:

 

a new film made by AIGO

weird sports

Humans have been taking part in sporting events for thousands of years, and now we’ve got ESPN to broadcast them 24 hours a day! However, you aren’t going to see these gems on TV even if you’re watching at 2am. We’ve got a little of everything here from Camel Wrestling to Bog Snorkelling and Cheese Rolling to Ladder Racing. And if anyone knows of other insane sports to add please drop a comment below. Now, on with the madness!

Ladder Racing:

Screw the ladder truck. I want THESE guys as firemen!

 

Chess Boxing

I’ve got an idea… let’s take something extremely cerebral like chess and combine it
with skull cracking boxing!

 

Wife Carrying

Hey, I’m 6′1″ and my wife is 4′ 10″. We’ve actually got a shot at this one!

 

 

Camel Wrestling

All right. I guess if you live in the desert with nothing better to do…

Are you been shagged ?

 

 

"Sorry I’m late everyone, my heater broke and my pussy was frozen solid. And by that I mean my vagina."

Hilarious skit from the Chaser parodying the humor employed by Are You Being Served?, in their own creation, Are You Being Shagged?

Pregnantboy

 

The wombats

The Wombats are a three-piece indie band from Liverpool, England. They comprise of two native Liverpudlians; front man Matthew Murphy, provider of voice, guitar and keyboards, drummer and b-vocalist Dan Haggis and bass and additional vocalist Tord Øverland-Knudsen, a Norwegian who has made his home in the city. The three met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. The school gave them the chance to play gigs to over 20,000 people in China. This was one of the band’s first trips to play outside the UK.

Moving to New York

Kill the director

Party in a forest

THE Beatles are dead, long live the Wombats. A new Liverpool band and I wanted to be the first to put the Beatles in the same breath as them. It is unfair to tag all Liverpool bands with the Beatles legend but it will start to happen with this three piece.

The winner is

YouTube.com announced on Friday the winners of the site’s annual awards. YouTube users voted the winners of the following categories: music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and "adorable." There were six nominees for each category.

Firts place in Creative

 

 

For the rest of the results please visit  YouTube Video Awards 07

Own a piece of internet history

The million Dollar Home - page is a website project of a 21 year old student that earned him $1 million. in short, he set up this website to sell one pixel for 1 dollar to everybody who is interested to display his logo on this page. The student claims that he was desperated to find money to pay for his studie expenses. The projected attracted a lot of media.

BUTT BOOK

I got a copy of the Butt Book by Taschen from Erwin for Valentine The best of the first 5 years of BUTT magazine adventures in 21^st century gay subculture.

It was May 2001 when the first issue of butt magazine landed with bang. It was about time to shake up the commodified, clean-clut image of homosexuality. And that’s exactly what BUTT magazine has been doing for the past five years. With its shockingly simple format of true, explicit Q&A’s and candid photographs, BUTT proves that subversive gayness is still very much alive in minds of today’s homosexual men. From the homo pop star to the fashion designer, from the garbage man to the gay farmer- they show it all and tell on BUTT’s pink pages.

 

A lot of material from the now rare, earlier issues of butt magazine is finally made available again in this anthology of the first five years of BUTT, including conversations with Michael Stipe, Gus Van Sant, Rufus Wainwright, Marc Jacobs, as well as contributions from Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Hedi Slimane, asiapunkboy and Helmut Lang, just to name a few. “BUTT has single-handedly pioneered the notion of smart, literate gay magazine yet also manages to be very dirty.” Notes filmmaker Bruce LaBruce in his foreword.” BUTT fills a hole.”

Kreatief met kurk

In het begin van de jaren negentig zond de Nederlandse TV-zender VPRO het programma Kreatief met Kurk uit. Het ‘cursus’-programma begint altijd met een les door de wat idiote cursusleider Peter van de Pood (Arjan Ederveen) en de altijd representatieve Ellen B. (Tosca Niterink). Aan de hand van thema’s als eenzaamheid, passie, natuur, geloof en dood, worden diverse kunstvoorwerpen week na week in elkaar geknutseld met slechts één basismateriaal: kurk. Het ziet er allemaal ontzettend knullig uit, maar het is ook behoorlijk grappig.

 

 

 

 

Omdat je een programma van een half uur moeilijk alleen met kurk kunt vullen, worden er ook heel andere zaken bijgehaald. Bij ‘Lees verder’ één les ‘Kreatief met Kurk’ en de hilarische parodie van Bassie en Adriaan, Passie en Adriaan, uit hetzelfde programma.

 

Deze zal je je zeker nog herinneren. De legendarische Teleac-parodie van de cursus Spaans. De Mexicaan van dienst moet zijn boodschappen laten zien, maar hij begrijpt de gringa - de vrouwelijke gringo - van de cursus niet zo goed.

 

Ook sesamstraat kon niet aan een parodie ontsnappen.  Hilarisch hoe hier het Belgisch accent wordt na gebootst. BEmerk ook de vergelijking met het kapsel van Sien Diels.

 

Natuurlijk kan je nog veel meer filmpjes bekijken op you tube. Maar voor echte freaks of verzamelaars is er natuurlijk ook de dvd kreatief met kurk en sinds kort is ook kreatrief met kurk deel II op dvd te verkrijgen.

De dvd-box is hier te koop.

The Masters of the Universe

He-Man and the master of the universe used to be my brothers favorite cartoon. He-Man is a heroic fictional character in a toy series. The animated series He-Man and the Master of the Universe was produced by Filmation studios.The television series was premiered from 1983-1985 for a run of 130 episodes.
In the series, He-Man and his friends defend Eternia and the secrets castle of Grayskull from the evil forces of Skeletor.

 

 

The series took place on the planet of Eternia, ruled by the good King Randor and Queen Marlena, and his handsome Prince Adam. He-man is a barbarian on the world of Eternia which is great deal of war that has devastated the civilization. In the evil villain Skeletor was live in a dark corner of the kingdom as snake mountain planning to invade castle Grayskull and council of elders.The sorceress of castle grayskull called the goodness giveshe-man special powers and weapon to defend the secret of castle grayskull from the villain skeletor. Prince Adam get his sword and shouted by the power of grayskull where he transformed into superpower He-Man the hero's allies included the sorceress the force behind adams good works, his comical sidekick Orko, a trollan magician, Adam pet tiger Cringer. On the side of evil ,Skeletor cronies included the Beastman, evil Lyn the Witch, Shotoki the mistress of the night the demon, Negator and Gargon warrior

 

He-man and the Master of the universe spin-off by the year 1985. Five years later the new adverture of he man was set in 2003 by the cartoon network. The tv shows explore the origins of various character among other things, that Skeletor was keldor, twin brother of Ethernia's king Randor and He-man uncle.

La Linea

 

I loved watching La Linea when I was a kid,La Linea was an Italian animated series in which the character of an infinite drawn line interacted with the cartoonist/animator (a very minimalist Duck Amuck). Like the very best pantomime cartoons, La Linea is pure animation; although there’s dialogue, it’s essentially gibberish, and all the storytelling is done by the drawing. If you recognize the voice of La Linea, it’s Carlo Bonomi, the voice of Pingu.

 

Good Lord, it was completely weird. Against a bright, primary coloured background, a human hand drew the outline of a big-nosed, bad-tempered, constantly squawking little man, whose strange 'adventures' always started out well, but then bad things began to happen to him well before the end. I remember him having half his face shot off and being tormented by a monkey in a palm tree, with that unsettling bass-voiced "Ah yom be dom, a yom be dom" scat-singing going on in the background all the while. It was a warped precursor to the 'Mr Bill' shorts made famous by Saturday Night Live, if you like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Linea

by Volker Weber

un cousin a Paris

 

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Daft Punk

10 Years Ago, Daft Punk Redefined Music.........
Now They Have Redefined The Live Performance.......

Alive 2007 is Daft Punk’s second live album, following Alive 1997. The live compilation will be available in Europe November 19th, but December 4th in the US (due to production issues) but a digital version of the album will be available November 20th. The French duo are dishing out some crazy, wicked beats the world over and remind us of their greatest work.

 

 

 

Daft's long-awaited live album has officially leaked and it's about time! Recorded live on June 14, 2007 in Paris, Alive isn't as thrilling as attending a live Daft Punk show, but it's certainly still an enjoyable album. Each track is a fusion of two different Daft Punk songs mixed together in such a creative way that only the Parisian duo themselves can pull off. Normally, in my entries, I describe what bands sound like...but if you have no idea what Daft Punk sound like, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog in the first place. Alive is a fun enough album to appeal to both serious and casual Daft Punk fans, so download it and start your own dance party.