We know flames look good on the RED camera (watch Beer + Hot Lava Rocks), but this Spike Jonze executively-produced video for Lakai is scorchingly gorgeous.
A fitting follow-up to their explosive Fully Flared video (below), this flaming “LAKAIROMANIA“ vid was created for the annual Transworld contest, Skate and Create. Skate teams are paired up with an art director and video crew for a chance at winning a coveted spot on the mag’s cover.
I’m crazy for pumpkin ales in the Fall. But yam beer? Sounds good. Looks even better.
Alyson Thomas of Drywell Art designed this separation of The Bruery‘s Autumn Maple ingredients in watercolor and ink illustration over digital background. It’s currently on The Bruery website.
I’m a lucky, lucky man. First a friend brings me back a Lando Calrissian Disguise Kit from Star Wars Celebration. Next, my awesome cuz-in-law sends me this killer Venture Bros. freebie from San Diego Comic-Con. Go Team Venture!
Though the artist Lei Xue intended them for tea, hence the title “Drinking Tea(2007),” they’d be great beer cans for the fancy new Chinese PBR, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer 1844.
Album Tacos? I expected vinyl LPs warmed and folded like tacos. Maybe filled with shredded album covers. Something you might find at Vinyl Frontier. But instead, it’s the majestically taco-fied reinterpretations you see here.
Much like the contents of a Taco Bell taco, you shouldn’t think too hard about it.
That Playboy 50th Anniversary show we posted about in February is finally opening tonight in Chicago. Playboy Redux features over 30 killer artists’ reinterpretations of the iconic Playboy Bunny.
Probably the most amazing series of commercials with the most amazing jingle in the world. Ever. There’s so much wrong. And so much right.
Even more amazing? When we stayed with my Sister In-Law in LA, her boyfriend Matt actually had a bottle of the stuff. It’s even got the jingle around the cap.
Now that’s a jingle, folks. If its melancholic nostalgia isn’t stuck in your head now, watch the rest of the series …
Madonna, David Bowie, Grace Jones, even Ace of Base … add Conan Soranno to the list of people Lady Gaga‘s ripped off.
Friend of the Ümlaut Conan, and photographer behind Addicted Image, posted this interesting side-by-side of a photo he shot three years ago and a recent Gaga pic that’s making the rounds. Between the can curlers and studded leather bedazzlements, the case is clear.
To be fair, Lady Gaga didn’t completely rip him off. She did use Diet Coke cans instead of Read the rest of this entry »
Rock Make Music & Art Fest
Sunday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The Mission, SF info
Along with the hot-ass jewelry from Blue Ribbon Salvage and rawkin’ journals from Vinyl Frontier (and a ton of other crafty types) you’ll also catch your next fav local bands. All thanks to The Bay Bridged.
Though I missed the REBEL8 “Return of the Lost Angels” event by a week (video here and recap at Fatlace) I was lucky enough to drive down Melrose in time to catch the huge bomb Mike Giant dropped on the Shepard Fairey wall at De La Barracuda.
