Animated Kurt Cobain interview

Here's an incredible animation by Blank on Blank of an interview that took place between the late Kurt Cobain and Jon Savage back in 1993. After watching this I'm feeling kind of 'happysad,' as my buddy Siam would say.

 

Bloc Party announce new EP

The Nextwave Sessions EP was written during Bloc Party's 2012 touring season, and will consist of five tracks. These tracks are said to be a 'natural continuation' of the band's previous record Four. The lead single of the EP has a video, and it's directed by Cyriak, one of my favourite animators of weird things. Watch some more of Cyriak's twisted shorts here.

Ratchet has been billed as the 'punchiest' track on the EP, and the boys have delivered one hell of a catchy track. No word yet if The Nextwave Sessions will get a physical release, or be a digital only release.

Are the Queens of the Stone Age really missing?

I appear missing is the second single taken from Queens of the Stone Age's '...Like clockwork' and the first to be released with a music video. I'm a big fan of the style of animation chosen for the video, as well as the song. I was a little apprehensive after listening to the first single from the album, but after hearing I appear missing I feel more confident that this album is going to be another absolute goodie, perhaps even on a par with Songs for the Deaf.

An interesting observation is that a single quotation mark is used to at the beginning of the sub title, while double quotation marks are used at the end. The single opening apostrophe also appears to be backwards, for it's placement relative to the text. The three punctuation marks together look like a series of '9s.' So far a lot of the imagery used to promote the album has featured various time telling devices displaying 9 o'clock (or 9:99 in the case of the digital wrist watches), or have three '9s' visible somewhere in the picture.

I'm not yet sure of the significance of all the '9' references, other that three inverted nines makes '666,' the supposed "number of the beast."

I'm installing Windows 8...

Despite having watched the video by Brian Boyko (below), and having read several negative reviews about the user-unfriendliness of Windows 8 Pro, I am currently installing it on my PC after the hard drive died on 21 December 2012. 

I'll let you know what I think about it once it's finished installing.

Shake vigorously

Warning: the following contains flashing images which may induce photosensitive epilepsy.

Source: Staggering Beauty