Save the arts - a great new animation by David Shrigley
Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anthony Caro, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to make the case against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts.
The campaign is launched today with the release of a new video animation by artist David Shrigley highlighting the effect of the funding cuts and a new work by Jeremy Deller with Scott King. Each week the work of a different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be released. Mark Wallinger will present the next project.
13 Sep 2010
Being a dickhead is cool
East London’s much-maligned scenester culture gets yet another vicious pasting in this doing-the-rounds YouTube clip. It’s gone from 350 to almost 1,000,000 views in the last two days – the hipster media company that came up with this must be very pleased that’s it’s “gone viral”. They could go and buy even tinier BMX bikes if only they could monetize it. Not that they aren’t trying, of course – the accompanying song is available on iTunes.
12 Sep 2010
Tonight in LDN: Fever Ray
Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife‘s wonderfully dark, aesthetic Fever Ray project continues with this fantastic cover of Nick Cave’s “Stranger Than Kindness”. She headlines Brixton Academy tonight, supported by the excellent Zola Jesus.
08 Sep 2010
06 Sep 2010
Those Taiwanese news animators take on Austerity Britain
Everyone has to pitch in. Even the Queen must boil up her swans and sell them from a cart at Walthamstow market.
24 Aug 2010
Jon Stewart: Fox News accidentally fingers major News Corp shareholder as 'terror mosque' funder
Hilarious. The Rhodes scholars at Fox & Friends, Fox News’ morning show, in their continuous coverage of the so-called ‘Terror Mosque’, identify Saudi Arabian prince—and Savoy Hotel owner—Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz as a major funder of ‘extremist’ madrassas the world over, and a funder of Park51. Fox & Friends neglected to mention that he is also the largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent company, News Corp, after the Murdoch family.
Warning: this video has a voice over by some ass who can’t stop inserting his own ‘Whoo! Yeah!’ comments every few minutes. Save yourself some aggravation and start 60 seconds in.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is on More4 Tues-Fri at 8:30pm. This episode will air this evening.
24 Aug 2010
21 Aug 2010
17 Aug 2010
Star Wars as filmed by the Lumière Bros.
Anachronisme
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Plus, since we’re in good mood, the deleted opening scene from Return of the Jedi
16 Aug 2010
Snipe Highlights
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