Long time no five, eh?
Here’s a long doozy of stuff that has made me happy/laugh in some sort of way…
FYI: This is stuff I’ve bookmarked since my last high five, so it may seem a little less timely since its been a few weeks. <3
Because Neil Hamburger+Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy=AWESOME!:
Because I love video toaster:
Drats, I’m missing this today:
BikePortland reports that the Lips are getting the naked cyclist mob together for the video for the Embryonic track “Watching the Planets”. Wednesday, September 23, they’ll be shooting on Portland, Oregon’s Mount Tabor. Wayne Coyne told BikePortland that the idea came from the musical Hair: “You know how it’s a bunch of freaked out naked people climbing some mountain with blood and fire and finding some new civilization there– so I thought of Portland, right?” Of course.
Here’s how Coyne describes the video’s concept, which sounds, in a word, ridiculous: “I’m having one of my giant space bubbles covered in fake fox fur. It’s going to look like some giant fur egg, and the people on bicycles are gonna sort of be born and erupt out of this fur, vaginalistic thing. Maybe I’ll even get naked for the video, too. I don’t even know how it ends– maybe it ends with them all getting clothed and making me get naked and shoving me back into the giant fur egg. I just came up with that right now.”
Because I LOVE LOVE LOVE David Bowie:
David Bowie has received one of the most unusual tributes of his career. A newly discovered Malaysian spider has been named after the rock star.
The giant yellow – and very hairy – spider has been named Heteropoda davidbowie and is the most recent discovery of German spider specialist Peter Jäger, who has found 200 new species in the past 10 years.
Most of these arachnids are endangered, and by naming spiders after celebrities Jäger hopes to attract public attention to the dangers facing each species. “It is working against time,” he says. “Along with the species, we are also quickly losing genetic resources that have evolved over more than 300 million years.”
Because I have an iTunes gift card:
Because I love all things Mike Judge:
Might be cool, no?!:
Because who doesn’t love to get LOST sometimes:
In celebration of LOST’s final season and as a project of fan appreciation, 16 top designers and artists, who are also fans of the show, were commissioned to create artwork celebrating one of the series’ most memorable, and unforgettable, “water cooler” moments.