Dave Ross
Dave is a lazy comedian and professional web developer. He founded Pop Culture Retro Mashup Disaster Squad a ways back after leaving his radio show at Clear Channel Fresno. He smokes and talks and wears brown pants.
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Darren Solomon composed a few minutes of beautful noise and visuals, then published it as a lake of youtube videos. Any or all videos can be started or stopped at any time without worry. Play with those volume sliders to make your own personal melancholy soundtrack.
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Imagine that every atrocity committed by the United States in the 21st Century had its own souvenir! Oh my, what a family discussion we could have. Luckily, Philip Toledano has already taken the liberty.
And if you like to take liberty, why not buy your own Abu Ghraib coffee table? Great for covert operatives of all ages.
Link to: America the Gift Shop
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I’ve been waiting for this to pop up on youtube for two years now. It was made by Daniel Nocke, it’s all in German, it’s filled with awkward animals, and I love it.
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Joaquin Baldwin’s dark, mesmerizing story of doll heroics won the top rating at the 2008 Aniboom Awards, along with hundreds of other awards. And rightfully so.
Go here for a hi-res/quicktime version.
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New Black is everything I always wanted Le Tigre to be. That is, they’re Bikini Kill with organs, distortion, and weird sounds. And a male singer sometimes. And a little bit faster.
Look, they’re nothing like Bikini Kill, but Le Tigre sucks.
New Black - Nothing Scares Us
Find more tracks at myspace and purevolume.
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Oh, it’s out there. Not on iTunes and not on Amazon.com, but it’s out there.
I didn’t believe it at first. The internet made it abundantly clear to me that Introducing… is all we get. There’s no DG Wikipedia page and their official website is a mindfuck with a mailing list. They broke up in 1995, right?
Yes. They got together, they barely toured, they recorded one album in one take, and they quit. Sure, that’s what every bio I’ve ever read says, but Smooch Records has a self-titled Denver Gentlemen record for sale.
Apparently, in 2005, without a single ad or announcement, the Gentlemen reformed and recorded another album. Jeffrey-Paul Norlander, DG frontman, either loves mystery or hates recognition.
If it weren’t for Smooch Records, you’d probably have to rob homes in Denver to find this record. They’ve got the skinny on the Denver Gentlemen, though, and there seems to be a third album in the works. Maybe this time they’ll tell someone about it.
Here’s a track from the album:
Denver Gentlemen - Fixin’ to Die
Hear more tracks at their myspace page and Tinyways, or buy the album here.
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Ken Wong’s drawings feel more like sculptures to me. I mean, my brain knows it’s 2D, but my eyes say, "Wait…"
Link to: Art by Ken Wong
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We’ve always liked director Toben Seymour . He makes puppets dance, he writes with light, he clones himself… He’s a good guy, that Toben.
In this video for Alphabeat, aerial shots of people spell the lyrics. Sometimes they have umbrellas, sometimes they throw paper… I like it. If you need to, mute the audio.
link to: "What is Happening" on DailyMotion | YouTube
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If steampunk is a futurized industrial age, then this is pyramind punk. Or hieroglunk. Like Stargate, but not terrible.
link to: Bendito Machine
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I think the backgrounds of this film are looped real-world video footage. I’m not really sure, but either way, black-and-white-and-weird is hard to pass up. Three cheers for Emiel Penders.
Link to: Angst
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You might think I’m being smarmy with that title up there. I’m not. Beirut is incredible, and Zach Condon is basically the whole band, but he seems to be writing and recording under his given name now. The horns of Beirut remain, but not the drums, and he’s thrown in a few ambient keyboards and echoey electronic sounds. Give it a listen.
Zach Condon - Venice
Link to: Zach Condon on myspace
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TotemX makes flipbooks. Lots of flipbooks. He then records himself flipping through them and adds foley. Yes.
Link to: TotemX’s FunnyOrDie Channel
