N64 Kid

Not even kidding... is this our family Xmas '97?

Artist of the Day: Kina Grannis

More youtube fame... just couldn't help blowin' up her spot because I've been rocking out to her covers all week.

Famous Spotting of the Day...

Image via: Babble

So, I finally figured out why I have seen so many famous people lately: apparently the BBC radio studio is LITERALLY around the corner from me and I am just incredibly unobservant. Today's moderately famous celebrity: British TV presenter Fearne Cotton.

Real name? Unlikely.

Real attractive? Check.

Ruined or Radder?

Have your vote... New York street artist Craig "KR" Costello pimped/destroyed (depending on your view on street art) this Mini Cooper S with KRINK and his trademark "KRINK drip" design. Check it out if you are near Berlin any time in the next few weeks!

Vicious Gallery
Kleine Freiheit 46
22767 Hamburg

Will be at Vicious from Saturday.

Via: Highsnobiety

Lion Face - Lemon Face

No words of my own...

Info on the project's creator Steve from LION FACE LEMON FACE:
"My chief aim with LION FACE LEMON FACE was to experiment with the traditional role of story telling as entertainment or exchange of modern folklore in an unusual contemporary environment. A simple, provocative and highly subjective personal qualifier (’The Best/Worst...’) opens up a wide range of human responses. This in turn encourages engaging and dramatic narrative, and highlights memorable moments in the participant’s lives.

Everybody has stories: LION FACE LEMON FACE allows people a platform to share them as a performer, an event created entirely by the experiences of the people in attendance.
The photographic aspect is Ashlie's visual input to the idea, and a really strong aesthetic - the event would be totally different without it. We wanted to appeal to people on a social level, but with something different. With the success of such ventures as Don't Stay In, why not try something more formal, but just as fun? A contemporary photographic portrait series in a social, entertainment setting - with the same advantage of being able to exhibit online after, via this very site you are viewing."

Bunny and the Bull - London Film Festival

The much anticipated release from the guys behind the Mighty Boosh: "Bunny and the Bull" featuring our favorite Simon Farnaby (from the post on the Merah opening), had its final showing of the BFI London Film Festival last night at the Genesis Cinema in East London. While it was surprisingly less glamorous than some of the Leicester Square showings it was still a cool vibe and felt much more appropriate for a film made in the grim style of the Boosh crew's more recent work.

While Farnaby and Edward Hogg were the main characters of the film I am afraid to say that the Spanish (and faux-Spanish) actors really stole the show. Veronica Echegui (of "Yo Soy la Juani" fame) was absolutely adorable in her role as a potty-mouthed waitress working in a dodgy seafood restaurant in Poland before taking off with the boys on their adventure to "the fiesta" in her town in Spain where people were said to laugh, drink wine in the street and make love in the street.

While the story was not your normal "road-trip" story it did provide an accurate and only-funny-because-it-wasn't-happening-to-you portrayal of what happens when two guys go after the same girl and only one actually cares about the girl.

The film left me a bit down and while I cannot agree with The Times who gave the film 5-stars I'm perfectly comfortable giving it 3.5-4 stars. There were some moments of comic genius - most notably Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade's roles -- and some moments of genuine sadness interspersed with some pretty incredible visual effects and cinematography. Additionally, the opening credits were incredibly clever and there were a lot of references to prior Boosh storylines and characters that made the film even more enjoyable for any fan of the gang's work.

At the end of the day you really wanted the film to end like "Wristcutters" (a film of which it was very remniscent)... whether or not it did, well you'll have to see for yourself.

Is it as hilarious as you might have hoped for from such a talented cast? Probably not. Should you see it anyways? Yeah, most definitely.

Just Down The Street From My Office...

Image NSFW (if you are a gearhead)

And not a moment too soon. Getting my bike finally next week and will definitely be spending abhorrent amounts of money in this place.

Tokyo Fixed Gear-- of much web fame-- will be opening their doors in Soho, London (on Berwick St.) late November if the Gearheads on the message boards are to be trusted!

In celebration of the opening, Tokyo Fixed Gear have teamed up with ilovedust design boutique (who judging from their website have got way more skillzzz in digital than on bike detail) for the opening. The frame/shape is absolutely gorgeous and though I have no leg to stand on in this regard: I've gotta say the paint job seems a bit "busy" for me. Colorway is hot and I dig the idea, but just a little too much of a seizure waiting to happen... that and it is not likely to be safe on the London streets for more than 5 minutes without one of these AND one of these.