Weird Al Mandatory Fun stream The master parody music maker Weird Al Yankovic is back with his new album Mandatory Fun. The album cover is a parody of old soviet style propaganda posters (reminiscent of Shepard Fairey’s OBEY GIANT designs). On Mandatory Fun Weird Al parodies current hits from 2013-2014 from artists such as Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, Iggy Azalea, Lorde and Imagine Dragons, as well as songs imitating the styles of the Pixies, Cat Stevens, Foo Fighters, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Southern Culture on the Skids. In the 90s, rapper Coolio’s hit “Gangsta’s …
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These are two clips featuring renowned tattoo artist Mister Cartoon and photographer Estevan Oriol from Upper Playground’s documentary The Run Up (2009), which is a follow up to their Dithers (2004) documentary. In these two clips, Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol talk about their craft and they give us a glimpse into their world. Bonus video two is of Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol on Snoop’s video podcast GGN show, from mid 2013. Walrus TV Artist Feature: Mister Cartoon Walrus TV Artist Feature: …
What is the true origin of General Tso’s chicken? Was there a General Tso? Did he create the chicken dish that is ubiquitous on many Chinese restaurant take-out menus across U.S. and the western world? Director Ian Cheney searches for the answers to these questions and more in the documentary The Search For General Tso. A synopsis of the documentary: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a feature-length documentary tracing the origins of Chinese American food through what is arguably America’s …
Have you ever wonder why there are so many nail salons owned and operated by Vietnamese women? Director Adele Pham had the same questions and decided to explore this question in a documentary she’s working on called NailedIt: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry. Adele Pham explores the social, economic, environmental factors of Vietnamese in the nail industry. Along the way she discovers some interesting stories like how actress Tippi Hedren’s (stared in Hitchcock’s The Birds) meeting with 20 Vietnamese refugee women triggered an early …
Jimi: All Is By My Side (Official Trailer) See Outkast’s André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side. [Washington Post] 1st Look: Is That Don Cheadle or Miles Davis? – Don Cheadle embodies Miles Davis as fliming starts on the Miles Ahead biopic. [The Root] Studio Science: Bob Power on studio mixing. [RBMA] 2,500-year-old erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island – Racy inscriptions and phalluses carved into Astypalaia’s rocky peninsula shed light on very …
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