OnelargeprawnFeaturing an 8-bit water slide mixed with some real world imagery, this cute stop-motion animation was created by tea&cheese for a film competition.
All the characters, props and sets where created and animated in Flash, then cut out and re-animated, frame by frame, in real life.
Be warned – there is mild 8-bit nudity in this video.
[via Milk and Cookies]
Sometimes we men are simple creatures and are easily amused aroused. Advertising agencies lose sight of that fact and tend to overload us with over-complicated ads featuring orchestral scores, dramatic cinematography, puzzling symbolism, and too many words. If you get down to the crass facts, the agencies don’t need big budgets and elaborate concepts…they just need to add cleavage.
At least that is what Manofest thinks as they break down the 10 hottest cleavage commercials of all time. Here are a few of them:
Nandos – For big breasts go to Nandos.
Heidi Klum – The 36-year old’s jiggly lingerie shifted many Guitar Hero units.
Nissan Pathfinder – It has independent suspension.
I was singing along to this track in the car this morning and winking at the ladies in the vehicles alongside.
Goldie Lookin’ Chain (or GLC) is a rap collective from Newport, South Wales who have three main interests – sex, drugs, and the 1980s. With talk of self-suicide, smoking soap bars, and fighting at the roller disco, the GLC are offensive and distasteful, but incredibly funny.
You know a band’s not altogether there when their debut album is titled “Greatest Hits”. In the shock track “Your Mother’s Got a Penis” the GLC say that you mother got them horribly drunk and made them kiss her elephant trunk. Check it out.
See and hear more GLC stuff at You Knows It!
The very first game giveaway has just ended here on Onelargeprawn. To stand a chance of winning either Heavenly Sword (Platinum) for the Playstation 3 or Turok for the Xbox 360, we asked you to simply leave a comment on competition post telling us which game you’d like to win. And we got a fantastic response so a big thanks to everyone who entered.
Once again the List Randomizer has done its thing and I’m happy to announce that the winners are … after the jump ;-)
I know I posted about this guy like a minute ago, but I just found further evidence of his dark brilliance in the form of his experimental photo comic strip called the Wesleys on his other blog Musty Moments.
Ross is apparently a timid librarian by day, and a frenzied fan of gory slasher flicks by night. Oh well no-one’s perfect I guess.
More at The Wesleys.
Ross Horsley, a cynic after my own dark heart has a blog called My First Dictionary which is presented just like those picture book dictionaries we used in primary school to learn vocabulary. This dictionary however probably isn’t a great one to start little Brad and Brittany on. It’s without a doubt very honest to the 21st century, and the contrast between the brightly coloured illustrations and the word definitions makes it even darker and more cynical. Some might find it disturbing, but in this “nanny-state” age of over censorship and escapist candy floss endings, I find it refreshing. Like a slice of bitter lemon after a fatty pork chop.
Found at the ever brilliant Neatorama.
Autoblog reports that earlier this month the master of loud noises, Michael Bay, released a full two-and-a-half-minute teaser reel for the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
The reel shows hottie Megan Fox changing her clothes – don’t get a stiffy just yet, it’s for 10 seconds and child-friendly to boot. The rest comprises a sobbing Bumblebee, some fighting robots, and a few exploding helicopters. See it below.
Incidentally there is a theory about the number of helicopters in a film being proportional to how much it will suck.
Given the amount of exploding helicopters that are bound to be in it, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen may suck harder than a prostitute sucks dick. Let’s hope that is not the case.
Carousel is a Dark Knight-inspired short film created to celebrate the impending arrival of the Philips Cinema 21:9 LCD, the world’s first cinema proportioned television screen.
Coincidentally 2 minutes and 19 seconds long, Carousel shows an epic cops-and-robbers shootout that is frozen in time. As the ad plays out, the camera moves through the frozen scene revealing different parts of the story. Check it out.
Carousel was created by Stink Digital and directed by Adam Berg who conceived it to work as an endless loop. It’s better viewed on the Philips Carousel microsite.
Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to spin through the films single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot.
[via Neatorama]
Our department at work doesn’t get to go on outings too often, but when we do, the rest of the company is left in a jealous rage when they find out what we got up to. This time, I suggested and got tasked with organizing the team outing – tandem paragliding. I knew we could jump off Lion’s Head in Cape Town, and our landing site had to be in close proximity to alcohol – La Med in Clifton fitted that bill perfectly. So I knew the start and end points, and just needed to find someone to make the flight happen. After a few calls, we went with booking agents Cape Xtreme Adventure Tours.
We got to the Lion’s Head parking lot a little earlier than expected (thanks Rikki Taxis), so I calmed the mood by smoking several fags whilst waiting for the tandem paragliding pilots to rock up. They arrived on time, and we proceeded to walk up the mountain to the jump point. I’m not the healthiest dude around – let’s just say I won’t go to a gym if there isn’t an escalator to the entrance – so the trek was as pleasant as finding cat vomit in your shoe.
At the jump point, we got assigned to our pilots – I got the uber-cool Stephan, owner of Cape Town Tandem Paragliding, who explained the procedure to me and harnessed me up. Luckily I had a harness that didn’t squish my sugar lumps, so that was all good. We laid out the paraglider wing, and before I knew it, I was fastened in front of Stephan, the paraglider was airborne, and my feet had left solid ground.
I’m terrible at describing things and emotions, but the flight was absolutely phenomenal – Stephan piloted us up and around the mountainside, then zipped back towards the sea, and at places the paraglider just floated there, giving me a fantastic view of the surrounding mountains, city suburbs, and the vast sea and gathering clouds ahead.
It was so quiet and peaceful up there that I didn’t want to come down. But we had to descend, and after a few spiral drives, we touched down softly on the grassy pitch next to the bar. Even though we had been up for a while, it seemed so short, and the moment we landed, I wanted to do it again. And I will…soon.
Big thanks to Guillaume at Cape Xtreme Adventure Tours and Stephan at Cape Town Tandem Paragliding for making this an awesome and memorable experience :-D
[Photos by D. Campbell]
I’m one of those hopeless people that gets all depressed and a little crazy when one of their favourite TV series comes to an end. You should have seen me after the finale of the first season of Lost – hatters weren’t in it mate. I couldn’t sleep at night because I hadn’t gotten my weekly dose of jungle drama, spent all day wondering what was happening to Sayid and Kate and Jack on that godforsaken piece of rock in the middle of nowhere, talked about all the characters all the time to anyone who would listen including the cats – I think I pretty much took my whole household down crazy street with me.
Anyway Lost has been replaced in my affections by the brilliant and gripping Battlestar Galactica. We watched the last episode ever the other night, and as you may have guessed, I’ve been feeling pretty down (although that might also be the gentle caresses of PMS). Today I was reading some arb non-sense about second hand smoke and one of those nearly always awful advertising banners caught my eye. Usually I can just zone that crap out, but this one was different, special even. It was advertising a spin-off of my beloved Battlestar Galactica, and it’s called Caprica. Oh yes oh yay. The series is a prequel of sorts, set 58 years before the holocaust at the hands of the dreaded Cylons on the planet Caprica. It might not be as good as Battle Star Galactica – some people are bitching about it already, but I can’t wait to see it nonetheless.
Here for your viewing pleasure is a sneaky preview.
Or you can watch in here at YouTube.