Category: Featured

Categories
Featured Music Video Clips

City Bowl Mizers: Cancun

I’m waiting to be picked up. Nothing sleazy mind you, I’ve got no goods to offer. Whilst I sit patiently for my ride to arrive, I stumbled upon the City Bowl Mizers.

Let’s call it November ‘04, when the Mizers first made the conscious decision to pick up guitars, write some catchy songs, tan, get haircuts, perfect dance moves, buy sweet shoes, – just look good, in general – and use the aforementioned tools to encourage the music loving youth of today to move their feet and turn their frowns.

In the video for their single “Cancun”, the Durbanites are having a sugar-high, poolside partay. The catchy sound totally put a smile on my face. Check it out below.

Catch up with the fun-loving City Bowl Mizers on their MySpace page.

[via Speakerbox]

Categories
Arty Awesomeness Featured Video Clips Weirdness

The Matrix as a Silent Movie

Russian comedy troupe “Bolshaya Raznitsa” (translation: Big Difference) wonders what the The Matrix would be like if it was produced in the silent film era. In this pre-make, Charlie Chaplin is The One. It’s weirdly hilarious. Check it out.

[via Misscellania]

Categories
Arty Awesomeness Cautionary Tales Featured Video Clips

Beautiful Sand Animation by Kseniya Simonova

The words, they escape me. To describe Kseniya Simonova’s art as amazing is an understatement. Simonova won this year’s Ukraine’s Got Talent! show with a dramatic and beautiful sand animation that tells the story of her nation’s painful history during World War II. Her emotionally-charged piece moved the audience to tears.

Unfortunately I can’t understand the symbolism nor the lyrics to the music, but it certainly moved me in other ways. Have a look for yourself.

The 24-year old sand animator from Evpatoria has used her $1,000,000 Ukraninan Hryvnia prize to buy a house and to set up a children’s charity.

[Thanks for the tip, easy]

Categories
Arty Awesomeness Featured Weirdness

You Won’t Believe It’s Gouache

At first glance, I thought these were unfinished 3D renders, but Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu creates these most stunning monochromatic paintings by hand, using gouache, which is a type of opaque paint that has a gumlike base and good reflective qualities.

It wouldn’t be typically Japanese without the usual nod to guns, knives, kinky poses, and most importantly, upskirt shots. Have a look at some of his paintings after the jump.

Continue reading “You Won’t Believe It’s Gouache”
Categories
Featured Movies Video Clips

The Cup of Tears

Straight out of Ireland comes what could be an unexpected martial arts gem. The Cup of Tears is the directorial debut of Gary Shore and features ancient samurai empires battling it out in a post-apocalyptic future. Need I say more? Probably.

This is the official synopsis.

Cup Of Tears follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell.

Have a look at the trailer after the jump.

Continue reading “The Cup of Tears”
Categories
Cautionary Tales Featured

The Most Homicidal Countries

In South Africa, we have a lot of things to be proud about. On the sporting front, our rugby team is top of the IRB World Rankings and the Proteas are ranked the third best cricketing team in the world. I have conveniently left out the national soccer side but I’m sure they hold a record for something – perhaps having the most coaches hired/fired.

We have some of the most “entertaining” politicians (see Julius Malema), and whilst no list will ever be able to graph it, our love for braai and beer is unparalleled. We also have the dubious distinction of topping a list that most countries would try to avoid being a part of.

In a local-is-not-so-lekker situation which most of us are aware of (but don’t tend to bring up in normal conversation), South Africa leads the world in homicide rates. The Guardian reports that, according to United Nations data from 2004, South Africa has 69 murders per 100,000 people, with Colombia in second place with 61.1 and El Salvador taking third with 57.5. That UN data was visualized by GOOD magazine’s “Transparency” department into an infographic that I am hard-pressed to find visually appealing.

These kind of traits obviously shape peoples’ perceptions of countries, but for the most of it, South Africans really are a nice bunch of people. If you ever visit Cape Town, drop us a line and we’ll happily let you buy us beer ;-)

[Thanks to PS3ZA member RA1THE for the tip]

Categories
Arty Featured Movies Photoworthy

365 Days of Stormtrooper Photos

When stormtroopers aren’t spending time fighting in battles, and not finding the droids they are looking for (even with the help of Google), what do you think they do with their free time?

Star Wars fan and photographer Stéfan Le Dû seeks to answer that question by giving this toys a life of their own and photographing them daily for a whole year. Started on April 3rd 2009, Stéfan’s Stormtroopers 365 project currently contains 285 photos of the troopers generally monkeying about. Have a look at some of the humorous shots after the jump.

Continue reading “365 Days of Stormtrooper Photos”
Categories
Competitions Featured Gaming News Site Announcements

Win a Copy of King of Fighters XII!

NOTE: This competition has ended.

We’ve been quiet on this front, but it’s competition time again here at Onelargeprawn, and we’ve managed to snag some gaming treats to give away to our loyal readers.

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the franchise, SNK Playmore’s team-based fighter King of Fighters XII was recently launched in South Africa, and now it’s time for YOU to get in with the chance to win!

We’re giving away two copies of the game – one for the Playstation 3, the other for the Xbox 360. Sounds good? Excellent. The competition details can be found after the jump. Go to it!

Continue reading “Win a Copy of King of Fighters XII!”
Categories
Arty Awesomeness Featured

10 Interesting Infographics

Infographics are a great way of communicating complex information and data in a visually pleasing manner. Sometime I think I could be an infographic as I’m regularly told, “You’re much smarter than you look”. In any case, we love them here at Onelargeprawn and decided to compile a small list of the ones that we particularly liked. Have a gander at them after the jump.

Continue reading “10 Interesting Infographics”
Categories
Arty Cautionary Tales Featured

30 Dumb (But Funny) Inventions

Scientist Jonathan Schattke is quoted as saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.” Fair enough, but what happens if the offspring came from the shallow end of the gene pool? LIFE magazine explores this as they count down 30 retro inventions that may have seemed like a good idea at the time but are really just plain terrible. Have a look at some of the after the jump.

Continue reading “30 Dumb (But Funny) Inventions”