The Somewhat Ambitious

Want to synth it up something chronic? Want to punch me for using the phrase ‘Want to synth it up something chronic’? If the answer to the first question was yes, you’re in luck. Pulsewidth, an artist from Brisbane, Australia, creates fabric synthesisers (and guitars, and pedals!). And whilst they don’t actually produce music, they’re [...]

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Viggo Mortensen will be in Australia on the 26th of March to promote his new film, GOOD. I’ll be hosting a Q&A with him and interviewing him onstage at Cinema Nova; the film starts at 7pm and the Q&A will go from 8.20pm onwards. Me, Viggo and three hundred people. I can actually taste my [...]

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Sawa Tanaka has whipped up a gorgeous series of edible prints… of food! These lovely screenprints are made with food coloring and ricepaper, and remind me of my childhood. Why? Remember in Willy Wonka, when that cranky spoiled bitch cut down the very notion of snozberries? Of course you do! Lickable wallpaper! That scene was [...]

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For a long, long time, since the best comedy on television finished far too soon, fans have been shitting their pants with anger and excitement (an odd mix which smells curiously like a freshly mown lawn). Why? Because people online have been fed ambiguous tidbits about an Arrested Development film. Buffeted about by insubstantial claims [...]

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Evan Booth has taken the idea of Halloween costumes to a brilliant new level – he’s used digital technology to create a gaping hole in his stomach. He’s rigged up a harness with a dvd player and a digital camera, which means the “hole ” in his chest actually shows what’s on the other side.

The [...]

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As I reported on Tuesday’s Nerds of a Feather, William Shatner might run for Canadian PM. Observe the wonder of evidence via glorious blockquotes!
The ‘Star Trek’ actor, who played Captain Kirk in the hit sci-fi TV show, is planning to make a dramatic career change and help lead his native country.
The 77-year-old star said: “My [...]

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I’m willing to admit that I’ve become a little addicted to Twitter of late. I’m averaging well over ten tweets a day and get far more satisfaction than I should from having a person that I’ve never met before make some reference to one of my 140-character bursts of profundity. Sweet retweeting recognition, how I [...]

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Here is a video which will probably prove the high point of your Monday. Unless you’re David Spade. Why him? No idea.

To be fair, I have a gate that sounds like Carrie Fisher, but when I filmed it and submitted it, I was told it was the ACTUAL Carrie Fisher, and was less funny and [...]

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The guys at Design Boom (I assume they are “guys”, and not, say, giant living easter eggs) have designed these bitching wallets. Nothing like a parenthetical aside to make me forget what I was blathering about. Ahh. Oh yeah! Wallets! Luke and myself are devotees of the mix-tape, and whilst Luke prefers crude acts of [...]

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Designer/artist Daniel Hulsbergen has created a candle chair, and whilst I’d very much like to saddle it with with some ponderous vestigal academia, I think the phrase “melting furniture” says it all. I did manage to find Hulsbergens description of the chair:
The chair represents the time aspect that furniture nowadays is undergoing. Like fashion it [...]

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