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No, I’m not a high fashion junkie but I do like humourous self-deprecation in almost any form and the Lanvin Fall/Winter 2011 ‘video catalogue’ is pretty funny. Plus any video with Karen Elson and Raquel Zimmermann is absolutely worth linking to.
George Dawes was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals about 200 years ago. Replaceface is a funny-as-hell personal project by Steve Payne, where he transposes faces of friends and celebrities onto portrait ‘templatesR 17; of Dawes’ Russian generals. 
It took me nine years to watch this brilliant documentary about Wilco’s seminal 2002 album, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. (Thanks, Scott!) If you like that album and haven’t watched ‘I … 
→ Photo credit: We Are HandsomeThat’s a cute, gimmicky device from Ben & Jerry’s. I’m sure The Wife (and my dentist) would think it’s a good idea, too.
If you have ever been to India and seen the hand-painted signs, this is a must-watch. I must say they also managed to get a really obnoxious guy from the non-painting side of the fence.Head on to HandPaintedType to read more about what one man, Hanif Kureshi, is doing to keep this dying art alive.
Almost every possible 80s sci-fi movie reference makes its way into this epic video for Com Truise.
HP’s 12c, the financial calculator that hasn’t changed in the last 30 years. 
The surreal colours and the eerie loneliness of the aircraft in this shot befits its terrifying stature.[Via Iain Claridge] 
D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. 
Despite the impressive technical ability on display, the repetition wears off after a while and yu end up with a fairly boring video for a pretty fun song. What’s interesting is that this band, Brite Futures, were formerly known as Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head.
We’ve come a long way since 1977 when Raymond Damadian gave the world the first MRI machine. I had my first MRI done today and it brought out the claustrophobic demons in me which I never knew I had. After the first two minutes, I pretended I was manning space shuttle into the depths of ...
Avoid alliteration. Always.Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)Employ the vernacular.Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.Contractions aren’t necessary.Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.One …
Countdown is an inspiring piece of animation. Funnily enough, I was watching Apollo 13 on TV last night and this animation definitely channels some of the scenes very well. The Qatsi and F.C Ware references are also thoughtfully used. Pity they spelt Apparat’s Granular Bastard wrongly.
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