Was Jim Carrey an asshole on the set of Man On The Moon?
Jim Carrey's portrayal of Andy Kauffman on the set of Man On The Moon caused controversy. But was the method acting justified?
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Watch “KENOBI”, A Star Wars Fan Film
KENOBI acts as a precursor to A New Hope, with Obi-Wan watching over a young Luke Skywalker. The Last Jedi, the final episode of the third Star Wars trilogy, is in cinemas now. But long-time fans still love those in-between movies. Even though Solo wasn't the success Disney had hoped for, Rogue One was and …
Rent this Mies van der Rohe documentary on Vimeo
Mies van der Rohe documentaries featuring the man himself are rare so you should definitely check this out. I love a bit of modernist architecture and my favourite building is the Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona. I loved it before I knew who the architect was but once I did, my eyes were opened to some …
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What if Jim Carrey was in The Shining?
Ctrl Shift Face swaps Jack Nicholson's face with Jim Carrey's in a deepfake scene from The Shining. Ever heard of deepfaking? It's a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake" and describes a technique involving the superimposition of images and videos onto other images and videos. Put another way, it's like Face/Off but in 2019 and …
The surreal animations of Wong Ping
From his days as a TV image retoucher, Wong Ping has blossomed into an animator with a unique sense of style. Chinese culture site Goldthread made a video about Wong Ping, an animator from Hong Kong. He's a 34.4-year-old and started out in broadcasting before founding Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014. According to Wong, …
Making Peace in Jamaica with former gang members
The Violence Interrupters are working to end violence in their communities. Making Peace tells their stories. One of my favourite Jamaican proverbs is "if you cannot hear, you must feel" and that's something many Jamaican live by. Making Peace is a documentary about former gang members who probably followed that unwritten law in their former …
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Saul Steinberg on art and philosophy in 1967
Saul Steinberg called himself a "writer who drew" and worked with some of the biggest brands of the 20th century. At work, I nearly fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole but stopped myself at Saul Steinberg. The reason I even got there was because I was looking up Slash from Guns N' Roses and discovered …
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Cleganebowl, but as an epic lightsaber deathmatch
The battle fans had been waiting for ended a stalemate (sort of). But what if Cleganebowl involved lightsabers instead of swords? Game of Thrones Season 8 was a shitshow. I'd not watched for years so dipping back in for the last season didn't devastate me as it did for more dedicated fans. But it did …
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What if Game of Thrones was aired in the 80s?
This brilliant audiovisual mashup shows what could have been if GoT was an 80s series. Yes, I'm 5 years late and the series just finished but everyone was unhappy with the last season so let's remember the good times. And mix them up with late 80s nostalgia. YouTuber Mikolaj.Birek put together two Game of Thrones …
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30+ Minutes of Vic Berger’s Daytime TV & Advertising
Super Deluxe is dead, long live Vic Berger. (Trigger warning: this video contains clowns and some really creepy puppets) Entertainment company Super Deluxe may no longer be with us but Vic Berger very much is. We featured one of his creations for SD - the will.i.am one (which had been taken down but we've uploaded …
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