Ben Folds is still alive

Ben folds forgets that he is supposed to cover a popular song live on this australian tv show, so he finds the most recent song played on his ipod, grabs some drummers from the studio, gives them some random shit to play on...and this is what he creates, utter badassness.

Goggles

Stunna shades meets phantom of the opera. I want these.


fresh out the water with my linda farrow goggles.

Mute Math

so this is a pretty old song of mute math's, it was their first single called typical off their self titled album. The video is pretty old too but its pretty cool, and i recently learned something interesting about it. the whole video is backwards, which is a pretty neat idea, but what makes this video even cooler is the fact that alot of the video had to be preformed backwards in order for it to match up to the song when played in reverse. Check out the video first (top one), then check out the making of the video ( second one). The drummer actually learned his parts in reverse in order to play them for the video, complicated stuff. Their drummer is beginning to be one of my favorites, although i think its impossible for anyone to reach erin tate status. if you don't know who erin tate is, dont worry about it, your probably a nerd.

court force

nike just dropped a new line of sneakers inspired by some old air max colors. These court force highs are lookin pretty tight.

spinning lady?

PLEASE READ BEFORE LOOKING!: supposedly which way you see the lady spinning is an indication of which hemisphere of your brain is dominant. After thinking about it for a while im not sure this is true, but its interesting none the less. If you see her spinning clockwise you are supposedly right brain dominant and vice versa. I swear to you that the image is ambigous, and its not actually spinning one way, nor does the spinning ever actually reverse. After watching it for a while you can learn to switch the direction of her spinning, and its pretty mind blowing when you learn to do it becuase when it happens it seems so natural for her to spin that way and u cant imagine how u saw her spin the other way before. After some practice you can get her to flip back and forth easily. There might be some truth the the hemisphere dominance theory because i forced myself to breathe out of one nostril (the one i wasnt breathing out of at the time) which is thought to change the activation of one of your hemispheres, and i saw the figure switch for the first time shortly after. hemisphere specialization is a Pretty interesting topic that i am going to be conducting an experiment in for my psychology class if anyone wants any more information on it. anyways, try it out.

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend may be the most popular band you havent heard of. They have been what i consider all over magazines and tv considering their indie style, and they debut self titled album was up to the third most downloaded albums on its release date on itunes. They're music is pretty interesting, while at first you might just consider it chill indie music youve heard a million times, after a second listen you can really hear the african style guitar rifts and uses of percussion. This african vibe gives it a really groovy yet chill vibe. definitely give their album a few listens, because although they may seem simple at first, vampire weekend has a really nice sound. this is their single A-Punk, which has a fairly interesting yet pretty typical indie style video directed by the director of the hitchikers guide to the galaxy. Definitely give a few of their other songs a listen as well, namely cape cod kwassa, and bryn, to name two of a handful.

planet earth

if you watch planet earth u might find this somewhat humorous.