Our latest gossip thing has gone up on Lifelounge. Click through to read all about ‘hot teens’, crystal meth, gay Ken, shame spirals, porn, former O.C. stars, really bad business decisions and more. Read it here. Oh yeah, and bunny rabbits.
200,000 + YouTube hits in under a week for this guy from Footscray. Bangs is going to be huge. Real talk.
8-Bit-Painter is sort of a genius. He recreates classic videogames with a mix of ‘perler beads’, magnets and paint to create moveable artwork. Some whole next level isht. As far as we can tell, he combines a painted backdrop with magnetised character sprites that you can move around and pose and stuff. He takes commissions and we’re totally hitting him up about some Wonderboy art. You can do the same (but not Wonderboy! That’s ours) via his Deviant Art page.
Pretty much our favourite movie title of all time. If we ever produce an off-shoot magazine / book / website / whatever, it’s gonna be called Destroy All Monsters. PS. This 1968 trailer is fantastic.
Some articles are completed, sent out into the world and published. Some never get past the first couple of paragraphs and become nothing…
The conventional wisdom is that scoring proper drugs in Japan is a difficult business. That’s true to some extent – you don’t get criminals on the streets openly selling their wares like you might in East London. But if you know the right people you can score quite easily, albeit; in a very Japanese kinda way.
‘Bobby’ drove a ridiculous sports car, wore white suites with cowboy boots and dated models. He also used to deal drugs from one of Tokyo’s leading designer boutiques. Not that he worked there or owned the place or anything like that. No. He would simply turn up at the designated time and do the deal while purchasing luxury travel baggage.
We wrote an article explaining all the wars of the 20th Century…
Vietnam War (1959-1975)
The French gave up on Vietnam (which they owned) after World War 2. This saw two equally shonky governments formed – filthy Communist in the north (backed by China) and corrupt Capitalist in the south (backed by the US). Ten years of foreplay and finger-fucking later, both sides still couldn’t get off so they decided to have a war. The US totally freaked out about this because if the Communists won South Vietnam they would take over THE WHOLE WORLD. Or so the theory went. The US then spent several trillion dollars and lost 60,000 of their own soldiers dropping bombs on children in rice fields. Things got so grim everyone started doing heroin and it was teh massive suck. The US gave up and went home in 1975 saying it was a draw. Which it clearly wasn’t.
It’s the “I wanna dance!” guy from Dazed and Confused, Adam Goldberg. He’s a half-jew in LA. He has some things he’d like to complain about to Vice TV.
Okay, time for a quick recap. Cassette Tape Magazine is ready to go to the printers. It’s done. Finished. We’re just waiting on an advertiser to get their act together. They have a week then we’re going to the printers with or without them. Fuck it. We’re sick of all the boxes in the office and can afford to piss away the cash on an ill conceived publishing venture.
Speaking of which, Team Evil #5 is coming together nicely. The downtime with Cassette Tape Magazine has allowed us to work on the magazine proper. We’re looking at 100 + pages of coolness. Articles are written, layout is done, Chinese printers have been sourced. It’s on.
We first came across the work of Jorge R. Gutierrez via the I Am 8-Bit exhibition several years ago. These days he’s the guy behind animated kids series El Tigre: the Adventures of Manny Rivera. Also, he draws angry Mexicans. See more of his work here.
Mayer Hawthorne – Green Eyed Love
This is the new one from Stones Throw Record’s in-house crooner, Mayer Hawthorne. It’s not quite Maybe So, Maybe No, but we pretty much like anything he does.
