I can't believe it's May already. MAY!? Time really does whiz right by doesn't it? Fortunately we have this playlist to waste that fleeting time perfectly.

• The Dribble - is that Stage OJ? Why is this so oddly disgusting?
• Denise Reise - Trumpet Woman - this is the living version of this.
• Pogo - SquareBob SpongeMix - even if you have zero familiarity with the Spongebob show you can still find this enjoyable. Pogo's mixes are just so.... optimistic.
• Don & Bobby Draper Go See Planet of the Apes: The Musical - this won't make any sense if you aren't a fan of Mad Men or The Simpsons but it's a mashup that Matthew Weiner would be proud of. Also, if you aren't reading this you are missing out.
• The World's Smallest Movie - admittedly, this isn't that entertaining BUT it's a stop motion movie comprised of actual atoms. The manipulation involved with such a thing is pretty incredible and could be the first rudimentary step into solving some serious storage hurdles (bytes as atoms!).
• Karate Cop (1991) - you think it's going to be your standard Cop Who Does Karate movie but then they blend in some Mad Max craziness and some Sci-Fi Save The Children plotlines. This looks bonkers.

There's plenty of other goodness in here. Go enjoy!

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There's not much more to say that isn't covered in the title of Horror Icons Starring in Light Hearted Movies so I'll just say that it's hard not to love this. I hope it keeps going.

Austin's site reminded me that Andy Baio had done a lecture for creative mornings about Remix Culture. I've only seen about a third of it so far but I'm always a fan of being reminded of the notion that we're all building on the ideas of those before us and setting up groundwork for those after us. Make some time this weekend to watch it in its entirety.

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Patrick Moberg and Betaworks just released a new iOS game called Dots. You can get it in the iTunes store here. The game is incredibly simple but fascinatingly addictive and pleasurable to play. Oh, and the sound design is quite awesome too. Get this. It's free!

The Verge has a great piece from Paul Miller on his Internetless experiment from the past year. I'm still here: back online after a year without the internet is a look back at existing with a dumb phone, no Internet and nothing but good intentions of being productive and enjoying life. The epiphanies that stem from the article aren't too surprising but it's engaging to read about what life is like without these devices we're all tethered to. He lived a scenario we all ponder in one way or another and, thankfully, wrote a great piece about it.

Several people have tried the 50 States, 50 Songs style project (I'm looking at you Sufjan and Linnell) but it seems that Netherfriends has not only tackled it, he's completed it. Previously, I was only familiar with Netherfriends enjoyable Does Nilsson record but what I'm hearing of this 50 Songs 50 States undertaking is pretty engaging.

Great collection of "Negative Space Animals from George Bokhua. Cute, simple and quite clever there's more to be seen on the full portfolio page. Also check out his Typographic Logos done in a similar simplistic style - very cool.

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I'm not done pestering you about Hotpipes news but I am happy to announce that you can now listen to the entire album. Prefer Spotify or Rdio? We got you covered. The vinyl version is still slated for official release next Tuesday, May 7th, but you can now enjoy the contents in its entirety on the Internet. I am confident that you will find the album every bit as enjoyable as I do - which is to say, Very Enjoyable.

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Do yourself a favor and find the time to read through this speech from Steven Soderbergh on the State of Cinema. He certainly covers some depressing ground but, at the end of the day, he seems quite optimistic. I loved this delineation between the terms "movie" and "cinema" - a popular ongoing debate:

The simplest way that I can describe it is that a movie is something you see, and cinema is something that's made. It has nothing to do with the captured medium, it doesn't have anything to do with where the screen is, if it's in your bedroom, your iPad, it doesn't even really have to be a movie. It could be a commercial, it could be something on YouTube. Cinema is a specificity of vision. It's an approach in which everything matters. It's the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint. It isn't made by a committee, and it isn't made by a company, and it isn't made by the audience. It means that if this filmmaker didn't do it, it either wouldn't exist at all, or it wouldn't exist in anything like this form.

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It's easy to get jaded on designs and art preying on your nostalgic senses but put that pessmism to rest before checking out these Next Level pieces from Rik Oostenbroek. There's a fusion of 80's vibes going on - vibrant colors, blocky extrusions, NES - that works perfectly. The rest of the portfolio is equally saturated - well worth a browse.

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There's a variety of interesting work coming from Inaluxe but I'm mostly interested in the more abstract works. The pieces of birds and flowers are quite nice but I think their more vague shape pieces - like Coda II - are their finest.