If someone showed me this new HEALTH video and told me it was directed by Eric Wareheim - Tim & Eric, these, videos, etc - I wouldn\'t have believed it. But, there it is amongst his directorial credits and I must admit - it\'s a damn fine video for the song. It\'s incredibly dark, very gore-y and somewhat difficult to watch if you\'re not so much into blood or wooded scenes where it appears the feminine lead has zero chance of successful escape. All that being said, it really does fit the song perfectly and I guess shows that I shouldn\'t be pigeonholing wacky directors to only expect the same thing over and over from them.

Not being a sports watcher I\'ve no idea if these have been implemented or if they\'re just proof of concept but Cina Associates along with Michael Young put together a display package for highly legibile, flat on-screen graphics for football games. It\'s awesomely tasteful in comparison to what you general see for any on-screen graphics (news tickers, spinning logos, etc) and I hope it\'s not just a comp.. it\'d be nice to see more TV move in this direction.

Via Paige.

Remember last week when I was all erked at YouTube\'s new layout and it\'s inefficient handling of playlist titles? Yea, well, they fixed it! I still think the overall page layout is fairly lacking but at least they\'re overcoming the technical hurdles.

Regardless, here\'s the playlist.

• Sound Check Guy - at first it\'d be funny to think this was legit until it gets into some over the top physical violence stuff. Regardless, the sketch group responsible for it has some good stuff... via Keegan.
• The Magazine of Death - anything can be a weapon, even a magazine! For some reason old VHS training videos never get old to me. Via Courtney.
• The Holy Ghost - I never believe this sort of thing is real but, in this case, I\'m willing to embrace my suspension of disbelief. Via Andrew.
• Philippines Got Talent - just watch the first minute twenty seconds.. and marvel in confusion.
• Exit Through the Gift Shop - the first five minutes of the film.. a little preview.
• Dueling Carls - I sort of love how quickly this degrades into a massive wall of noise.
• Standing Cat - the music makes it... so good.

Bonus / Additional:

• Kyp Malone: Film Critic - a bit too self aware on the whole but Kyp\'s burger rating system is admittedly funny.
• Insane Clown Posse - Miracles - I think just about everyone has already seen this sometime this week but, just in case you haven\'t, here it is. I think ICP is a bit too easy of a subject to laugh at but these lyrics / rapping are asking for it... particularly the part about magnets.
• Old Spice Commercials - if you haven\'t seen the onslaught of new Old Spice commercials directed by Tim & Eric, you need to take a moment right now to partake.. they are, as you\'d suspect, quite weird. Though, as posted last week, this one is still the best.

Have a great weekend!

While browsing around on Dribbble I hit upon The Many Faces Of and their first feature on Alan Rickman / How To Be A Villain. The site is a fun exercise in effective layout and unique page design.. not to mention entertaining content. I look forward to the next entry in their series...

LA Weekly has a great article up about the forthcoming Banksy documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. While it\'s nice to get some insight on the whole process behind the actual film I find that the quotes from Banksy himself are often the most entertaining:

On artist Thierry Guetta...
\"Gore Vidal once wrote that \'Every time a friend of mine succeeds, a little bit of me dies.\' I\'d amend that to \'Every time one of my friends borrows my ideas, mounts a huge art show and becomes a millionaire celebrity,\' a little bit of me wants him dead.\"

On LA...
\"In Los Angeles, you can rise without a trace. There\'s a moment in the film where you see a dude joining the back of the line at an art show. He says he doesn\'t know why he\'s there, but he joins it anyway. The first time I saw that, I laughed — it was the emperor\'s new clothes, the triumph of hype and hot air.

But now I\'ve thought about it. I love that guy — he\'s prepared to give anything a shot, to try something new. Cities like New York and London might pride themselves on being more hard-bitten and cynical than Tinseltown, but you have to ask yourself: What\'s actually so great about that?\"

And the best...

\"I\'m not so interested in convincing people in the art world that what I do is \'art,\' I\'m more bothered about convincing people in the graffiti community that what I do is really vandalism.\"

The movie isn\'t set to play anywhere near me anytime soon but I am holding out hope that the Belcourt or the Internet gets their hands on a copy soon.

Josh directed me to the collage work of Donna K and I must congratulate him on nailing my taste. The creations are simple but blend in a believably absurd manner. Pieces like this feel like they could have been pulled directly from an old ad; despite being about as realistically nonsensical as you can get.

So I would assume everyone saw the announcement from Apple yesterday regarding the new iPhone OS and how it takes on Multitasking, bar none the biggest gripe people had regarding the iPhone / iPad. More interestingly it has been noted that they also updated their developer license to contain some pretty telling language:

Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

Basically squashing the whole Adobe Flash Will Export To iTunes App - because Flash in any iteration doesn\'t fit the bill. This is a bit of a bummer to hear at first but if you consider any other example of Apple having strict control over their walled garden, it makes sense. Actually, John Gruber, unsurprisingly, has some great thoughts on the change.

In other news - my favorite selling point of the new OS upgrade is:

Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps at once — many more than the current limit of 180 apps.

Really? 2,160 apps? Does that seem a bit excessive to anyone else?

I really should be saving this for tomorrow\'s Friday videos but it\'s one of those things that once you\'ve seen it, you know you need to share it right away. The short video Pixels by Patrick Jean is a great little expedition of 8-bit creatures invading NYC and transforming the world through their conquests. Despite the video quality being crap, I\'d really recommend watching this version first as the music seems to be a bit more engaging (I\'m sure it\'s just a bootleg music video, but it works). Then head over to here and watch it in higher quality.

via JAR.

Scrapbook has a nice sampling of work from NYC artist Jane Mount. I\'m particularly enjoying the Books series and wish I could find more in the Space Dogs series (like Laika).

Via Jessica.

This set of images for the Polaroid Color Study from Corey Holms are incredibly simplistic but all the more alluring for it in my opinion. I\'d also recommend checking out his Food Dye and 3C 6L 5H sets.. loads of good things to see.

Apparently it\'s been a long time since I\'ve fired up my Google Reader because upon doing so last night I was greeted with the news of Google Reader Play - an alternate way of reading / filtering feeds that I assume most everyone was already familiar with but myself. I must admit, I like it. It\'s not all the content I want to see (far from it) but it\'s a much easier way to comb through what Google deems the most worthy.

The simple implementations of this T.Shelf are pretty easy on the eyes. Once they start turning into giant wall monuments it\'s a bit overwhelming. The structural design is a nice touch too:

It is easy to setup and pack flat for space saving transportation. The first approach was to get rid of screws. This also gets rid of the tools in assembling the furniture. T.SHELF uses cable and zipties to tie every triangle into one piece of furniture/sculpture and functions as displaying books, magazines, plants, pictures, or anything you want to display.

Not that I plan on getting one anytime soon but I\'m enjoying how it looks!

Via Madrid.

Not that this should really come as a shock to anyone but David Cross is openly saying that the Arrested Development movie is pretty much dead in the water:

\"Way too much time it\'s been (since the show ended), I mean, there\'s so many people involved. Everyone\'s doing their own thing, you know. And everybody\'s aged. It\'s just not going to happen. I\'m sure I speak for everybody when I say we\'d love for it to happen, we\'d love to work on it, but just I don\'t think... not going to happen.\"

Granted, he could be wrong but it\'s nice to hear from the source that people should stop holding their breath.

In other news, Cross has his new stand-up CD / DVD (separate entities) coming out on Sub Pop in June which should provide a nice bit of new material. EPIX TV (new to me) is actually airing the DVD portion of it this Friday online. You can preview bits of it here.. it appears to be exactly what you expect from Mr. Cross. And I mean that in a good way.

It\'s been a long time since I checked in with the works of Malcolm Sutherland. I specifically recall really enjoying his short The Astronomers Dream but had no idea that he\'d also done a healthy number of scenes for the Star Wars Uncut project. Take some time to browse through his video collection.. there are a ton of great things going on in there.

Much like my suggestion yesterday to snag the new mix from Flux-Rad, I must recommend that you go download the latest offering from Mr. Jeremy Okai Davis - The Old Bell. We tend to overlap in the taste department pretty heavily, so if you enjoy the mixes I\'ve put out there.. you\'ll likely enjoy this (and all his others).

Photographer Mikael Kennedy has a series of 500 SX70 Polaroids called Shoot The Moon taken between 1999 and 2009 that you should take a chunk of time to investigate. It is a lot of images to try and consume but there are so many great pieces throughout that it\'s worth combing through. I really can\'t wrap my brain around how much I love this one.. it doesn\'t even look real.

Via Kate.

/Film has posted a series of videos taken from the new Blu-ray releases of Toy Story containing a good bit of amusing anecdotes of behind the scenes material from the times of making said films. The Studio Stories range from the time they lost the entire server containing Toy Story 2 to the ongoing April Fools prank of one of their main art directors quitting. They are quick and amusing, just as you\'d expect from Pixar.

Even if you don\'t have an actual iPad you can trick Gmail into thinking that you do and, therefore, enable their special two pane view. The interface actually really isn\'t so hot if you\'re using a mouse as there are no hovers for buttons and it is, obviously, designed more for a limited screen real estate with touch interaction. Regardless, as a nerd, it is neat to see. Go here to get the instructions on tricking your browser into tricking Gmail - it\'s nothing permanent so it\'s certainly worth the minute or two (depending on your browser of choice) it takes to implement.

There are a myriad of very serene photos in the portfolio of David Bowman. The Ten Lakes series is at the top of the list but other sets like Anthology and End of Land should not be missed.

Via Kateopolis.

Many many years ago Chad introduced me to The Books and I\'ve been enamored ever since. It\'s been five years since the release of their last album Lost and Safe. While it sucks, as a fan, to wait so long between albums I\'m glad they took their time; as their music is not really something you can just cobble together in between tours. Long story short, the news is out that they have a new album coming out in July and I will patiently await its release. It also turns out that the band has a blog that I\'ve managed to never catch wind of until today.

So, if you\'re unfamiliar with the band, take the next few months to catch up with becoming familiar with their catalog.. you\'ll appreciate it.