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van Gogh’s Batman

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:05:21 +0000

By James Hance. See more of, and support, his beautiful work here. See Grover as Captain America by going to his Facebook page.

Link via Laughing Squid.

Lykke Li’s Sadness Is A Blessing

Daniel Fincke — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:37:56 +0000

My favorite new song of 2011 has a video (and it co-stars one of my three favorite contemporary Scandinavian actors, Stellan Skarsgård).

It’s really well done:

The whole terrific album on which this song appears can be found here.

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Kanye West “Monster” Muppet Remix

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:42:03 +0000

I’ve been listening to Kanye West’s “Monster” pretty obsessively for the last couple months, but just watched the song’s listless official video for the first time and found it really disappointing. Then I discovered this perfect visualization of the song:

The only thing downside of the video is they do not include Nicki Minaj’s full, completely brilliant, song-stealing verse. That can be found, isolated from the rest of the song, here.

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In Honor of Natalie Portman’s Best Actress Award

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:12:47 +0000

I was extremely proud of one of my favorite human beings last night. It’s a good night to reminisce about how much talent she already had at just 13 years old, in the film Beautiful Girls:

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In Honor of Trent Reznor’s Academy Award Win

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:46:49 +0000

One of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs, “Only”, from the album With Teeth.

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Beau Obremski’s “Think”

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:00:20 +0000

The short film below was runner up in Project Reason’s 2011 Video Contest. You can see the winning video and backlash to it (in the comments section) here. The third place winner was “The Tutor”, which we have already featured.

What do you think?

55 Years of Chart Topping Songs In 75 Minutes

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:05:31 +0000

Click here for two compilations which include all the US chart topping songs spanning 1956-present in short clips so you can catch up on the last 55 years of mainstream pop music in just an hour and fifteen minutes.

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150 Of Film’s Most Remembered Lines

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:00:36 +0000

They don’t get much more famous than these:

Which is the most famous you didn’t hear?

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Stream Lykke Li’s New Album, Wounded Rhymes

Daniel Fincke — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:40:58 +0000

Lykke Li’s debut Youth Novels was one of my very favorite albums of the last few years. Her new one, Wounded Rhymes, drops next week. In the meantime, you can stream it here.

A little bit of Lykke Li’s genius from the first album for the uninitiated:

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Theophilus London And Sara Quin On David Letterman

Daniel Fincke — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:00:33 +0000

In case you don’t know what Sara Quin’s twin sister Tegan looks like, here’s a heads up: that’s not her with Sara in the video below, Sara is branching out:

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