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Jan
28
A Horribly Awesome Twitter Recruiting Video
Ian Padgham and Jeremy Briggs made this horribly awesome Twitter recruiting video featuring Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. But wait, there’s more, Twitter is actually hiring. Here are the current positions that are open.
via Chloe Sladden
Jan
25
Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer
In 2006, Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer was created by homebrewers Tom and Athena Seefurth who wanted to create a beer that would pair with a wide variety of foods, including pizza. Using a surplus of oregano, basil, tomato and garlic, they came up with this “debris-free” pizza-flavored beer. The Seefurth Family now sells their pizza spice-filled beer online through Malloy’s Finest Wine & Spirit shop.
The Margarita pizza is put into the mash & steeped like a tea bag. A whole wheat crust made with water, flour & yeast is topped with tomato, oregano, basil & garlic. The essence of the pizza spices is washed off with hot water and filtered into a brewpot, where it is boiled for a long, long time. During the process, we add hops & spices in a cheesecloth type bag & filter the cooled liquid into a fermentation vessel. (big glass 6 gallon water jug). After a week or two, the beer is good to go. Keg it or bottle it.
images via Daily Hops and Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer
Thanks to Jessica Lindsey for the tip!
Jan
21
My First Hardcore Song by an 8-Year-Old Punk Rock Girl Named Juliet
An 8-year-old Australian punk-rocker named Juliet rips it up in her first music video for the song, My First Hardcore Song. The video was directed by family friend and producer Rob Sharpe.
8 yr old Juliet teamed up with the hottest producer ROB SHARPE this school holidays and smashed out this BRUTAL track.. Juliet takes you on a journey of her love for her dog, Robert and how her pet fish stink even tho Juliet has zero sense of smell. The Australian Hardcore scene will never be the same!
via The Mary Sue
Jan
15
Burning Man: Rites Of Passage, Burning Man Experience In Day & Night
Burning Man: Rites Of Passage is a two-part film from Brooklyn-based photographer Ahmed that shows “a short glimpse” of the 2011 Burning Man festival experience in day and night.
images via Ahmed
Jan
12
The Arrival of the Microprocessor in Silicon Valley
Steve Jobs, microprocessor pioneer Ted Hoff, and other Silicon Valley luminaries discuss the arrival, in the 1970s, of the microprocessor. The video is part of the 1998 documentary Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.
via Brain Pickings
Jan
09
Mobius, A Short Film Made Using A Canon C300 Cinema Camera
Mobius is a gripping short film by Vincent Laforet about “a photojournalist who stumbles upon a cartel execution and supernatural events in the the ‘Zone of Silence’ in Mexico”. Here’s a 1080p HQ version and behind-the-scenes footage.
Canon commissioned Vincent to shoot the the film to promote their new C300 Cinema EOS Camera.
via PetaPixel
Jan
06
Red Tails, An Action-Packed Movie About WWII Tuskegee Airmen From Lucasfilm
Red Tails is a new action-packed flick from Lucasfilm about the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American Army Air Corps underdogs that fought “against all odds and became heroes” in World War II. Interesting side note, the Airmen’s aerial dog fights are what inspired George Lucas to create the Star Wars space battles. The movie, directed by Anthony Hemingway and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Bryan Cranston, opens in theatres on January 20, 2012.
1944. To help win the war, the Pentagon brass has no choice but to consider the untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program.
Just as the young Tuskegee men are about to be shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. These intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country – and the fate of the free world.
USA Today recently talked with executive producer George Lucas on why it took 23 years to make this movie and why it’s self-financed:
Jan
03
The Obliteration Room, Kids Cover All White Room in Polka Dots
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama created obliteration room, an art work where she gathered used furniture, recreated a typical Australian home all in white and then allowed children to sticker it in colorful polka dots. The obliteration room is part of her current exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever at the Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland, Australia. The show opened November 19, 2011 and runs through March 11, 2012.
via Colossal
photos by Mark Sherwood and Stuart Addelsee