Quite shocking video for Lemon Jelly’s latest single

Do you remember what I blogged about Militarism for fun? This time it’s Violence for fun, and it’s also very well designed… erm… drawn in this case. I do dance like that sometimes XD. Lemon Jelly - The Shouty Track in Real Video: Low / High

Also if you liked the way those dudes were drawn, check out this weird russian animated drawing. [Thanks Javi]

The two things that best remind you of your past are smells and music. While the smell of your exgilfriend drives you crazy, the music of your “old good times” can enliven intense feelings.

And you know, any past time was better. What does Modjo’s Lady (timeless hit from years 2000/2001 (download video) make you feel like? I was in Madrid and this song was everywhere. It brought great vibes to any pub or party, everyone could hum the chorus (lady… hear me tonight… cos my feeling… is just so right… I feel love… for the first time…) and most of the whole lyrics. Even the video pictures heaps of “buen rollo”. It’s just so easy to get melancholic with music…

Modjo - Lady MP3

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That’s what I’ve got for you, in case someone still doesn’t have a Gmail account yet

Are they planning to open registrations to the public? Are they going to stop giving it for free? The whole Gmail invitation thing lost its sense quite a while ago when everyone noticed it’s tiring to find 6 new friends every week. But today Google went even more absurd by giving away up to 50 Gmail invitations to almost every user. And here they are. If you want one for you or for your mom or for your pet, just leave a comment below and I’ll send it away. No need to put your email in the comments field, just fill in the email field and say hello. What if their plans were to expect massive giveaways like this?

I never seem to understand all the hype around a new Moby album. The last one —again— is just frigging dull!

The single, Lift Me Up, sounds fairly good. Lively and energetic like some other exceptions in Norman Cook’s discography. But the rest of his latest album Hotel is totally “Lift Me Up Cos’ I’m So Low”. There’s a slight difference between chill out and plain boring, you know. But I hope is just a matter of taste. That he actually makes good music and the problem It’s my intolerance towards a music that feels like elevator or dentist waiting room background tunes… For some reason his hit Porcelain was the corporate soundtrack of the Spanish Public Television channel for more than one year. Damn, his face just screams “FREAK!”.

It’s my website and I cry if I want to, cry if I want to…

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done .

This must be the biggest [???] ever

Does anyone know what the heck is this monster? Where is it? Can I conquer the world with it? [Via Verparacreer]

Writers are an intriguing race. They seem to have a special interest in helping each other work better, more efficiently. They’d be happy to know they may be actually helping everybody

Myself, I love writing; I really enjoy essay-writing tasks in my english classes. But when it comes to writing for myself, I’m all lazy. Some months ago I bought a book with a very appealing title and more interesting content: Julia Cameron’s The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (in Spanish, The Pleasure and Right to Write); an easy-reading bunch of advices and strategies that encourage the shy writer start a career or just a vital hobby. Here’s the exciting part of it: I’m all lazy for EVERY SINGLE aspect of life and I found out that I could mentally change the books’ sentences by swapping words like “write”, “writer”, “writing” into things like “draw”, “designer”, “do the washing”, “work”, “be nice to your girl”, etc., and the advices/strategies still kept the meaning/usefulness!!!. This other list of 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work —also targeted to writers— [via Jenneth] also works as an insightful source of help no matter if you are an idle writer, business advisor, industrial designer, artist or tennis female player (…oops).

The latest videoclip of one of the most beautiful ladies in past years’ MTV galaxy

Besides some impressive choreography, a crazy violin and the fact that she’s wearing key-shaped earrings (hint), what I like most of this video is the ever-charming “I’m so higher than you but I’m kind enough to let you still have me in your dreams” attitude. I dig the song too, by the way.
QuickTime video: Low / High.
RealVideo: Low / High.

A T-shirt design of mine has been accepted in the tshirt.com competition

I actually designed it last summer and printed it using crappy inkjet printing, transfer paper and my well-known ironing skills. But if you go and vote for it (you have to register first) they may do it all the professional way. Click on the image below to see a high-res version of it. If you don’t understand the whole concept/design idea, Houston you’ve got a problem.

U’re not supposed to touch this!

There seems to be a lot of excitement around all the tv commercials popping up for the Superbowl in the U.S., and some certainly deserve such excitement. This Lays ad featuring M.C. Hammer is an example. Not overwhelmingly amazing, but fun. [Via Screenhead]

I didn’t know you could do this with a car. Well, not exactly you, but some kind of overskilled human in Britain

A guy with the fastest hands on earth, an amazingly agile Lotus Seven and some sort of drift/dance/track competition [Windows Media]. [Via Jalopnik]

So hot. Not exactly “pocketable” but small enough to fit in your laptop/gadget bag, this DLP front projector can create a 20″ screen

It weighs just 400 grams and the picture below speaks for itself. With a maximum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, Mitsubishi’s PocketProjector, the first in the new breed of tiny projectors, may still not be very powerful for working or even surfing the net, but with VGA, S-Video and composite video input connectors, I do see myself using it as the standard screen for portable video players like my Archos Gmini400. $700 (or 540€ I should say) is not a bad price for 20.000 hours of lamp life (thanks to the triple-led lamp), but I’m waiting for the 1024×768 version. [Via Engadget]

Stop telling me to mind the gap
I want my fucking money back!
Where the fuck’s my fucking train???

Etcetera: London Underground, the song and flash video. [Via Screenhead]

Another group of highly awarded animators who have produced some of the most striking tv commercials/videoclips/short films I’ve seen in a good while

I found them in the links section of Tokyoplastic, but Nexusproductions‘ professional real-life projects are another whole story (I didn’t really mean to compare them here). Don’t leave the site without checking the “Latest” section, and be sure to watch the clips for Panasonic, BMW and Watermelon Love.

Back to the cool material; version 2.0 website of the winners of the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival audience award, Animation category.

Pure audiovisual pleasure. These couple of Flash animators got so famous for their “Drummachine” last year that they had to produce a limited edition of the drumdolls (pictured below). Good to see they’ve managed to keep up the cool stuff since then. In this second version you’ll still find the Drummachine, but also some other great pieces of animation. Too bad you have to be clicking around all the time to keep the animations going, but hey, they weren’t supposed to be useability gurus. Just animation’. To their/my request, please turn your speakers up to 9000. [Via Core77]

Why haven’t I been checking Gearbits.com more? Entries like this one about the great decision about either consuming or producing information justify adding this blog to my regular visits

It’s okay if you don’t bother to do the same but at least do read The Great Decision: Consume or Produce, a story with which I feel very much identified.

The latest kind of blog-attacking spam just revived passions in my heart against/for this industry

I’m sure the automatic notification email sent to AVTG’s suscribers will go directly to the spam folder due to the awkward repetition of the word spam in this post about spam. You are free to stop reading if you feel spammed at this point. Gearbits.com (Craig Froehle) is the first blog I’ve heard of receiving trackback spam attacks (just after myself). This happens when bloggers around the world seemed to have eradicated comment spam attacks. I’m experiencing all this drama too but apart from the obvious I’m-highly-annoyed rant, I have to say that I feel the same morbid interest for the people/strategy/technology behind the spam industry as I have always felt for the virus/antivirus industry. I mean, it keeps freaking me out that they are actual industries with big money involved. There’s nothing I’d love to see more than Michael Moore’s approach to the topic :). Seriously!

A bloody hilarious corporate film for Hallmark’s Greeting Card division (i think so) by animator Chris Harding

This made me laugh out loud, and so should happen to you as long as you 1. understand some Flintstones-style spoken english, and 2. are a little bit aware of the so called creative process. In-take, out-crap has immediately become my Messenger nickname. Watch Chris Harding’s “Make Mine Shoebox” (Quicktime). [Via Screenhead]

I think I hadn’t seen Björk smiling since… her second album almost one decade ago? And even then she didn’t look as happy as in her latest video “The triumph of a heart”

And I’m not the only one to feel extremely happy for this fact. Not the only one in this world to love her :). Although I must admit her latest two albums were too shy, too intimate, too sad in some way, for that love to be what it was in the beginnig. I’m not the only one about that either. But in “The triumph of a heart” videoclip (Real Audio) she smiles so much… and she looks so young! Congratulations to all Björk fans (and to all of you haters, nope, I’m not the only fan :D)

A friend just lent me a couple of albums of previously-unknown-by-me Steve Reich and one song happens to be the soundtrack of the Rover 75 commercial I loved so much 6 years ago

You know when you hear a song somewhere one time or one hundred (just enough to make you love it), but there’s no way you can find the original (CD, Mp3)? How relieving it is to find it, intentionally or casually. By 1999 not only did we still use Yahoo! as search engine: you simply couldn’t find every thing on the internet as you do now; so I guess I just enjoyed the commercial during that summer and forgot about it until now. Good songs never die. Altough Nobukazu Takemura’s Remix of Steve Reich’s “Proverb” (Download Mp3) may not be of your own personal taste… But it really worked toghether with the image of a then-revolutionary car design slowly emerging from a dark pool of some mercury-ish kind of liquid. By the way, I couldn’t for the life of me find the ad. It seems we can’t find every thing on the internet yet! [Thanks Miren]