by guest blogger Adam Mendelson
So I’m here in Barcelona on vacation, and I wanted to catch up with my friend Kapi, who, among other things, has been my primary connection to the hip hop community here in Barcelona since I met him back in the mid 90’s. Because he’s always real busy, the easiest way to hang out with him was to go to one of his gigs, so last Sunday (June 24, 2007) I attended Freestyle Session Spain, a national breakdancing competition for which Kapi was one of the DJ’s.
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Monthly Archives June 2007
Breakdancing in Barcelona
Giant Brown Squid Squirt…from a pretty girl in a hot tub.
This is an amazing little video clip a friend just sent me. I think this may have occurred during taping of one of the Big Brother live in reality shows. It’s a 15 second clip of a group of attractive people sitting in a hot tub when suddenly the redhead on the left [...]
Kimbo Slice
I first saw a Kimbo Slice fight on youtube back in February or so. It was a shocking thing to see…. a grass-roots style, bare-fisted boxing match in someone’s backyard or at some parking lot or boat launch. Kimbo is the neighborhood champ and competitors are brought to him a little like feed. The fighters [...]
Truck Coning
Goatsilk introduces Royce Yeats and a brand new mountain highway sport.
This debut is not to be missed. It’s beyond the x games even!
We’re thinking Y games, 2010.
Thanks to CP Roy for all his creative flexing on this. Enjoy.
Cheetah Poops Into a Jeep While People Sit Inside.
This is a very strange situation. I wonder how it came about. It’s a pretty unique experience to have a cheetah shit down on you in your car. He should have just rolled up the sunroof and went for the Cheetah plate job!
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The Greatest, The Latest, Al Qaedus
This magical little clip from liveleak.com shows some soldiers hanging out in Iraq while one of them plays his own original cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower.” This real scene is highly remisniscent of staged scenes from famous war movies of the last decade or two (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill [...]
Hi-Def Kinkaid
Here’s an art exhibition I’d like to see: a series of Thomas Kincaid-ish scenes shot with a top-of-the-line high definition video camera, presented in a gallery installation on the best possible HD equipment. It seems to me that re-presenting the traditional, cozy Kincaid image in the eye-busting crispness of top-quality high definition technology would produce superb tension. And, if you only displayed images on equipment that cost exorbitant amounts–but which truly provided a “realer than real” image–then the work would have that certain precious quality which would increase it’s “value” in the world. The idea would be that because the images need costly equipment to be produced in the first place, the representations themselves must be worth more. It’s a simple fusion of the conceptual and the physical, and it also nicely packages the technology right into the artwork. It’s an upgrade to the Kinkaid on all levels. Thomas Kinkaid for the 21st century.
Gangstimals
Intrinsically we sense the rarity and value of jewels, just as we intrinsically know that turds are not rare or valuable. If you wear nice jewels, people around you will notice. Most (but not all) will want to sleep with you and share with you a life of leisure, wealth and power. [...]
Hygenic Beaver
This Beaver cleans up very nicely.
Charmy
I know the story has already gotten ripe and decayed somewhat, but there’s something about that David Hasselhoff drunk burger-eating video, filmed by his own 17 year-old daughter, that just sticks with me. It’s one of the most gripping and entertaining 6-minute video clips of a famous human being I’ve ever seen, actually, and there [...]