‘There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum’ -Arthur C. Clarke

Photographs by Burak Arikan. Details here.

Video for We Have Band’s March 22 release Divisive. Directed by Jul&Mat, produced by SoLab. From the upcoming, self-titled album WHB.

Official Website. MySpace.

Found via Jason Malmberg

‘The ‘machine’ was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.’

Video for OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass. Directed by Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. From the album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

Shot in one continuous take.

Found via Adrian Giddings

Video by Istanbul-based motion designer Onur Senturk. Soundtrack by Echolab.

Found via Nickish

One can’t tell it’s Spring by the weather.

This is the subject of this cool shoot for this month’s NYLON by the incredible Justin Hollar. More here. And here.

Found via Design Scene

‘A French twist on American Pop Culture’

Second one this week. Jean Paul Gaultier’s new collection for Target.

Click on the image for videos and more/jump.

Nine women who changed the world. Article here.

Whoa.

Found via Front

Stu Phillips: Knight Rider Theme

I love a good car chase. Short by Michael Chaves.

Herbie: The Love Bug (1968) was da bomb when I was a kid.

Had the story album (above) and the first two films were set in San Francisco (that was cool). Herbie Rides Again (1974) had Helen Hayes in a funky Cable Car thing and I remember that Stefanie Powers was super cute.

Had posters, toys, tiny cars (that I’d take to the mechanic to fix when I broke them. Really). And I once got in trouble for painting a 53 on my mom’s old Volkswagen hatchback (I didn’t care that it wasn’t a beetle. It had a VW on it).

Here’s the website of the ultimate Herbie fan (and Disney employee) Hugh Chitwood. Found these funky images (below) at his site; they were used as promos for the Fully Loaded (2005) Lohan/Justin Long/Michael Keaton/NASCAR comeback.

Not bad for a car that was originally designed by dis guy.

1932 sketch for the Volkswagen, the ‘car of the people’

For more VW history, go here.
For more Herbie, go here (and follow the links at the bottom of the page).

George Bruns: Love Bug Theme

‘In the 70s they called it war paint’ -Sven Voelker

A look at the graphic design of racing cars – an overview of the new book by Sven Voelker, Go Faster. Article and video here.

Part 2

Over 2,500 logos. And six years to make.

Congratulations to Nicolas Schmerkin, François Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain and their team for winning the 2010 Best Animated Short Film Oscar for Logorama.

Watch the actual film above. Website here.

And
Snag your own downloadable copy of the film at the iTunes store – where it’s going for just a couple of bucks.

Logorama is a riveting French look at American consumerism (and film making).

‘Boobs, tongues, and a poem by Sappho about some ancient hanky-panky’ -Refinery29

It’s been a wonderful week. Even joined an anti-censorship group on Facebook. But frankly, Fuck Week inevitability has to come to an end. For my last Fuck Week fucking post, I’m including a fucking link to a blurg about the wonderfully irreverent FashionFUCK Magazine.

Great fucking blog too.

And,
If I wasn’t profane enough this week, there are others who take things a lot farther. One example is Northern Ireland’s very own wonder, Sarah Tonner. You can follow her on Twitter or Tumblr or read her blog. Great humor, no censor. REAL person.

And btw, that’s not her in the nude pictures in this post. This is her here:

As for me, gonna go wash my mouth for a bit.

Jessica of The Veronicas.

The Veronicas: Leave Me Alone

‘Nope, it’s not French Connection United Kingdom. It’s plain and simply Fuck.’ -Between the Cracks magazine

Jewelry by Steven Shein.

Found via Andrea Kelley

The video for She Wants Revenge’s These Things. Featuring the always incredible Shirley Manson.

Found via Amber Rose

Saw Sam Kinison perform this in concert. 1988. Jessica Hahn was there too.

Sam was LOUD.

Some notes found on the floor of a 3rd grade classroom in Washington D.C.

There are 90 different types of bitches. Read the whole list here.

Via Susan Burns

I’ve seen Eddie Izzard twice in concert. His 1998 show, Dress to Kill (shot in San Francisco), incredible. Found the complete video online (above). He’s one of the best comedians working today.

And, just released on DVD is Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (below), a new documentary about his life and career. Website here. Order here.

Do I use some of his schtick in my history class? Of course. Do I do it as well? Not by a long shot.

Greatness happens with Eddie and Craig Ferguson riff off each other. Here’s a clip from last year: part one and part two.

In honor of Fuck Week, here’s some highlights from the Engrish blog.

Actual products from Asian countries where English, of course, is not the primary language. For teens, for babies, for grandpa.

Regular Engrish site here. Adult content site here.

Light Breakfast by David Sykes.

Found via Ashley Simko

When I was a kid, my dad bought me a huge stack of comedy albums at a garage sale.

Bill Cosby. Bob Newhart. Bill Dana. Old radio shows with Abbot & Costello, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Stan Freberg. Alan Sherman. George Carlin. Redd Foxx. Stiller and Meara. Jonathan Winters. Richard Pryor. Robert Klein. The Smothers Brothers.

Steve Martin changed the game when he arrived on the scene.

He threw out all the rules. In school, a bunch of us recreated his 1978 single, King Tut, as a dance number.

Here’s Martin in headdress, in concert with Henry Winkler:

Steve Martin, 1979

This was the album to own:

A few years ago, Martin finally wrote an autobiography of his standup career – which had gotten so big, he was selling out stadiums. Then one night, he quit. Jumped into acting and was mum on the whole standup thing. Only referred to it once, on a episode of Saturday Night Live, stating, ‘that was the old me.’

It was wild and crazy.

Steve Martin, 1979

In the shadow of the California State Assembly is Sacramento’s Fuck Fridays at the TownHouse Lounge.

Tonite: DJs Shaun Slaughter/Jon Droll, Short Circuit, a Cops and Robbers theme and one of the best fucking signs anywhere (above).

More info via Twitter, MySpace or Facebook.

And
Check out Tom Spaulding’s incredible Sacramento Signs Flickr set here.

‘Canada’s home grown electro kings Holy FUCK lend their funk to this incredible snippet of the digital graffiti out of the olympic village. A huge backlit projection was set up in conjunction with photoshop and given to a group of anti-athletes’

Presented by Chairman Ting and Tangible interaction.

Snag Holy Fuck’s tracks here. MySpace here.

Found via YRB Magazine

‘This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture – from Hollywood  . . .  to the schoolyard to the Senate floor in Washington D.C.’

More about Steve Anderson’s 2006 FUCK film here. MySpace here. Grab it on Amazon here.

Like ripples in a pond.

The legal battle resulting from the 2004 Superbowl Wardrobe Malfunction (above) – which led to rampant censorship across the United States, Howard Stern leaving his radio show and pixelated faces on late night tee vee – is STILL going on.

Read more here.

‘And no matter what the locals tell you, don’t take the pink line to the yellow line.’ -Gizmodo

Speaking of the Underground, here’s Sam Lomen’s Underskin.

Found via Justin Nelson