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The awesome graffiti-meets-installation-meets-animation projects that have been popping up increasingly often just keep getting better. This one by the Quintessenz crew is stylistically very different from Blu’s work, and originality always goes a long way. In this short, it does both figuratively and literally. I can’t stress this enough — True Colors is the shit.

About 3 minutes in, I think I realized that were it not for a childhood spent plopped in front of Gumby, I might not like this shit nearly as much. Either way, the video is massively cool and must have taken a massive amount of work. According to Quintessenz, the project took four months in an abandoned space with only artificial light — no sun at all. The most impressive thing about the film, to me, is that everything was handmade! To create the stop-motion animation, 5000 pictures were processed with an average of 15 frames per second. Feel free to pick your jaw up off the floor at any time.

People overuse the word “amazing” — especially in the hour of Facebook and Twitter and the world-wide blogodrome, everything gets chalked up to “amazing”. But, seriously you guys, this is fucking amazing.

Darth Vader robs a bank - photo via nydailynews.com

Apparently the Lord of the Dark Side took some time off of his usual galaxy-conquesting last week to rob a bank in Long Island. Hey, all the money for those Death Star repairs have to come from somewhere, right? And it’s not like the fucking Ewoks have anything of value… all they care about are berries and dancing.

A gun seems a little pointless when you can just Force choke a mother fucker, but I guess to the uninitiated, pointing a crooked finger at the teller is way less intimidating than pointing a Glock 9. Maybe the light saber was out of batteries.

This world map of cannabis legality is pretty interesting. To me, anyway. To non-stoners and xXxDRUGxFREExXx losers… probably not so much.

What I wanna know is WHAT ABOUT ANTARCTICA? Do penguins smoke? Lol

Super Mario Bros. is eternal — an icon woven into the fabric of pop culture, or perhaps etched into its sidewalk anyway. Though at times it almost becomes a cliche, particularly due to the YouTube nation, there are still some clever, and maniacally hard-working, people out there applying Super Mario in really fucking amazing ways.

Andreas Heikaus made this video for his bachelor thesis at the University of Applied Science and Art Hannover. He used some incredible… things… I don’t understand to cast a nearly flawless run through the game on a city sidewalk covered in graffiti scrawls. Without the bounds of a television screen, the levels stretch on down the curb, and basically it’s super fucking cool.

In Andreas’ words:

I stitched the entire level together that I got a huge panorama… after this I made the animation with the original sprites from the game for the whole thing in the areas you normally won’t see… 

He’s German. Anyway, fuck all that nerdy shit anyway — he completed the game in six minutes, sick!

Wowzers. This wasn’t a quick job.

Thought I’d contribute to the local area epileptic seizure warning level today. We’re on high alert over here.

No fucking way. This atom bomb of a headline makes The National Enquirer look like The Washington Post.

Everybody at the copy desk out on vacation this week, Reuters?

If you haven’t yet learned the name Blu, then you are certainly in for one hell of an introduction.

Blu is the visionary graffiti artist/muralist/genius-at-large behind the Muto and Combo animations that have been going around the Internet for the past couple years. Those were innovative and jaw-dropping at the time, but his latest project, Big Bang Big Boom, is so far beyond either of them it’s pretty flabbergasting. So flabbergasting that I went so far as to use the word flabbergasting… so you know it must be good.

The film follows a loose concept of the evolution of life on earth, while simultaneously charting an incredible evolution in Blu’s technique. Here, he employs the same ideas he pioneered in his first two large scale wall painting animations, such as repetition and interaction with the surrounding environment, and takes them to exponential levels. Which is thematically appropriate anyway, as exponential growth is a consistent motif in Blu’s work. You will see things you cannot believe, things you have never seen before. And that is the cornerstone of any good art.

Epicly Later’d’s Patrick O’Dell (wow, those apostrophes are practically crossing the streams) has a new series up on VBS called Doin’ It Baja. Terrible name. Regardless, the series is pretty awesome — it covers O’Dell’s (more wild apostrophes, holy fuck) recent motorcycle trip with eternal coolguys Heath Kirchart, Arto Saari, and Keegan Saunder from San Diego to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. Motorcycle mayhem, dreamy skater bois, beaches, beer, Baja California?! So fucking sold.

Here’s the first episode so you can get your feet wet (though not as wet as dipping your pinky toe into the warm, blissful waters of the motherfucking Pacific Ocean). Episodes 1-6 are up at VBS if you feel you haven’t had enough jealousy in your life lately.

It’s a quintessential summer Saturday in the city, and the day before July 4^th — a veritable zero hour for misguided antics and general heat-induced craziness. What are you going to do tonight? Hit a club, maybe a dance club?

I can’t believe I just posted a video of a dancing baby. I probably just lost almost all of the cool points I’ve struggled to amass over the years, but god damn it, that baby can break it down.

Guys. Check this out. The “good” half of this “good idea” is just goddamned overwhelming me right now.

You really can’t go wrong with anything that lists “ganja glycerin” as a main ingredient. If people are coming up with shit like this while weed is still illegal, can you even imagine the possibilities if it’s ever legalized? Well, realistically, Philip Morris would add a bunch of addictive chemicals to the mix, but in an ideal world, we could have marijuana-infused lattes at Starbucks, doped-up Devil Dogs, grilled corn on the cob dripping with buddery butter. Be still, my heart.

In the end, I’m probably only helping the enemy by posting shit like this, but holy fucking shit you guys, I think my brain is leaking into my shirt pocket right now — because of her (just kidding though, I never wear shirts with pockets. Only muscle Ts to show off my sweet tats).

In all honesty, this makes me want to take one of those overpowered guns she’s firing in the general direction of the Mexican border, and use it to put a bullet inside my head. It’s crazy people like her that make people like me go crazy and want to acquire overpowered guns of my own, so I can hide out in a safe house like Tim Robbins waiting to ruin the second half of War of the Worlds.

What does a Conservative Christian need so much firepower for anyway? Isn’t the healing power of Christ supposed to be your secret weapon? The ad spends more time showing her shooting various firearms than shooting down bad bills, amiright?! 

Thanks for the tip, Brandon.