From: A History Of The Greatest 50 Animated .GIFs Of All Time

posted by: Harold Johns III

This is the second video from Ted Leo and The Pharmacists’ latest album The Brutalist Bricks, out now on Matador. It was directed by Tom Scharpling and features performances by comedians Paul F. Tompkins, Julie Klausner and John Hodgman. And yes, Ted Leo is making fun of Green Day, their terrible “concept” album American Idiot and their even more terrible Broadway musical based on said album.

This is the first video from The Thermals’ upcoming album Personal Life, due September 9 on Kill Rock Stars. It stars Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and was directed by Whitey McConnaughy.

According to Carpark Records:

For the video to Toro Y Moi‘s latest single “Low Shoulder” the directors Elisha Smith-Leverock and Chris Murdoch have drawn inspiration from everything from pulp magazines and Cinderella to sploshing and mono-brows. It’s a nod to Italo-horror flicks from the 70s and 80s. It features an appearance by 60s it-girl Daphne Sherman, wife of the legendary mod tailor Ben Sherman, who stars as a demented ballroom dancing reject/ waitress.

“I Don’t Mind” is from Screaming Females’ fourth full length Castle Talk, out September 14 on Don Giovanni Records. Download a free copy of “I Don’t Mind” here (right click + save link as). Lawrencians can catch Screaming Females on tour August 26 at the Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts in Lawrence, KS). Tour dates for the rest of ya can be found here.

Bonus: Some band named Arcade Fire has a new video for “Ready to Start.”

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via Pretty Heart Attacks’ Tumblr

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See more animated GIF’s of graffiti pieces by INSA via Kid Robot.

posted by: Harold Johns III

According to Tree Hugger:

This art project by Isao Hashimoto does a phenomenal job of showing us where and when we started obliterating pieces of the planet with nuclear weapons. In a short video, Hashimoto shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the Earth from 1945 when the US tested nuclear weapons before dropping the infamous bombs on Japan, to 1998 as India and Pakistan began testing their own weapons. It brings a whole new perspective to the debate on the use of nuclear technology.

The artist writes, “This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second.  No letters are used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barriers.  The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted.  I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”

To learn more about the history of nuclear testing we highly suggest watching Radio Bikini. Nominated for an Academy Award, this documentary tells the eye-opening story of Bikini Atoll — one of the most terrifying tragedies of the nuclear age. The peaceful Pacific island was the unwitting site of atomic bomb tests conducted by the United States in 1946; extraordinary archival footage reveals the stark reality of these tests, which left the island uninhabitable for 40 years and exposed thousands of sailors to heavy doses of radiation.  For those interested Radio Bikini is currently available on Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” system.

Learn even more about the sordid history of nuclear bomb testing around the globe, including the American-made Castle Bravo disaster of 1954 via Wikipedia.

My question is why can’t America ever be first in something positive like education or health care?

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via Stoner Party

posted by: Harold Johns III