From its classical, upright beginnings playing Bach to the Seinfeld theme tune, Collective Cadenza explore the history of the bass.
And what a versatile instrument it is, used in jazz, rock, pop and funk it helped found many, many genres and musical styles. All hail the bass!
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It doesn’t matter if it’s your pet, you, your girlfriend, or even a chimney, farting is intrinsically hilarious and this humorous video featuring guffing gas flares proves it. But behind the flatulence lies not a late night curry but a serious message about fracking. That aside, these anti-fracking chimneys will have you giggling like a school kid.
With the concept of fracking—smashing underground rock so gas can escape—becoming an ever-more present threat, the video reminds us that there are alternatives and that’s it’s up to the customer to make a stand when it comes to where they source their energy.
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The first trailer’s out for the second film from Frank Miller’s noir comic series Sin City. Feel free to let out a squeak of delight.
And the main take away is, Jessica Alba’s stripper is back! Hooray! Plus Eva Green plays a femme fatale and Mickey Rourke’s Marv’s back too, in what looks to be a sequel every bit as bleak and violent and generally awesome as the first.
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It was 2000AD and we all got swept up with the times and thought nu metal was the greatest thing since grunge.
Skip forward 14 years (has it really been that long?) and three piece female group The Lounge Kittens have rejigged this rap-rock classic into a three-part harmony with piano accompaniment.
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Arguably the two greatest living Englishman and thespie besties Magneto and Pro X did a coup d’etat on Friday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Appearing to promote their respective Broadway shows, McKellen decided to live his dream of hosting a late night show, so he ousted Seth and made Stewart his first guest.
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If your child’s a space geek, or even if they’re not, you’ll score major brownie points by building them this badass space-themed desk inspired by Nasa’s Mission Control Centre.
Jeff High Smith is the father who made this piece of awesomeness, which even plays space-related sounds and has all those flashing lights, knobs and switches so you can pretend you’re ground control to Major Tom.
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Just how fat can a Sim get? Can they get asobese and greedy as their gaming master IRL?
Well, there’s only one way to find out if they can hit Mr. Creosote levels of lardiness—and that’s to become their feeder and fill them until they’re the size of an average American.
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Pogo remixing The Mighty Boosh? There’s nothing here not to like, except maybe the fact that it has to end.
So relax into the surreal silliness of Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo the Enigma, The Moon, The Crack Fox and Bob Fossil. Nicey nicey zoo zoo!
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