links for 2008-11-05

"Jen Gregono, chief content officer at On Networks, let slip during a panel discussion that her company recently signed mad-genius director David Lynch to a webisode series based on his mad-genius new book 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity.'"

Itty, itty bitty carbon nanotube Obamas. F'real.

Linked off of the last video. I mean, come on, you can't honestly deny this song, especially when the little Sims pump their candy colored water-guns in the air.

As the P4K headline reads: MIA/Blaqstarr cover The Wire theme song… sort of.

Trailer for the forthcoming motion graphics festival. Post-show Blu-ray box set, please?

Fantastic (and postcard-orderable) set of Japanese culture tropes. Love the pachinko fiend with the ball-filled belly.

Simon Pegg writes a thick screed on the slow vs. fast zombie dilemma after Brooker's Dead Set airs: "(Herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them – much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses and our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares – the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles."

Now online!

Daniel in an east end cab, palsied and singing with his eyes closed, and it's seriously just about enough to make you cry.

Watch the descent into over-detailed madness. BRING US BACK TO THE ANDROGYNOUS 🙂 DAYS LEGO.

What it says on the tin, and therefore: Awesome!