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Tiger Woods Walks On Water
Tiger Woods is the greatest thing to happen to golf since Caddyshack, and if this ad from Portland’s own Weiden+Kennedy is to be believed, he’s also the second coming of Christ. The promo, a spot created for Electronic Arts’ upcoming Tiger Woods ’09 virtual golfing title, refutes the claims of YouTube user Levinator25 who had […]
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“So… Uh… Sorry About That Superman Movie.”
Today in ye olde Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. announced their plans for their upcoming slate of superhero films flicks that might as well print money. Warner Bros. has been fantastically slow and unreliable with their big screen adaptations of DC Comics properties, something that’s been even more obvious since Marvel heroes have been rockin’ […]
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And Mike Judge’s Next Doomed Project Is….
Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill creator Mike Judge just can’t catch a break in Hollywood. After getting screwed over on Office Space by Fox (only to have the film become a cult classic on video) and then getting screwed over on Idiocracy, once again by Fox (only to have that film, too, […]
Posted inFashion
Project Runway Wrap Up!
Last night’s installment of Project Runway not only featured an impressive lineup of drag queens serving as models/clients to the contestants, who were tasked with creating fabulous stage outfits for them—not to mention guest judge Ru “who else?” Paul—it also featured the long overdue ousting of the chronically stumbling but cute Daniel, who tested judges […]
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Good Morning, News!!
1.A PLAGUE ON ALL SEVEN OF YOUR HOUSES!!! Obama’s campaign gets Shakespearian: 2.HALLMARKING THE OCCASION!!! The card company that invented Valentine’s day and Mother’s day finally comes out with a gay marriage card, so early it’s practically ACTIVISM. Er… 3.TEXAS!!! Is ready to execute a man with mental illness for conspiring to murder someone he […]
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How Have I Never Seen nor Heard of this Movie Before?
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Fellow Humans, We Are Now Obsolete. All Hail Our Kind and Just Robot Overlords!
GYAAHAHAAH. WHAT THE FUCK?! Watch this. Fucking crazy, right? Emily–the woman in the above animation–was produced using a new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as [the] […]
Posted inPortland
Blog-Off 2008: When Nessie Attacks
Today’s challenge for the Red Cross-Water Bureau Blog-Off 2008 came from a Blogtown reader: I’d like to hear a response plan from each agency on a Nessie-esque beast in the water reservoirs. Assume it is dangerous, eating skinny dippers, dragging dogs underwater, etc. I upped the ante for the bloggers, challenging them to illustrate the […]
Posted inMusic
YACHT Salutes the Summer with DFA
Confirming the gossip we previously mentioned here at End Hits Page Six, YACHT has signed to the mighty DFA label. Judging by the hilarious video above for “Summer Song,” the local duo (who, evidently, are now bigger in Sweden than ABBA) will fit right in on their new label home. The Summer Song EP is […]
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Seal Noises and the Lowest Voice Ever
I saw Werner Herzog’s documentary about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, over the weekend, which is currently playing at Cinema 21. (And oh my god, go see it. It’s incredible.) Herzog uses an eclectic selection of music to soundtrack the movie, including Bulgarian choirs and the unearthly underwater calls of Weddell seals […]
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The Benefits of Going Full Retard.
So Tropic Thunder made $26 million over the weekend, finally putting a dent in The Dark Knight‘s iron-fisted rule of the box office. And this despite protests by disability advocacy groups–who not only picketed at the premiere, but threatened to protest at theaters this weekend. (Entertainment Weekly has a good story on the premiere’s protest, […]