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• Jigoku: psychotronic cut-up video
• Pajama jeans
• Welcome to 2011. You have 5 months until the end of the world.
• Anti-drunk driving PSA from 1930s
• Ouch.
• First Caturday of the year
• Coop's typography and signpainting swipe file
• Handmade plushies by Audrey Kawasaki
• Wendy's training video: "Chili Can Be Served With Cheese"

Jigoku: psychotronic cut-up video Posted: 01 Jan 2011 07:27 PM PST Quite a freak-out, eh? It's the trailer for "Jigoku", UK DJs/producers Lovely Jon and Cherrystones' cut-up coup of exotic horror flicks and psychedelia. The limited-edition eponymous DVD is based on a live video mix they've performed at the ICA, Other Cinema, and elsewhere. From Bleep Blog: Joel Martin –What is your personal interpretation of 'Jigoku'? I know that this translates as 'Hell' in Japanese and is also the title of Nobuo Nakagawa's cinematic vision of Hades, also titled 'Jigoku' (1960)? Lovely Jon – Nakagawa's classic is a major influence but the name kinda brings up everything we're about – that intense visual hit you experience when seeing a crazy 'out there' movie in the middle of the night where all the rules are broken and cohesion is thrown out of the window: you're left with this suffocating beast you can't escape from.... JM - Can you recommend some personal film favourites for the uninitiated viewer that fully capture the essence of 'Jigoku'? LJ - Christ – have you got a year?! Jose Marins (Coffin Joe): Brazil's king of horror is a huge influence – his movies are unique in that he made these celluloid paintings from hell for peanuts but his vision usurped the impoverished budgets he had to work with. We're also huge old school kung fu fans and love Asian vampires: The Dragon Lives Again is an insane Bruce Lee rip where the king goes to hell and encounters Dracula; The Mummy; Emmanuelle; The Man with no Name; James Bond and Popeye (!) – that's one totally fucked up movie, Rasta! CS – Try these: I Drink Your Blood (D E Durston); Prey (Norman J Warren); The Boogeyman (Ulli Lommel); Death Laid An Egg (Giulio Questi); Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll (Carlos Aured); The Thrill Killers (Ray Dennis Steckler); Blindman (Ferdinando Baldi); House With Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati) and Seven Commandments Of Kung Fu (Shih Hao Ko). "Quiet Village interviews Jigoku"

Pajama jeans Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:52 PM PST Pajama Jeans! ("Now get the best of both worlds!") Sadly, the "smooth butt-lifting design" is not available in men's sizes.

Welcome to 2011. You have 5 months until the end of the world. Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:22 AM PST If you are one of those crazy people who believes the world will end in 2012, you've been sucked in by dumb Hollywood propaganda. Or so says civil engineer Harold Camping, who has done a bunch of math with calculators and The Bible, and has determined that the world will actually end on May 21, 2011. If you haven't been to Graceland yet, better step up those travel plans!

Anti-drunk driving PSA from 1930s Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:27 AM PST "The old-fashioned gas pump seems almost anachronistic in this otherwise strikingly modern-looking 1930's PSA against drunk driving," notes BB reader GIFtheory. From the Library of Congress archives. This work was funded by the WPA, by the way.

Ouch. Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:15 AM PST Payback is a bitch. Bullfighter Pepe Manrique is tackled by a bull during a bullfighting festival at Canaveralejo bullring in Cali, Colombia, on December 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga.

First Caturday of the year Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:35 AM PST "A Wee Drink," photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader Artful Magpie of Chicago. There are 53 Caturdays in this year! 2011 is awesome.

Coop's typography and signpainting swipe file Posted: 01 Jan 2011 08:33 AM PST From L.A. lowbrow artist Coop's Flickr stream, his inspiring Inspirational Examples of Typography, Signpainting and the Graphic Arts. "My swipe file," he says.

Handmade plushies by Audrey Kawasaki Posted: 01 Jan 2011 08:18 AM PST The incomparable Audrey Kawasaki handcrafted these lovely plushies with oil-painted faces and hands as a gift for her friend. What a lucky feller! audkawa's Flickr photostream (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!) Audrey Kawasaki in her studio, and signing at SFMOMA tonight Audrey Kawasaki's limited edition wooden brooches Sanrio Small Gift launch party kicks off 10 days of fun in Los Angeles Preview of Audrey Kawasaki's upcoming solo show in Tokyo

Wendy's training video: "Chili Can Be Served With Cheese" Posted: 01 Jan 2011 07:58 AM PST Wendy's training video. "Bowls are for the dining room. And the cups are to gooooooooo!" (Thanks, Jason Weisberger!)

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