CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

Beautiful short film comprised of NASA’s Cassini Mission footage and set to Nine Inch Nails.

I admit I question whether or not this documentary is fiction. The so-called filmmaker/documentarian, Thierry Guetta, attempts to make a film about the notorious street artist, Banksy, and others, but instead becomes the subject of the film as Banksy turns the camera back on Thierry to reveal him as a hack artist. The story is right on the edge of believability and I think I am content with that. It’s more interesting to not know.

Considering my comic book series, LACKLUSTER WORLD, heavily showcases street art and its effects on urban populations, and since you likely read and enjoy my comics, I thought I would bring EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP to your attention.

It’s currently streaming on Netflix. Link

Trailer below, but you can watch the whole thirty minute film at http://www.imheremovie.com/

(YouTube link)

Fascinating. Hollywood had tricked me into believing that this wasn’t all that rare of an incident, but lo and behold this pirate transmission happened 20 YEARS AGO and was the last of its kind. In fact it was really only the second of its kind. Max Headroom, by the way, was never caught.

The other was a more simplistic hijacking by some guy under the moniker of Captain Midnight a year earlier. He basically hijacked HBO only to complain about their prices:

Wikipedia mentions a few other non-detailed accounts. One of which also occurred in 1987 when the CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK paid a man to hijack the PLAYBOY CHANNEL.

This kind of thing needs to happen more often today. I might actually turn on my television once in a while if I thought there was a chance that the lackadaisical local news or an idiotic sitcom rerun could be interrupted by a pantomime Jesus Christ corn-holing Big Bird. There are tens of thousands of people hacking the Internet left and right all for the sake of fun, yet no one is attacking terrestrial signals.

Come on, nerds. Show us some magic.

Methinks I feel a story idea coming on.

Four years ago I discovered the band Antarctica and thier album 81:03. I distinctly remember first hearing the song Absence it on the Live365 station, the London Undergound (now defunct).

I bought the CD and it has remained one of my favorite albums ever since. It has never left my “inspiration” playlist. Anyway, I desperately sought out more of their music but only found one EP they released before 81:03 and 81:03 was released in 2001. What happened to them?

Well, I just found out. They broke up and reformed into Ova Looven. Their album 58:34 (released 2 years ago!) is a little more synthy, but it still feels like Antarctica to me – maybe better.

Hear some:
http://www.artikalrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ovalooven

It’s Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain vs. JP Morgan and Thomas Edison. Sounds Brilliant.

It’s called GUTS.

Thanks to Jenny for pointing this out to me.

Watch it