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Um, okay. Funny. Check. Good music. Check. Completely non-breathable pants seems like a bad thing to be marketing though…

A cute short from Hillman Curtis about two friends and an exercise to bring them closer. Does it work?

[Via Coudal Partners]

Changing your assumptions about what a car should be. The BMW GINA (Geometry and function In “N” Adaptations) is not only beautiful, it’s more functional - lighter, less energy required in the manufature of materials, etc.

I think it would be pretty cool to own multiple skins for your car and swap them out when you tire of one. Oh wait, now we’re getting back into wasteful aren’t we?

This one just focuses on design questions.

Music and corresponding video made entirely from Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland.” Amazing and actually catchy. I want to hear a remix of “Apocalypse Now.” Reznor?

And while we’re on the subject…

While not the typical Puget News fare, this was just too good to pass up and was making the rounds of some of my climbing friends.

I’ve done quite a bit of climbing throughout the years but I’ve never risked my life just getting to the climbing area. This video shows a completely hairball path to a famous climbing area in Spain. Billy goats and rock climbers only!

Just what you’d expect from Weezer, catchy and fun to watch. The video plays with a ton of your favorite YouTube memes.

“Johnny Got His Gun” was the first book I recall which made me weep. I read it during high school because I was infatuated with the music video for “One” by Metallica which pulled its inspiration directly from the story and the video from the film. At the time, I remember being so impressed with the premise of a boy shipping off to war and coming back missing any ability to communicate, losing all his limbs, and wanting to end it all. Powerful stuff. [click to continue...]

Note: Updated to a Hulu embed (on 05/21/2008) as the original video from DailyMotion was removed for copyright violation.

[Thanks to Jester on Faves for the pointer!]

[Discovered via a post on The Elegant Variation]

John Gall is the vice-president and art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He’s the designer of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” a personal favorite of mine. While the video’s a touch light on substance, you do get to see a bunch of nifty covers while learning the 5 rules , which are:

1. read the book
2. inspiration is everywhere
3. be thrifty with fonts
4. practice sound time management
5. rules are meant to be broken