Indie-rock meets..something else.

So according to The AV Club website, The National is gearing up for another compilation album, similar to 2009's Dark Was the Night but this time it's something a little different. According to the band's bassist, Scott Devendorf, the album will be a tribute to The Grateful Dead, featuring bands like Crystal Castles, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. While it's a relatively bizzare idea, it'll probably be pretty awesome.
You can read the full article here.
In other The National news, a new song has been floating around the internet. Apparently it's part of the soundtrack for some wonky looking video game called Portal 2.

Here it is:

A hand painted sweet spot for kicking corporate ass.

Shoes by Blackspot (who have been nicknamed "the anti-brand shoe") are made totally from environmentally friendly materials, including recycled tires for the soles, hemp and vegan leather. Designed by Canadian John Fluevog, each pair also comes with a handpainted red dot on the right toe that is actually described as being for kicking corporate ass, and (I believe) an individual message from the company, pictured somewhere below.  Interestingly, they're all made in Pakistan at a revolutionary free trade factory. It's a pretty cool idea, but I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the shoes. The shoe pictured here is called 'The Unswoosher'. Thoughts?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

According to online blogs, Lionsgate films is making a film adaption of their ridiculous book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. While there's not really any information about the film online, they have reportedly chosen Craig Gillespie as the director of the project. Gillespie was the director of the hilarious, and also ridiculous Lars and The Real Girl.
Lionsgate president Alli Shearmur said about the film, and director:
"His sensibility spans from genre bending horror to elegant character driven comedy, which is perfect for this movie. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is precisely the kind of movie I came to Lionsgate to make: sophisticated yet youthful and edgy. Our movie will be all of those things — with zombies — and it will benefit enormously from Craig’s unique perspective."

Imdb.com has the film listed as in development and dated for 2013.

Let them eat cake!

From the Met Museum's blog(here):
"This gown first came to the Museum’s attention when it was lent for the exhibition 'Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century.' Set among The Costume Institute’s most lavish court gowns in a vignette representing a ladies’ “withdrawing room,” this dress stood out because of its exceptional brilliance and the freshness of its color. Found in a perfect state with no alterations, it is a masterpiece of the French textile maker’s art. As with other gowns of this form, the elaborately brocaded fabric has been woven with an accompanying passementerie trim. The trim not only matches the colors of the fabric but also repeats, in abstracted form, the little sprigged floral bouquets that appear as the textile’s primary motif.
For all its conformity to the decorous sartorial requirements of the time, the button-closing front of the bodice is a development of the last half of the eighteenth century. Previously, the overgown did not close over the corset. The part of corset that was left exposed was concealed by an inverted triangle of fabric called the “stomacher”. Pinned in, it conveyed the impression of an overdress with matching underbodice and petticoat. This gown, like the blue gown, has the innovation of a compiegne, or vestlike stomacher, which is sewn onto the overdress and either pinned or, as in the case of these two gowns, buttoned closed at center front. Typically, the covered boxwood buttons repeat a detail taken from the design of the gown’s textile."

Inversion

Two houses (which were used to show art) scheduled for demolition in a quiet Houston neighborhood were transformed into a giant, fantastic sculpture back in 2005. The two artists, who are a part of The Art League, are Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. With wooden siding they created a vortex that punches a hole through the two houses, like a black hole opened up on one side of the houses. If you're small enough, you could even crawl through from one side over to the other! Sadly, the houses have since been demolished and this rather cool looking work is now gone, but here are some photos:

You can read a little more about it on The Art League website, here.

"People are imbeciles! Lucky thing God made cats."

So, not so breaking news: Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman/Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan's 2012 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Seems like it could work pretty well. This will be Nolan's final Batman film, and I've heard some rumblings of them doing yet another reboot of the series. Absurdity.

Here is a fake/photoshopped photo of said anti-hero: 

Pearly like the whi-wh-whites of your eyes.

Well,
It turns out you can watch Coachella live on youtube. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend...
For those of you who miss it, all of the videos should be uploaded later.

Check it out here.