Addiction of the Week VIII

Bree Olsons Twitter

Shes insane.

I´m not on Twitter and I have no plan to be on there in the near future, but I still check out this womans page every day.

Thanks to Scott Bromley and the other guys from the Gamespy Debriefings Podcast for digging up this pearl.

http://twitter.com/BreeOlson

Addiction of the Week VII

Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things

Title says it all.

Addiction of the Week VI

NintendoCapriSun lets plays

NintendoCapriSun is a youtuber famous for his "lets plays", wich means he plays a lot of videogames (predominantly Nintendo games) and comments while hes playing.

He has an amazing pensum and uploads several videos a day, playing through several games at the same time.

His play-through of "Super Metroid" brought back a ton of childhood memories, and I jus couldn´t stop watching his videos since then.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NintendoCapriSun

Addiction of the Week V

Helge Schneider

German Musician, Comedian, Clown

It is nearly impossible to describe the work of this man. He got famous in Germany for a song about Cat-Toilets, and has since then toured the country with a wide range of programs. He is mostly famous for his comedic songs, wich he mostly makes up while recording. His work also includes two CDs of short stories and plays read and acted by himself and a recently released auto-biography, wich closes with a scene of Schneider cutting off both of his own legs with a scythe while mowing his lawn.

What makes this man even more interesting is that he is a brilliant musician, capable of playing two dozen of instruments. Over the years, he began to include more and more Jazz-Instrumentals into his programs, wich made him appealing to an even wider audience.

Here is a excerpt of his recent program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8AgLsCi07I

And a piece more focussed on his musicianship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YH_MxCM6No

Addiction of the Week IV

Mesut Özil

German soccer player

A true genius with the ball.

Impressed the soccer community during the World Cup in South Africa and was traded from the German Club Werder bremen to Real Madrid, one of the best Clubs in the world.

There, the 21 years young was thrown into the position of the playmaker, and up to now he has to fulfill on his to become the worlds best player.

For any non-spanish fan who wants to keep up with him, some youtubers keep track of all his actions.

Addiction of the Week III

Elvis Presley

American Musician

Legendary for a reason.

Addiction of the Week II

Chinese Propaganda

I´ve always been interested in propaganda. Those stylish, but simple pictures, that say so much without many words are just fascinating to me.

This applies to the chinese propaganda in particular, wich strikes me as more diverse and rich with symbolism.

A huge collection of posters, post cards and other propaganda swag can be found here.

Addiction of the Week I

For me, often I don´t just like a certain object/artist/subject. Upon discovering something special, I get obsessed with it for a certain time, then lose interest, before it gets included into my canon of cool stuff. During this period my mind is mostly filled with thoughts about said thing, and I can´t help going back to it whenever I can.

This doesn´t have to be something completely new, sometimes I just stumble upon stuff I have been interested in before and I begin to dig into it deeper.

In this section I will introduce the object in question, in the hope you might see something that catches your interest in any way.

John Cale

British singer-songwriter. Writes beautiful music, mostly pretty simple, but not annoyingly dull. His 70s stuff is Pop-Music at it´s best.

"Paris 1919" is a very good example of the style of his work.