Mike Tidmus

Big Bang Big Boom, a wall-painted animation by blu (video: blu at Vimeo) (see also: Let’s Colour)

Political Loudmouth‘s colorful ‘Two Wives Kissing is Hotter’ poster What is Political Loudmouth: We are a volunteer organization of professional marketers, dedicated to helping the people make their voices heard. Why should well-designed communications be monopolized by the powerful? Find something that supports a cause you believe in, take it, and run with it. It’s [...]

FOX: Catholics Outraged Over Paintings of ‘Virgin Mary’ Holding Weapons (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) Proof positive, once again, that while America’s Christian right thinks Islam should get a sense of humor, when it comes to Christian symbolism some things – and they’ll let you know what they happen to be – are just [...]

Dulux Walls – Director’s Cut (video: letscolour at YouTube) Let’s Colour: Let’s Colour is a worldwide initiative to transform grey spaces with colourful paint. This 2 minute global film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India. Every location is real and they remain transformed by [...]

Don’t say Mike never gave you nothing! Although technically it’s not mine to give, enjoy. Thanks to my friend and former dot-boom coworker in Seattle, Eric Gould, for the tip on Grizzly Bear Modern. Grizzly Bear Modern » GBM Volume Nine www.grizzlybearmodern.com I’m a little late on this, but hopefully Volume 8 and the EP [...]

Television is a drug (video: Beth Fulton at Vimeo) Beth Fulton: The inspiration of this video comes from Todd Alcott’s poem, Television. I own no rights to his reading of the poem and intend only to share my own personal interpretation. Hope you like! (tip: Landon Ross, The Rational Ape)

PIXELS by Patrick Jean (video: One More Production at Vimeo)

It’s National Draw Moe Day (montage: mine)

Lars Vilks: “Al Qaeda Won’t Stop Me” (video: CNN via JoUnMu at YouTube) Just days ago, a gang of islamist thugs attacked the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks during a university lecture near Stockholm. Earlier this year, Vilks was the target of an assassination plot hatched by an American woman named Colleen LaRose — a religious [...]

With a fatwa and a $150,000 bounty on his head (offered by an al-Qaeda-affiliated organization), cartoonist Lars Vilks was physically assaulted Tuesday afternoon during a lecture at the University of Uppsala in Sweden by 20 pissed off religionists screaming ‘God is great’ in Arabic. The cowardly attacks followed the screening of a film about Islam [...]

Sex Pistols Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle original 1980 trailer (video: Scotty Ramone at YouTube) Malcolm McLaren has died. The headline at The Guardian nails it: Malcolm McLaren: Blood, spit and tears as the punk provocateur dies. +++++++ “For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer [...]

Off That (Rationalist Anthem), by Baba Brinkman (video: babasword at YouTube) Can’t get enough of that hip-hop skepticism about whack cures, AIDS denialism and dumb-ass superstitionism? Check out Baba Brinkman’s Natural Selection Rap and Brinkman’s astonishing performance at last December’s 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Hammersmith Apollo theater in London. (tips: [...]

Richard Dawkins – “What if you’re wrong?” South Park-style (video: TubeLooB at YouTube) M’kay. By Jove, he’s right. (tip: Atheist Media Blog)

From 50 best protest signs of 2009 (photo: anonymous) Check out BuzzFeed‘s 50 Best Protest Signs Of 2009. There’s some very funny stuff there. Trust Mike. (tip: Zakiya Khabir)

Rachel Maddow: Why Fox News isn’t news (video: MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show) The news that Fox News isn’t actually news is hardly news if you’ve been following along. And criticizing the news media is nothing new. Some of us leftie bloggers have, for some time, been delivering the bad news that the news is, [...]