I’m sure this has been floating around the internet for a while now. There’s no way something this good could remain hidden (although there was that woman who customized her Barbie & Ken dolls with accurata genitalia and pubic hair. Still wish I had bought one of those actually…). Jim Lego is a Quebecois portrait photographer/nightmare creator who has blessed the world wide web with some of the strangest photography I’ve seen in a long, long time.

At first I was like “holy shit, I can’t believe people payed for this” but then very quickly changed my tone to “holy shit, I would pay so much for this.” I graduate from college this Friday. Jim Lego, if you’re still out there, please, please come document this occasion. Y’know, I never really understood what people were talking about when they said photographs could steal part of your soul. Until now. Check out the site for more. So much more.

One of the weirdest things to emerge from the heart of last year’s period of Occupy Wall Street intensity was the rise to fame and subsequent meme-ification of Detective Rick Lee AKA The Hipster Cop. Frequently spotted looking natty down in Zucotti Park, this be-cardiganed, hornrim glasses wearing, mussed hair having cop stole the heart of the internet, even though his NYPD brethren were public enemy #1. I always found the whole situation very strange, especially once he started doing interviews, including a not small profile with GQ. How is that allowed??

But something about his pastel shirts and quilted down jackets really struck a cord with people, and made it seem like “hey, maybe not all cops look like the pig from Angry Birds and shoot pepper spray directly into your mouth like umber Binaca.” Something was fishy about the whole operation. Like maybe – just maybe! – he was a plant by the NYPD and secretly a freedom hating butthole after all?!? Not sure if all of that is true, but he seems none too cool in the above video from yesterday’s protests, where he gets all hot and bothered trying to shut down JD Samson‘s concert. Maybe he’s just pissed that Le Tigre broke up. Also, I’m surprised it took the whole video for someone to notice, “Oooh, it’s the hipster cop!”

Some people are so smart and creative that it is physically frustrating to me. Especially the people who can create amazing, beautiful things out of seemingly mundane elements that you would never consider appropriating, but that they view in a total different, much better context. The person behind You Are Listening To… is one of those people. I heard about this site through Bloglin contributor Fokkawolfe, and it’s been completely blowing my mind all day.

Basically the way it works is, you choose whatever city you’re in off of a list (they have most major US metro areas) and the site begins to play livestreaming police radio from that city. At the same time, it’s pulling from Soundcloud and other streaming databases tracks labeled as “ambient” and “drone”, and plays those behind the radio. The effect is sinister, hypnotic, and addictive, as the slow and strange music lends even more gravitas to dispatches about everything from fender benders to homicides. Listening to it sorta feels like flying over a city in a helicopter at dawn. Don’t really know why. But it does.

Picture the real world (or maybe The Real World) but reimagined as a fully live streaming content farm that captures the postmodernity of life by filtering it through associative imagery that evokes a future (or perhaps a present?) where technology is substance, pop culture is paramount, and life is performance in front of a live studio audience of robots. Also you’re very stoned and own cats.

Maybe now you’re getting a little idea of what it’s like to watch the TOP8FRIENDS‘ #THELOSTSEASON video I’ve embedded above. Prepare to have it’s hallucinatory wonder embedded in your brain.

Uncle TNUC (pronounced ‘tee-nuk’) has his feet firmly planted in ‘80s ethos and culture. So much so that I don’t even think you can call it nostalgia. The dude may very well have been beamed thirty years into the future and ended up here. Shit, Bill & Ted did it.

As he, himself, describes his origin, he “had all the normal teenage fantasies…cars, girls, money. Then his parents left for a week and all his fantasies came true. This is the place where those fantasies will all slowly unfold. TNUC is a sweaty trip to the edge and past it.” That should give you some idea of with whom you’re dealing.

I don’t remember exactly when or how I found this guy but all of his mixes are masterpieces in their own right. However, there’s nothing like boozing with friends or sliding off the cotton panties of some hardbody to the headbangin’ tuneage on this most recent mix. Brought to you by Uncle TNUC in association with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed bodybuilder/musician Mike Ballermann, the Two Crude Dudes mix totally rips.

Named for a ‘beat em’ up’ style game released on the Sega Mega Drive console, the forty-minute long cruise down the Sunset Strip flexes prime cuts from big names like RATT and Poison amongst lesser-knowns like Steelheart and Danger Danger. Burn the midnight oil (and whatever else you can find) with the hairspray heroes of yesterday.  Two Crude Dudes is “twelve tracks of twisted steel and sex appeal.” Need I say more?

Or at least he will be soon. You see, Kim Dotcom AKA Kim Schmitz AKA Kim Tim Jim Vestor, the elusive and gargantuan superhuman behind the recently felled MegaUpload conglomerate, has (somehow) been released on bail. How and why they would let a man with seemingly unlimited resources and allies, not to mention a particularly lavish Bond villain’s level of weird vehicles at his disposal, and a well documented history of being fucking ridiculous with authority (let’s all take a moment to remember the police having to torch him out a panic room where he was waiting wielding a sawed off and some tighty whities).

Nevertheless, some palms were obviously greased (with the finest, most expensive grease. Duck fat?) and Kim was allowed to run amuck in Australia. You’d think someone facing such potentially damning charges (moral culpability notwithstanding) would consider taking it easy – perhaps laying low for a bit. But not for this badass: Kim is instead hard at work on an album of original music, one that I imagine will put Adele’s sales records to shame and leave Thom Yorke a quivering, weeping mess over his comparative inadequacy. I wonder if former MegaUpload CEO Swizz Beatz is helping produce. Quick thought: should we pirate this album when it comes out?

The OG Black Hippy, Schoolboy Q recently shot a day in the life, mini doc with up and coming Vate Magazine, about what it’s like in his world. Get familiar. Maybe your getting off on the wrong floor in an apartment building, and getting verbally accosted by a German Shepherd. Or it could be rocking packed shows at Santos’ Party House in NYC. Shit definitely doesn’t stop with Q.

We get cruise around with Schoolboy Q, and he friends in an SUV, and comment on weird people in midtown. Sipping lean, rolling up weed on the iPad screen, and duct taping the door of the hotel room to prevent smoke escaping into the hallway, where it could be detected by hotel staff! That’s smart. Watch and learn people. Watch and learn.

Google has a long history of April fools jokes. I guess it’s pretty easy to spend time on ridiculous and detailed pranks when billions of dollars constantly flow into your lap like a busted fire hydrant. For whatever reason they’ve decided to drop this years edition a day early. Unless this is actually real. Which it isn’t.

It’s a pretty awesome looking 8-Bit version of Google Maps, optimized specifically for the NES. Wasn’t there actually a new SNES game released a couple months ago? There’s the commercial for Goggle Maps 8-Bit above, and it definitely feels like a legitimate Google ad. I’m particularly fond of the blowing on the cartridge bit. Though I doubt the NES version will ever see the light of day, you can (of course) play with the 8-bit version in your browser here.

Nebbish super genius Charlie Kaufman opened up his pulsating brain last year for a small audience, delivering a pretty damn good speech about the nature of screenwriting (which, predictably, becomes a much larger conversation about life and stuff) for BAFTA’s Guru series. The video of said speech was recently posted online, and it’s definitely worth the 40 minutes of your time if you’re a Kaufman fan, or just a movie lover, or just generally a person who likes hearing good things. I’m looking at you, everyone.

The video isn’t embeddable, but you can click here or the image above to go check it out on BAFTA’s website. Though Kaufman starts out a little slow, doing that charming but quasi-useless thing where you start your speech by talking about how nervous you are to give a speech, he eventually gets pretty revved up, and lets loose some of the anger about the industry he has. Let’s hope more of that anger comes out in his semi-upcoming new film, Frank or Francis, a musical comedy about movie blogs starring Nic Cage. Yup.

Moths are pretty awesome, aren’t they? What about spiders, do you like spiders? Well, if you do, you are in luck because in this short animated film, bugs rule. LOOM, directed by Polynoid, which consists of Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck and Csaba Letay. A spider and a moth get to know each other. Venom is exchanged, and lives are changed forever.

I really like the way the moth bounces around in the web uncontrollably. Things get surreal when the spider shows up though.. I shouldn’t have told you about that damn spider. What’s that on the back of your neck? Spider bites? Yeah, they look real, but it’s animated. Turn all the lights off, and have a quick look at this short film. Why don’t ya?