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Today’s Google Doodle Is The Greatest Doodle That Ever There Was [VIDEO]
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Do you know what day today is? Google knows what day today is – which is why their latest animated doodle pays tribute to the legendary Freddie Mercury, who would have turned 65 today, had he not made an early exit. Click through to take a look. Please insert your favourite Queen song title here.
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This Long Island Art Dealer Stole Banksy Art From Palestine
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I know, I know; can you really steal art from somebody as dangerous and transgressive as Banksy? Two of his pieces, put together during his 2007 project on the West Bank, Bethlehem Santa’s Ghetto, have popped up in a show called Banksy: Original Street Works, at the Keszler Gallery. In the Hamptons.
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Ricky Gervais Reads 2oceansvibe
01 Sep 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Given that we are currently tidying up a new series for 2oceansvibe TV (2oceansvibe.tv) called The Compound (inspired by The Office), it is quite cool to note that The Office creator, Ricky Gervais, linked to us from his blog. Nothing about the series, mind you, but rather to do with an article we posted yesterday […]
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Somebody Really Wants That Kim K Tape Off The Market
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The sex tape that made Kim Kardashian, well, Kim Kardashian has a bidder who desperately wants it off the market. It’s been mere days since Kim’s marriage to Kris Humphries, and an anonymous buyer now suddenly wants Vivid Entertainment’s rights to the infamous 2007 tape of her and Ray J. And those rights ain’t cheap.
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Foo Fighters Made A Fake Gay Porn Video To Promote Upcoming Tour [VIDEO]
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Foo Fighters don’t actually have to promote anything to get people to shell out cash for their upcoming North America tour, but because they had a fat wad of cash to spend on advertising and some guy in marketing wouldn’t stop saying the word ‘viral,’ they’ve put this video together for you. Take a look.
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Syrian Cartoonist Has Hands Broken As Warning To Anti-Assad Activists
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You should know about this. Ali Ferzat, an immensely popular Syrian cartoonist and outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on the opposition, has been beaten, burned, and had both of his hands broken by masked gunmen, as a warning to cease his anti-Assad activism.
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New Video: OK Go Do ‘The Muppet Show Theme’ [VIDEO]
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
OK Go did a rendition of the theme song from The Muppet Show in their Green Album. Now they’ve made a video; it’s sort of like all of their other music videos, except it features Muppets. I don’t like suggesting that something going viral is a foregone conclusion, but this thing going viral is a foregone conclusion.
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Recreate The Royal Wedding In The Privacy Of Your Own Basement
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In news that is completely normal and not creepy in the slightest, hundreds of ‘Royalists’ are descending on London stores desperate to snatch up doll replicas of Britain’s latest royal two-some- HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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Wikileaks Releases New Batch Of Diplomatic Cables
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wikileaks is parceling out another bunch of diplomatic cables today, in case we’d forgotten about Julian Assange amidst all the other hubbub. Expect people to largely ignore the allegations of internal corruption and the details of John McCain’s conversations with that Gadaffi chap, and focus on the whole rape trial thing.
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Idols Finalist Apparently Beaten Up By A “Cage Fighter”
23 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
A bout of flu broke out in the Idols house last week. To help “lift their spirits” the contestants were given permission to go out in public on Saturday night – without supervision. Apparently Freddie van’Dango was in such good spirits after a while that he tuned a DJ and got his arse kicked by a “cage fighter” in the process.
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Jack Parow Joins The Mix For Thursday Night! Tickets Nearly Sold Out – Get Yours Now!
22 Aug 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Things have just gone from rad to awesome! I was in my element when I heard that Ard Matthews had secured Dan Nicholl as the MC for the “Ard Matthews & Friends” charity concert being held on Thursday night. But now they go and announce that one times Jack Parow will be joining the likes […]
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News Reporter OWNS Chris Brown Live On Air [VIDEO]
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The other day Chris Brown decided to give up planking by tweeting the following: “No more planking for me unless it’s on a sexy lady.” Fox news reporter Andy Levy retweeted the post, adding: “You spelled ‘punching’ wrong.” Chris took offense and replied: “@andylevy children conduct themselves better! Much love and success!” You simply have to watch Andy’s LIVE response to this on TV.
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New Icelandic Video For Bon Iver’s “Holocene” [VIDEO]
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bon Iver does nice music, and Bon Iver does nice music videos. It’s Friday, it’s raining, you really ought to be at the bar by now anyway, so take a look at their latest offering. Be prepared for big ol’ Icelandic vistas, volcanic terrain, and some kid doing stuff that may or may not pertain to the song lyrics.
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‘Mankini’ Is In The Oxford English Dictionary Now.
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today was going so well. The mankini, popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat. Because that’s what we want 2011 to be known for; the year that we introduced torso-spanning banana hammocks into our day-to-day vocabulary. Other words that are now acceptable to use include ‘sexting,’ ‘retweet,’ and ‘cyberbullying.’ See also, ‘apocalypse.’
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Biography Claims Coco Chanel Was An Anti-Semitic Nazi Spy
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new biography, published by a very respected publisher yesterday, claims legendary designer Coco Chanel willingly collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. She also had a spy code-named “Westminster”, had a German officer for a lover, and was deeply anti-Semitic. She apparently even went on missions to help recruit new agents willing to serve Germany.
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Billionaire Funding Construction Of Artificial, Libertarian Islands
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Don’t worry, the artificial libertarian islands will have better names than that. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, has given $1.25 million to an initiative to build libertarian island states in international waters. Because that’s what you do when you’rea 43-year-old gay libertarian with money to kill, I guess.
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Dave Chappelle’s First Interview In Five Years [VIDEO]
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys remember Dave Chappelle, right? The comedian. He was sort of a big deal. Then he burnt out on the Chappelle’s Show and disappeared for about five years, staying almost entirely away from the press, until he turned up on San Francisco’s WiLD 94.9 for a morning interview yesterday. Give it a whirl.
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WATCH: Documentary On John Lennon and Yoko Ono In Bed [VIDEO]
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
During the Vietnam War John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long “Bed-Ins for Peace” in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace. In the process, a very cool documentary was made from. Yoko Ono, bless her heart, has posted it for free online viewing for a couple of days. Watch inside!
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Ard Matthews & Friends 2011 – Do NOT Miss This Event!
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ard Matthews’ annual live charity event, in association with MyLife, is back again! Another star-studded show will be taking place on Thursday August 25 at the Upper East Side Hotel. I’m sure those of you who went last year will be back again – as you know just how much fun the evening is! 2oceansvibe […]
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Mom Defends Provocative Vogue Photos of Pre-Teen Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The mother of 10-year-old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau is ok with the photo shoot which appeared in this month’s issue of French Vogue, depicting her pre-teen in some rather adult poses. It seems Veronika Loubry, a fashion designer, is more concerned with the materialism of the spread than its supposedly sexualised images of young Thylane.
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‘Amy House’ – Brazil’s Drug Ambassador
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So it looks like Brazil is at the forefront of drugvertising, and Amy is there number one brand ambassador. Apparently a gang has been using her likeness to market baggies of coke, inserting her picture inside and dubbing her as ‘Amy House’. Guess who they were putting in their bags of crack? Osama Bin-Laden.
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“Swallowable Parfum” Makes Your Skin Emit Perfume
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Australian artist and ‘body architect’ Lucy McRae, in collaboration with Harvard biologist Sheref Mansy, is releasing these little digestible capsules that make human skin emit perfume scents. Which is nice and futuristic, I think. And by futuristic I mean I have no idea how this thing works.
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Banksy Does Some Rupert Murdoch Art
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Banksy’s put up some new art on his site because all the other well-known people were speaking out about the NewsCorp. hacking scandal, and Banksy didn’t want to be left behind. Which is nice! Because honestly I’d almost forgotten about Murdoch. Way to be relevant, Banksy.
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It’s Snowing On Table Mountain (No Spice)
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Boom.” Of course, there can only be one reason for this unusual meteorological blessing: The TBG is on the Mountain. Coincidence? I think not. Come on. Don’t be silly. [Headline image source:tablemountain]
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Amy’s Final Duet With Legend Tony Bennett
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Her untimely death shocked millions of people, but as proof that every cloud has a silver lining, a duet between Amy Whinehouse and Jazz Legend Tony Bennett is to be released as a charity single. All royalties from the pop classic Body and Soul, are to go to an organisation set up by Amy’s father, curbing youth drug use.
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Matt Damon Loses His Cool With Cameraman [VIDEO]
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Matt Damon and his mom – a teacher – recently took part in a public march to support educators. But during a television interview a cameraman of all people decided to pipe up, claiming that “10% of teachers are bad at their job.” Matt wasn’t having anyone potentially insult his mother and responded with: “Maybe you’re a shitty cameraman!” Cute, man!
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Pablo Francisco Live On 2oceansVibe Radio, Tomorrow!
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, no one likes a flash mob, so try to refrain from breaking down our doors tomorrow, okay? One of the world’s most universally popular comics, Pablo Francisco, will be live on 2oceansVibe Radio‘s Morning Meeting tomorrow morning at 10h30. Be sure to tweet us your song requests and any questions you have for Pablo. […]
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OK Go Is Better At The Internet Than You Are [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’re going to want to watch this. OK Go have put out a new experimental music video for their new track, All Is Not Lost. You remember that one video with the treadmills? Or with the Rube Goldberg machine? Yeah, this is better than that.
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Taxidermist Preserves Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A California taxidermist has preserved Lady Gaga’s now-famous meat dress she wore at the 2010 MTV Music Awards. The dress is now on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Seizure From Quitting Alcohol Killed Amy, Says Family
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How’s this? Amy Winehouse’s family believes that a seizure related to abstinence from drinking is actually what killed her. The family says the singer quit alcohol cold turkey three weeks before she died. They think her tiny frame could not handle the shock of withdrawal, leading to her untimely death.
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