AZM partner in crime Nick just posted about this documentary and I just wanted to spread the word. Filmed in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo Bomb It! examines modern day graffiti culture and its world wide influence.

Here’s how I look at graffiti. For people who can’t afford access to computers or don’t have the money for fancy art colleges or can’t get art galleries or publishers to take their work seriously graffiti is sometimes the only way to get their work seen. And even though galleries are starting to take a serious look at street art, there are still so many talented artists that will never break in to that scene. Besides, our public spaces could use some art. Our cities are clutter with advertisements that destroy the aesthetics of our public spaces. I’d much rather see a great big burner up on a wall or nothing at all rather than some ugly fucking billboard advertising perfume. Bridges and underpasses are ugly as shit. They could use some decent color. And a train with a great piece of art is so much better than a train plastered with ads for the CW. I look at graffiti as a means to fight against the encroachment of ugly advertising in our public spaces.

You can purchase Bomb It on iTunes, grab the DVD and a poster by Shepard Fairey, or possibly catch a screening if they’re in a town near you.

And here’s the very busty DJ Lady Tribe talking about her early days as a graffiti artist.

[Via Bomb It The Movie found via Dead of Summer]

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Hawk twitted this infomercial for the Tiddy Bear which turns out to be an actual product. Bear hugging happy fun bags? Win! Bear hugging lil’ childrens? FAIL! I was totally with it until the shot with the two kids and the toddler being molested by Tiddy Bears. Creeeeeeepy!

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I am no fan of George W Bush in any way shape or form. But this is fucking funny.

That’s US Women’s Volleyball Team player Misty May-Treanor bending over for our President with teammate Kerri Walsh looking on. Time for the quote game!

[Via The Daily Mail]

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Whoever released these up-shorts photos of Alison Carroll as the new Lara Crotch should be fired. Blech. How unflattering.

So what does Alison do now that she’s Lara Croft? They don’t really use the real life models for game design. She doesn’t get to star in a movie. Does she just get paid to go to trade shows?

Anyway, the photo below is much better. But since we have the first one up, let’s play the caption game! It’s Womb Raider, the crotch edition!

[Via The Girls Entertainment Network photos via Gossip Girls]

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So… um… yeah.

Angry Zen Minion Matthew York sent along this “Naturally Juicy” spot for Orangina by FFL Paris. The ad campaign is from last year.

I… um… the thing is… I can’t unwatch it now, can I. Wow. I guess if you’re into furries or are a furry or whatever the proper term is this is probably tame.

[Via Adland]

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Soul Calibur IV, henceforth Breast Calibur, was released last week and I have to say, I was most tempted to pick it up. I’ve loved the Breast Calibur series since the good old Dreamcast version. I love the weapons combat and the distinct martial arts styles of the characters. Breast Calibur III had a nice adventure/strategy mode that’s perfect if you have no one to play with. And the character creation options were a welcome addition.

It looks like Breast Calibur IV has taken things up a few notches. I’m not so impressed with the addition of the Star Wars characters. Vader would be cool, but as I have the 360, I’d be stuck with the Apprentice and Yoda who seems to be the cheapest character in any fighting game ever. I think I’d have a lot of fun with the character creator. I’d like to create all the Erfworld characters as fighters and see how they’d really match up. Oh, and I like the addition of Hilde who wields a short sword and a fucking lance! Bad ass!

I’ll pick this up eventually. The amount I game doesn’t really justify buying games when they first release. So it may be a while. Anyone out there getting jiggly with Breast Calibur?

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You know… I fear my credibility as a pop culture skeptic will be ruined forever, but that actually makes a lot of sense.

I’m impressed. And a little frightened. Perhaps Ms. Hilton isn’t as vapid and useless as I once thought. The hell is going on here?

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Keira Knightley refuses to let producers digitally inflate her breasts in promo materials for her new film, The Duchess. For King Arthur, digital plastic surgeons pumped her A cup up to a C. Now that she’s somewhat of a bigger deal, she has more clout to make such decisions.

We here at AZM care not about cup size, only that breasts are happy. And they don’t get much happier than being natural. It’s refreshing to see a young actress standing up for her own image without falling prey to sexist expectations of Hollywood.

No idea what The Duchess is about (probably not my kind of thing), but I’m buying a ticket and taking the wife and we’re seeing this thing because Keira Knightley is fucking awesome!

[Via Trendhunter and Cool Aggregator

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We get a look at Supes vs Scorpion, Bats vs Sub Zero, and Flash vs Sonya. The air combat system looks pretty cool as well as the close up combat. Something about the default punch bothers me. Looks like they’re just swinging their arms around. Ah well. Some neat ideas with the combat system. But I still maintain this is a rental.

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Uh… wtf?

Sometimes I wonder if Frank Miller just sits back and laughs his ass off at the rest of us. His Spirit is a woman crazy psycho with a major Oedipus Complex. “Oh, the city is my mother and I totally want to bang her and stuff!” Seriously, what the fuck?

I’m not liking what I’m seeing. The visual style is like Sin City with some color thrown in. I guess I don’t mind it visually, but the tone of these previews is so dark, you could easily mistake this for a Sin City sequel. Sure, noir crime fiction can be dark. But this is skewing a little extreme.

Bully for Frank for getting to direct and make films and all, but the more I see, the more I’m inclined to sit The Spirit out.

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