Last night I was lucky enough to get to shoot Last for One and Drifterz Crew, two b-boy teams from Korea, battling NYC teams at the b-boy battle at Webster Hall.

The crews are in town for the premiere of Planet B-Boy, going up at the Tribeca Film Festival. If you've never seen the Korean crews, they are sick, having won the Battle of the Year international comps in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

The trailer is below, check out the last dude in the Seoul segment:

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There's a roaming game show that takes place in a taxi that picks up random people, and last year Logan was on it:

Regarding yesterday's Japanese TV show clip: one of my friends thought it was funny, the other didn't think it was funny at all.

Clip One:



I was laughing pretty hard by the end of the second clip, and by the fifth one I was crying.

I know they're going to get yanked off of YouTube soon, so I'm going to link all five clips here on the off-chance one of you will dig them as much as I did. It's called "Five Rangers." Enjoy.

Clip Two:



Clip Three:



Clip Four:



Clip Five:

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You might not find these funny, but I found them hysterical.

It's an older Japanese comedy skit about a skeleton who keeps trying to molest this one woman (stay with me here) but he is always foiled by "The Five Rangers," a superhero team similar to the Power Rangers.

Instead of fighting, the skeleton-guy usually just verbally humiliates them. Kind of hard to explain, but I laughed my ass off.



These sketches reportedly get yanked from YouTube all the time, so enjoy them while they're up!

The ubiquitous iPod has just hit the hit the 100 million mark. That's right, since its release in 2001, over 100 million iPods have been sold, roughly one for every three Americans.

Although I cannot confirm these facts are connected, an Iraqi insurgent recently shot an American soldier in the iPod. (The American survived.)

Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD and 3ds Max, are sponsoring a Spy Gadget Design Contest (entry details here). Your very own "dream spy gadget" needn't be buildable, and can be "inventive, humorous or just plain intriguing."

The prize for Most Creative Design will be, ironically, a Microsoft Zune, which is kind of like giving a poncho to somebody for winning a fashion contest.

Anyways, while I'm certainly eager to see what you designers come up with, I highly doubt you'll be able to top the real spy gadgets currently in use by the U.S. Government. For example, Karl Rove has this really cool device--it enables you to leak the name of covert CIA operatives, but then you push a button and Scooter Libby gets indicted. Fresh!

money in the bank

gin on sale

cold coffee on the counter

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Second teaser (of the web sitcom I'm working on with Logan) is up:

Different types of yoga mats:

I always thought those rubber yoga mats were a bit indulgent, as the hardy souls who invented yoga hardly seemed like they needed them.

But now your quest for spiritual enlightenment can gain yet another accoutrement! You know how Buddha is always sitting on that big-ass lotus?

Well, you can too! Designers Ulrika E. Engberg and Kasper Medin have come up with a bean bag lotus that unfolds like life's infinite mysteries.

It's not yet in production, but hey, enlightenment takes time.

And last but not least, different types of yogis:

[Via Apartment Therapy.]