This is almost belated, I just realized it’s SD’s birthday. I’ve posted this before – it’s one of my favorite things on earth. Gets me every time! Happy birthday, Shelly! What?!
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After repeatedly trying to wedge into what may be the world’s largest parking spot, watch the result of this driver’s seriously prolonged parking fail. The guy filming asks “should I go help her?” before silence indicates the obvious: no you should not, and you should continue to film so we can all relish and relive this extreme incompetentce. Like most things in Portland, this doesn’t seem real, and yet thankfully somehow it is. I’m crying. The pleasure I get from this is a specific type of schadenfreude. I don’t wish the driver any general misfortune, apart from parallel parking!
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Listen to the demented genius maniacs of Lady Bunny and Bianca Del Rio take over the Derek & Romaine radio show ! If you like this then please donate money for Hurricane Bianca: The Movie. A comedy about a New York teacher who moves to small town Texas, is fired for being gay, and returns disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on the nasty town.
Only 9 days left!!!!
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Help Big Dipper, the newest member of World of Wonder’s multi channel youtube network, make the video for his newest single “Vibin”!
From Big Dipper’s Kickstarter:
I am so amazed at what my life has become in the last two years; I’m truly lucky that I get to make music and videos and share them with the world. All this awesomeness started right here on Kickstarter, almost 3 years ago when I launched the campaign to raise money for DRIP DROP, and now we are back again.
We need to raise $9,000 to make the most epic and amazing Big Dipper music video yet! :) The song is VIBIN’ ; a catchy pop song that I love so much. The video is going to be artistic and sexy and slick and choreographed. It’s all about beach vibes and summer love feelings. This time we are going to focus more on performance, choreography, and a very stylized visual aesthetic; and less on an overarching narrative. More glamour for Dipper!
I have learned so much through the process of making music and videos. I have poured my heart and soul into what I do and I’ve worked with so many amazing artists who do the same. It is an absolute struggle to be a working artist and to juggle the work you truly love with the work that pays the bills. By raising the money here for a music video budget, we will be able to work on Vibin’ in a much more dedicated way that allows the true vision to be brought to life. And a slick execution of this video will both make my team proud as well as bring you (and much of the internet) joy and entertainment :).
Help out Big Dipper and donate to his kickstarter!
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On this week’s all-new episode of Milk’s LegenDAIRY Looks, Milk shows you how to create the “Fang Bang!” Click over and sink your teeth in!
New episodes of Milk’s LegenDAIRY Looks every Monday on WOWPresents!
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MOO-ve over, James St. James! There’s a new transformations web series coming to WOWPresents, starring RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 breakout star, Milk!
The LegenDAIRY Queen is known for her unique looks and wicked sense of humor. Discover how Milk creates each signature look, how to build a crème de la crème ensemble, and what type of makeup to paint that barn. Throw some paint on that hide, and start LIVING with Milk, every week!
“Even if you’re lactose intolerant, you’re going to cream yourself over these looks!” said Milk. “They’re udderly fabulous!”
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Trying to give Marvel a run for their money, no doubt, by getting the Atom out there before Antman, TVLine has announced that former Superman Brandon Routh has been cast in the role of Ray Palmer aka The Atom for the upcoming third season of Arrow. The site reports that Palmer will serve as a love interest for Felicity Smoak as well as become the new head of Queen Consolidated. A previous report on casting also teased that we’ll be seeing Palmer suit up as “a tech-powered superhero.” Which isn’t quite the same thing as as saying he’ll be shrinking down to battle villainous germs, but I’m there. I like Brandon.There were a lot of reasons to hate the 2006 Superman, but he (and his superbulge) were not among them. He’s incredibly, and he’s a much better actor than most people give him credit for (see: Chuck, Scott Pilgrim, and the vastly underappreciated Enlisted).
On the downside, it always sort of feels like Arrow is for DC’s second-string heroes. They’re the B-squad that aren’t good enough for the Justice League movie. And as fun as the show is, it has a history of ret-conning and ruining some fun DC characters (Huntress, Katana, Deadshot, and Black Canary), so we’ll just have to wait and see about tis one.
(via Coming Soon)
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Fascinating article about wowlebrity and ’80s nightlife documentarian Nelson Sullivan in Vice:
Twenty-five years ago this month, on July 4, 1989, video artist Nelson Sullivan suddenly died of a heart attack, leaving behind almost 1,200 hours of footage of the now iconic and heavily romanticized Downtown New York scene. Ranging from performances by renowned drag queens RuPaul, Lypsinka, Taboo!, and Lady Bunny at the Pyramid Club to parties with notorious “Party Monster” Michael Alig, Sullivan’s videos record an insider’s view of the DIY self-constructed world of nightlife personalities set against the barely recognizable terrain of 1980s New York City.
As his friend and frequent subject, nightlife columnist Michael Musto wrote in an obituary for Sullivan in the July 10, 1989, issue of OutWeek magazine: “Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.”
Even with the overwhelming interest and nostalgia for this period of New York history, as well as its pop cultural continuation through television shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race, Sullivan’s work remains one of the lesser-known records of that nightlife scene. However, Sullivan’s videos have recently been revitalized through both the Internet and archival collections, asserting the importance of his captured performances and Sullivan’s art itself.
Questioned about the historical importance of Sullivan’s videos, Marvin Taylor, the director of New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections, which holds the Nelson Sullivan Video Collection, says, “The club scene often gets dismissed as just partying, but the truth is and what Nelson actually shows is how much art was being created there. It was one of the last little bubbles before the internet–one of the last insular cultures that we don’t have anymore because everything has gone global and digital. He captured perhaps one of the last analogue moments in New York.”
While Sullivan’s videos may be the last analog moment in New York, as Taylor suggests, his work also clearly foreshadows more contemporary forms of DIY videos. Recording his experiences like video diaries, particularly after 1987, Sullivan’s work takes on an undeniable similarity to the self-representation and self-constructed personas inherent in vlogging. While Sullivan’s work may have been too obscure to have a palpable and perceptible effect on the development of vlogging, Coddington notes, “He was the first vlogger when you look at it.”
Thinking about the importance and ongoing legacy of Sullivan’s videos, queer historian and archivist Robert Coddington explains, “He did more than just capture a scene. He was able to show the people of today and the future, the start of this DIY culture that we have.” Considering the question further after our conversation, Coddington sent me a quote from an interview he conducted with World of Wonder co-founder Fenton Bailey as a part of his archival research on Sullivan. Bailey understands Nelson’s videos as a record of the origin of today’s pop culture. “If you want to understand why we are here now, all you have to do is look at there then,” says Bailey, “And thanks to Nelson’s archives, you can do that. How important is that? Well, that is actually incredibly important because that’s history. And no one else, funnily enough was doing it. And no one else did it. So his archives are a completely unique moment. Nelson’s archives are as valuable in its own way as the pyramids in terms of telling you about a society at a certain point and what it believed it was about.”
As Marvin Taylor echoes, “I think people will come to understand if you really want to know what it was like in the 1980s in New York, you have to watch Nelson Sullivan’s videos.”
Read the entire article here.
And if you’ve never seen WOW’s ultra-compelling documentary Nelson Sullivan’s World of Wonder definitely watch the trailer below and then check it out on iTunes.
From The World According To Wonder:
“At the time, we were broke, living in a sixth-floor walk-up in crack-infested Alphabet City. It had that inverse kind of glamour that people bedazzle as ‘bohemian’: drug dealers, addicts, hookers, and even a psychotic murderer. The fag-end of the American dream. We loved almost every minute of it!
There was a lone club, the Pyramid, on Avenue A and 7th Street – the very edge of civilization. There was something about the place. It pulled people in. Fabulous drag artistes. Hapi Phace. Tabboo. Faye Runway. Sister Dimension. Lypsinka. And occasionally, from Atlanta, the not-yet-famous RuPaul and Lady Bunny. Todd Haynes debuted his notorious Karen Carpenter film there. Victor Weaver and Trey Speegle hosted “Straight to Hell” strip parties on Sunday nights. And on hand almost every night was Nelson Sullivan, a gentleman charmer with the most languid southern drawl and a fag in his mouth, videotaping everyone and everything.
That camera was like a pirate’s parrot, permanently perched on his shoulder. He said that one day he was going to edit his thousands of hours of material into a public access cable show. But on July 4, 1989, he dropped dead of a heart attack. Nelson’s death was our call to action. We didn’t really know what public access was, but we soon learned. Cable companies had to make a couple of channels available for local community access. In other words, people could make their own shows and get them on TV. Simple as that. They could be about whatever they wanted them to be. There was no editorial screening process. Slots were assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Manhattan’s public access channels presented a glittering seam of talent. Willa Sands – possibly tipsy – hosting Happy Hour. John Wallowitch – no less tipsy – banging out “Sing Along in Lithuanian” on the piano and knocking back Long Island Iced Teas. He was friends with Warhol, reportedly. Mrs Mouth, who painted a face on her upside-down chin then talked about picking her nose. And, for the adults, Voyeur Vision, where viewers could call in and talk to comely Lynn lying on a bed, touching herself where they requested. And veteran fixture Robin Byrd, in her trademark crocheted bikini, introducing strippers.
It was pure Videodrome, but without the inconvenience of sprouting a video vagina. We figured there was no reason we couldn’t make a public access show, so we came up with the idea of Flaunt It! TV, a talk show taped once a week at New York’s Limelight nightclub, and hosted by us. Quentin Crisp, Kate O’Toole, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Michelangelo Signorile, Michael Musto, and a monosyllabic Stephen Saban were some of the long-suffering guests on the short-lived show. It wasn’t exactly ratings gold. It ran for four episodes before we collapsed in exhaustion, followed by a prolonged period of deep depression. Not that failure ever stopped us. In the long run it was our fuel.”
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Hubba hubba. Lookin’ good, Chaz! Chaz Bono shows off his continued weight loss as he leaves an acting class in Hollywood. Yeah, I definitely see a Brando thing going on here with those broody good looks.
(Photo: Pacific Coast News)
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A scuba diver befriends a Moray eel in this strangely uplifting video. After months of ignoring her, an eel comes out of his cave and nuzzles against the scientist’s hand and face, like a friendly puppy, and for that moment you truly want to believe that they’re friends. (via Towleroad)
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Next week we’ll have an all-new episode of Transformations, I promise (and it’s a DOOZY). Until then, here’s a supercut of the opening credits that our editor Griffin Prall made. It’s kind of fun to see all the outfits and various inflections, although I have a feeling you’ll be screaming “Welcome to my face!” in your sleep tonight.
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A pet store owner in Richland, Washington, has decided to eat pet food for an entire month “to raise ingredient awareness, and promote knowing what’s in your pet’s food, as well as in your own.” Sure, why not?
The idea for the project came to Hunter rather unexpectedly – she was stocking the shelves at her store one day, when she got hungry. “I didn’t have time to go get a snack, so I grabbed a bag of treats off the counter, and I was like, wow, you know, these read better than the normal people’s treats,” she said. “So I started eating the treats and I was like, you know, I could do this for 30 days.”
She is now a few weeks into the challenge, and she’s stuck to her word, eating nothing but cat and dog food – flakes of salmon and freeze dried chicken. “I’ve also been doing our oven baked blueberry treats, as well as freeze dried green beans, carrots,” she said. “I’m even doing some canned food, one is a succulent chicken, and it actually tastes really good. So I’m really happy with that one.”
I really have to insist that you watch both videos, ESPECIALLY the second one where she’s eating the “paté-style” canned dog food. Seriously, one of the MOST GAG-INDUCING videos I have ever seen. (via Oddity Central)
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On the all-new episode of Let The Music Play, Adore Delano talks about the track “Give Me Tonight”! Click over and watch after the jump!
New episodes every week on WOWPresents featuring a new track from the album Till Death Do Us Party which is available on iTunes!
Previous Episodes
“I Look F****n Cool” Featuring Alaska
“Hello, I Love You” is about crazy/obsessive girls in high school!
“Party”
“Party” is about Adore’s high school years. Adore says it’ll make you want to go swimming and eat twinkies!
Watch the official “I Adore U” music video now!
Fierce Fact: Adore’s Till Death Do Us Party has hit number 1 on the iTunes Dance Charts! AMAZING! ConDRAGuations, Adore!
Adore shares what inspired this second track “My Address is Hollywood.” With exclusive photos from Hollywood from Adore’s iPhone gallery.
“DTF“
Hot off the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the baddest queen from Azusa, Adore Delano (aka Danny Noriega of American Idol season 7) is dropping her first single DTF today (Tuesday, May 20th.) In conjunction with the release, World of Wonder has teamed up with the fiercely talented queen to launch the new web series on WOWPresents, Let The Music Play.
The eleven-week series features Adore sharing entertaining, intimate, behind-the-scene details of each track off her new album Till Death Do Us Party (dropping Monday, June 2.) Each webisode includes personal photos, music video clips, samples of each track, and links to purchase on iTunes.
“I’m so excited for you all to watch my new web series and hear what inspired me to make my very first album Till Death Do Us Party” said Adore.
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Jojo Americo, member of NYC pop-electro trio The Ones, has a new alt-rock side project called Turksintinfoil. The first single, featuring David LaChapelle muse and pop icon Amanda Lepore, takes a stab at covering Cult Hero’s 1979 song I Dig You, which ironically was also a side project by members of The Cure and Robert Smith’s sisters. “It’s one of my favorite songs of all time, says Americo. I got together with Ted Ottaviano from Book of Love and did our version. The name Turksinfoil is a name I made up one day and thought it would be a fun name for a new music project.” (photo by Thomas Evans)
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Last night on Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen, Nicole Richie opened up about her current friendship status with Simple Life bestie, Paris Hilton! Click over to see if they’re BBFs or not!
#CandidlyNicole premieres July 17th at 10PM on VH1!
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Check out the latest videos from our WOWPresents Network! MuuMuse, Jessica and Hunter, Greg Scarnici, Morgan McMichaels, Laganja Estranja, and MORE all have new videos! Watch them now!
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Miley Cyrus has been on a break for the last couple of weeks, and it seems too much time spent tumbling around in the vast recesses of her mind is taking its toll. Is it drugs? Boredom? Madness? For whatever reason, Miley seems incredibly committed to her little “daily projects.” I present to you the 13 nuttiest pics on her Instagram feed.
10. Here she is gluing letters and little cars and pieces of candy onto her head. Hmmmm. Been THERE, done THAT. Usually, I was on day five when that particular urge took over. Not that I’m implying anything.
9. And here are the various towers of junk she’s building in her down time….
8. Attaching pompoms and fiber optics to the dildo you recently glittered is usually a sign that you are attempting to communicate with interdimensional beings…
7. Filthy, bloodied hands. Gurl, STEP AWAY FROM THE CRAFT TABLE…
6. Monomania sets in. She seems determined to make the WORLD’S LARGEST KEYCHAIN…
5. Uh-oh. Meth Mouth.
4. Getting “kwafty” (as she calls it) by cutting out teeny, tiny pictures of Grumpy Cat…
3. Attaching a plushie doughnut to your hair… NEVER A GOOD SIGN.
2. She’s making fashion accessories with the Flaming Lips. THE FLAMING LIPS, PEOPLE.
1. And the most damning evidence that SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY UP WITH MISS MILEY? Singing “Wrecking Ball” a la Ethel Merman.
Aww, poor Miley! Pull it together, babe!
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Watch a preview from tonight’s all-new episode of Million Dollar Listing Miami! Chris Leavitt gets cheese ball, Chad Carroll get’s a free car, and Samantha DeBianchi is a fairy godmother. Click over and watch now!
Tune in to Bravo tonight at 9/8c to watch this episode of MDLMIA!
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This week Big Freedia brings on a new member to whip the shake team into shape. Roberto is a creative director with big ideas. Choreography, wardrobe & attitude all come together and pushes Team Freedia to the edge. Will the shake team shake their asses to Roberto’s groove or will it be a bumpy ride down creative street?
Big Freedia Queen Diva Vol. 2 Issue #4 was lost in the 4th of July fireworks, so here is a link to the lost issue.
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A freshly shorn Joe Jonas shows off his new ‘do and a clean shave as he leaves a hair salon in West Hollywood. The look is a slight variation on the oh-so-popular Hitler Youth shaved-sides/side-part that EVERYONE is getting, and it looks GAYMAZING! (Photos: Pacific Coast News)
From the Wire: How to Ask Your Barber for the Hitler Youth Haircut.
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#CandidlyNicole on VH1 is going to be “bigger than La Bamba!” Click over and watch a teaser from Nicole Richie‘s new series!
Nicole meets with a march band to discuss the song for the opening of her show. Make sure you tune in for the premiere July 17th on VH1 at 10PM!
It’s here! There official trailer for #CandidlyNicole on VH1!
Fabulous GIFS via Entertainment Weekly!
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