Faces of Stupid Contest

Diesel rewards the stupidest with adventure travel

The id rebels against the ego in Diesel’s “Be Stupid” campaign: freewheeling models enter danger zones, taunt animals and ignore the laws of gravity. But as explained in an accompanying video, the campaign’s ethos reminds us that that risk-taking, discovery, and achievement often take place without the safety net of reason. Diesel invites you to share your most defining “Stupid” moment in its “Faces of …

The Thing Quarterly: Issue 10

This American Life contributor Starlee Kine's tearful latest issue of The Thing

In the age of ubiquitous information, The Thing Quarterly brings back the element of surprise with a subscriber-powered publication kept under lock and key until delivery. Edited by Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, The Thing is “a periodical in the form of an everyday object,” inviting artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative types to come up with visual work that incorporates text. Recently unveiled, writer …

Machotaildrop

Skateboarding takes a magical realism turn in a new dark comedy currently on the film fest circuit

Written and directed by filmmaking team Corey Adams and Alex Craig, the new adventure comedy “Machotaildrop” tells a story positioning skateboarding not just as merely a trivial pastime of the young, but rather as a noble pursuit worthy of the highest cultural recognition. Winners of Fuel TV‘s two-year competition “The Fuel Experiment” for their short film “Harvey Spannos,” the duo used the one million in …