While You Were Sleeping, Daft Punk Gave The World Condoms

Jay-Z’s getting all Marina Abramovic on his new video shoot

According to the Huffington Post, Jay-Z’s performing his Magna Carta Holy Grail single ‘Picasso Baby’ for six hours straight at a New York art gallery today, his second such feat of goofy endurance art since that 7-hour tweeting session the other day. It’s all part of the single’s video shoot, which is expected to feature celebs like Judd Apatow, rapper Wale, Girls‘ Adam Driver, and performance artist Marina Abramovic herself. (I’m surprised that James Franco’s name is somehow not in this bunch.) Here’s an incredibly odd Vine of Jay-Z rapping at Abramovic from the day’s activities:

So, rap music continues to get weirdly pretentious, and I think I like it. Somewhere, Waka Flocka Flame is planning  his next video, a trap reimagining of Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son.

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Spike Lee’s Oldboy looks very much like Chan-Wook Park’s Oldboy

Here’s the trailer for Spike Lee’s upcoming remake of the 2003 Korean revenge classic Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and the majestically-coifed Michael Imperioli. To be honest, it looks ridiculously similar to the original, even down to the iconic fluorescently-lit tunnel beatdown scene. Also, no one needs to see that much Josh Brolin ass. 2 stars.

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Pitchfork launched their new film website, The Dissolve

Edited and staffed by a bunch of well-known AV Club pop culture contributors, The Dissolve looks pretty slick: it’s laid out like some serious old-timey film journal, and includes interesting longform reads on Alex Cox’s Repo Man and Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence. Similarly, there’s already a ton of AV Club-style comments on the site’s messageboards, if you enjoy reading about “firsties” and “cocks”. Film nerds will wanna instantly add it to their bookmarks; everyone else will wanna cue the “I give it a 7.3” jokes.

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‘Get Lucky’ with these colourful Daft Punk condoms

Maybe this news can help bridge the divide in the ongoing Great Condom Debate: Daft Punk, your favourite robotic a-holes, have teamed up with Durex for some limited edition ‘Get Lucky’ prophylactics. The packs were sent to DJs this week (as Diplo kindly shared on Instagram), and will reportedly be available to everyone else next week. Now you can ‘get lucky’ safely, ya unstoppable sex fiend.