Inspired by Luc Goddart’s “Bande a Part” movie, the first video below features the 100 lucky selected people doing the famous dance in a very Diesel stupid way. The video is directed by French-born director Arno Salters; thanks to a special stop-motion technique, the music lovers appearing in the video rapidly change, along with their clothes, all while appearing to continue to smoothly follow the choreography of the dance.

Officially launched on diesel.com on March 26th, the video is fully interactive (of course!): you can pause it, rolling over individual items to get further product information, buy them online and also find information about the people featured; allowing anyone to link into their activities and interests on their social network personal pages. Play now on: diesel.com/ahundredlovers!

Perez Hilton, Ninjasonik, Kid Sister, Theophilus London, Elevator Fight, & more sit down at Diesel’s exclusive BE STUPID celebrity dinner during SXSW!

If you like to read your music videos, here’s a video that makes sense of the “Be Stupid” Diesel ads. The clip features “Honeytrap” from We Have Band.

Meet our first model: Laura Elisa.

There’s an association between music and other forms of art and what’s more unique than a person? LuckyMe is right on with their models and mixtape series. That was part of our inspiration for sure. At the same time, we agree with what Unit once said in one of his interviews when asked why he made his album cover art braille for “unit:” music isn’t about sight. You can be blind and still appreciate music. So fuck sight. The whole idea that musicians themselves have to be attractive just isn’t true, but it seems like there’s a tendency for people to categorize things. Beautiful things go together. Maybe that’s why music videos are typically packed with all kinds of eye candy.

We hope you find the music on the site aesthetically pleasing, but also want to show you interesting art, fashion, photography and so on at the same time. Enjoy!

See more of Laura Elisa at lauraelisa.com or at modelmayhem.com/lauraelisa.

Special thanks to Phil for getting us in touch, Blast Em Photography, and of course thank you Laura!

We got six video clips of the show (after the photos), two of Juan Huevos–who came all the way from North Carolina to make it out to the show–and four of ERAs. It was too bad that we couldn’t get more, but that’s all spilled milk now.

On Juan Huevos, we think he is a dope live MC and his performance was get-up and kept the crowd locked-in. Bringing a cover of Avril Lavigne, and getting half-naked towards the end of his show, it’s a performance we’ll never forget. However, we like Juan Huevos’ flows and instrumentals and find his style exciting even without the show and dance. Huevos’ is upbeat and different. Good things.

People like a good show, but if there’s not substance to the music, you could put on the best show in the hottest venue out there and it would be like eating a burnt grilled cheese sandwich at a five star restaurant.

Nathaniel Eras, or ERAS, really rocked out as well. Twiddling knobs and having fun while he played, things stayed engaging. Even though more abstract, glitchier music and melodies are more of an acquired taste, if you spend much time on the site you’ve probably noticed that we love experimental music in general and especially where technology and music meet. ERAS had a high-tech gadget-driven sound that we always enjoy hearing like sipping on a unique-flavored foreign drink.

At any rate, the show was hot. The videos are a bit dark and aren’t the best representation of what the show was like, especially since we didn’t manage to record all of the artists that performed, but that’s why you have to go out to these events for yourselves. We look forward to future shows from B.E.A.R.: rock, rock on.

Our two favorite artists from the video that follows are Theophilus London and Spank Rock, but we’ll probably be getting back to you on the rest of them at some point in the near future. Looks like the food was pretty good at the opening. Diesel doesn’t have to pay-off hipsters to sell cool clothing, though: it was just a coincidence!

MeLo-X – “Crumbs, Change & Hair Pins f/ Nikki Ntu & Theophilus London:”

Cobra Starship – “The City Is At War:”

MeLo-X – “Incredible (remix) (BK Intro):”

MeLo-X – “Just Me:”

Spank Rock – “Loose:”

Spank Rock – “Bitch:”

Spank Rock – “What It Look Like:”

Photo above from one party of many at the Winter Music Conference in Miami.

Love Miami.

It’s no secret that Eminem has received mixed reviews ever since the Slim Shady EP was released in 1996. We first heard Eminem in 1999 when the My Name Is record came out. Eminem’s first official release, Infinite, back in 1996 had nowhere near the same angle as the other two releases just mentioned. Infinite was basically just regular hip-hop with a much younger Eminem without much money to his name. Being famous for a while, Eminem is among Forbes Magazine’s top 20 wealthiest rappers and is releasing tracks with 50 Cent and Dr. Dre. He even has his own Air Jordan sneakers, but is Eminem finally dying off? Unless we’re just not paying attention–since we never listen to the radio anymore–Eminem isn’t as popular as he was back when he released his autobiographical movie 8 Mile.

Well, anyway, the shock value has worn off for us. Just listen to this track leaked from his forthcoming release entitled Relapse. Really not that impressed, although it’s clear that a lot of money went into the song’s production.

“Crack a Bottle:”

Skinny jeans highlight the features that are normally concealed by the looser fitting, or even baggy, clothes that guys are typically inclined to wear. Unless, of course, they are hipster guys. However, it’s not a fact that all hipsters rock skinny jeans. It doesn’t make you any more “scene,” or more of a hipster to wear skinny jeans, really.

It’s probably common knowledge now to say that skinny jeans are a trendy fashion, but we can’t escape the question: are they worth the drop in comfort? It’s also common knowledge that boys have penises and girls have vaginas, so then, clearly skinny jeans are more comfortable for women: so long as they can fit into a pair properly, right? Then again, you don’t have to be model skinny to rock some skinny jeans, and you can still get the same effect, which to us (if we even notice) is just, “Oh. Look. Those jeans are tight on that person. Skinny jeans. Right. So anyway…”

How can the above pic be comfortable? Do you realize that if that dude broke one of those skinny ass legs, the paramedics would have to bust out some scissors and literally cut the pant leg of the injured limb open? That’s right, they don’t have time to sit around and wait for you to try and wriggle out of your skinny jeans, and if you have a break that’s bad enough it’s probably a bad idea to wriggle around a broken bone. So they skip all that noise and go straight for the scissors. Alternatively, if you were wearing some pants that fit you, those could would still need to sliced up. So, maybe the only pants they wouldn’t have to cut open to access your broken leg would be raver pants. We conclude that raver pants are the only decent pants to break your legs in.

Belt buckle, shoes, bracelet, leather wristbands. Uh, yeah.. All we’re saying is this guy’s shoes are terrible. He needs to move on from those. What he was thinking with those pointed tips? Sigh.

Don’t be fooled though. Celebrities have caught on to the skinny jeans trend as well. That’s right, in some cases, they could very well have been rocking skinny jeans before hipsters. Of course, they might not be quite so blatant in their flaunting of them, but oh yes, they do wear them. Here is a list of the top ten celebrity skinny jeans for everybody who doesn’t know.

1. Britney Spears

Lindsay Lohan / Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo

Katie Holmes / Kate Moss

Sugababes Heidi / Mischa Barton

Kate Lawler / Nicky Hilton

Nicole Richie

09/08/09 – ADDENDUM:

Due to several requests, here’s a top ten of male celebrities in skinny jeans. Tongue-in-cheek remarks above aside, we really do like skinny jeans, but as you’ll see from the top 10, there are varying degrees of tightness. We don’t claim our skinny jeans are “tighter than yours,” but it almost seems the tighter the skinny jeans the better. At any rate, check out our selections below, you guys might be surprised by our picks. Both male and female opinions for these selections. Recognize!

1. Theophilus London (Photo: Daniel Warrington).

Machinedrum (Right/Brown Tee)

Gabe Saporta

Kanye West

Zack Efron

Ashton Kutcher

Brad Pitt

Pete Wentz

Shia Labeouf

The Jonas Brothers