New South Wales Police have launched a confronting new campaign urging people to pay attention when crossing the road while listening to iPods and using mobile phones.
The graphic campaign, running on the NSW Police website, includes a series of posters showing people lying lifeless on the road with a white headphone cable snaking around their bodies like a chalk outline.
“Recent growth in the use of portable media players and mobile phone usage has led to a need for greater awareness among both pedestrians and motorists to ensure these new technologies don’t lead to a rise in pedestrian accidents,” NSW Chief Traffic Services Commander John Hartley said.
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Yahoo.com has posted several new posters on the forthcoming Dark Knight movie. Check ‘em all out after the jump…
Continue reading ‘The Dark Knight International Posters’
Al Jourgensen has been discussing bringing Ministry to an end with mp3.com. He discusses Ministry’s final tour, his distaste for the Bush dynasty, and the upcoming REVCO album. You also get to meet his dogs, Lemmy and Ozzy.
Ministry, who’s Metal Hammer sponsored UK tour takes place next month, are about to call time on their 27 year career and this will be the very last chance you get to see the industrial titans.
See for yourself here.
Metallica Considering Radiohead-Style Release.
Geez! Who really cares anymore? Lars Ulrich is a douchebag!
Continuing on with our look at classic-era KISS, here’s the band in 1974 getting ready for a gig at Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom.
Stay tuned for weekly updates for what is proving to be a popular section here at Dogmatic… When KISS Was Cool! (and Peter Criss could actually play the drums!)
Continue reading ‘When KISS Was Cool - Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom - July 18, 1974′
As we posted last week, the four original members of pioneering alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction performed in public for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday, burying their differences to receive an award for career achievement.
Singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins hit the stage at the inaugural NME Awards in Los Angeles with bass player Eric Avery, who had declined to play with the band since it first broke up in September 1991.
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I thought it would be cool to highlight some of my fave photos I have taken over the course of the past week. So every Thursday, or thereabouts, I’ll share some of my faves right here on this blog. If you wanna see more of my stuff, I’m pretty prolific on Flickr so see you there…
Ruby Soho
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Men In Black - Collins Street, Melbourne
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Jack Of All Trades - Caledonian Lane, Melbourne
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Another Dark Knight viral website has sprung forth. Could a new trailer be released soon? One would hope so! In the meantime, have a fiddle with the link above and you too might stumble upon the new Dark Knight poster in all it’s 300dpi/50MB high-res glory!
In the meantime…
Continue reading ‘A World Without Rules - The Dark Knight’
Drunken Darth Vader ‘attacked Star Wars fans’.
A drunken man wearing a black garbage bag yelled “Darth Vader” while jumping over a garden wall before allegedly attacking the two founders of the first Jedi Church in the UK with a metal crutch.
