This is ridiculously bloody old, but I just ran across it. From four years ago, here is British Flash animator Laith Bahrani’s homemade video for Radiohead’s acoustic version of their song “Creep.” It is based on characters from his Low Morale series of shorts (suitable for anyone working at a soul-crushing place of [...]
Imaginary quote
The sad fact is that less experience wears off eventually.
Tags: helpful advice
Happy Hell-O-Ween!
Here’s a few treats for today…
Have fun playing the De-Animator, based on H.P. Lovecraft’s collection Herbert West: Reanimator (which you can read online; also made into a great pulp movie). If you like playing House of the Dead (one of the few video games I don’t completely suck at), you’ll love shooting the living [...]
WebbyConnect: Poppies, Pups & Profanity
There are other very interesting things I learned at the WebbyConnect conference. Global cultural things.
The Tall Poppy
For example, I was talking to an Australian guy about how sports figures are treated down there and he introduced me to the concept of the tall poppy. It sounds like the equivalent of the Japanese expression [...]
“Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked, he’s so mad…”
I’ve been really busy lately and never got around to posting these Easter photos. You may recall that last year, I captured some images from my town of Laurel, MD of front yard Easter displays. I was up in Bellrose, Queens, NYC this year and took a few more shots.
Tags: Easter, decorations
Charlie Brown Must Die.
Via Panopticist, here’s the alternate ending to A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
And a golden oldie from last year, A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa. Worth repeating, because it was recommended to me by Higgins.
Tags: A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa
Hippity-hoppity, ya don’t stop.
You know, if you decorate your home for Christmas, nobody looks at you funny. You can put up the gaudiest, tackiest conglomeration of lights and blow-up snowmen and animated reindeer, and people might think it’s a little much, but that’s it.
But you decorate your house for Easter and people drive [...]
Spying in cold blood.
A new movie trailer mash-up takes advantage of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s dual presence to combine Capote and Mission: Impossible III.
See the trailer for MO: III here.
Tags: movie trailer mash-ups, MO: III, Philip Seymour Hoffman
I wanna be Santarchy…
Here’s one of the greatest Christmas stories I know. Probably the only one I got.
On December 4, 1999, I happened to be in Los Angeles, on the back end of a business trip. My friend John was also in town and we arranged to go see the Vandals play at the Hollywood [...]
“There’s a new sheriff in town…”
Via Warren Ellis, here’s a nice piece of holiday cheer from Patton Oswalt:
If you come a-caroling to my house, you’re going to get yanked inside, strapped to a bed of pine trees, and force-fed a gallon of hot wassail while I recite the screenplay to IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. We’ll laugh and laugh and scream [...]