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Bloglight: Insanely Great News
2008-01-25 18:30:00 Insanely Great News is the blog of NYC based T-Shirt and widget makers Magnetism. The site is, as are most things I like enough to link here, very well designed and geeky^2. Their shirt designs had me at hello, but their overall graphic design, and sense of humor in what they choose to post make the site something you should go take a look at real quick. These guys should hire out their services making logos and icons for other companies, they certainly seem to have made quite a few good ones for themselves over the past few years. (Note on the logo here- it’s not designed to be displayed anywhere but the top of a page, hence the cut off top, but it was the most appropriate image I could find)
Chimps Now Using Spears
2008-01-24 18:46:00 This is a pretty incredible development: we are not the only species that hunts and kills with spears. The chimps are in the wild, and use spears they sharpen with their teeth to injure (and thus slow down) and eat bushbabies- a behavior they developed on their own. They are also starting to ... More About: Spears
Ok, This Is Getting Ridiculous
2008-01-24 18:31:00 I just counted the number of links I have in my “blog this” folder (I keep anything that I find interesting enough to want to post until I post it or it becomes old news) and it is just starting to get silly. I currently have over 70 things to post. So I ... More About: Ridiculous
Dear MPAA & RIAA:
2008-01-23 22:30:00 Why We Steal From You, And How To Stop Us: For years now, the record and movie industries have been waging non-stop war against us, their consumers and fans. They are fighting for survival of the current business models and revenue streams, which are under an incredible assault from electronic piracy in the form of bootleg ... More About: Movies , Music , Riaa , Mpaa
Nowheremen Finally Launches:
2008-01-23 22:16:00 The tantalizing new web series Nowheremen is officially running now; expect more questions to come before there are any real answers on this one. I don’t know much of anything about the series really as of now, but I can promise you it will be entertaining and well worth whatever level of involvement in ... More About: Internet , Finally
S.C.A.D. Shorts Are Rad Shorts
2008-01-23 06:27:00 Watch this video at YouTubeI am amazed that there is not a much larger fanbase for S.C.A.D. Shorts - the online presence of the Savannah School Of Design . Every month they put out a new short (which is almost always exquisitely shot, edited, composited, and scored) and they ask for the fans to name the ...
Friday Is For Robot Lovers
2008-01-19 02:17:00 BoingBoing just posted 2 great robot videos, I wanted to pass them along to you guys because I know y’all are down with the geekery like me. First, a nativity play, performed by a robot: Watch this video at YouTube Then, various different approaches to creating a robot clock: Watch this video at YouTube Robot s are awesome. ... More About: Technology , Lovers , Friday
The Great Xmas Tree Burn Of ?08
2008-01-16 22:56:00 Watch this video at YouTubeEvery year in January, a few of my neighbors drive around picking up dead Christmas trees that people have put out on the curb for disposal. They drag them all out to the beach, make a huge pile, and light it up. The ensuing fire is one of the ... More About: Videos , Entertainment , Great , Tree , Xmas
Welcome Clay Aiken Fans!
2008-01-16 02:43:00 In a totally weird “this is the internet, things are not normal here” moment, yesterday the AV Club got 14,000+ hits from people searching for Clay Aiken pics on MSN. If you are one of those thousands, welcome, this is the AV Club Blog, we are the video production company behind Psycho Bob and ... More About: Education , Entertainment , Fans
Conan Actually Does Need Writers
2008-01-11 19:43:00 Watch this video at YouTubeI was watching the episode of Conan that this clip comes from last night, and all I can say is that he needs to go back on strike. Without his writers, he is basically just killing time for the entirety of each episode every night- it’s a waste of electricity ... More About: Television , Entertainment , Writers
Realflow Met Oscar
2008-01-11 18:56:00 I posted earlier that I worked on National Treasure 2, using Realflow to do CG water, amongst other things. Well yesterday that great piece of software won a Technical Oscar , solidifying its place amongst the most innovative and advanced software in the film industry. As a proud user of the software, this is ... More About: Movies
Boat Elevator
2008-01-10 18:15:00 Watch this video at GoogleI thought this was pretty neat, so I’m passing it along in case some of you did not see it elsewhere. In Scotland they built this rotating ship wheel/elevator to move boat traffic between the Forth, Clyde and Union Canals, which are at different elevations. The video pretty much ... More About: Design , Technology , Boat , Elevator
I.E. Went Nowhere, Man! [So Punny!!]
2008-01-09 23:10:00 So any of you who have seen Psycho Bob know that Invisible Engine’s Sean Bury is the star of the show. For the past few months it’s been pretty hard to catch the I.E. boys, they have been busy shooting something that they won’t tell me anything about, which is frustrating on 2 fronts because ... More About: Internet
Ez-Spray Pancake Batter
2008-01-08 18:18:00 This is a product for the almost criminally lazy, so much so that I am posting it mainly to highlight how damn lazy (some would say “efficient”) our society has become: Batter Blaster, the spray can of pancake/waffle batter. I guess if you already use the instant stuff, this is not really that much ... More About: Food , Pancake , Spray
You Sucjk at Photoshop!
2008-01-07 22:53:00 Watch this video at YouTubeThis little video is a pretty damn clever idea- a narrative comedy sketch in the format of a Photosho p tutorial. I love it when people use new forms of joke telling like this, and there are some seriously funny moments in here. Made by/for My Damn Channel, so ...
Digitalomo
2008-01-07 18:42:00 Thanks to the camera built into the iPhone, I have been taking more and more pictures lately, and I have been really impressed with some of the pictures it takes. So much so that I was starting to look into something to do with the better ones, and boy have I found the perfect ... More About: Blogroll
iF##king LOVE The iPhone
2008-01-04 18:20:00 I posted my initial reactions to the iPhone a little while ago, now it is time for a look at how I feel about it after using it for a while. Rather than write a gushing 10,000 word post, I will write a gushing bullet list of what I think so far: More About: Love , Iphone , King , Communications
Don?t Buy A Zune, Watch Their Ads Instead
2008-01-03 18:41:00 I have never, and highly doubt that I will ever want a Zune (based on a lifetime of hating having to use Micro$oft products). But that doesn’t stop me liking some of their recent ads. It seems that rather than creating a great product and advertising its features, they have decided to commission/license ... More About: Watch , Design
G.R.L. Have Made A Music Video
2008-01-02 18:29:00 Kings of cool Graffiti Research Lab have helped to create a music video, and it features some of their awesome light graffiti techniques as well as a home brew bullet time rig, which they graciously created a how-to for. To be fair, they post deeply detailed tutorials for everything they do since they want ... More About: Video , Music , Design , Technology , Photography
German NYE Tradition:
2008-01-02 07:39:00 Watch this video at YouTube I would like to take a moment to stop my incessant futurist rantings and ravings to bring you a video [I know, shocker]. A few years ago (ok, almost a decade now; god I feel older all the time) I spent NYE in German y, and witnessed the most bizarre nation-wide ... More About: Tradition
?Blogging? Must Die!
2008-01-01 18:07:00 I started to write the thoughts that have become this post in response to something Alphamonkey said on my 2007 round-up post, but I felt it deserved its own airing out, so here it is. The term “blog” needs to be killed, actively and aggressively, by all of us. What is a blog ... More About: Internet , Blogging , Communications
Word Of The Year 2007:
2008-01-01 17:57:00 The Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2007 is [brace yourself to lose your mind in a blind rage against the current level of intelligence in America] “W00t”. WHAT THE FUCK. Not only is w00t not a real word (it is slang at best) but IT CONTAINS FUCKING NUMBERS. To properly spell ... More About: Word , Year
Thomas Allen?s Pulp Photography
2007-12-31 18:28:00 I am embarrassed to say that I first learned about Thomas Allen a few days ago from Southwest Airlines’ “Spirit” magazine, but the fact that Cool Hunting just highlighted his work too makes it ok for me to post it ;). Allen cuts out parts of the covers of pulp novels, arranges the creatively, ... More About: Design , Photography , Homa
The Last Few Months Of My Life:
2007-12-29 08:28:00 I was just updating the ‘ol IMDB profile and I realized that it was time to announce the project that sucked up all of my time from the Nike commercial until just before Thanksgiving (I have been recovering since): National Treasure: Book of Secrets. For this project I was a Lead Fluid Effects TD; ... More About: Life , My Life , Months , The Last , Mont
2007: The Year That Was
2007-12-28 16:13:00 Ajit over at Ticklebooth has created his end of 2007 round up of the best videos on the ‘net, and it is so complete that rather than creating my own, lesser list, I’ll just send y’all his way. There’s a bunch on there that I completely agree with, a few that were new to ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Year
Gravatars Expand Beyond Comments:
2007-12-28 00:28:00 Just a little FYI: Gravatars are now available in OSX 10.5 to add to any of your contacts. This is hopefully the first of many forays into other parts of the world of information that exists outside and throughout the web. As I said earlier, I would love to have Gravatars working hand ... More About: Internet , Comments
On The Chopping Block:
2007-12-21 18:39:00 Upon seeing a few episodes of our series Psycho Bob, Dana said “You need to read Chopping Block , I think you’d love it”. Well, he was right, I do. If you like your humor dark, go take a gander through the archives of this deeply disturbed web comic, its funny stuff. More About: Design
Star Wars Car
2007-12-21 18:13:00 Watch this video at YouTubeI only post this to quickly say that I saw this car in person the other day, and it is every bit as geeky/cool as it looks like it would be. Some people spend their free time making things that are awesome. More About: Star Wars , Wars , Star
Abigail?s Mom Is Our Mary Pat!
2007-12-20 18:02:00 Good friend (and sometimes cast member) of the AV Club Mary Pat Farrell is in a new web series called Abigail ’s X-Rated Teen Diary, playing the overstressed mom. Regular AV Club viewers will remember her from Bob And The Neighbors and Splooginator, or if not in our videos you may have seen ... More About: Videos
100,000 Strong And Growing
More articles from this author:2007-12-18 18:02:00 The above image was just grabbed from the admin panel here at the AV Club Blog. That’s right, in a little over 1 year since we started this particular blog out, it has attracted over 100,000 spam comments. Thank you Akismet, for saving us the hours, if not days of work it would ... More About: Internet , Growing , Strong 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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