January 29, 2011

7 Things I Learned From My First Time at the Sundance Film Festival

Big thanks to the good people over at Moviefone for putting up this blog post of mine. Here’s an excerpt:

If you asked me a month or two ago where the Sundance Film Festival was held, I probably would have guessed somewhere in Colorado instead of where it’s actually held: Park City, Utah. Don’t get me wrong, I knew plenty about the festival and its pedigree. I just thought it was held in that ski town from ‘Dumb and Dumber.’

In other words, I possessed zero notion that I’d ever actually get a chance to go, much less have any idea what it would actually be like. Hollywood moves fast, though, and before I knew it the 8-bit animated music video that my girlfriend worked on was in the festival and we had tickets…

Read on at Moviefone.

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January 22, 2011
Happy to say that I had a hand, by proxy, in brainstorming this awesome poster. via popculturebrain: Das Racist’s Sundance entry has an awesome retro NES poster | /Film on Twitpic

Happy to say that I had a hand, by proxy, in brainstorming this awesome poster.

via popculturebrain:

Das Racist’s Sundance entry has an awesome retro NES poster | /Film on Twitpic

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January 21, 2011
The 14 Best Title Cards from ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ I remember every one of these episodes. These are amazing! Here’s a comprehensive list of all 84 that were produced. Via my old CollegeHumor boss jeffrubinjeffrubin and AOL, my current boss

The 14 Best Title Cards from ‘Batman: The Animated Series’

I remember every one of these episodes. These are amazing! Here’s a comprehensive list of all 84 that were produced.

Via my old CollegeHumor boss jeffrubinjeffrubin and AOL, my current boss

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January 11, 2011

Secrets of the Magus

I discovered Ricky Jay — unquestionably one of the coolest dudes on the planet — in the pages of the New Yorker in 1993. My mom was a subscriber and the magazine had arrived every week for as long as I could remember. I often tried to read it, but I remember each issue was a muddle of complicated words and prose in-between the only thing I could really grasp at that age, cat cartoons.

One day I picked up a random issue and before I knew it, I found myself knee deep in this amazing profile of Ricky Jay, titled ”Secrets of the Magus.” Jay’s intense, bearded stare beckoned me into the unknown and I just started reading. I may have understood about half of the words and it may have taken half a day to get through it, but I was mesmerized. I’ve had a deck of cards in my backpack ever since.

If you’ve ever wanted to see someone cut a pencil in half with a playing card, do yourself a favor and search YouTube for some of his videos. If he decides to revive his one-man show “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” I will definitely be on top of getting tickets to see it. Or just figure out how to con my way in. I think he would appreciate that.

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January 7, 2011

My 10 Favorite Albums of 2010

1)  Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

2)  Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

3)  Dios - We Are Dios

4)  The Black Keys - Brothers 

5)  Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot

6)  The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards

7)  Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

8)  Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back

9)  Delta Spirit - History From Below

10) Spoon - Transference

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December 20, 2010
On the left is John the Wolfking of LA — a solo album by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, released in 1970. When I stumbled across it, the cover jumped out at me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it… then it hit me. Dylan! I was immediately interested after I realized that. On the right is Bob Dylan’s Desire — an album I’ve loved for a long time, but had no idea that the cover was an homage. Well, I just love that kind of thing and had to download Wolfking. As it turns out, the album is fantastic… the best kind of combination of Gram Parsons and John Cale. Take a listen.

On the left is John the Wolfking of LA — a solo album by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, released in 1970. When I stumbled across it, the cover jumped out at me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it… then it hit me. Dylan! I was immediately interested after I realized that.

On the right is Bob Dylan’s Desire — an album I’ve loved for a long time, but had no idea that the cover was an homage. Well, I just love that kind of thing and had to download Wolfking. As it turns out, the album is fantastic… the best kind of combination of Gram Parsons and John Cale. Take a listen.

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December 17, 2010

Now I know what Steve Jobs means when he talks about “magic.” This is just straight up unbelievable. iPhone augmenting reality in real time.

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December 8, 2010
Happy that if you Google the word “Beck,” the artist comes before the blowhard. For that matter, so does the Mongolian Chop Squad… whatever that is.

Happy that if you Google the word “Beck,” the artist comes before the blowhard. For that matter, so does the Mongolian Chop Squad… whatever that is.

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December 3, 2010
“Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy.” — Benjamin Franklin The past couple of years a good friend of mine has made it a birthday tradition of his to hit up The Patriot for beer and sliders. For some reason, I was compelled to Photoshop this as a response to his e-mail invitation this year. And I’m glad I did.  Now the Internet has a proper picture of Ben Franklin hoisting a beer glass.

“Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy.” — Benjamin Franklin

The past couple of years a good friend of mine has made it a birthday tradition of his to hit up The Patriot for beer and sliders. For some reason, I was compelled to Photoshop this as a response to his e-mail invitation this year. And I’m glad I did. 

Now the Internet has a proper picture of Ben Franklin hoisting a beer glass.

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December 2, 2010
I’d spend 500 bucks on a Steve Allen pog.

I’d spend 500 bucks on a Steve Allen pog.

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