September 2010
1 post
“In 1912, Franz Reichelt, tailor, jumped from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower...”
– BASE jumping - Wikipedia
August 2010
6 posts
Short Film about the end of the world?
spiegelman:
[A] comet or a meteor is on its way to destroy Earth. People all over New York are running cover, and two strangers who have just decided to ride it out meet each other on the street. One asks the other something like, “do you want to love me for the rest of the world?” And then they go up to the dude’s apartment and do relationshippy things like eat cereal and do crosswords and...
My New Superpower
I had a todo list breakthrough last month. You actually have to do the things on your todo list. I’ll give you a moment to let that sink in. You actually have to set aside a time, read the list and then, one by one, actually do the things you decided you needed to do when you made the list.
It just never occurred to me before. I read and loved David Allen’s Getting Things Done and...
July 2010
4 posts
My struggle. →
I don’t trust anybody who was born after April 30th, 1945. That includes almost everyone I meet, except the old people I hang out with on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays. I like to spend time with them, because they are the only people who you can be sure weren’t Hitler in a past life.
So very good. Read the rest…
June 2010
1 post
WatchYou knew it was coming. And here it is. The world’s first film shot and edited entirely on an iPhone 4. Starring the powerhouse talent Garrett Murray. Directed by yours truly.
(View in HD)
May 2010
3 posts
Lost
Endings are hard. It’s the only episode where you’re competing directly against the audience members’ vaguely imagined perfect prototype episode. You can’t worry about making anyone happy, you just have to stay true to your story and follow your characters to the end.
Lost didn’t really do that. It was a classic cop-out ending. I think I know why they did it, but...
Phoned In
Well I’m officially a genius. I was impatient to read The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest which doesn’t get released in the US until May 25. So I ordered it from Amazon UK where it’s been out since last year. It just arrived today.
Which is great. Only problem is that the cover is terrible. Not only is it plain and completely uninspired (is that plain ol’...
April 2010
10 posts
Män som hatar kvinnor
When I heard that there was going to be a US film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo I was angry. I mean, I wasn’t surprised. At all. I’m not stupid. That’s what we do. We take good things and make them huge and clean and digestible. But I was hoping that just this once something good could be allowed to simply be what it was without the Hollywood machine swooping...
My New Chair
After seeing a co-worker use one of these for over a year I never really had the urge to try it myself. But now that I work from home and have discovered that my office chair is actually a slow-death torture device, I’ve decided to give it a whirl.
Day 1: Pretty good so far. At the very least it’s fun to have the option of bouncing while I work. Especially when I get angry at the...
Worthless Reporting
What the hell is this crap post from the New York Times? They quote three comments about the stolen iPhone story that indicated glee at Apple’s loss of secrecy control. THREE.
But perhaps what is surprising is the utter delight and occasional vitriol permeating the reactions around the Web.
Surprising that there are people who hate Apple? Yeah, that’s just shocking. Never seen...
Bill:
My new outgoing voice mail message.
Comics on iPad
Skip the Marvel iPad app and get the Comics app instead. It’s the exact same app as the Marvel app, made by the same company, but instead of only carrying Marvel comics it includes a bunch of indie publishers in addition to Marvel. My friend Mike DeVito’s book, The Stuff of Legend, is worth a read and I’ve heard good things about “The Walking Dead” as well (which has...
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones Review →
“Star Wars Episide II Attack of the Clones is the worst thing ever made by a human.”
And so it begins. God I can’t wait to sit down and watch all nine parts.
THE MAGIC PAD
It’s really not hard. It’s a 10 inch flat screen where magic happens. Get it? Of course you do. So go fucking buy one. Stop taking everything so damn seriously. It’s just an amazingly cool computer. Don’t you like amazingly cool computers? Stop wringing your hands about platforms and publishing industries and openness. You don’t really even care about that shit. You...
Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the... →
Buzz Andersen:
I’ve definitely noticed this phenomenon—”…the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange”— subconsciously for some time now. This look feels like it’s become a reliable indicator of mainstream movie blandness.
March 2010
6 posts
Them
Charlie: So, how’s the wife, kids? Stan: Oh them. Charlie: Something wrong? Stan: Not at all, I just was confirming you meant them. Charlie: Are you hinting at something? Stan: Uh, no. Are you? I’m just making sure I can use the pronoun, “them.” Charlie: … OK. So, how are they? Stan: GOD, THEM? Charlie: OK, what’s happening here? Stan: Sorry the cat stepped on...
WatchThe Sandpit
So surreally un-New York New York.
(via dotsara)
February 2010
1 post
Garrett Explains Cocoa Events
Garrett: think of events as things that might happen at any moment
Shawn: yeah I get it now
Garrett: but flipping a view is a direct action that always happens immediately
Garrett: so it's not an event in these cases
Garrett: now, to answer your question of "is that not an event"?
Garrett: yes, in the generic sense of the word event
Garrett: just like when i got a huge boner from watching a dog food commercial yesterday
Garrett: that's technically an event
Garrett: but i wouldn't want to fire off a notification about it
Shawn: well, no you wouldn't
Shawn: for a lot of reasons
Garrett: actually, I'm wrong, that WOULD be a case for a notification
Garrett: didAchieveAwkwardBoner
January 2010
3 posts
“Time sure does fly though, it’s crazy, do you realize a baby born on the...”
– Conan O’Brien
Steve Jobs Does Laundry
From The Steve Jobs On Magazine Covers Page that John Gruber linked to the other day I came across this February 1996 Wired interview with Steve Jobs. For some reason I love reading really old articles about technology to see how right or wrong they were about what actually happened. The interview is completely fascinating. Jobs was still at NeXT and the web was brand new. I started quoting the...
December 2009
1 post
70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom... →
If you had the misfortune of seeing The Phantom Menace, watch this awesome, bizarre and totally devastating take-down of that crappy film.
November 2009
6 posts
WatchPepper Boy
Bill linked to his three all-time favorite SNL sketches the other day. All great choices but I forgot how good the Pepper Boy sketch was. Perfect escalation, awesome performances and one of those ideas everyone can relate to. So so good.
Burn it down →
As the writer, you need to burn down houses. You need to push characters out of their safe places into the big scary world — and make sure they can never get back. Sure, their stated quest might be to get home, but your job is to make sure that wherever they end up is a new and different place.
SUCCEED Blog →
“A collection of the world’s most epic, awesome, mind blowing Succeeds.” This is awesome. Succeed!
Dammit or Damnit?
OK, I’m not really asking. I think “dammit” is far superior to “damnit.” “Dammit” is phonetic and looks like it sounds. When I see “damnit” I always pronounce the “n” even though I know better. Yes, “dammit” is slang for “damn it” but when you glue them together into one word I strongly suggest...
“Like if Dylan tweeted, “I saw the hottest chick in a tube top. tube tops...”
– Matt, on the disillusionment of celebrity Twittering.
October 2009
3 posts
1 tag
Solutions To Important Problems #427
It seems that we’ve decided as a society that it’s OK to leave your dog’s urine on the sidewalk. This seems to be the state of affairs. It’s not OK to leave your dog’s shit, but go ahead, leave little golden puddle treasures all over the place for me to step in. No worries at all! You know cause dog poo is super gross, but urine is fun and fresh! Leave it where it is!...
1 tag
Me? Worry?
I was reading a fascinating NY Times article about anxiety and finding myself vibrating with anxiety the more I read it. Maybe this isn’t ironic at all and makes perfect sense. Or maybe it’s October and that’s just how I’m wired to feel this time of year whether I’m reading about anxiety or dog biscuits.
I’ve never read anything about dog biscuits, but it just...
September 2009
4 posts
In Event of Moon Disaster →
William Safire’s just-in-case speech for Nixon in the event that the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. (I assume this is real.)
1 tag
Forever's Not So Long Recap
Last week was an eventful one in the life of my short film, Forever’s Not So Long. In the span of 7 days Garrett and I went to two cities on opposite coasts, collected 2 awards and appeared in 3 newspaper articles.
We won the Grand Jury Prize for best narrative at the SIFF 1 Reel festival. This was an amazing and unexpected win and it’s really been the highlight of the entire...
I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script →
August 2009
3 posts
