Boom!

The making of the Old Spice commercial: The Man Your Man Could...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:23:33 -0400

The making of the Old Spice commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

pablog: I’ve long believed that this is a thing that needs to...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:33:26 -0400

I’ve long believed that this is a thing that needs to happen way more often with singers. In fact, I’d pay to watch an entire feature film, spanning all kinds of musicians and all kinds of karaoke bars, premised on this very idea. (Would Ke$ha impress no one? Would Bonnie Tyler reduce people to tears? Justin Timberlake? Dr. Dre?!) It’d be Joshua Bell on steroids. Relatedly: if anyone is friends with Will Smith, let me know.

thedailywhat:

Prank of the Day: Funny or Die dressed Jewel up as a “mild-mannered businesswoman” named Karen and sent her to a Santa Monica karaoke bar to perform her own songs.

Mistaken identilarity ensued.

[erockappel.]

by dennis auburn

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:21:27 -0400

by dennis auburn

"So you’re a ninja/rockstar designer, and you scored an unpaid summer internship at a cool place..."

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:09:22 -0400

“So you’re a ninja/rockstar designer, and you scored an unpaid summer internship at a cool place where you can listen to your iPod while you work. Don’t do that. Listen to everything that’s going on around you. You already know how to make all the stuff you’re making; it’s the snippets of conversation that you’re going to learn from.”

- zoya (via david-noel)

Make a mix for Threadless

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:00:09 -0400

8tracks:

Threadless just kicked off a monthly mix competition using 8tracks:

Make a mix for the Threadless warehouse

We love music in the warehouse here at Threadless and we want to get our community involved. Make us a mix of songs you love or just music you’re really into at the moment and we will play the mixes for everyone in the warehouse.

Use the awesome site http://www.8tracks.com

Upload your mix of at least 8 tracks and submit the link in a comment on this blog. The warehouse crew will vote on their fave mix of the month and that person will win a $50 Gift Certificate. We want to do this monthly so include the current month in the title of your mix “Threadless May Mix”

We will also make a best of the month mix from all mixes we listen to and upload it to the Threadless 8tracks page

awesome!

We love this. A big thanks to Lance, Bob, Tom and the Threadless crew.
Go check it out!

My submission is called In the Warehouse (May)

The Google Job Experiment So… yeah, that’s cool.

Thu, 13 May 2010 11:59:07 -0400

The Google Job Experiment

So… yeah, that’s cool.

knowyourmeme: How To Challenge a Wrongful YouTube Takedown...

Sat, 08 May 2010 20:39:40 -0400

knowyourmeme:

How To Challenge a Wrongful YouTube Takedown Through Fair Use

We’ve been tracking the Hitler Downfall meme and have become very concerned about the recent slate of YouTube takedowns by Constantin Films.

In talking to many of the creators of the Downfall meme videos, we discovered that many of them were unaware of their rights and protections under Fair Use.

To this end, we’ve created a short video that explains why we think that these videos are transformative works, why they should be protected under the Fair Use doctrine and what creators can do to challenge these unfair takedowns.

For additional information on Fair Use and your rights as content creator online, check out the following resources:

eff.org: A Guide to YouTube Removals

Center for Social Media: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

The Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s Fair Use Project

Big thanks to Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media and Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance for their valuable assistance on this.

Four Chord Pop by Australian comedy group “Axis Of...

Sat, 01 May 2010 21:01:00 -0400

Four Chord Pop by Australian comedy group “Axis Of Awesome.” (previously)

Follow Finder: how to find people to follow on Twitter

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:48:20 -0400

Follow Finder: how to find people to follow on Twitter:

Interesting Twitter gadget. [via]

Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.

The Young Dads - I Could Never Eat That My mom is such a...

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:35:41 -0400

The Young Dads - I Could Never Eat That

My mom is such a retard, she’s limiting my cell-phone minutes.

That really sucks!

I know!

I want fudge with butter in it.

knewton: Where do you study? We do, in fact, do it online.

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:28:47 -0400

knewton:

Where do you study?

We do, in fact, do it online.

Senduit: a simple, private, file-sharing service

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:14:20 -0400

Senduit: a simple, private, file-sharing service:

Upload a file and choose an expiration period from 30 mins to 1 week. No registration required.

Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv #1 Your host, Merton,...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:48:58 -0400

Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv #1

Your host, Merton, freestyling in real-time with random strangers on Chat Roulette.

The Sandpit (NYC) My good friend Matt O’Malley, RRR...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:56:28 -0500

The Sandpit (NYC)

My good friend Matt O’Malley, RRR producer and staff composer at Human Worldwide, made the music for this tiltshift video.

Some great shots of DUMBO in the beginning.

This was for official work purposes.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:19:21 -0500

This was for official work purposes.

educationalrap: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy [via] The...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:03:15 -0500

educationalrap:

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy [via]

The first follower is just as important as the leader.

Warner Retreats From Free Music Streaming

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:39:42 -0500

Warner Retreats From Free Music Streaming:

Record label Warner Music has said it will stop licensing its songs to free music streaming services.

How much do they make as a cut of advertising on those services vs. paid pipes?

[via]

Work with Us!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:41:00 -0500

educationalrap:

Want to work for an innovative educational media company? Do you understand the Web and feel extremely comfortable with computers and popular online services? Want to provide routine customer support to our growing customer base and interact with them on our website and social media channels?

We’re hiring!

College/graduate students, freelancers, part-timers, and others with 2 hours/day to spare should take a look.

Rhythm, Rhyme, Results (“triple R”) is an educational media company that specializes in producing educational rap music for middle school students. The company won two 2009 Parents’ Choice Awards and received top marks from Common Sense Media, and has been featured on NPR, YouTube, the New York Times online, and more. Fans range from rural Texas to suburban Illinois to urban New York, and all points between.

That’s right: we’re hiring. If you know anyone who might be interested, please tell them! We’re favoring Boston-area residents, but superstars who live elsewhere in the US should apply, too. It’s a great gig for students and freelancers. Apply here.

"I wonder how Facebook’s and Google’s approaches to privacy will change when their..."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:19:27 -0500

“I wonder how Facebook’s and Google’s approaches to privacy will change when their founders become dads.”

- John Bracken [via]

LESS, a CSS App for Mac OS X

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:00 -0500

LESS, a CSS App for Mac OS X:

LESS is an app that lets you write CSS using variables, nested rules, and operations that simplify your code, then compiles it into plain-old CSS. Uses existing CSS syntax but adds functions you always wish were there. Can’t wait to work with it. [via]