June 2012
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May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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The You Look Nice Today Starter Pack
youlooknicetoday:
Welcome to this annotated introduction to You Look Nice Today, A Journal of Emotional Hygiene.
To acquaint yourself (or a special friend) with our program, we invite you to download and enjoy six of our favorite episodes:
DOWNLOAD: “You Look Nice Today Starter Pack” (127 MB zip file)
This officially-sanctioned Starter Pack includes: “Sacks-Minnelli Disease,” “Truck Spank,”...
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Learning from competition →
Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and its shortcomings, and a complete, open-minded understanding of why people might choose your competitors.
- Marco Arment
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Spotcast: A podcast about directing commercials →
And speaking of Peter Atencio, he was interviewed on the most recent episode of a very neat new podcast program by a commercial director named Ron Small, who invites a guest commercial director each episode to talk about how they work, how they’ve learned, what they’ve learned, and why they work in the short short form.
The first guest on the show was me, in a two-parter that was...
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February 2012
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Poll Everywhere “Introducing Poll Everywhere”
Good god, am I proud of Employee #2, JP Bolles, who directed this for Sandwich Video. Sure it’s a cool product. See for yourself if you want. But the video JP made is just so good. And DJ Lubel, who stars in it, never doesn’t make me laugh.
via sandwichvideo
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Splitsider: Talking Key & Peele With Series... →
atencio:
I did an interview with my friend Natasha Vargas-Cooper for comedy website Splitsider. It’s really self-indulgent, but if you’re interested in directing sketch comedy, I go into a lot of detail about how I approached doing the show. Which premieres tonight at 10:30. Please watch it, or else I have to go back to making porn.
So anyhow, I’m really excited about seeing the world...
December 2011
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Urban Dictionary: “lonely sandwich” →
Just found this, more than a year after the term was coined onstage in Lake Arrowhead, CA. God bless the fan base.
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We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it!...
– Behind the Scenes of Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign (via implodr)
The biggest thing that bothers me about the “Cult of Jobs” is that people often seem to mistake the unfortunate, frequently counterproductive, side effects of the personality that made him great for the very cause of his...
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feltron:
Memo Atken
I think this is what music sounds like to particles.
November 2011
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That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t...
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch
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Human-computer-human interaction
There’s an unformed thought I’ve had bouncing around in my head since I first tried out Siri on my 4S. I’d have liked to develop it into something more robust, but it’s a pretty simple idea so I’ll just leave it here.
You can’t say to Siri, “I guess I’d like to do something later like maybe a movie or just something laid back like coffee in the area or...
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sandwichvideo:
Mixel “Introducing Mixel”
I’m so proud to have lent a hand to a project like this. When the brilliant designer Khoi Vinh showed me the new app he’s been working on, a lot of stuff just started to come together for me—pieces of the coming shift into what it means to create.
I think the future brings a world where all the elements of an object can be traced to their...
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October 2011
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I Forgot My Mantra: My Research Project: Why We... →
Scott Jackson is a really smart young man working on a project to figure out why you Like what you Like on Tumblr. Can you tell him? Sure you can. You’re a smart person who likes to use Tumblr and Likes to use Tumblr and Likes pictures of girls in cute outfits.
So install his extension and help him figure out what makes you tick, pervert.
scottjacksonx:
Hey, Tumblr.
I’m really...
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September 2011
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One of my three favorite scenes from Louie because it’s fodda yanna banodda fonna.
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If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without...
– Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny”
I like nice jokes that make me feel nice.
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