February 2012
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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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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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Watchsandwichvideo:
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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WatchOne of my three favorite scenes from Louie because it’s fodda yanna banodda fonna.
via fixpert
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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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WatchPlease fund, gentlepeople
Three days left to make this happen. Either you dig up a little coin and make yourself feel nice about parting with it for the sake of tasteful and gentlemanly pursuits and PTO makes another glorious season, or you don’t, and it goes away. Not to make it an ultimatum because that would be unseemly. But now’s the time is what I’m saying.
putthison:
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WatchSpectating from across the way
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August 2011
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Watch“They went with birthing the chicken on the toilet.”
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July 2011
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No touching
Do movie watchers of the future get to study a film over and over like we used to, now that the artifact of the collectible movie has gone away and almost all movies are easily accessed?
Time was, a movie was a physical object, there was scarcity and a built-in obligation to extract as much value as possible. So we’d watch them over and over again, and we’d learn about movies.
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