April 2010
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Flight Attendant Masterpiece Theater
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March 2010
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Watch“It’s Five Small Worlds After All”
For Blake Whitman’s challenge to submit to the 5 Vignettes Vimeo group, in which your video must consist of five 5-second clips, of any degree of relation, slapped together, I made this.
I reversed the audio on my first four clips, because the only rule is there are no rules and I’m such a renegade.
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Watchblakewhitman:
Do you ever shoot video with your point and shoot or iPhone and never do anything with it? Of course. Who has time, or the know-how, to edit a crazy involved video? It’s tedious and hard.
Not true! At Vimeo, we have a super simple project call ‘5 Vignettes’. It’s easy and a great solution for your lack-of-editing prowess. Take five, five second clips and string them together to...
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Attempted Condescending Conclusive Statement
natashavc:
Meta humor: circa 2010
Meta humor: circa 1988
clarification question? panicked bullshit explanation…? meaningless comic non sequitur! fake laughter! relief.
And while we’re on the topic, some similar but funny bullshit happened on The Onion the other day and then there’s the gold standard, “Truth in Advertising” (2001), which is always worth a revisit.
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2010 Birthday present: Apple III ca. 1981
So my very special lady, knowing what joy I got from her Christmas gift to me, went to eBay and bought me this gorgeous relic from Apple’s history.
The Apple III is particularly notable because it was, in fact, a commercial failure, designed, for the first time instead of by Steve Wozniak, by the marketing department intent on creating a premium version of the Apple II for business use....
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Pay bill, confirm
Why is it that with online bill payment systems, the bigger, more bureaucratic the organization, the worse the user experience when I want to give them my money? Isn’t that counterintuitive?
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to keep tabs on how much I’m spending on utilities by manually paying online every month (as opposed to setting up automatic payments). So I’ve had to grow...
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Twitter: The Criterion Collection
What if Twitter… came to life?
We asked some of our friends to film their favorite tweets. We didn’t care how they did it. They could read it. They could act it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to contain the entire tweet and nothing but the tweet.
This...
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“I’m wearing a bow tie right now, and it looks great.”
– Jesse Thorn, my pal and partner needs no time to recover from some utterly classless attack from the proprietor of a fairly popular I’m told web comic.
Dirty pool, Penny Cartoon.
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