TV + Internet = Joost

First they made Kazaa, then Skype, if I had to bet I'd go with Joost for the future of web tv.

from mit adlab

M.C. Rove is in the house

Phil Hansen

Phil Hansen does some amazing work. (Click on the pics for videos of their creation)

via woostercollective

Bao Xishun weds Xia Shujian!

Big congratulations to Bao Xishun (tallest man at 7'9") and his new bride Xia Shujian (5'6") on their upcoming wedding. They lovely couple are registered here.

from cnn

Ratatat on Monday in L.A.

Just got my tickets to see some electric guitar hip-hop Monday night at the Henry Fonda.

ratatat

Joshua Heller's Investigative Journalism

from vimeo via hellerscorner

11 Spring St. by GOOD Magazine

Good Magazine put together the best video I've seen yet from Wooster's 11 Spring Street Show.

from GOODmag via wooster

Acceptable.TV

The dudes that created channel101 have a new project called acceptable.tv debuting on VH1 this weekend. Here's a look behind the scenes of their creative process:

These are the types of conversations that go on in my office every day. Minus the balls.

via BWE

Vimeo = Video + Good

Vimeo has much more interesting content than youtube or any other online video site.

via wooster collective

Dr. Egon Spengler

Harold Ramis just walked past me on the lot. He wrote Animal House, GhostBusters, Caddyshack & Goundhog Day. He's the John Landis of 80s comedy writers. Forget Rainn Wilson, that sighting trumps all.

Because I Can't Be Beethoven

This Saturday in Downtown LA, performance artist Parris Patton is performance arting his "Because I Can't Be Beethoven" where he'll take a sledge hammer to a block of ice until the piano that's frozen inside is exposed. Then he'll light the piano on fire.



I really really really like the event schedule...

via artkrush

This American Life on Showtime

Weeds now This American Life on Showtime? I think I'm going to have to subscribe. Below is one of the intro segments they showed at the This American Life Live Tour I went to last Monday at UCLA.

from slate.com

Hillary 1984

via mit adlab

Real Life Mario Kart

This are the antics we like...

from mrdoublee via pandasmashtv

Drain Guy

The Little People Blog has some great pictures of tiny figurines places on the streets. I wonder how long until they get stepped on.

via woostercollective

QR Codes

Eventually you will be able to take a cameraphone picture of an image like the one below and the data embeded in this simple image will send you to a product page or even play a video without downloading anything.

Graffiti Research Lab Show

If I was in New York City, I'd go to the Graffiti Research Lab
show OPEN CITY in NYC.

LA Urban Iditarod

150+ costumed participants
25+ decorated sleds (shopping carts)
4 packed bars
2 private pit stops
5+ hours of fun

First Annual LA Urban Iditarod

I was the course co-cartographer.

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff (more pics here / password: LAUrb)

Kicking Heads

Kendell Geers' Masked Ball @ Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts

via shadeelaine at notcot

FIRST!

This is the first post. If the writer told you about this blog then it has already failed in it's mission.