July 2009
38 posts
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an...”
– Mitch Hedberg
F**k Yeah Facts! →
hamandheroin:
Site of the day.
WatchChallenge Your World: Mainframe
Each year, 20 video artists create 20 wild, whimsical, and unconventional machines that solve environmental issues. These videos reject the status quo, explore crazy ideas, and blast beyond boundaries.
WatchTREEVENGE!
This short film played before our film I SELL THE DEAD (opening in theaters in August!) at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. It’s brilliant.
Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams =)
Watchazizisbored:
RAAAAAAAANDY Part 1 (Funny People)
Here’s part 1 of the Randy Documentary that Jason Woliner and I have been working on. I hope you enjoy it. More coming next week.
The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time →
saintfilm:
benjaminandhisblog:
“There are many ways to measure a trailer’s quality, from the persuasiveness of its salesmanship to the cleverness of its copywriting. Ultimately, we decided that the best trailers are those that most effectively combine art and commerce, and that sell and entertain with equal skill. Some of the previews on our list are for classic films, but many are for...
The Crack Cocaine Of Auction Sites →
(via soupsoup:)
Mark Gimein at Slate
Consider the MacBook Pro that Swoopo sold on Sunday for that $35.86. Swoopo lists its suggested retail price at $1,799; judging by the specs, you can actually get a similar one online from Apple (AAPL) for $1,349, but let’s not quibble. Either way, it’s a heck of a discount. But now look at what the bidding fee does. For each “bid” the price of the computer...
Lying face down... FTW!
(via thesteak:)
This is my new favorite craze!
“They lie rigidly face-down on rooftops, postboxes, luggage racks and even in the engine of a jumbo jet.
It’s the latest and perhaps the most bizarre internet phenomenon yet to sweep the globe.
Several Facebook groups set up in honour of ‘the Lying Down Game’ display thousands of photographs of people lying face-down in progressively odder...
