Bon Iver / Skinny Love
This song is so devastatingly good. His voice, the melody, everything. If you haven’t heard it yet, please listen to it.
Out with the Old
Tonight I had coffee with Rob Cohen, an all around awesome guy and writer for the Simpsons who’s directing our shoot tomorrow. We were startled to discover that we both dropped out of high school at 16 and never had any other formal education.
Rob, who has been working in television professionally for two decades, says I should stay on the internet as long as possible. He thinks that television and film are bureaucratic nightmares. He’s had a movie that he’s sold five times in ten years and has never been made.
This sentiment has been echoed by a lot of my friends in traditional media. Michael Showalter says that us internet guys are on the tip of an iceberg and, if we stay, we’ll remain on top as it lifts.
The budgets on the internet are mediocre, but the product is attractive, the audience is infinite, and, more importantly, we answer mostly to ourselves. There’s rarely more than a month’s wait from concept to execution.
Sam is a smart guy, if you read my tumblr, you probably already know him and know that. I totally agree with him and the advice he’s been given. I just wanted to add that it seems to me that this is true for both moving pictures and general business on the internet.
This is true for college humor, who can easily compete with the biggest names in both written and filmed hilarity. That’s because on TV, the stations compete with the other stations. On the internet, sites compete with pictures of me when I had a really sweet mustache. To my friends, and friends of friends, my mustache is far more compelling than Friday Night Lights. You see, some random TV show can’t touch what your friends have done, but somehow, the phantom of the office can compete with the glory of my mustache. Even if you don’t know the phantom.
This stuff is true for free interent-based things, but it’s also true for “little” book stores in Portland. Powells.com comes to mind. Shoot, you don’t even need a store to have a successful book store anymore. It’s easy to compete, because you can’t get monster hoodies at the Gap, and you can’t get intergalatic goods at the mall. My father has run a picture frame shop for the past 30 years, if he knew the amount of people who stopped by in a single day, he’d go nuts… luckily he thinks that I still work at Jiffy Lube. Can I interest you in an engine flush?
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“We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.”
Meet the World
An amazing set of flag charts.
Aquamacs 1.3
After several long nights and weekends, I'm happy to say the new Aquamacs.org site has lau