Chris is out this week wheeling and dealing with Old Europe, so here’s a cool video that has nothing to do with politics. SF to Paris in Two Minutes from Beep Show on Vimeo . Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : AMERICAblog Discovery Date : 07/04/2011 16:58 Number of articles : 8
Continue reading …Chalk this story up in the category of smart marketing tips. Valve’s original Portal game was an indie favorite that had a lot of fans, just not millions and millions of them. For Portal 2, Valve’s marketing machine has focused on widening the audience for the physics-based shooting game. And it has hit upon a way to target the female audience — or perhaps just the larger community of boot fans —… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : VentureBeat Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 19:23 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …To celebrate the 50th anniversary of manned space travel, Attic Room Productions has released First Orbit, a 99-minute free film that recreates Yuri Gagarin’s historic launch into space on April 12, 1961 — in real time. We watched the whole film, which was shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. And it’s “First Orbit”: Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagaran’s… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Open Culture Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 02:46 Number of articles : 6
Continue reading …The former governor and forever-tanned man-about-Florida Charlie Crist pays a heavy price for using a mediocre Talking Heads song in his failed re-election campaign. More at Gawker ; link via Garrett Quinn . I’m all in favor of humiliating politicians on YouTube and elsewhere, but can we save some ritual abuse for musicians who agree to be used by politicians? For instance, I nominate Melissa Etheridge,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 17:45 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Nine Types of Light, The fifth album from Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, hits shelves this week and they’ve decided to make a feature Continue Reading » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Film Stage Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 16:45 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …For the second week in a row, Kirstie Alley’s Dancing with the Thetans’ performance went about as smooth as John Travolta’s yearly prostate exam. Kirstie crushed her Thetans last week when she hit the floor after Maksim’s leg muscle quit that shit, and last night her shoe came off halfway through her waltz to the Bellagio water fountain song. Someone is trying to ruin, Kristie! (Cut to George Lopez… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Dlisted Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 13:52 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Easily the biggest piece of news in the past week was that Oscar-nominated actor and current star of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Michael Shannon, had been cast as by director Zack Snyder as the lead villain General Zod [1] his upcoming Superman reboot called Man of Steel. While the news of Shannon’s casting spread like wildfire and spawned massive debates about the Zod character and more, the one person… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 06:13 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Can’t see the video? Click here Now we bring you the first episode of Mortal Kombat Legacy , the live-action web series that many have been clamoring for since Kevin Tancharoen’s independently produced proof of concept video from last year. In this first installment, we’re being eased in to things with some reasonably easy to relate to characters. When Sonya Blade reports in about a shipment of stolen… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Destructoid Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 05:45 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Yeah, baby. Here’s a big boost for marriage equality from the always-hot Law & Order SVU’s Christopher Meloni , who plays the tinder-box-tempered Elliot Stabler on the long-running NBC drama, and portrayed inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz (both blogmistress favorites!). This is from HRC’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality : Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Pam’s House Blend Discovery Date : 12/04/2011 15:49 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …This movie shows all displayable Unicode characters (49000+ characters), one per frame, for more than 33 minutes. (via waxy ) Tags: video Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : kottke Discovery Date : 11/04/2011 23:17 Number of articles : 4
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