I had a lot of fun with this. This is an interactive web movie about zombies where YOU make the decisions. It’s a Choose your Own Adventure! Your mission is to survive the outbreak. This also proves conclusively that if we were ever involved in a zombie infestation, you need to get as far away from me as possible. I managed to exhaust all possible outcomes before I was able to save myself.
I finally got around to watching it. Listen to Sarah Silverman Jews. Go to Florida. Convince your grandparents to vote Obama. This really is important.
http://www.thegreatschlep.com/
Sometimes you just have time for links. I promise these are two very good ones though. Both are music oriented but that’s where the similarities stop. The first one is an amazing motion graphics piece by Ryan Cashman. He uses light to create a surreal avatar of a piano player in San Diego.
The second one is a single continuous shot of Andrew Bird playing Weather Systems in the streets of Paris. Bird and his violin sound amazing. Check em both out. Both are really incredible.
Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.
I thought this was pretty neat. Some of you probably know what the Internet Archive is. It’s an incredible website that… archives the internet. They have a feature called the Wayback Machine that lets you go back to specific times in the past to see what websites looked like. Check out Yahoo! in ’96.
Well here’s Miabifilms back in the day. I started Miabifilms in 2002 but I guess it wasn’t being archived until August 2003. Due note that I was blogging before anyone knew what that meant. Total geek.
Read MoreWhy didn’t I think of this? Sidetaker is a simple website that allows couples to present a domestic dispute they may be having. And lets the World Wide Wonderful comment on it. Brilliant.
Read MoreThis has been around for a while now, but not too many people know about it. Just for fun, a London-based design firm named Troika designed a computer virus. Just for fun.
Dubbed the Newton Virus, their mission was to create an application that harkened back to the “good old days”. When computers viruses were designed by geeks showing off their programming skills. Instead of geeks with cheesy logos trying to be deviant malcontents. Yes, this is a rare MAC virus, but you won’t get it on the World Wide Wonderful. It comes on a thumb drive and makes use of the accelerometers in Apple laptops. I’m all for using accelerometers. It doesn’t matter what their used for! Anyway, check out the video to see how fun this thing is. It appears that Troika does not intend on releasing this into the wild. Bummer.
Mom got it right this time. I got these great street Illuuuusions in a FWD: from Carol Ann.
This magnificent street artist goes around painting life-like and mend-bending feats of perspective. His canvas of choice- sidewalks and other public locales. I wish I knew this guy/gal’s name. The FWD: doesn’t have any info. Is it more than one of you? Are you getting paid? Tell me. I love them.
If anyone has seen these images on the web and knows who did this, please let me know.
I wanted to talk about Hulu for a second. I absolutely love this site. I’ve considered canceling my cable many times in the past because I don’t really watch TV anymore. Then came Hulu. Now I definitely don’t watch TV anymore. I Hulu.
Hulu’s been around for nearly a year now. I jumped aboard when I first heard about it. Deciding to give it a chance even though many, many, many sites have come and gone with the same principle. But Hulu has the power of General Electric behind it. And that is a power not to be taken lightly.
It first started, when I was catching up with 30 Rock. I won’t discuss the joys of having Liz Lemon at your fingertips because that is plainly obvious. Then I started watching a few movies on the site that I’d never seen before. Eight Men Out was a movie I’d always wanted to see but never got around to it. Glad I finally did. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
But, the real beauty of Hulu is that it has enabled me to check out show’s I’d heard of but never would have seen. For example, Firefly. Firefly is an awesome Sci-Fi/Western created by Joss Whedon. Though, I’d never really been into Joss Whedon’s other stuff, I absolutely became attached to this show. It even gives Battlestar a run for best Sci-Fi show ever. (-end geek) The characters are excellent and the show itself is both hilarious and thrilling at the same time. Since it was canceled after only 14 episodes, I managed to watch the entire series in just a few days. Then rented the movie Serenity. It’s times like this that you wish you hadn’t been so eager to consume. Now I have no more Firefly to enjoy. I already miss it. But because of Hulu, I can easily watch the show again and again. Jewel Saite is cute on levels approaching Jenna Fischer-ian.
Last year, I bought the pilot episode of Miami Vice from iTunes. The pilot is really a feature length movie and I thought it was a great piece of machismo escapism. And by all accounts ground breaking at the time, if a bit dated now. I watched this show as a kid, but can honestly say I never really got it then. The only thing I really remember is the sexy opening title sequence with that sweet sweet Jan Hammer Miami Vice theme. What have I discovered now because of Hulu? This is the sweatiest show I’ve ever seen. Shit, Crockett and Tubbs have sweat stains on their pastel-colored suits in nearly every scene. Can we get wardrobe in here? This show personifies the 80′s as much as Madonna writhing around in a wedding dress does. The writing does seem to hold up though, and I’ve been enjoying the first few episodes.
So trust me. Sign up for Hulu if you haven’t. It’s free.
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In case you need to go…
Here’s a search engine for many clean public toilets in Manhattan. And it’s optimized for mobile!
It’s like George Costanza, in web page form.
Horrible name.
Read MoreWhenever I change my profile on Myspace I like to post the old one here. Gives my listeners a little insight into what makes me me. I usually go the list route. I like lists. Anyway, I’m about to change it up over there, (though I don’t know why, I’m about to jump ship for Facebook) So here is the last one I had up.
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Me? I’m selfish, judgmental, arrogant, insecure, sharp, dull, supercilious, quirky, shy, excitable, grumpy, inured, human and working on bitter.
…I used a thesaurus for that.
A masochist and I love sadists.
My mouth gets me into trouble more than I’m comfortable with.
My stupidity gets me into trouble more than I’m comfortable with.
The look on my face gets me into trouble more than I’m comfortable with.
I like being Italian.
I add an S to all my Gregg Rule notebooks. But I cross out the extra g at the end, so it looks stupid.
As a prank, the next time you’re introduced to someone, respond with this..
“Ah, so you’re the person I’m supposed to kill.”
I want my gravestone to say…
Here lies Greg Granito.
He did a few things right. Except not dying.
Not into politics, but I’ll never hesitate to give my opinion on an issue, regardless of any knowledge or background of said issue.
I’ve got love to give.
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