By Hawkes Klein
Just in case you’ve been out of touch or don’t have any funny friends (I got emailed this link by three people) you need to know that WitStream exists.
Remember how your Twitter friends aren’t really that funny? They talk about being hungry and tired and wah wah my job is lame blaaaaahhhhhhhzkjhfsdkhfsdkhgshgfhk;adnbvknnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn oh sorry! I just fell asleep thinking about it!
That’s…
By Peter Brauer
Have I got a new band or what. Robbie Guertin (Guitar and Vocals) and Tyler Sargent (Bass) of Clap You Hands Say Yeah have formed a new art collective and band called Uninhabitable Mansions. I just caught their show last Thursday at the Bell House at an event sponsored by the Gothamist in the CMJ festival. They were kicking…
Last summer, while touring Geek Cons with Second Skin, I was astounded by this odd fellow Cthulhu. I’m perfectly ashamed at how little I knew of this tentacled extraterrestrial, being that I fancy myself a hardcore otaku, but the little cephalopod-faced brute was everywhere! Cthulhu was emblazoned on t-shirts, poked fun at in card games, the inspiration for RPGs, books-…
By Peter Brauer
I just had the pleasure of watching The Guild seasons 1 and 2 on a sweet two-disc set. I remember watching season 1 on the internet when it came out a couple of years ago. But I must say this show is definitely best when packaged together on one DVD. While each season is broken up into many episodes, the…
I think I’ve listened to this song a million times in the last month. It’s a gorgeous song, poignant in its simplicity, raw in it’s sentiment. The video compliments the song effortlessly. Thank you ABs for not blowing it.
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Randee Dawn is one of our fellow guest bloggers here on Popten, and she just came out with a new book – The Unofficial Companion to Law & Order SVU. I was lucky enough to be invited to her exclusive signing (and meet some of the people who populate one of TV’s biggest universes). I ended up taking a few…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Just recently Motorola released the full specifications to the brand new Droid phone, and I must say it looks like we may have something to rival an iPhone. I feel like we’ve said it before though, and only time will tell if a Google phone finally ousts Apple from its throne.
The ad goes a little like this, iDon’t have a…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. MOVIE Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
This is a visual feast that, while lacking a story of any sort, captivated me for ninety minutes. As the sole human in the land of the beasts, Max Records proves to be an incredible child actor, bringing out authentic emotion and the beautiful hurt of a tyke so isolated from the real world…
At gunpoint, two extraterrestrials in Hell’s Kitchen demanded I tell them the reason for the internet.
Without hesitation, I showed them this video.
Catch the whole thing here.
[Yeah, I've talked about it before- but now there's this delectable preview, plus 400 scenes ready for your crowdsourced pleasure.]
With one week left til Halloween, here’s a little taste of the spirit to whet the appetite.
This is also an open invitation to make your own multitrack webcam hitz. I’d especially like to hear Come Sail Away or the theme to Contra.
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…