By Peter Brauer
This is hands down the best Rube Goldberg machine I have ever seen. And the music is pretty good too. OkGo has another web hit on their hands. Check the youtube video after the jump. Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
By Jeremy Kotin
I’m not referring to the concept of Monogamy, although if you’d like to be a fan of that, you go right ahead! Instead, I’m referring to the film that I co-produced and co-edited this past summer starring the great Chris Messina and Rashida Jones. So demonstrate your love of me, your love of an actual thinking man’s film, by clicking…
By Peter Brauer
Too bad MADTV beat them to the punch. Check out this sketch featuring the iPad Feminine Product.
By Dan Freeman
I’ve always been a fan of remix culture – anything from hip-hop sampling to officially-sanctioned club remixes and extended mixes of popular radio tunes to, most recently, mashups – as it displays a creativity and understanding of art that often surpasses the original work or works. If you think about it, just about all creative output is based on or…
There’s a special place in Heaven* for actors who have the guts to play themselves. To look that deeply into your own navel and actually come out with something interesting and/or hilarious is a rare gift.
Here’s my list of ten (or thirteen) souls have pulled it off in style.
By Peter Brauer
There is open revolt in Iran right now. I have seen it. For the last two days videos of the people asserting their freedom in the face of tyranny have appeared on youtube. The online video sharing site is a bastion for freedom. Iranians may not have the freedom of speech, but they speak. The government is powerless silence them.…
By Peter Brauer
Watch the popten exclusive real video story of Santa Claus. To keep with the times and provide the nicest toys, Santa was forced earn money by promoting everything from Coke-Cola to M&M’s. His unlimited supply of soda and sweets made him fatter and fatter. When his doctor told him he has type two diabetes, Santa couldn’t stop with the sweets. …
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Last Friday Popten made it out for Jason Griffin’s screen printing party – the closing festivities to his epic exhibition 80’s Babies: Getting to Know Someone. I had the chance to take a couple of photos, and really focus in on some of his spectacular work. These paintings are big, but looking at it closely you see how much is…
By Peter Brauer
One year ago today America changed forever. I was near Times Square when Obama was projected the winner. We decided to check out the scene. What I saw opened my heart and made it sing. The universal joy and sense of mutual accomplishment was astounding. This is a video I made with the highlights of the night. Three young black…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
SPOILER ALERT: Shameless self promotion (but I figured once in a blue moon wouldn’t be too bad).
Victor and I have been working on a project that’s more or less a dream come true. A few months ago we were approached by Vice Magazine’s alarmingly popular VBS TV .
They were about to start a new series/channel called Motherboard which consisted of short tech…
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…