February 2012
8 posts
MURAL WARS
delocatedblog:
This is the Delocated mural in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC.
Here’s the mural after some graffiti dudes fucked it up.
And here it is today, back in action! I hope this goes on for weeks and there are many more updates to come. GET PSYCHED FOR TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!!!
Watchcomedynerdsunited:
entertainmentweekly:
ifc:
Portlandia - Dream of the 1890s
[via EW]
January 2012
24 posts
…and on the F train all the 49er fans quietly return to Brooklyn.
Teaching Sketch and you can Help!
So I’m preparing to teach sketch to high school kids. Need videos.
What is everyones favorite CLEAN (PG-13) sketches?
Anything from SNL, In Living Color, MadTV, The State, All That, et cetera…
“Start with the honest part. If we believe that a character has some...”
– Isn’t this also Rule #1 for sketch writing?
Improv Nonsense: Teaching Interviews: Chris Gethard, Part 1 of 2
ROCKY VS RAMBO →
scottaukerman:
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at each others’ work. I got the last...
Michael Delaney on audience expectations for...
siegel:
“Say we were all trapped in this classroom, and I had to prepare dinner and all I had was the stuff in that vending machine. And then say somehow I managed to put together something resembling a meal beyond what you normally eat out of a machine. You’d be tremendously impressed. Then say I invite you over to my home for dinner. You’d probably expect a nice home-cooked meal. If I served...
“A lot of AOL properties and other “content farms” … who are...”
– Is It Time For You To Go On An ‘Information Diet’? : NPR
“To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight...”
– David Sedaris
I posted this three years ago but I feel it bares repeating.
2012 in review
12am - Washington Square
1am - F Train
2am - Brush Teeth
3am - Watch Breaking Bad S04E12
4am - Sleep
5am - Sleep
6am - Sleep
7am - Sleep
8am - Coffee. This was pretty amazing part in my life in 2012. I had set the coffee maker to brew at 8am. It was the confidence builder I needed for 2012 after mistakenly bushing my teeth for a full hour last night.
9am - Why did I think coffee was...
December 2011
19 posts
“If you only write when you’re inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet but...”
– Neil Gaiman on The Nerdist. (via brenttharshman)
Relevant!
“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via bbook)
An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on... →
I was standing in line at Whole Foods, and the guy in front of me says, ‘I really wish you guys sold locally made fresh pasta.’ And the cashier says, ‘Look, we do.’ And the guy says, ‘No, no—that’s from Seattle.’ Really? You don’t have a bigger battle?
- Carrie Brownstein
“We already saw this one!”
– Regarding an episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
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“There’s nothing good on TV. Making cakes, fixing the dress, making the...”
– Grandma
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