The Wildly Functional Studio of Video Wizard Casey Neistat: Part I
I have the weirdest hetero man-crush on Casey Neistat. This behind-the-scenes video of how he works reminds me a lot of Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, just how weirdly obsessive he becomes about every little thing. C.f. Neistat’s organisation of little red boxes according to the relationship of contents of the box to the other boxes around it.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
House of Cards Against Humanity
Netflix teamed up with the Cards Against Humanity guys to promote the second season of House of Cards. We’ve already seen how CAH have a habit of thumbing their nose at the established way of doing business, so how did this work out? Predictably. Here’s how CAH introduced this new pack:
Last month, someone in the Netflix marketing department had an epiphany: House of Cards andCards Against Humanity both contain the word “cards.” When we got a phone call from Netflix, we enthusiastically agreed that the two products indeed contain the word “cards.”
You know how Cards Against Humanity works, right? It’s sort of like Apples to Apples. The black cards have sentences with blanks in them and the white cards have potential answers for those blanks. In the House of Cards set, the first black card says “I can’t believe Netflix is using
Netflix will not legally allow us how much to say they paid us for the House of Cards pack.
— Max Temkin (@MaxTemkin) February 13, 2014
In completely unrelated news that has nothing to do with Netflix we donated $50,000 to the @SunFoundation. http://t.co/dOxhK3JNtJ
— Max Temkin (@MaxTemkin) February 13, 2014
I don’t think Cards Against Humanity will be getting a call from Netflix again any time soon.
Enter HAMLET, skateboarding
OPHELIA: My lord, I–
HAMLET ollies over OPHELIA’s head
HAMLET [offstage]: we were never dating
Paris’ abandoned subways to be turned into underground entertainment venues
This sounds like a great idea, but can you imagine what it would be like if someone used one for a Sleep No More/Punchdrunk venue?
Radiotopia
Your new favourite podcasts.
Warriors. Come out to pla-ay.
WARRIORS Trailer from ram bhat on Vimeo.
Fan-made trailer for The Warriors. Spot on.