fred-wilson:

Beast Of Burden (stones cover) - Alejandro Escovedo and The Boss

from last month at the Stone Pony. love it. 

the video of it is here

check out the ripping guitar solo bruce lays into about 3 minutes into this song

I approve.

Terrorism Analysis

\via: shaneguiter

Joshua Keating

\via FP Passport

dapperapps:

Tired of having a phone that fits in your pocket? AppJudgment takes a look at the first 5” Android device: the Dell Streak.

NMA World Edition presents ”Is Sarah Palin gunning for 2012?”

Best one yet.

Time managing editor Richard Stengel, on his decision to put a photo of an Afghan woman who was mutilated by the Taliban on the cover of the magazine

\via New York Mag via soupsoup via mikehudack

Saul Williams - Tr(n)igger 

from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

Williams and Reznor are a formidable pair. 

Congress Passes Historic Legislation to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (via tedr via mikehudack)

The compromise also eliminated the five year mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of five grams of cocaine (about two sugar packets worth). The repeal of that mandatory minimum is the first repeal of a mandatory minimum drug sentence since the 1970s. 

rainblog:

Remember the Google Buzz fiasco? In their eagerness to roll out their latest whizz-bang new killer feature (by the way, does anyone still use Buzz?), Google didn’t bother to think about - or deliberately chose to ignore - the potential privacy implications of their model and ended up exposing everyone’s contacts. A predictable outcry followed, and Google was forced to walk it all back and put in the protections that should have been in there from the start.

But that’s all in the past now, and Google have learned their lesson, haven’t they? Well, no. Because now they’ve launched Google Social Search, another exciting innovation we didn’t need that … leaks all your contact information all over again.

How does it do that? If you’re logged in when you search for something, Google will show results that are somehow related to your ‘social circle’. Google assembles your social circle by the usual connectivity voodoo - digging through your Gmail contacts, your Google reader subscriptions and so forth. So far, there’s no great cause for alarm. But Google also includes second-order contacts - friends of your friends - in the results. And that’s where the trouble starts.

To illustrate the problem, suppose you are a married man who has been secretly carrying on with the local femme fatale. Your wife does a search for that charming little restaurant where you celebrate your wedding anniversary, and uncovers a glowing review written by that shameless hussy, accompanied by a helpful note from Google explaining that she shows up in the results because she’s a friend of yours. Marital ructions ensue.

Or you’re considering leaving your job at WidgetCo and have been sending out copies of your resume. When your boss searches for something, his social search results suddenly include half a dozen recruiters and the CEO of rival GadgetCorp, all tagged as contacts of yours. Problematic, no?

The possible scenarios go on and on. Subscribe to a mailing list for wombat fetishists? One lucky search hit and the whole world can know about your fondness for those winsome marsupials. And so on. And so on.

Friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) leaks are one of those nasty social networking gotchas that most users don’t think about. Apparently Google didn’t think about this one either because - even after the Buzz mess - they went ahead and engineered it straight into their new baby. What they didn’t do, of course, is provide any way for you to opt-out. There’s no mechanism for saying “No, dammit, don’t expose my list of private contacts to all my friends.” And unlike Buzz, which at least you had to start using before it could out all your contacts, Google Social Search will go ahead and expose your friends without you lifting a finger. I guess they call that progress.

So here we go again. Once again, we need to make a noise and get Google to undo their latest piece of thoughtlessness before it starts messing up people’s lives.

Faith No More: Everything’s Ruined

Awesome. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. I ate, slept and drank this record back in olden times.

They get what they pay for and the microbrewers get screwed.  

marco:

A large number of video-content publishers and video-device manufacturers are coordinating a common DRM scheme:

The idea behind DECE is the same idea behind the push to drop DRM, except that DECE would preserve the DRM part. Both sides want users to be able to use their content on more devices and be more flexible with where and when things can be watched; DECE would merely employ a DRM system that would allow any device to authenticate against a cloud-based Digital Rights Locker whenever a user wants to watch a video on a new device. In theory, this would free the user from being locked down to a single device where he or she bought the content from, but still allow the content providers to control who is watching the content at any given time.

Do we really want to give the big video-content providers more control? This time, they can give us something even more frustrating than unskippable DVD warnings and menu animations. I absolutely don’t trust them to use any new technical control scheme in a way that’s a net benefit to customers.

Video publishers have repeatedly demonstrated that they despise their customers, and they have taken every technically feasible opportunity to increase restrictions and outright hostility.

Every purported benefit of UltraViolet needs to be run through a strong bullshit filter, as if it were a Bush-era law, like “No Child Left Behind” or the “PATRIOT Act”, that’s named in a way that sounds like it accomplishes the opposite of what it really does. UltraViolet is not about being “flexible”, it’s about being locked down. It’s not “freeing” users, it’s controlling us. And it almost certainly won’t be used to give us more abilities overall.

Assuming otherwise requires a very short-term memory of the actions of the major publishers involved.

Fortunately, there’s a major setback: Apple’s not participating in this scheme. (Neither is Disney.)

So let’s take a step back for a minute. With all of this talk of abstract “devices”, which devices, exactly, are people likely to demand compatibility with?

Might any of them have an Apple logo?

ilovecharts:

mocus:

50 Best Craft Brewers in America

A much needed Map!

http://www.francescamclin.com/blog/50-best-craft-brewers-in-america/

Ralph Nader is An Unreasonable Man.

I can’t recommend this documentary highly enough. 

genesisbreyerporridge:

Coffin Installation by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at the Watermill benefit Sat, July 24, 2010.

Inside The Glenn Beck Goldmine Scheme

danielholter:

spytap:

hipsterdiet:

Love you Mashable, just saying pushing your RSS does not equal a tumblr.

via willhutson

I feel the same way about their twitter account. I stopped following both for it as well. Come on guys, you can do better.

It never ceases to amaze me how few companies get it.

(via rkb)

manicured by SF buckaroo

from the archives: 10/17/2005

catalogliving:

Gary has no idea what exactly Elaine does in the shower every day, but he certainly knows better than to touch her wooden shower spoon or shower branch.

Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons Blog. ASCAP President’s Letter.

I still don’t understand how he can so fundamentally misunderstand what the whole thing is about. Does money rot your brain?

(via jonprins)

WTF is he talking about?  This is willful deception:

“Our members have every right to give their music away for free if they choose, but they should not be forced to do so.

What I find most fascinating is that those who purport to support a climate of free culture work so hard to silence opposing points of view. They will not silence me.”

5btv:

Williamsburg, Brooklyn - 7/25/2010

wewantnothing:

Jon Savage on song: The Screamers – 122 Hours of Fear | Music | guardian.co.uk

Thanks to YouTube, this 70s synth-punk band who never released a record have finally found an audience.

Canned laughter was used to a certain degree in radio, but its first TV appearance was in 1950, on a rather obscure NBC situation comedy, The Hank McCune Show. [..] Shortly after the show’s debut, there was an article inVariety noting that the show’s canned laughter was a new innovation, and that its potential for providing a wide-range of reactions was great. Of course, that eventually came true. 

\via: Canned Laughter: Ben Glenn II, Television Historian | The Paris Review via: daringfireball

mikehudack:

Eric Spiegelman: wikileaks is making me feel old
Mike Hudack: haha
Eric Spiegelman: I have sympathy for “the man”
Eric Spiegelman: wikileaks is an asshole
Mike Hudack: serious
Mike Hudack: yeah
Mike Hudack: me too

Wikileaks is needed. It’s an extreme response to the extreme ineffectiveness of the existing news media, which has a disturbingly cozy relationship with both government and industry. I firmly believe that finding the difference between these two extremes will make the fourth estate relevant again. Nobody should feel sorry for “the man”. The man brought this on himself.

1. Bongwater (79)
2. Basement Jaxx (15)
3. Electronicat (6)
4. Ween (4)
5. Midnight Juggernauts (4)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

muscavomitoria:

Reliquary Bust @ Stedelijk Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven, Belgium, 17th Century

Republican Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey says Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion might not apply to followers of Islam.  

This reminds me of the Onion headline, “Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be.”

\via TPM

bliptv:

Today’s Advertising Age asks a simple question:

What if your preroll video ads were more than just repurposed-for-the-web-TV spots, the kind agencies have in spades? What if pre-roll could do more?

The answer is simple. It’s already underway at blip, as Ad Age reports:

A group of developers at start-up blip.tv, a purveyor of amateur and semi-pro Web series, was wondering that recently… pondering the best way to help Wieden & Kennedy let gamers see — or better yet, play — a demo of its client Electronic Arts’ NCAA Football 11… Engineers set to work on the problem and developed a unit that allows users to click-to-download a game demo to XBOX consoles.

Yup. We built that. The ad runs against very specific audiences who own xbox 360s. It offers them the ability to download a demo of the game and play it on their own xbox 360. It’s the first time anything like this has ever been done in an ad unit before. It should be obvious, but we’ll say it anyway: gamers who play a demo are much more likely to ultimately buy the game… As Michael Diccicco from W&K says: “With video games in general the best way to sell it is to get the consumers’ hands on it. We’re asking them to spend $60 so it helps if you can get them some play time on it.”

This is all part of something that we believe is fundamental to blip.tv. We exist to solve problems for our stakeholders. We exist to create value. If Electronic Arts wants to sell more copies of NCAA11 it’s our job to help them do that. That’s what advertising is for… it’s why people buy advertising. Similarly if a show producer wants to get more viewership and advertising revenue it’s our job to do help them do that.

As Ad Age says:

New York-based Blip.tv takes no ownership interest in the shows it represents and doesn’t sign any of them to exclusive contracts. It is, essentially, an engineering company and a sales force that builds tools for show creators, and more recently, advertisers. Eleven of its 32 people on staff are programmers or developers. It raised $10.1 million in June and racks up about 100 million views on its collection of shows each month. Blip.tv’s top earners pull down $500,000 in ad revenue a year based on 50/50 revenue sharing.

Bingo. We’re here to solve problems for show producers and marketers. That’s what we do. We help marketers move product off of store shelves (real or virtual) and we help shows become sustainable. And we build whatever we have to, whatever we need to, to make that happen.

So tell us what you need to be successful. How we can help make your show more sustainable, how we can solve problems for you, how we can sell more of your product. How we can actually create value. We’d like to help.

5btv:

Tamir Sapir bought the Duke-Semans Mansion, the 19,500 square foot home on the corner of 82nd street and 5th avenue, for $40 million in 2006, intending it to be the home of his massive art collection. Things took an unexpected turn when he was found to be illegally bringing ivory and pelts into America via his yacht. Sapir just sold the mansion, only four years later, for the same price. 

The Beaux-Arts mansion was built with tobacco money in 1901 by descendants of Washington Duke, namesake of Duke University. According to Christie’s, it’s the only mansion ever to be available directly on 5th Avenue. The building has a unique mansard roof as well as a petaled glass marquee. It was designated a landmark in 1974.

via: Curbed

Oh…and it’s directly across from The Met!

5btv:

Bedford & Grand, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

by  dekoekkoek

nervousacid:

 
• DOWNLOAD | JIMMY EAT WORLD “Carry You” Chase This Light, 2007

This is a pretty sweet illustration of a man I never met. His name was Sam, and he was loved by a lot of people.

I knew Sam only from reading his blog. This is, I realize now, a very modern way of “knowing” people. I thought the way he formatted his posts was particularly clever: The header on his site said, “Hello, my name is Sam …” and each post had a title that completed the thought — like, “Hello, my name is Sam … and I used to love heroin.” From what I could gather, Sam wasn’t much for the concept of public and private spheres. He put it all out there.

At some point last week, I know that Sam’s partner came home from a business trip and found him unconscious from an unknown ailment. I know that one of his friends immediately started a Facebook page called Clap Your Hands for Sam Storicks as a way to update well-wishers and show their support. I read somewhere that his family held an iPhone playing Jimmy Eat World up to Sam’s ear in the hospital, and I knew they were his favorite band because he wrote about them all the time. I pictured this image and it kind of fucked me up. I shed a tear for a man I’ll never meet.

Sam died on July 23. Just because you’re on the Internet doesn’t mean you’re not real.

nanoramas:

I couldn’t help myself. Had to make this.

Keyboard Cat vs. Ron Livingston (via canetoad7)

The original Ron Livingston in all its glory.

(via threeframes)

kateoplis:

We’re still slaughtering whales.

President Obama addresses Netroots via video, uses Rachel Maddow clips to bolster his credibility.

tanya77:

urlesque:

mattchew03:

I can’t stop laughing at this.

Oil Rig’s Emergency Alarm Not Used

(via ihatethismess)

(via robot-heart-politics)

5btv:

You may recall last summer’s Park Slope banh mi feud—Hanco’s opened on Seventh Avenue, and soon a couple of his employees broke off to open Henry’s, a banh mi shop just blocks away, complete with an identical menu. Then Henry, of Henry’s, left that place to open yet another identical spot down on Fifth Avenue, a scant half mile away.

The story somehow made it all the way to Ira Glass, who covered it on This American Life.

Listen

via: The Village Voice

Hanco’s is across the street from my apartment and Henry’s is just down the street. This sort of thing happens all the time in NYC, but this case is particularly overt.

New work by James Jean.

\via: supersonicelectronic

‘Tron Legacy’ News & Media Roundup 

\via jacobjoaquin

jacobjoaquin:

I promise you this video is worth 47 seconds of your life. (via linkfilter)

OK. That’s weird. Separately, this movie is even worse than I remembered.

The B-52’s - 52 Girls

from Nude on the Moon: The B-52’s Anthology 
(originally released on 1979’s The B-52’s)

Liars - Scissor

Noisemakers On Noisevox

A native of Wisconsin, Anna Vogelzang has toured extensively in the Midwest but Harvey Robinson of Harvey’s Kitchen were fortunate enough to catch her in Greensboro, NC for a quick session on his porch.

Here she is performing Tiny Monsters from the album, Paper Boats.

Hypnogaja joins host Curt Smith for the first ever episode of Stripped Down Live. 

Jeff Tweedy on Q TV - A rare exclusive feature interview with the Wilco frontman.

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen talks about the influence Roy Orbison has had on him and joins the rest of the band to perform ‘Canadian Girl’ from their album ‘You & Me” at the famous Sun Studio.

John Norris interviews Twin Sister on Noisevox’s new show Face Time.

Reflection Eternal (Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli) talk to Hard Knock TV’s Devi Dev about the impact of Dr Dre’s Chronic album and how Gansta rap dominated music in 1993. Hi-Tek also talks about being signed to Dre’s aftermath label as a producer, how Dre is a mentor to him and how people perceive Dre. He also talks about the status of Detox.

Michael Whitmore performs a 10 string classical guitar composition on this episode of eGuiders Originals.

On a special day in April, Ed Harcourt brought his new album to the Bandstand Busking stage. With support from The Langley Sisters, he played to a packed bandstand. Have a listen to “Killed by the Morning Sun.”

The American indie-rockers, Band of Horses, were in studio Q to promote their new album “Infinite Arms.”

M.I.A. has a lot to say about music, privacy, fashion and more on this episode of Nylon TV.

Broken Social Scene sit down and chat with QTV after performing live music from their new album ‘Forgiveness Rock Record.’

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QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One’s Q. A daily exploration of all facets of arts, culture and entertainment. Tune into the podcast version of a show about the diversity of creativity: inspiration, passion and originality are our raw material.

New Jersey. Yes, this band is from New Jersey. They’ve performed on the Conan O’Brien show, been featured by Spin Magazine, performed at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Coachella, and were formerly signed to Drive-Thru Records before this latest album. We had to wait until the release of their newest album, “Steel Train” before we could post this stripped down version of “Bullet.” I did witness and record them engaged in a very funny crank call to a manager of another band, letting him know that the state bureau of alcohol enforcement had them under investigation for giving a 16 year old beer at an afterparty. That part isn’t in this clip, but will be revisited in a larger piece about the kitchen series. Since others have shared it, I will say the lead singer used to date Scarlett Johansson. Yes. That one. Many of the songs on the previous album are about their relationship and breakup. Songs from the well-received album, “Trampoline” have been featured on MTV’s The Real World, and CBS’s Harper’s Island. Many thanks to our friend and North Carolina Native, Mr. Justin Huey for helping us make this happen. Current members are: Jack Antonoff - vocals, guitar, piano, drums Evan Winiker - bass, backing vocals (2002-Present) Daniel Silbert - guitar, backing vocals (2006-Present) Jon Shiffman - drums, percussion (2006-Present) Justin Huey - vocals, piano, wurlitzer (2008-Present) Praise for Steel Train and Trampoline: “One of the best albums of 2007” -ESQUIRE.COM “This New York City band’s second full-length album, Trampoline, is so relentlessly sincere and introspective” -ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY “Packed with pop nuggets” -ALTERNATIVE PRESS ” the band stares straight at suffering and counters cold horror with an audible confidence in perseverance” -SPIN.COM “Having spent a nonstop life on the road, this band proves that they deserve the attention” -RELIX

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Harvey’s Kitchen brings you music, art, and all manner of things both in the kitchen and outside of it.

Harvey’s Kitchen: Amelia’s Mechanics - Part 2 - (see Part 1 here) - Molly McGinn and Molly Miller after completing their first album “North, South” with Kasey Horton and produced by Jim Avett, are now beginning the process of recording their second album with 3 time grammy award winner Steven Heller and Laurelyn Dossett at Echo Studios. This is a bit of departure from the usual Kitchen episode. The song was recorded live next to our dirty dishes but Carolyn and I also ventured out to a few venues to capture a little live footage to complement the performance. This particular song will be appearing on their as yet untitled new album. If their introduction is anything to go by, this band is definitely going places.

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Harvey’s Kitchen brings you music, art, and all manner of things both in the kitchen and outside of it.

This is a really fantastic series. Some of the best sounding/looking live performances I’ve seen on the video web. If you’re a fan of Folk/ Bluegrass / Alt. Country music you need to check this out and browse the entire series of episodes here.

On Chit Chattin With Joe (via Scrapple.tv), Joe Walker, of Breakfast at Sulimay’s fame, catches up with Minus the Bear band members Erin and Cory. They discuss the raunchy history of the Trocadero along with the inspiration and approach to their new album “Omni.”

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Scrapple.tv - We’ve combined all the meaty goodness with some of the finest talents in the world to serve you the finest in pirate television!

NYC’s favorite creative powerhouse Mr. Bobbito Garcia, gets the spotlight treatment as he takes us a ride through some of his career highs, inspirations and a life changing moment in Africa.

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Friends We Love (FWL) is a boutique production company and video series conceived by filmmaker Mike Vargas and multi-media artist Moni Pineda. Our mission is to produce dynamic online content that documents the creative process of artists and inspires dialogue and self-expression through a global online community. FWL consists of various artistic initiatives including a short-documentary series, educational programs and public performance events, including but not limited to art installations, festivals & film screenings. Our programming seeks to educate & celebrate artists through cultural exchange, community building and collaborations between the online and offline community.

Dr. Dog sings, “Jackie Wants a Black Eye” at Heathers in the East Village.

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The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Through in-depth reporting and a distinct street sensibility, The FADER aggressively covers the most dynamic breadth of music and style emanating from the fringes of the mainstream to the heart of the underground. The FADER is the authority on what’s next.

HardKnock.tv caught up with Nas and Damian Marley behind the scenes of their music video for As We Enter. In this interview Nas responds to Drake comparing himself to Jay-Z and J Cole to Nas. The interview continues with Nas talking about the next generation of rappers and their ability to carry the torch for Hip Hop, collaborating with Jay Electronica and comparing what is going in the West Coast between new rappers and establish rappers to what is going on in the East Coast.

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Not since Yo! MTV Raps has there been a Hip Hop TV show, which delves into the mainstream and underground to bring viewers the uncut TRUTH of what is going on in Hip Hop today. From its in-depth interviews and profiles, to rare music videos, Hardknock TV elevates the language and dialogues associated with hip hop culture, offering a unique forum to explore issues relevant to the hip hop/urban community.

On a very chilly afternoon last December, Fyfe Dangerfield popped down to Victoria Park bandstand along with another 100 or so brave souls. The frozen toes and fingers were worth it though, have a listen to these fine songs from his debut solo album Faster Than The Setting Sun, Any Direction , She Needs Me and Livewire.

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Bandstand Busking - Bringing acoustic sessions and interviews from any of London’s many bandstands…Bandstand Busking is exactly what it says it is. In some of London’s prettiest parks, on some of London’s prettiest days…we bring you some of London’s prettiest music.

Just A Minute with The Swellers - Ryan and Nick from The Swellers tell us all about Fueled By Ramen, coming to Europe and their new album “Ups and Downsizing.”

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The Just A Minute Project - 60 second videos with musicians, moguls and people of interest. No more, no less.

UK Jazz artist Jamie Cullum joined Q host Jian Ghomeshi for two performances and an interview.

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QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One’s Q. A daily exploration of all facets of arts, culture and entertainment. Tune into the podcast version of a show about the diversity of creativity: inspiration, passion and originality are our raw material.

Harvey’s Kitchen: Amelia’s Mechanics, Part 1

Around a year ago, Molly McGinn ventured into our kitchen with a small outfit she hustled together from local musicians which she fondly called her “Buster Dillys.”

Over the course of the following 15 months or so she encountered Molly Miller and together with Kasey Horton they formed Amelia’s Mechanics, very quickly releasing their first album, “North South” produced by Jim Avett.

The collection of 12 songs authored by Molly Miller and Molly McGinn has received high praise from music critics together with strong circulation on college radio stations.

The flickering projector quality of some of the footage in this session was created using a homemade camera obscura rig: a cardboard box, a cracker jack magnifying glass and a rectangle of a recycled plastic grocery bag. (via Monkeywhale)

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Harvey’s Kitchen brings you music, art, and all manner of things both in the kitchen and outside of it.

Dave Tompkins shows us the inspiration for his new book, “How To Wreck a Nice Beach.”

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The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Through in-depth reporting and a distinct street sensibility, The FADER aggressively covers the most dynamic breadth of music and style emanating from the fringes of the mainstream to the heart of the underground. The FADER is the authority on what’s next.

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff comes to speak with FADER TV.

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The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Through in-depth reporting and a distinct street sensibility, The FADER aggressively covers the most dynamic breadth of music and style emanating from the fringes of the mainstream to the heart of the underground. The FADER is the authority on what’s next.

Producer, singer and DJ RJD2 performs at the Independent in San Francisco, CA on April 5th 2010.

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Welcome to SF StationTV!

Your weekly video-blog to Arts & Entertainment in the San Francisco Bay Area!

The Garden Party - EXITMUSIC give The Garden Party Series an exclusive performance and interview.

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The Garden Party is a LA based internet music series. Because of the good fortune of beautiful weather, they ask artists to re-imagine their songs to be conducive to an intimate outdoor environment.

Altitude TV - The Dave Grohl Interview

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Exclusive interviews, live performances, breaking news, style + culture and more. ALTITUDE delivers your fix for everything rock, indie, and metal! MUSIC. CULTURE. ALTITUDE.

Rob Trucks interviews Damien Jurado at the JJ Byrne Playground Park in Park Slope for the Village Voice’s Possibly Fourth Street series.

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sound of the city

Instrumental beat-poet Flying Lotus pays tribute to vintage video games and cartoon culture.

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XLR8R TV goes behind the scenes with the musicians, artists and scenes covered in the pages of XLR8R.

The Lofty Heights played Eye Contact for Bandstand Busking at Northampton Square bandstand.

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Bringing acoustic sessions and interviews from any of London’s many bandstands…Bandstand Busking is exactly what it says it is. In some of London’s prettiest parks, on some of London’s prettiest days…we bring you some of London’s prettiest music.

Devo on Q TV - That’s right, they’re back!

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QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One’s Q. A daily exploration of all facets of arts, culture and entertainment. Tune into the podcast version of a show about the diversity of creativity: inspiration, passion and originality are our raw material.

Rufus Wainwright talks to Jian Ghomeshi after performing music from his yet to be released album ‘All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu.’

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QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One’s Q. A daily exploration of all facets of arts, culture and entertainment. Tune into the podcast version of a show about the diversity of creativity: inspiration, passion and originality are our raw material.

Geek Entertainment TV - Captured! By Robots

(note:  music at beginning is a bit distorted.)

If you have any doubt that robots are taking over, can carry a tune and are mean fuckers, then check this video out. Captured! By Robots dragged their creator JBOT to the last show of their tenth anniversary tour here in their home destination of San Francisco. Irina corners JBOT around back of the Bottom of the Hill before the show and tries to find out why he lets his creations torture him so.

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Geek Entertainment Television explores the world of geeks — from the robot cocktail builder to the crazy cat lady to the segway polo-playing granddaddy of the personal computer to sexbot makers of the future — we go wherever their passions take us!

(via todayonbliptv)

The Fiery Furnaces perform “Charmaine Champagne” on indieATL.

The Fiery Furnaces from Brooklyn, NY play live in the studios of the Digital Arts Entertainment Lab for the indieATL music series, produced by Matt Rowles. The Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother and sister duo of Matthew (Guitar/Vocals) and Eleanor Friedberger (Vocals). They are joined by Jason Lowenstein (Bass) and Bob D’amico (drums) on this performance. “Simple, poppy melodies with a dizzying array of wordplay, sounds, and influences, including the Who, Captain Beefheart, Os Mutantes; dashes of folk, blues, and garage rock; and Eleanor’s adventures in Europe. In 2000, they moved to Brooklyn, took day jobs, and began playing as the Fiery Furnaces late in the year.” -allmusic For more information on the band, please visit http://www.thefieryfurnaces.com This track is from the album “I’m Going Away”, available on Thrill Jockey Records. http://www.thrilljockey.com

Adam Bricks performs a 20 minute set on brankeKandi

Kid Koala Talks Turntablism on WatchMojo

When he started out, he was a DJ. Today, he is labeled a turntablist, whatever that means. Even Kid Koala himself isn’t sure, and likens the term to a religion – a fact that may not be far off. Most importantly to him, his chosen media is a form of expression like any other.

Metal Injection: The FiX #34 - Evile’s Picks

Evile watch and discuss a slew of epic thrash videos from Metallica, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Carcass and Sepultura.

Jets Overhead were in studio Q for two performances and an interview following the release of their latest album ‘No Nations’.

Maybe Hip introduces Freelance Whales and The Uglysuit, two of this year’s SXSW bands.

Paul Shaffer-the iconic side-kick of the late-night talk show host David Letterman sat down for a chat in Studio Q to promote his new book “We’ll Be Here for the Rest of our Lives.”

John Norris interviews The Entrance Band on Noisemakers on Noisevox. The player contains all six parts of the interview as well as live performances of Grim Reaper Blues and Lookout!  

Moonlight Bride from Chattanooga, Tennessee play ”Love in the Dark” live in the studio.

Paul Mazurkiewicz from Cannibal Corpse talks to Eric Burnet about middle age, German censorship and the future of the band on this episode of WatchMojo.

Rosanne Cash has had no trouble stepping out from her father’s shadow with her own Grammy-winning singing career.

Follow Ms. Cash on Tumblr

Fluke Holland, Sony Burgess & The Legendary Pacers, Teddy Hill, Larry Donn and J.M. Van Eaton play a benefit for the family of Sun recording artist Billy Lee Riley at Silver Moon.

mikehudack:

bliptv:

Congrats to the beautifully produced, shot and edited show SoLost, which was just nominated for the National Magazine Awards video award.

A toast to Dave Anderson, who produces the show for the Oxford American (like the New Yorker of the south).

Cheers to Dave and publisher Warwick Sabin - they’re up against National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and T, which is really not bad for a (mostly) one man show on a shoestring budget.  Which, I will add, you would never know watching the videos.

Mikey talks with the guys from The Horrors backstage at the Big Day Out. Starting off by suggesting the band was responsible for shipping convicts to Australia, Mikey soon hits his stride, and asks the group about touring and their changing sound on their new record Primary Colours.

A special viewing of Doug Aitken’s installation “Migration”  featuring Lichens, White Rainbow and Arp. (via VernissageTV)

(via wewantnothing)

Deacon Jones talks about his experiences playing with John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, Elvin Bishop, Freddie King and more. Deacon’s first name is actually Mevlin, but Mayfield renamed him on stage one night and it stuck.

A demo of our new XBOX download ad unit. Also my debut as a narrator. I think I’m going to stick with my day job.

Today’s Advertising Age asks a simple question:

What if your preroll video ads were more than just repurposed-for-the-web-TV spots, the kind agencies have in spades? What if pre-roll could do more?

The answer is simple. It’s already underway at blip, as Ad Age reports:

A group of developers at start-up blip.tv, a purveyor of amateur and semi-pro Web series, was wondering that recently… pondering the best way to help Wieden & Kennedy let gamers see — or better yet, play — a demo of its client Electronic Arts’ NCAA Football 11… Engineers set to work on the problem and developed a unit that allows users to click-to-download a game demo to XBOX consoles.

Yup. We built that. The ad runs against very specific audiences who own xbox 360s. It offers them the ability to download a demo of the game and play it on their own xbox 360. It’s the first time anything like this has ever been done in an ad unit before. It should be obvious, but we’ll say it anyway: gamers who play a demo are much more likely to ultimately buy the game… As Michael Diccicco from W&K says: “With video games in general the best way to sell it is to get the consumers’ hands on it. We’re asking them to spend $60 so it helps if you can get them some play time on it.”

This is all part of something that we believe is fundamental to blip.tv. We exist to solve problems for our stakeholders. We exist to create value. If Electronic Arts wants to sell more copies of NCAA11 it’s our job to help them do that. That’s what advertising is for… it’s why people buy advertising. Similarly if a show producer wants to get more viewership and advertising revenue it’s our job to do help them do that.

As Ad Age says:

New York-based Blip.tv takes no ownership interest in the shows it represents and doesn’t sign any of them to exclusive contracts. It is, essentially, an engineering company and a sales force that builds tools for show creators, and more recently, advertisers. Eleven of its 32 people on staff are programmers or developers. It raised $10.1 million in June and racks up about 100 million views on its collection of shows each month. Blip.tv’s top earners pull down $500,000 in ad revenue a year based on 50/50 revenue sharing.

Bingo. We’re here to solve problems for show producers and marketers. That’s what we do. We help marketers move product off of store shelves (real or virtual) and we help shows become sustainable. And we build whatever we have to, whatever we need to, to make that happen.

So tell us what you need to be successful. How we can help make your show more sustainable, how we can solve problems for you, how we can sell more of your product. How we can actually create value. We’d like to help.

The web series veterans at KATR Pictures just released some special Comic-Con trailers for their new series, Vampire Zombie Werewolf. Visit the site to see the other two.  When you’re done there, you’ll want to check out KATR’s other series, the very funny Life From The Inside.

A shot from the barbecue we threw at our house in Venice in June. Lots of great folks in this shot, including the creators of EPIC-FU, A Good Knight’s Quest, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Ask a Ninja, Noodlescar and more. This was really last minute and a hell of a lot of fun… we’re thrilled to be spending more and more time in LA (and really lucky to have Steve out there full time).

On Flickr: june 6th, 2010: barbecue panorama (by annieee)

The wonderful folks behind Celebrate The Web are organizing their second event - at ComicCon in San Diego July 24th from 3:30pm-7:30pm.

It’s a celebration of scifi, horror, fantasy and gaming web series.

A new set of tickets just went “on sale” (they’re free), and blip.tv is sponsoring the event.

Please RSVP here if you can join - and our own Steve Woolf will be there to say hi as well.  Thanks to the awesome Taryn, Stephanie and Jenni for organizing a Web video mecca during ComicCon!

Red Carpet Run won the reality/unscripted category in the NextTV Competition at the LA TV Festival.  

Red Carpet Run is an entertainment trivia game show that puts celeb-obsessed contestants through the ultimate trivial pursuit, challenging their knowledge of all things Hollywood as they run their final round – high speed! – on a moving treadmill.

Congratulations!  

We’ve built an entirely new video player. It’s called Stratos, and it’s a complete ground-up rewrite of our old player. Built from scratch. Some of the enhancements include: better HD video performance (make sure to watch the HD on this video), more reliable playback for viewers with slow connections and better scrubbing / seek-ahead performance for everyone.

In addition to those significant performance improvements we’ve also got:

• A redesigned playlist display that uses the player’s full width to display episode titles, thumbnails and ratings. The player sidebar is now gone.
• Prominently displayed episode and show names with a look and feel inspired by traditional cable electronic programming guides.
• New and better integrated viral sharing support.
• A completely new end cap with a cleaner look, more featured episodes and new sharing options.
• An updated look and feel that includes refined buttons, fonts and loading indicators.
• A reworked and vastly enhanced JavaScript API.
• Entirely based on the new Open Source Media Framework so that it’s easier to maintain and so that there’s a clear API for third-party plug-ins.
• Support for multiple skins in the future.

If you have any questions or comments about the new player please visit the blip.tv knowledge base article on the new player.

Checks to show producers for their Q2 advertising share went in the mail today (just after this photo was taken).

Fanning here (from left to right) are Jeff, Aaron, Allan, Paul, Katie, Justin Alcon, Sebastian, Kelly, Jon, Justin Day, Nathan, Kobalt (youngest member of the blip.tv family & Nathan’s son), Dina, Charles and Doryon.

It feels awesome to put a check in the mail for $123,000.  We look forward to sending out even more - and larger - checks next quarter.

Paypal payouts (for producers who earned between $25 and $600 during Q2) will go out Monday.

It’s important to note that these checks represent moneys earned throughout the entire quarter - and that day to day eCPMs will fluctuate. 

This is also the photo debut of our new orange sofa for blip.tv’s NYC HQ, which we’re beginning to get used to (and to sit on).

Update: Paypal is taking a long time to transfer funds…grr…payments under $600 for blip.tv folks should now go out Friday or early next week.  Folks who earned $600 or more should have your checks in hand today or tomorrow (they were all mailed out last week). 

Update 2: And….Paypal payments are out!  Please claim your funds, spend wisely, and have a great weekend.

It’s Check Week again here at blip. Mashable has the story. This Check Week is 77% bigger than last quarter’s check week. The number of shows earning $1,000 or more is up 57% (this number grew 30% last quarter too). This quarter’s top earner is getting a check for $123,000. We were thinking about giving them a giant Ed McMahon style check but decided against it. It’s just not our style.

All of the payments for this quarter are earned in the same way: fantastic producers who use the blip platform and participate in our advertising program. Everyone receives the same 50/50 revenue share and reaps the hard work of our national sales team.

Facts and figures are important, but that’s not what Check Week is about. Check Week is about building sustainable shows from the ground up. Check Week is about turning passion projects into lifestyle businesses and lifestyle businesses into major media properties. Most folks aren’t earning enough to quit their day jobs yet, although some certainly are and have. As always: be responsible.

That said, we said in our post about last quarter’s Check Week: we’re building the next-generation television network. Our mission is to make independently produced shows sustainable. These checks put food on the table for show creators. They help people quit their day jobs. These checks prove that it’s possible to start your own show, to bootstrap, to have full creative control, to own your show and still make money.

I’m writing this post from Los Angeles where we’re opening our new office. I’m out here with our West Coast Director of Content Development Steve Woolf and our head of sales Evan Gotlib. We’re working on getting our new office up and running, meeting with advertisers, partners and awesome show producers. We can feel the electricity in the air. It’s incredible.

Every new communications technology — film, radio, television, cable and now Internet video — leads to massive shifts in society, business and creative expression. We’re just at the dawn of a new age. And we’re just getting started. We now have thirty incredibly dedicated and talented people on the blip team, more than fifty thousand amazing show producers, incredible advertisers and a great group of syndication partners ranging from Sony to YouTube to Apple to NBC. And we’re just getting started. We’re building an alternative to the traditional studio and network system that’s dominated entertainment in this country for sixty years. This new alternative is meritocratic, it’s democratic, it’s open to everyone. It takes a long time to build. But we see it happening right now. The electricity is in the air.

evangotlib:

Do you or anyone you know love ad operations?  Do you have a passion for ad trafficking and reporting?  Do you want to be on the cutting edge of the digital video ecosystem?  Do you like free lunch?

Then we have a job for you!  We’re looking for a ROCK STAR Advertising Traffic Manager.  Here is a link to the official job post on LinkedIn or email resumes to andreaATblipDOTtv.

This is definitely worth a look if you’re a fan of Ferguson.  He’s as serious here as he is silly on his show.  

todayonbliptv:

Kevin Pollak interviews Craig Ferguson on this episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

UPDATE: Everything is back to normal. Sorry for the trouble.

Statistics will not be updated in the Dashboard for the next 24 hours due to unscheduled maintenance. All stats will still be collected during this time, but may only be intermittently viewable in your Dashboard for the rest of the day.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@blip.tv and we’ll be happy to help.

Gobo from blip.tv party.  Thanks to Cait & Jules for the effects (& ordering the cake, too).  Photo by Angus McIntyre.

We believe this is important. Viewership of Web shows distributed by blip.tv peaks during prime time. Not only that, but we’re about to hit a magical number: one hundred million video views per month. We should hit that milestone this month, in June.

These two statistics, together, are meaningful. People are watching blip.tv shows in prime time and blip.tv shows are garnering 10% of the audience of network television shows from ABC, NBC and FOX combined (Hulu does about 950 million video views per month). Now think about the amount of money that has been poured into Hulu and the content on Hulu. Individual episodes cost millions of dollars to produce. Hulu itself has raised one hundred million dollars. The total production cost of all of the content on Hulu is probably in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

And yet blip shows… shows with budgets of a couple hundred dollars per episode… shows produced by striving artists and entrepeneurs for fanatical audiences… are capturing share during prime time. The content on blip.tv probably costs one tenth of one percent of the content on Hulu. But it’s now garnering 10% of the audience — and during prime time. Something important is happening here.

And before you say that we can never get the next Lost this way, two things: 1) it’s unlikely there will ever be another lost, on network television or not because it’s simply too expensive, and 2) the virtuous cycle is our friend. Good content leads to audience leads to ad dollars which lead to better and more expensive content. We’re bootstrapping ourselves into a new television industry.

Thank you everyone for coming last night.

stevewoolf:

OMG.  And I am so NOT THERE.  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

spytap:

rafimama:

justinalcon:

This a cake

The cake is a lie. That’s a TV.

Thank you to everyone who joined the blip.tv 5th anniversary party tonight!  (And who ate cake.) 

If you’re expecting Steve Jobs announce a Verizon iPhone next week, you’re going to be severely disappointed. So says a Verizon Wireless spokesperson on this episode of Beet.TV.

ericmortensen:

Web series don’t spend nearly enough time on episode thumbnails. It’s extremely hard to find a single image/frame that says it all, but it’s worth the trouble. They aren’t the silver bullet, but when most shows don’t put any effort into thumbs, simply doing the work puts you ahead of the pack. 

Think about all the different places they’ll be seen. Think about the metadata that will (and won’t) accompany them. Think about the different sizes and resolutions at which they will be displayed. Figure out if the goal is to hook new viewers or lure an existing viewer into watching a second episode. Decide whether it makes more sense to focus on the show’s brand or the contents of an individual episode. Find the answers to all of these questions (while asking a few of your own) and then make an active thumbnail rather than a passive one. It’s important to legitimately represent the content of the episode and the show, but it’s even more important to sell it.

This is war. It’s you versus the show next door. You need to make sure yourshow wins. And for your show to succeed, you need to stand out. An Internet-wide thumbnail battle royal is great for shows who need bigger audiences and for web series fans who are desperately trying to figure out what to watch next. Everybody wins. Now get to work!

A few notes on the blip.tv 5th Anniversary Party next Tuesday at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 8pm-10pm (125 west 18th Street):

Everyone who RSVPs by Thursday afternoon (tomorrow) will receive laminated credentials for the Metropolitan Pavilion (Internet Week headquarters) for the entire week.  So please RSVP if you haven’t already.

And: there will be an after-party.  Details to be announced at the (main) party. 

We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, with a beer in hand, in celebration of all things Internet Week, blip.tv and the NYC tech scene!

Videomaker reports that the Season Finale of HOUSE was filmed entirely on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. This is incredible — TV and Web production methods truly are converging.

todayonbliptv:

Titus Welliver, AKA The Man in Black from Lost, sits down with Kevin on the latest episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

We’re back after roughly 15 minutes. 

blip.tv has grown. In this picture: Katie, Tom, Doryon, Jared, Eric, Dina, Seb, Aaron, Liz, Tom, Nathan, Rafi, Phil, Charles, Alcon, Paul, Justin, Mike and Allan. (Not shown: Andrea, Angela, Angus and Steve)

michaeljung:

mikehudack:

evangotlib:

The blip.tv sales team takes an email break during our 2010 National Sales Meeting.  Been a terrific day so far, more to come!

You guys are awesome.

Got a Mac?

Yes. You’re right.  We did already post about our party.  But this invite is much prettier.

Please RSVP to rsvp/AT/blip.tv

An interview I did yesterday about blip.tv for AllThingsD.

Our mission is to change entertainment by making independent show production scalable and profitable. Think about the music industry. There are more people making a living as musicians today than ever before in history. We believe that the same thing is happening in television. Soon there will be more people making a living as show producers than ever before in history. And, just like in music, they won’t have to sign their souls over to the big guys in exchange for a chance to “make it.”

It’s our job to facilitate that change and to accelerate it. And that’s what we’re going to be using our new funding for. To get to the point where there are more people making a living as show producers than ever before in history.

We’re just getting started. There’s a revolution just getting started in the television industry and we’re intent on leading the way along with our investors Canaan Partners and Bain Capital Ventures.

blip.tv is throwing a 5th Anniversary Party in NYC Tuesday, June 8th.

Come party with us!!

We’ll be taking over the home base of Internet Week that night: the awesomely cool and beautiful Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 w. 18th Street.

The party will be 8pm-10pm. 

RSVP: rsvp@blip.tv.

We look forward to seeing you then to celebrate independent content creators, beer and five years of blip.tv-ness.

Cheers to June 8th!

UPDATE:  Please notice that we originally posted the wrong date.  The party is on the 8th!

Eagle-eyed blip.tv users might have noticed that we added VodPod to the distribution dashboard this week.  This means that you can now easily distribute your show to the very enthusiastic viewers and curators that hang out at vodpod.com. But a new audience is only half of what makes Vodpod awesome.  Once you’re setup there, you’ll have access to both their widgets and their powerful Vodspot service. The photo above shows a Vodpod widget in use on my today on blip.tv blog. We use it on this blog, too!

Check it out: http://blip.tv/dashboard/distribution/vodpod

dapperapps:

Learn how to find out if AT&T is giving you an early iPhone upgrade this summer in 5 seconds on today’s App Advice Daily.

UPDATE: Problem solved.  Sorry about that.  Leave us a comment if you have any questions.

Today we announced that we’re opening an L.A. office for blip.tv and hiring the awesome Steve Woolf from Epic Fu to be our West Coast Director of Content Development.

Check out the NewTeeVee story by Liz Shannon Miller on blip.tv’s West Coast expansion.

Steve knows all aspects of producing, distributing and monetizing a Web show through his work with Zadi Diaz on Epic Fu.  He’s been working with us as a show creator since we started the company 5 years ago.  We couldn’t be more excited about expanding operations out West, working more closely with the incredible talent in Los Angeles, and having Steve on board.  This is a great day for blip.tv, and for show creators looking to stay independent and build a brand on their own terms. 

Check out Jenni Powell’s insider view of Mike Rotman’s movies-with-attitude Web series Stupid for Movies on Tubefilter.tv here.  The fact that this uber-engaging  show, which is packed with film trivia, is literally shot in a garage makes me smile: I’ll never look at those velvet drapes in the same way.

Congrats to Susan Miller and the entire crew behind Anyone But Me on a terrific interview with TV.com by Tiffany N. D’Emidio.  Susan talks about boosting views of the show from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands, the show’s very tangible connections to New York City, and the importance of building momentum for a Web show (something we are really passionate about as well). 

Today we announced hiring the Internet Works to represent blip.tv in the UK, and we announced hiring Rafi Mamalian as our West Coast Sales Director and Phil Meier as Midwest Sales Director.  Rafi is based in San Francisco (but travels to L.A. a lot) and Phil is based in Chicago.

Blip.tv also added Senior Account Director Liz Griffin, who will be based out of Texas, and Sebastian Mei and Katie Bressack to our New York-based sales team.

We’re excited to have a national - and now international - sales team, working to put more shekels in the hands of the most talented independent content creators in the world.

todayonbliptv:

Hilah shows you how to make your own tortillas on Hilah Cooking.

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HILAH COOKING is an internet series hosted by Austin-based singer/actor/comedian Hilah Johnson. The series is focused on teaching “real people” how to cook (and how to have fun while doing it). Learning how to cook will save you money, make you happy and maybe even get you laid! You won’t need a fancy kitchen or hard-to-find ingredients to make any of our featured recipes. Each episode is packed with useful information presented in a fast-paced funny format.

If you’re in L.A. tonight, come Celebrate the Web, thanks to Jenni Powell and Kim Evey. Details are on Jenni’s blog: http://bit.ly/d4aNLo.

You can also watch a live stream of the event here: http://www.acmecomedy.com/livebroadcast.shtml.

Blip.tv is proud to be a sponsor and to support Jenni and Kim for putting this event together in such a short amount of time.

Please be patient if you’re coming to the event - the venue is small (99 seats), and 2010 Streamy Winners will be the first to be seated, then 2010 nominees. So, yes, if you’re famous for another reason, you’ll probably be standing (we’ll be standing there with you).

itsthemusic:

The Lofty Heights played Eye Contact for Bandstand Busking at Northampton Square bandstand.

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Bringing acoustic sessions and interviews from any of London’s many bandstands…Bandstand Busking is exactly what it says it is. In some of London’s prettiest parks, on some of London’s prettiest days…we bring you some of London’s prettiest music.

Congrats to Zadi and Steve for their Streamy win: well deserved as pioneers who continue to innovate and inspire us.

In L.A.?  Come join us for the blip.tv official Streamy Awards kickoff party at the Biltmore tonight (Saturday) at 8pm.

The official list is closed, but if you’re able to join us last minute send me an email at dinaATblip.tv by 6:30pm (pacific), and I’ll make sure you’re on the list.

Mike is flying in right now, and we look forward to seeing you tonight!

The payouts for advertising revenue earned by shows in January, February and March of this year are now complete.

Checks (check out the picture below) for folks who earned over $600 were mailed Thursday (so, yes, the checks are in the mail, and we’re not just saying that).  Paypal payments for shows that earned $25-$600 were just made a few minutes ago.

It feels great to send out hundreds of thousands of dollars to talented independent content creators around the world.  And we can’t wait to send out even more payments - to more shows - next quarter.

This week is Check Week at blip.tv. We’re sending out hundreds of thousands of dollars to independent show creators. And this is one heck of a check week. Our last check week — for fourth quarter of last year — was a huge record for us. We sent out more money to show creators in January than we had sent in the previous six months combined. This check week beats that record. We’re sending 25% more money to show creators this week than we did last time. 39% more shows are receiving payments. A full 30% more shows are receiving checks worth more than $1,000.

Here at blip.tv we’re building the next-generation television network. Our mission is to make independently produced shows sustainable. It’s thrilling — unbelievably exciting — to be sending these checks and PayPal payments out. These payments are going to help people pay their rent, upgrade their equipment, go full-time. These checks are going to put food on the table for show creators. These checks prove that it’s possible to start your own show, to bootstrap, to have full creative control, to own your show and still make money.

We’re creating a new industry here. Together. Show creators, advertisers, distribution partners and the team here at blip.tv. We’re changing the way that media is produced and consumed. We’re making it possible for people to pursue their passions. To turn hobbies into careers.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our sales team — Evan, Rafi, Phil, Katie, Liz and Andrea — and to thank our advertisers. General Motors, AT&T, Samsung, Scion, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Chili’s, Nikon, Canon, MetroPCS and more. Thank you for supporting independent Web shows.

And thank you, show creators. Thank you for taking your dreams into your hands. Thank you for creating your own media. Thank you for moving outside the studio and network system that’s dominated the industry for sixty years. Thank you for taking a risk. Thank you for making great shows. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to help.

The photo above features, left to right, Katie, Aaron, Tom and Eric. Evan, our VP of Sales, is up front. They’re holding the checks we’re sending out this check week. Not shown: the tons of PayPal payments that we’re sending out.

This is just the beginning. Check week in fourth quarter was awesome. Check week in first quarter is better. Check week in second quarter is going to be huge. Twice as big. We have some big new software releases coming out soon. We’re building our team. Together, we’re building an industry.

Let’s party together in L.A.!

Blip.tv is proud to announce that we’re partnering with Tubefilter to throw the official pre-Streamy Awards party at the Biltmore Hotel (506 South Grand Avenue) this Saturday, April 10th at 8pm.

Please join us by registering here: http://2010streamys-launch.eventbrite.com/.

Look forward to a fun night before the super-uber-serious Awards the following night.  Hope to see you Saturday night if you’ll be in L.A.!

todayonbliptv:

The Ballad of Mary and Ernie - Episode 1

A full-sized sheriff in a miniature town. All of his friends are 8” high, including the woman he’s going to marry. Then he meets a full-sized woman…

So we’ve fixed up the biggest problems with the iPad support. It still gets a little sluggish once you’ve browsed several pages, but we’ll address that early next week.

It appears that developing for a device you’ve never used can lead to problems. Now that we have an iPad of our very own, we’ve discovered a few bugs and we’re working hard to resolve them. For now, reloading the page should solve any playback issues.  We’ll have a revised version ready for you early next week.

Additional screenshots of blip.tv on the iPad.

High resolution versions: 1 2 3 4 

Got an iPad? Not yet? Tomorrow maybe? If so, head over to blip.tv when you get it into your hot little hands and waste the day away with some of our HTML5-powered web series goodness.  If blip.tv alone isn’t enough to feed your burgeoning iPad addiction, we’ve included a curated channel with nothing but app reviews and news.  Let the madness begin!

Enjoy.  And please let us know what you think.

UPDATE:  We posted more screenshots.

kateoplis:

You should take the next 50sec and spend it with this creature. (+)

Kaskade - “Fire In Your New Shoes”

mattybing1025:

Another weird Muppet Show skit, this one entitled Trudge, Trudge, Streak, Streak.

thebluepeninsula:

“I feel like this video should have it’s own category, which would be “motion graphics porn” because it’s such an amazing display of what’s actually possible if you know how to use some crazy programs. The video was made by a fell’a name Onur Senturk who seems like a guy who does motion graphics like this quite a bit, a skill I’m totally jealous of. That said it’s an absolutely beautiful video with so many interesting effects and details. A bit of eye candy for the end of the day.” (via KN | Kitsune Noir)

Jigsaw ep.403 - Videotainment Revolution

Weekly Rites CLXI - crown of hill

dapperapps:

The only review that matters. Walt Mosspuppet’s hands-on review of Apple’s brand-new iOS 4!

Shut up and listen to Walt!  

Facinated by all things extraterrestrial, the creative duo Roethlisberger and Jahic presented their work “The Flying Saucers or In God We Trust” at Scope art fair Basel

tomreynolds:

yourmonkeycalled:

Q: Best Music Video Ever?

A: Yes.

Miike Snow : “Rabbit”

(via HUH.)

The end of this video is about 1000X better than I could have ever imagined.

ke—tty:

love this!! 

Felissimo feat. KATHY

cejona:

Syntagma by Valie Export

Pink Snow

Music: la belle indifference
Video: Raquel Meyers

zadi:

“Fragments - Les bruissements du monde” explores the quest for identity and quietness in the rumble of the world.

Direction, film and music: Jean-Sébastien Monzani

Sock puppets Cassie and Bernie take us on wild business schemes that are completely Sockamamy . Cassie and Bernie come up with their own version of Facespacebook.

Music: Psilodump
Video: Raquel Meyers
Special thanks: Pako aka Al Pacheco de las Rozas, Georgina, Jeroni, Flux and Socksay 
Berlin 2010

Medium Rare - Episode 11

Helga (Lainie Kazan) has her big moment onstage- until Mitch (Brad Dourif) shows up to jam over her song. But that a reason to shoot Mitch???

claytoncubitt:

‘By Your Side’

Long portrait of a couple in distress and working it out. A study in micro facial expressions.

Purchase soundtrack ‘By Your Side’ by Cocorosie

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (O.D.D.) 

Berkeley Kid detects a link between legal child beatings and state torture on BetterBadNews. Security camera photos link Senator Joseph Lieberman to terrorist crime scenes and several companies manufacturing full body x-ray machines.

Radioactive Safety False Flag Terror and You.

This month on The Adventures of Humphrey and Spud: A potato powered time machine, and a rock (boulder, dude) with a dark past…

tuxedobastard:

Weirdest thing I’ve seen all week. They should put this on the end of hairdryers.

Valmonte Sprout performing at Goodbye Blue Monday

The Banana Boys are an interracial superhero duo on a mission to stop all that is evil, unholy and terrible in the land of bananas.

todayonbliptv:

Transylvania Television Episode 1

Batfink helps Count LeShoc understand why TVTV is in the ratings pooper.

TVTV = Vampire Puppets!

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A dysfunctional family of misfit monsters try desperately to run an obscure television station deep in Transylvania, with worldwide broadcast power and the ability to reanimate dead TV shows. The Vampire Le Shoc is king of his castle, but struggles vainly to maintain order while taking delight in the suffering of his motley crew of minions. And he ain’t your run of the mill Count, either, he’s a LeStat-dressin’, nosferatu-lookin’, Richard-O’Brien-from-Rocky-Horror-talkin’ creep with some serious issues. Furry J. Ackermonster, the station’s new intern, is a bright orange yeti, who having recently graduated from an American college, is struggling with student loans, laziness, and a burgeoning pottery collection. Enjoys beer, snowboarding, and hairy chicks. The station’s majordomo is Batfink, a surf-lovin’, kustom kar creatin’ bat. Think beach blanket beatnik with wings. He manages to keep the station running via the power of the Frankenstein Device, the same contraption that gave life to the Frankenstein Monster. When used to boost the signal of the station, it gives old shows NEW LIFE – and turns them into far-out parodies in the process. They are joined by Dwayne Frankenstein, a fella who’s wired just a little bit differently than the rest of us. The Frankenstein Monster has been done to death, but you’ve never seen him like this: a brain-damaged, working-class Brit soccer hooligan made from 13 different people. He may sound dense but he’s not naïve, and has been known for moments of brilliance in the midst of an otherwise stupefying existence. Tune in to Transylvania Television: the Retro Monster Comedy Series that’s really not for kids, not necessarily safe for work, and known to promote skull decay.

Medium Rare - Episode 6

Helga’s poodle, ALFIE, develops super-powers and seeks revenge on Harry (Burt Young).

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The Adventures of Humphrey and Spud - Episode 01

The very FIRST episode of Humphrey and Spud brought to you in stunning 2 dimensions, and brilliant stereo sound! Humphrey petitions to be the next site for a new Mt. Rushmore.

A full-sized sheriff in a miniature town. All of his friends are 8” high, including the woman he’s going to marry. Then he meets a full-sized woman…

invasion earth and beyond

Broadcast from MNN.ORG/NYC.Weekly,FRI,9PM-9:27PM/EST.CH:56-TW,RCN-83./CALLERS:212-757-2076

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Ok. Be prepared to have your mind changed about Die Antwoord forever.

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Unreleased feature film featuring Timothy Leary gets new life as web series

Medium Rare tells the story of Harry, a B-movie producer who uses a microwave oven to keep a punk from wrecking his wife’s career. But instead of silencing the punk, he creates a killer with superpowers. Among the cast are Burt Young, Alex Winter and Timothy Leary.

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Very Mary Kate (via schlomo)

Gadfly - a view on the efficacy of social intimacy on the self

verdi:

HOLY FUCK BRIAN!

Wild Natures | Wreck & Salvage

Russian WTF? (thanks to @angusm)

Guy Bourdin

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Taken from the new Broadcast and The Focus Group mini album ‘Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age’ out now to download on Bleep and iTunes and released worldwide on CD and LP on 26th October 2009. Video by House.

Richard Kern - X is Y

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POLYBIUS ( 2010)
MUSIC: TR1C3
VIDEO: RAQUEL MEYERS

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Ganja White Night - Peace by Fear
Super Jail Bad Trip Remix
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With the planet still reeling from the World Wide Orgasm, the ruthless Stephanie Blommaert seeks revenge upon Jef Garaway, whose kinky dreams about her mysteriously wound up on the internet. But is she prepared for the metasexual showdown that awaits her? Or will Jef drag her kicking and screaming in ecstasy into THE FOLD…

GIvenchy Couture

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Featured Sandwich: Meatloaf

Brilliant Tumblr: http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/

the art of self-destruction

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this goes down as the worst web series I’ve seen yet.

It’s the best at being the worst.

“Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite” by Burnkit 2600
Utilizing Internet Moving Images / Perlinger Archive

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Flooded McDonald’s on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

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Coilhouse  » Jo Boobs Teaches the Va-Va Voom!

Jo is cool. She does a great job of explaining the contemporary burlesque world in this episode of Syndicate of Human Image Traffickers.

Tired of having a phone that fits in your pocket? AppJudgment takes a look at the first 5” Android device: the Dell Streak.

It’s almost time for Comic Con, and AppJudgment has got the ‘con fever! Jackie has 5 comic book apps for the iPhone or iPad to give you something to do while waiting in line for Hall H!

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A quick review of the iPhone 4 Dock and a recommendation on how to save yourself $29…

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Apple is pushing for legacy users to update plus the iPhone 4 is taking the music world by storm.

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The guys at The iPad Show sit down with Dan Hartley of DoubleJump to talk about the state of games on the iPad.

The only review that matters. Walt Mosspuppet’s hands-on review of Apple’s brand-new iOS 4!

iOS 4 is out and ready to download, Pandora releases v1.3 and enables backgrounding, plus some information on apps with delayed updates.

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Is Reeder the holy grail for iPad RSS readers?

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All about iPhone 4

The highly anticipated WWDC keynote from Steve Jobs introduce the latest iPhone and OS. Eileen and Mauricio run down some of the highlights (and lowlights) from the announcement.

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This episode sees Christine stuck in an odd place, with night vision to guide her will she make it to the end of the Episode? And what were the fabulous apps she takes you through?

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A look at this week’s new #1 Paid iPad App: Wired Magazine.

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An overview of many, many GTD (Get Things Done) iPad apps, including developer Scott Hasbrouck and his featured app Paperdesk. Also multiple Exchange accounts in 4.0 (and currently in jailbreak) and how to print from your iPad with Print Central.

via The iPad Show

Twitter for iPhone (Tweetie 3.0) comes to the App Store.

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http://www.appaday.tv reviews the Ustream broadcaster for the iPhone. Stream live from your iPhone with Ustream Live Broadcaster.

Ustream is the leading live interactive broadcasting platform that enables anyone to quickly broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. Easily stream live moments from your phone and share with your friends, family, fans, followers and others — and have the recording of your video afterward! This application works on 3G or Wifi, and you can notify your Twitter community when you start broadcasting. Interact with your viewers during your broadcast using chat or Ustream’s Social Stream, which integrates a live feed of Twitter messages.
The Ustream Live Broadcaster enables you to share recorded videos to Ustream, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and automatically streams and records to your Ustream show page.

Air Video lets you stream videos from your computer to your iPhone or iPad, regardless of the format the videos are encoded in. 

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Learn how to find out if AT&T is giving you an early iPhone upgrade this summer in 5 seconds on today’s App Advice Daily.

iPhone 3GS + Pocket Video Projector = 360° Augmented Reality Shooter on today’s App Advice Daily.

Review of the Tilt Shift Gen, a ToyCamera app that will allow you to create retro miniature pictures.

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A look at the newly released Dropbox new iPad update.

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A look at Square for the iPad. Stephanie Chu and David Prager also give you a special hands-on sneak peek of the unreleased iPhone app!

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Mauricio Balvanera runs you through his top 5 iPad apps for the month of April 2010. Includes looks at Twitterrific, Things, Kindle, Aurora Feint 3, and NewsRack.

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App A Day reviews Mirror’s Edge for the iPad. Best iPad game yet?

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Looking for a new iPhone game? How about one that asks you to diagnose diseases based on photographs? Diagnose the Disease and more reviewed this week on Apps and Hats.

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http://www.appaday.tv reviews Sand Garden for the iPad. Create your own patch of serenity with a Japanese rock gardens (枯山水 karesansui?) or “dry landscape” garden, often called “Zen gardens”. They were influenced mainly by Zen Buddhism and can be found at Zen temples of meditation.

On today’s Appisode: Steve Jobs answers your Flash concerns, Tweetie to become official Twitter app, and a review of Speck’s newest iPad case.

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Tired of iPhone OS? App Advice Daily shows you how to install Android on your iPhone 2G, along with a sneak peak at a new wireless syncing app.

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Are you fast enough (and smart enough) to fight the zombies? Stephanie Chu reviews ZombieSmash, a game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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bigdoor:

http://www.appaday.tv Reviews the Hipstamatic Camera App brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras of the past! The Hipstamatic keeps the the quirks of shooting old school but gives you the ability to swap lenses, film, and flash settings all with the swipe of a finger.

Can’t watch it? Read my review of Hipstamatic

App Advice Daily talks Gizmodo’s prototype iPhone find, US iPad 3G ship dates and a quick review for Mirror’s Edge for the iPad.

Learn how to follow the British elections with the SkyNews app or zombify yourself with ZombieBooth on this week’s Apps and Hats.

Today’s App Advice Daily asks the question, “Are you nuts?” in regards to the iPad’s international delay.

NDA be damned! AppJudgement has a hands-on preview of the iPhone OS 4 beta.

Tired of carrying around an iPad AND an accordion everywhere you go? Well, now there’s a solution.

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Noah from Phonedog TV checks out two ways to stream video to an iPad: Netflix and ABC Player. Also a preview of iTunes video on iPad.

On today’s Appisode: iPhone OS 4 rumors hits, the iPad is finally released, and we have some great apps for you to check out.

Appzilla gives you dozens of random tools and functions for the price of one. At $0.99, it looks like a sweet deal, but what’s the catch?

Gary from Macmost gives his First Look at the brand new iPad.

Belly Bums. Like volleyball, except with your belly.

Dual mode iPad/iPhone apps start appearing in the iTunes Store, Beautiful Planet HD comes to the iPad and task management app Dunnit! goes free.

via App Advice Daily

AppJudgment reviews Miso, Foursquare and Gowalla for couch potatoes.

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The App Addicts hit the streets to find out what real people say about the popular photography app QuadCamera.

via iPhone App Reviews TV

App reviewers demanding payment for reviews, Amazon and Barnes and Noble are working on iPad apps, and a bunch of games drop their prices to Free.

via App Advice Daily

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It looks like I’ll be buying Frogman for iPhone when it is released in April…

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Apps and Hats - Trendstop, SecretAda, BillMinder, Unicode, Spotify, Guardian

This week the girls look at Trendstop Trendtracker for all your fashion needs, Secret Ada for the codebreaker in you, BillMinder for the forgetful, Unicode for those funky people who want more in their tweets and then a quick shout for Spotify paid for service app and The Guardian Newspaper. Both apps that Christine thinks are worth your cash.

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MoreLomo review

Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects - a trait emphasized by practitioners. Others use the technique to document everyday life, because the small camera size and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage and photo vérité.

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White Lines iPhone App

White Lines is a brilliantly simple, fun, and stimulating memory game for all ages. Players must redraw sequences of lines that appear on screen in the same order and direction as they first appeared. Sound easy? The challenge might surprise you! The sparse visuals, sophisticated sounds and smooth flow of the game make it the perfect down-tempo addiction, and the advanced levels are designed to enhance short-term memory. White Lines also makes a perfect pass and play challenge!

via The Daily App Show

iPad pre-release sales hit big, Gameloft offers their Gameloft Sports Pack, and find out how you can win a free iPad from Fantell.

via App Advice Daily

Reviews of FastMall, Lexic, ZenBound, VoiceBand, KERN and Slango

This week the girls have some fantastic apps that you may want to try. From the clever VoiceBand to the helpful FastMall.

via Apps and Hats

Radio iPhone Demonstration

Listen to over 40,000 radio stations anywhere in the world and search stations using a powerful new search engine.

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Kevin chats with John Slattery, of Mad Men and Iron Man 2, on this episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

Hypnogaja joins host Curt Smith for the first ever episode of Stripped Down Live. 

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The tweet that ended the 20-year career of a CNN journalist and a Russian social networking site that is not for the masses but strictly for those of class, on this episode of Al Jazeera Listening Post.

East LA hipsters Elle and Marci recover from their hangovers and plan for the future on episode one of We Are With the Band.

Max tries to convince a foreign investor from Dubai to fund his masterpiece on episode two of Blue Movies.

Mike and Kelley bought a new house. They can’t afford it. It’s time to find roommates. That’s one way of Saving Rent.

Scott Drizhal finds out just how dangerous space travel can be on episode one of SOLO - The Series.

Over 90% of women make up India’s invisible workforce, with little control over their earnings and no political capital. India Unheard’s Luxmi Nautiyal reports.

Kevin Pollak interviews actor Paul Rudd on this episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

The creator of the infamous 70-minute Phantom Menace review, returns with a review of Baby’s Day Out. 

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Psapp performs Mister Ant at Arnold Circus Bandstand on this episode of Bandstand Busking. 

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Kevin Pollak interviews Craig Ferguson on this episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

A film student finds himself accidentally placed in an internship at one of San Fernando Valley’s most prolific pornography studios on the series premiere of Blue Movies.

Even when the girls are easy, the Casanovas guys somehow make it hard. 

Matthew Barney’s solo show at Schaulager Basel is dedicated to his Drawing Restraint series. VernissageTV takes us to the opening reception.

What do you do with a bottle of Jackson-Triggs 2008 Sauvignon Blanc? Drink now. Serve with seafood or fish. This episode of Naked Wine Show covers the rest. (1:11)

From Hollywood shoot-em-ups to Pentagon spin doctors, The Listening Post takes a look at the relationship between the military and the media.

dapperapps:

An overview of many, many GTD (Get Things Done) iPad apps, including developer Scott Hasbrouck and his featured app Paperdesk. Also multiple Exchange accounts in 4.0 (and currently in jailbreak) and how to print from your iPad with Print Central.

via The iPad Show

Learn how to use ESP to troubleshoot home appliances on this episode of of paranormal how-to series, How To Survive The Strange.

Jai Kumar, Community Correspondent from Punjab, documents the failure of local police to properly investigate rape on this episode of India Unheard.

The Syndies, joined by Special Guests Ashley Marie & Desiree, talk dating disasters.

A weekend camping trip turns psychedelic (and dangerous) for some of the boys in the band in the dramatic Season One finale of Gemini Rising.

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Gemini Rising, a 2009 Webby Honoree, is a dramatic, but often very funny, series that recounts the trials and tribulations of a hard-working, semi-successful 1970’s progressive rock band from Levittown, Pennsylvania. Follow brothers Robert and Richard McKenzie as they lead a band of talented troubadours through struggles to realize their unique vision and achieve a respectable level of success in a world increasingly indifferent to their musical art. Revisit the 70’s through the eyes of a group of young dreamers who, talented though they were, didn’t quite make it and have long since been forgotten and lost to the mists of time… until now. Featuring outstanding performances from an ensemble cast, Gemini Rising has drama, romance, humor and, best of all, original music inspired by the era’s best progressive rock. 

Keavy Landreth, owner of Kumquat Cupcakery in Brooklyn, invites us into her kitchen space to see how she makes her secret recipe for what many refer to as “Brooklyn’s favorite miniature cupcakes”…on this episode of “Food. Curated.”

Titus Welliver, AKA The Man in Black from Lost, sits down with Kevin on the latest episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

On this episode of Luck and the Virgin…

Valentina, a young women from Texas, leaves her boyfriend with his drug money in tow and heads for San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. While at a tamale stand Valentina runs into Ricardo, a hit man working for a US drug cartel, and the two become involved after their bags are switched accidentally…

At 59, Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Thee Majesty finally seems to have found peace…on this episode of XLR8R TV.

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Doug recounts the top 11 most awkward Christopher Walken moments on this episode of Nostalgia Critic…so you don’t have to.

Jonathan Katz (AKA Dr. Katz) returns to animated form on this hilarious episode of Doogtoons. 

Felicia Day shares childhood artifacts with Mortified Founder, Dave Nadelberg on a new Mortified segment called The Shoebox Sessions.

How to Survive the Strange presents “Claw Hammer Zombie Kill Technique.”

HOW TO SURVIVE THE STRANGE is a semimonthly (twice per month) web series preparing you and your loved ones for the unexpected. We’ve got you covered with the latest tips on how to survive everything from an alien invasion to a zombie apocalypse. The show is hosted by B-movie horror blogger Bryan White. Directed by John Herman.

During the taping of a routine public service announcement, Smitty and the crew of KNOT are approached by a strange woman. And then taping is thwarted by a hostile attack by a militia group known only as the Sons of the Brotherhood.

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An outdated, out of touch TV station out in the middle of nowhere risks going out of business if they can’t keep up with the times. An overfunded, under educated militia seeks to spread the news of government plots to infiltrate our airwaves and control our every step. A match made in heaven or a mix of oil and water? Add in office politics, mind control, love, intrigue, conspiracy and off-brand candy addiction and you have “Sons of the Brotherhood,” proving once again that the truth is out there. Way, way out there.

Vivian & Archibald’s comic strip sets off a chain reaction on episode 8 of Anyone But Me’s second season.

Henry Charles Ramos seems to have been one of the greatest barmen in history. The Ramos Gin Fizz is what he is remembered for and when Hilah found an old bar menu from a restaurant in San Antonio that claimed to be “Home of the Famous Ramos Gin Fizz” AND it included a recipe, well, clearly she had to try it out. 

All on this episode of Hilah Cooking!

Factcheck.org’s Just The Facts examines how @dccc, @gopwhip, @rnc and @democratsdotorg have used Twitter to mislead their followers.

Gary Rosenzweig explains Mac windows basics like resizing, closing and opening new windows on this episode of MacMost.  While this functionality will be obvious to most, Windows users might not fully comprehend some of the more subtle differences. 

Kevin Pollak sits down with Justine Bateman on this episode of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. (102 minutes)

The Puzzle Maker’s Son - Episode 1

David is working an event in the city when he spots a strange figure watching him. As David approaches, the Suited Man slips out the back door. David follows to no avail. The Man is gone. David returns to the event where a phone call delivers terrible news. Days later. David finds himself in the house he grew up, coming to terms with the death of his father. He confronts his mother and reveals his suspicions of his father’s death. When he returns home, he finds a strange package in the mail and his apartment has been ransacked.

Ari Up of The Slits talks about her music, her history and her love of Brooklyn on this episode of Revel In New York.

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They waited in line for 6 weeks… To see a movie.

Everytime a new Star Wars movie comes out, hundreds of Star Wars fans wait in line for 6 weeks.

Who are these people? How do they deal with people making fun of them and most importantly, how do they go to the bathroom?

Director Michael Rotman and Editor Adam Schenck stood in the “Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones” line with this colorful cast of characters to answer these questions and more.

Star Wait is a 9 episode web series that follows the life of a few Star Wars fans as they wait in line for 6 weeks on the streets of Hollywood, but unlike a typical reality show, Star Wait is 100% real.

@ATubanos & @MattCampagna dive deep into Ironman 2 on the latest @YourGeekNews. Lot’s of clips & interviews! 

John Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are back for the follow-up to 2008’s Ironman, and joining them are Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Scarlett Johansson to bring Tony Stark face-to-face with at least one more iron man of his own design: War Machine!

Coma Period Episode 1 - Marking The Days

The horrible thing about being in a coma is that you don’t know how long you’ve been in one.

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Dan Humford had an accident. Now he’s in a coma, forever caught in the infinite white canvas of his own mind, where he’s haunted by memories, personal insecurities, and sometimes candy bars, old girlfriends, and a fetus.

Bite-size at 2-4 minutes each, Coma, Period. is a darkly irreverent comedy about our inept hero, Dan, and the ways he torments and rewards himself in the stasis of being in a coma. Starring comedian and web celebrity Rob Delaney, this actively original web series is hilarious, funny, comical, and as many other synonyms as you can find on dictionary.com.

Project Rant 071: Control Freak Vegetarian Bitch

Be a vegetarian because you love animals, not because you hate people.

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Real Words Made… Realer.Project RANT takes anonymous online postings and recreates them for your entertainment and the edification of the original author.

Friends cross paths at the movies. Vivian and Aster analyze more than just the film. On episode seven of Anyone But Me.

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Introducing a new generation - gay, straight, and ethnically diverse - coming of age in a post 9/11 world, searching for love and belonging as they confront their identities and ride the waves of sexual awakening.Shot in high-definition digital video on location in and around New York City, Anyone But Me is a fresh take on the universal conflicts that shape us all. 

Peter decides it’s time to leave Los Angeles. Packs up his belongings and begins his journey via public transportation down to the Panama Canal. On episode one of inTransit: Mexico & Central America.

Peter gives Sophie a coming out self-help book while Brigitte, Audrey, and Marilyn realize how they are all connected. Unfortunately, Oscar is late to dinner and it doesn’t look like the first time.  All on episode one of Wiener & Wiener.

On the Al Jazeera Listening Post this week: TV wars in Thailand as the political turmoil gets worse. And in Kyrgyzstan, a government is toppled and the opposition zeroes in on state television.

appaday.tv reviews the Hipstamatic Camera App. The Hipstamatic keeps the the quirks of shooting old school but gives you the ability to swap lenses, film, and flash settings all with the swipe of a finger.

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Les and Bernard adjust to life in close quarters. Bernard tries to exploit an opportunity with Eden. Les discovers the seedy side of craigslist. All on episode one of The Bitter End.

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The Bitter End

This fearless new comedy is about two estranged brothers with nothing in common suddenly thrust back into each other’s lives. Bernard is an aspiring writer who is grappling with a new relationship. Les is just out of rehab and is trying to get his life back on track. The show takes a fresh, frank and funny look at the realities of 20 something life.

Two sisters spend a typical night at home - until the unthinkable happens - on episode one of Reservation.

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A Community of young people with extraordinary abilities live in hiding, trying to lead normal lives. A black-ops government Agency is searching endlessly for them, hoping to utilize their gifts for the good of the nation. As the Agency draws ever closer, this Community must come together in order to preserve their way of life- no matter what the cost.

Hilah shows you how to make your own tortillas on Hilah Cooking.

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HILAH COOKING is an internet series hosted by Austin-based singer/actor/comedian Hilah Johnson. The series is focused on teaching “real people” how to cook (and how to have fun while doing it). Learning how to cook will save you money, make you happy and maybe even get you laid! You won’t need a fancy kitchen or hard-to-find ingredients to make any of our featured recipes. Each episode is packed with useful information presented in a fast-paced funny format.

Profile of the Mast Brothers, creators of NYC’s only bean to bar chocolate factory, by The Scout

You can also see their lovely process on The Selby.

Visit Mast Brothers in Brooklyn at 105 North 3rd Street.

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Amazing.

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THE VANISHING CITY - The Documentary

“Global trends in major cities around the world have changed rapidly in the last several decades. As cities become more interconnected, and less dependent on localized economic models, domestic issues of increased class inequality and sustainability have emerged as central components to city planning debates. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York.

Told through the eyes of tenants, city planners, business owners, scholars, and politicians, The Vanishing City exposes the real politic behind the alarming disappearance of New York’s beloved neighborhoods, the truth about its finance-dominated economy, and the myth of “inevitable change.” Artfully documented through interviews, hearings, demonstrations, and archival footage, the film takes a sober look at the city’s “luxury” policies and high-end development, the power role of the elite, and accusations of corruption surrounding land use and rezoning. The film also links New York trends to other global cities where multinational corporations continue to victimize the middle and working classes.”

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Rise In Subway Usage Could Not Be Coming At A Worse Time — Daily Intel 

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Tamir Sapir bought the Duke-Semans Mansion, the 19,500 square foot home on the corner of 82nd street and 5th avenue, for $40 million in 2006, intending it to be the home of his massive art collection. Things took an unexpected turn when he was found to be illegally bringing ivory and pelts into America via his yacht. Sapir just sold the mansion, only four years later, for the same price. 

The Beaux-Arts mansion was built with tobacco money in 1901 by descendants of Washington Duke, namesake of Duke University. According to Christie’s, it’s the only mansion ever to be available directly on 5th Avenue. The building has a unique mansard roof as well as a petaled glass marquee. It was designated a landmark in 1974.

Oh…and it’s directly across from The Met.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn - 7/25/2010

Ari Up of The Slits talks about her music, her history and her love of Brooklyn.

Revel In New York

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Chapter One: He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. Uh, no, let me start this over…

Chapter One: He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.

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S: It was so windy that we walked our bikes across the Marine Parkway Bridge. On the other side riding wasn’t too bad. Smile!

Here we’re riding around the oval at Jacob Riis Park. I might be wrong, but the layout seems almost identical to the oval at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park.

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Bedford & Grand, Williamsburg, Brooklyn - 7/25/2010

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A police officer photographed a Bronx tower from which a woman was reportedly thrown to her death.

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You may recall last summer’s Park Slope banh mi feud—Hanco’s opened on Seventh Avenue, and soon a couple of his employees broke off to open Henry’s, a banh mi shop just blocks away, complete with an identical menu. Then Henry, of Henry’s, left that place to open yet another identical spot down on Fifth Avenue, a scant half mile away.

The story somehow made it all the way to Ira Glass, who covered it on This American Life.

Listen

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I’m starting to get the feeling that Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver likes things that blow up. After this summer’s Braggot called Buzz Bomb, it looks like Brooklyn is going with the nuclear option with their next Brewmaster’s Reserve offering called Detonation Ale. According to Beernews.org, it’s the “big brother” of their popular Double IPA, Blast!, with seven types of hops and a heaping helping of English-style malts. Plus, it carries a big yet drinkable 9.2% ABV.

Keep an eye out for Detonation starting in mid-August. As with all Brewmaster’s Reserve beers, it’ll be draft-only and around for about two months.

via: brewyork

Murray 101: The LIfe & Times of Mr. Showbiz

Murray Hill is the hardest working middle-aged man in show business. The New York Times calls him “the reigning patriarch of downtown performance.” Time Out calls him “the king of comedy.” 

Murray is currently on tour with Angie Pontani, Kitten De Ville, Helen Pontani, Melody Sweets and more!

Near St. George Station, Staten Island (Staten Island Railway)

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See, some vandalism is OK. I like this, Dick Chicken, the Subway Compass Guy, and whoever it is that keeps drawing dicks on Torri Spelling.

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Clippings from the May 1980 issue of New York Rocker

Alan Betrock published the first issue of New York Rocker in the spring of 1976. Andy Schwartz moved to NYC in Fall 1977 and bought the magazine from Betrock.  Schwartz published and edited New York Rocker, along with Byron Coley, Michael Hill, Ira Kaplan, Annene Kaye, David Keeps, Laura Levine, Glenn Morrow, Chris Nelson, Suzette Rodriguez, Roy Trakin, Elizabeth Van Itallie, Janet Waegel, and Drew Wheeler, at 166 Fifth Avenue until the magazine folded in 1982.

Some time after the magazine folded and was sold, the rights reverted back to Schwartz, who now operates nyrocker.com.

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A stream of anti-immigration sentiment is sweeping across the nation right now, and people are responding in different ways.  As one might expect, New York City’s approach is quite different from Arizona’s.  Angela Chen reports on undocumented workers finding hope in NYC on this episode of Columbia News Tonight.

# 21 :: Chicken Parm from Torrisi Italian Specialties, $9

Stuff inside: chicken cutlet, Progresso bread crumbs, homemade mozzarella, Jersey red tomato sauce, fresh basil, Parisi semolina roll

Growing up in douchebag central Staten Island, I’ve had my share of chicken parm heros. Usually after a day at the local Abercrombie, or after a night fist pumping to Stevie B. So that’s my frame of reference coming to Torrisi’s. Taking the first bite, it’s like my tongue was CNN cokewhore anchor, Rick Sanchez, and the sandwich was one lucky taser gun. I didn’t know chicken parm could taste this good. It’s not hoity-toity. Just simple food with better ingredients. I mean whose Mom doesn’t have Progresso bread crumbs? But rather than Ragu, jersey tomatoes are simmered just enough so the sauce remains somewhat chunky. Then home-made fresh mutz instead of rubbery, processed crap. Fresh basil leaves top it off. If Staten Island heros are the tweezed-out, fake-n-bake version of chicken parm, Torrisi’s their cousin from Sicily with the hot accent.

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Well, this weekend, me and one of my girlfriends decided to check out the ever popular PS 1 in Long Island City, NY.  You might think from the name (especially if you’re from NY) that PS 1 is the name of a school perhaps?  Not at all.  Basically, PS 1 is an extension of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) that houses a lot of current artists.  And it just so happens that this museum was designed inside the space of a former school.  Hence the name PS 1.

The building is an old school and much of the school has been kept intact to keep the feeling of wandering the halls of a school.  Many of the “classrooms” have been converted into gallery spaces and the hallways provide opportunity for signage and signage-type artwork.

How witty, right?

I have to be honest when I say that I didn’t really GET most of the artwork in the space.  At one point you’d be in a room with a long mattress while you could lie down and watch one of the various TVs there.  Was there anything good on the TV?  Not really.  No Real Housewives, Project Runway, no baseball game.  Just…stuff.  I wish I could describe it but it would be impossible.  As a sampling of the what the TV’s had: one TV was showing a man twirling a marble in a glass jar…yeah, that’s all that TV had; another TV displayed a bloody, violent rape scene.  Yeah.  I’ve got to say, I didn’t really feel like seeing that. 

At one point, my friend and I stepped into a room where there was a projector and film playing and, obviously, we weren’t really fascinated with what was on the screen so we decided to step into an adjacent room.  And we saw the sculpture on display: A stove with a pot on top.

That’s right.  A stove with a pot on top.  I had to sneak a photo to prove this.

Once we stopped laughing, we realized it just wasn’t our kind of art and decided to step outside where the real attraction was.

Apparently every Saturday in the summer PS 1 has an activity called “Warm Up”.  This all day event includes an architectural structure made up of poles that can be bent, pulled and yanked. 

While I know that this is part of the interactive architecture, we opted not to go for the pole dance.

There is also a mesh netting that covers most of the space although there are holes where beach balls can be pulled through, that were dropped on the nets.  There are also some holes that are surrounded with a sort of circular sprinkler that sprays a mist of water periodically, much to our enjoyment and refreshing pleasure.

On that same note, in the center of the outdoor space, there was even a small wading pool, available for patrons to stand and enjoy feeling their bare feet in cool water while they drink a cold beer (of course there was lots of alcohol!  How else do you think most people enjoyed the artwork??).  This is also part of the interactive netting since you must go through some of the holes to get to the pool in the center. 

So the outdoor space, I must say was probably the best part of the experience.  The interactive netting, the cool mist, and the refreshing wading pool were all fun to use and appreciate.  Although I probably could have done without the mobs and mobs of hipsters that love to flock to PS 1 in the appreciation of art, alcohol and blasting techno music. But I look at it this way: Not only was this a chance to experience art and architecture, but a chance to invade the habitat of hipsters and see how they live, interact and treat their young (yes, there were hipsters high off their behind that decided to bring their young toddlers to this thing).

So all in all, a very fascinating day.  And I think if I could submit my findings to National Geographic, I would. 

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Your humble video game correspondent files his first dispatch from the road. Specifically, Metropolitan Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, where the Brick Theater hosts its annual festival of video game theater, “Game Play.”

See what they did there with the title?

I was new in town and looking for something to do. There was a very favorable review of the festival, in the New York Times no less, and with plays like “Grand Theft Ovid,” I figured, how could I go wrong? So I reserved online right away, feeling lucky that I had scored a ticket to this heavily-hyped event.

Turns out, I had little to fear. Picture a Venn diagram of theater nerds and video game nerds. Large populations. Little overlap. There were plenty of seats still available.

And you might want to consider plopping your ass into one of those seats, if only to be able to deliver some truly compelling water cooler conversation:

“Did you see Dancing with the Stars last night?”
“No, actually I saw two grown men playing Mortal Kombat with classical guitars.”
“Suddenly I am no longer thirsty. Excuse me.”

So the double bill I saw on Friday began with “Theater of the Arcade,” a selection of five short plays that dramatized early arcade heroes, giving grim procedural drama to the suicidal space pilots of Asteroids, illuminating the complex inner life of Frogger, and recasting Donkey Kong as Streetcar Named Desire. Mario and Luigi go on a vision quest after taking mushrooms in the desert, of course, and explore some very dark territory. The most successful translation was the retelling of the Pac Man story (?) through a Brechtian prism, starring a jaundiced and morbidly obese factory owner terrorized in song by the ghosts of the workers he has wronged.

But the real treasure was the night’s second show, put together by two brave and amazing young men (of course they are young men), Yale-trained classical guitarists, who have successfully hacked Nintendo and Super Nintendo games to run using their actual guitars as controllers.

They start the Nintendo, and must turn it off, blow on the cartridge, then start it again. They hit notes and chords to advance the menus, and then start the game. They begin with a dark and hypnotic droning, each guitar note signaling a different move. Their avatars duck down and stand up in time to the music, then walk back and forth.

Without warning, one player breaks the spell by striking a chord with a flourish, and in so doing unleashes a bolt of electricity from the heavens that knocks over the other player. It is absurdly thrilling. There are cheers and hoots from the small but enthralled audience. He does it again. More cheers. The other player retaliates with a chord of his own, and a grappling hook flies into the other player’s chest.

Essentially, it’s dueling banjos, both real and virtual. And it’s sort of totally awesome.

At one point, they admit, with charming deprecation, that they have been honing their skills for five years at this. The effort certainly shows, for it is astonishing, and when one admits that he is currently single, you can’t help but believe him.

They stayed after the show to take questions, but I had none. Instead, I ran across the street to Barcade, where I got a stiff beverage (one dollar off when you show your program!) and played their Pac Man machine, but this time with nothing but contempt for the fat yellow man and his appetite for destruction, and sympathy for the ghosts of those he has wronged.

The Game Play festival runs through July 25 - order tickets at www.bricktheater.com

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Brooklyn Review refocuses on the situation in Haiti by looking at it through the lens of Brooklyn’s Haitian community.

- Learn about the headlines you’re not seeing in mainstream media from a Brooklyn-based journalist presently reporting from Haiti.

- Meet organizations awarded Haitian Community Hope & Healing Fund Grants provided by the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

- Hear stories from medical professionals who continue their missions of mercy in Haiti.

- Share in a Haitian-American woman’s efforts to bring her adoptive daughters home to Brooklyn.

- Visit the Flatbush section of Brooklyn to speak with residents with Haitian roots to see how life has changed in the last six-months.

- Join Djarara, a group devoted to Haiti’s rara music, to lean how the music of their homeland has taken on a new meaning.

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IRT #6 pulling into Westchester Square Station, Bronx.

Picture by Pro-Zak / Flickr

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A skateboarders tour through NYC.

In the vid they mention Epstein’s Bar in the L.E.S…GOOD TIMES!  Till this DAY we struggle to remember every visit we’ve ever made to Epstein’s…happy hour at Epstein’s is killah.  Arrive hydrated leave dehydrated.

In regards to the skate park picks…before the city decided to shut down the iconic Brooklyn Banks on June 30th…it was DEFINITELY in our top two favourite skate parks in the world next to Venice Beach Skate Park in LA.  The city shut down Brooklyn Banks to create space for storage while restoring the bridge until 2014.  Steve Rodriguez was the driving force behind saving the banks when the city threatened to convert the space to a green park in 2004.  The goal, Steve says, is to make sure the city will rebuild them better than they are now, but even if the banks are rebuilt at the end of restoration, four or five years is a long time to a group of people whose knees at the age of 25 resemble a squat thrusting grey-haired arthritic.

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Miracle Garden is located at 194-196 East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B. It was founded in 1983. According to New York Songlines, this urban garden was built on the site of a former crack house. 

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Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Upon the release of the film, Roger Ebert wrote the following to Kermit:

In short, I liked just about everything about your movie. But what I liked best was your discovery of self. Kermit, you are no longer a frog with an identity crisis. You’ve found the right persona, old boy, and it will see you through a dozen more movies. It was clear to me from the moment you took your curtain call and basked in the spotlight. Kermit, this may come as a shock, but you’re Mickey Rooney in a frog suit. Think about it. You’re short. You’re cute. You never say die. You keep smilin’. You have a philosophy for everything. You appear only in wholesome, G-rated movies. And sex bombs like Liza Minnelli only kiss you on the cheek.

Watch it on Amazon/Netflix/iTunes.

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Peformance artists and burlesque stars Julie Atlas Muz and Tigger! talk about making art in New York City.

NSFW

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VIDEOGAMESNEWYORK is an independent videogame store located in the heart of the East Village New York. It is internationally known for its unique collection of video game systems and games, both American and imported. From the game watches of the 70’s to the first systems as Odyssey, Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, Commodore 64 to the last PS3, XBOX 360, PSP or Nintendo DS.

Video game nerds, whether local or tourists, will want to stop by. It’s a pretty special place and as far removed from chains like GameStop as possible. It’s practically a museum.

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