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SERIOUSLY!?!brickfrog: A gif to use when only Jason Mantzoukas’...

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:17:08 -0400

SERIOUSLY!?!

A gif to use when only Jason Mantzoukas’ baffled and accented “what is happening?” can accurately express your feelings.

I Hate Being Single - Episode 7: Finale Part 2 Congrats to my...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:27:27 -0400

I Hate Being Single - Episode 7: Finale Part 2

Congrats to my brother, who after a year of labor finally birthed this beautiful baby. Hope he can rest a moment before he stars on the next one. I truly loved every moment of it.

ihatebeingsingleseries:

I Hate Being Single - Episode 7: Finale Part 2
Episode Directed by T.J. Misny, Cinematography by Adam Newport-Berra. Produced by Lorrain DeGraffenreidt.
Guest starring Eddie Brawley, Ben Kronberg, Matt Klinman, Johnny McNulty, Pat O’brien, Laura Willcox, and Jocelyn DeBoer. Music By Jake Zavracky. Episode was funded by a Kickstarter Campaign in November 2011. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.
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Thanks! I’ve never been called a babe before.

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:42:42 -0400

Thanks! I’ve never been called a babe before.

hermitologist: Radiohead - Kid A (8-bit) [FULL ALBUM] My...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:49:59 -0400

hermitologist:

Radiohead - Kid A (8-bit) [FULL ALBUM]

My favorite album of all time. Now, in 8-bit!

Like most 8-bit things, this is pretty cool for about five minutes before it gets kind of annoying. Nonetheless, it’s still an impressive piece of work, and I’d say it’s a must-listen for Radiohead fans.

Yes, Brandon Wardell may only be 19, but he’s already...

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:14:04 -0400

Yes, Brandon Wardell may only be 19, but he’s already shared the stage with some of comedy’s current greats and was named one of the underground comics to watch at this year’s SXSW festival. Come check him out now and say you saw him when. Joining him will be local favorite Michal Ketner. (via Midnight Suggestion #10 w/ Brandon Wardell & Michal Ketner)

Directed by Peter Serafinowicz w/ Reggie...

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:42:39 -0400

Directed by Peter Serafinowicz w/ Reggie Watts!

markdavidchristenson:

Hot Chip - Night and Day

Lonely Island 100th Digital Short Lazy Sunday 2 just made me...

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:26:11 -0400

Lonely Island 100th Digital Short

Lazy Sunday 2 just made me want to watch this a few more times.

Shopping for @mobelux (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:39:37 -0400

Shopping for @mobelux (Taken with instagram)

Richmond Lore: I remember when 1640 was The Ultimate Dragons...

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:16:44 -0400

Richmond Lore: I remember when 1640 was The Ultimate Dragons house (one of whom is now, as of Tuesday in the Guinness Book Of World Records) and they had a cupboard full of nothing but Blueberry Morning…. But this is all great stuff for Adam, he should be really proud. Of his cereal purchase.

lonelysandwich:

Some news items. My publicist has been working especially hard, so I have some fun things to share. Some clippings for the old scrapbook.

Morgan Spurlock started a new company called Warpaint for making TV commercials. It’s somewhat innovative in how it handles its directors, and I’m one of those directors. It’s a separate thing from Sandwich Video, which remains intact. I hope to make an animated booger or anti-depressant commercial at the very least.

Today, the new LA Weekly comes out. It’s the People 2012 issue and I’m one of the people. I guess I’d mentioned my deep and abiding love for “Kentucky Fried Movie” and why wouldn’t I, as all facets of my work can be traced to it. I’m working on something superfun right now that’s basically a shot-for-shot reproduction of A Fistful of Yen, but with karate.

Shopping for cereal last week, I happened to remember that one called Blueberry Morning had been my favorite, but was absent from store shelves for months. A quick search turned up that it had been discontinued by Post, reason not cited. But I guess you can order discontinued/expired cereal from the Internet, which I did. Here’s what I can say about doing that: don’t order discontinued/expired cereal from the Internet.

Brick by Adam Juresko This whole movie is tops in my book....

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:40:16 -0400

Brick by Adam Juresko

This whole movie is tops in my book.

nosupervision:

Brick by Adam Juresko

I know J.G.L is all up in this movie, but the Pin is my fav.

Opening day Dixie Donuts enroute to @mobelux (Taken with...

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:08:46 -0400

Opening day Dixie Donuts enroute to @mobelux (Taken with Instagram at Dixie Donuts)

I Hate Being Single - Episode 6: Finale Part 1 Fairly certain...

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:17:15 -0400

I Hate Being Single - Episode 6: Finale Part 1

Fairly certain that this would be my favorite web series finale ever, even if we weren’t related. The steadicam shot, the muppet humor, BEN KRONBERG, all of it. I can wait for the rest of this, and then all of season 2-6 and the movie.

ihatebeingsingleseries:

Rob is temped to contact his ex but falls in to a secret group of boat dwelling bachelors to learn how to embrace the Brooklyn single life. His skills are put to the test at a boat party where an unfortunate visitor arrives.
Episode Directed by T.J. Misny, Cinematography by Adam Newport-Berra. Produced by Lorrain DeGraffenreidt.
Guest starring Eddie Brawley, Ben Kronberg, Matt Klinman, Johnny McNulty, Pat O’brien, Laura Willcox, and Jocelyn DeBoer. Music By Jake Zavracky. Episode was funded by a Kickstarter Campaign in November 2011. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Hand Craft by Ed Trask This was just hand delivered to me at...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:30:00 -0400

Hand Craft by Ed Trask

This was just hand delivered to me at work. I could not be more stoked, due to my love of Ed’s work, this city, it’s creators and The Hand Craft building in Scott’s Addition. Thanks to Ed!

This is what reduced seasons of 30 Rock and Community is paving...

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:11:59 -0400

This is what reduced seasons of 30 Rock and Community is paving the way for.

paulytamale:

aaronmoles:

nedhepburn:

nbctv:

New 2012-13 NBC Comedies

Woah, these are all real shows with real people in them. They all look like jokes but they are all real actual television shows.

These are all rejected Channel 101 pilots.

I was going to say “These all look like fake shows from ‘30 Rock’” but Moles’ comment wins.

Carousel: One Year Later

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:05 -0400

Although I was a late adopter of Instagram I was a fan of Carousel before I joined Mobelux. Since I’ve been here I’ve seen it’s popularity grow and gotten intimately familiar with the app. I’m so stoked to have a role in taking it to the next level, and can not wait to start showing off what we’ve been working on.

jeffrock:

Well, that was fast.

Roughly one year ago Mobelux launched Carousel. It was a fairly simple idea. Make a straight-forward, simple way to view Instagram on the desktop throughout the day. This post is a retrospective of the process involved in shipping that app.

Here’s a very early (and rough) look at the original concept I threw together on a lazy Sunday in March, 2011.

While hideously simple, this first comp contained all the major elements of what Carousel would become. A single scroll view that held photos. Photos would present basic information and controls to take action on them. A toolbar for secondary actions and scope switching. It was very important that the design didn’t look and feel like an email client with Instagram photos in it. Packing the app with mediocre features and extraneous UI was unacceptable. I showed the first comp to Eddie a few days later and we had a more serious conversation about taking the design to the next phase. At first we were a little hesitant. Deciding to make a new app is not a simple decision for a young company. Risk and cost are serious factors to consider. Not only that, Mobelux had never shipped a Mac app before. It took a little time to come to terms with the complexities of a menu, keyboard commands and dealing with a dynamically resizable window. Ultimately we decided that it was worth a shot.

As with all software ideas it quickly ballooned in scope. What about saving photos? Comment moderation? The biggest drawback we had to deal with was that you couldn’t post a photo outside of the official Instagram app. What can we do well on the desktop that can’t be done elegantly in the official iPhone app? We thought hard about the things that would make a desktop app successful and came up with a feature list. Fast scrolling. Commenting and moderation. Liking. Viewing larger. Searching. Saving. It didn’t take long until we had to scale back all those features to a solid 1.0 and tuck the other ideas away for future updates.

Once we’d nailed down what it would do, we started talking about how the app would look and feel. Something about Instagram filters and the photos that resulted from them had always conjured up images of a Wes Anderson movie. So we went with it. It was a bit risky settling on such whimsy as the inspiration for the visual design on a Mac app. We knew that purists may take issue with the direction. But this wasn’t Mail or iTunes. Why not have a little fun? Eddie worked up some comps of what it might look like if we brought the textures and palette of Royal Tenenbaums’ home to the main window. We settled on the name Instaview for the app and got to work.

Not quite there, but it seemed to be moving in the right direction. Looking back I can’t believe we even entertained that giant label at the top. After a few design sessions we honed it to something more focused and somewhat traditional.

One of our favorite touches was that the frames matched the filter that was used. This was very important early on when photo frames weren’t optional on Instagram. It integrated each photo into the scrollview and made them feel coherent. Each photo frame includes a fair amount of distressing, lending to the aged aesthetic that the filters suggest.

With a design we were quickly becoming happy with it was time to scope the project and get to work building it. Initial discussions revolved around building a framework mimicking iOS navigation controller and UITableView. Shortly after we had that conversation, Iconfactory announced Chameleon, a clean-room implementation of UIKit. The timing was, needless to say, impeccable. Jeremy immediately got to work seeing how viable it was to use Chameleon as the core of Instaview. It wasn’t long before we had a working model with push-pop navigation, asynchronous fetching and popover support. It was time to wrap the Instagram API and start using real data.

In just under two months Instaview was almost ready to ship. As I started setting up all the accounts involved in branding it became apparent that using “insta” or “gram” in the name was going to be an issue. While it instantly tied our app to the Instagram bandwagon it didn’t feel unique. What if Instagram took issue with all the insta-infringers? What icon were we going to come up with that wasn’t a camera or a polaroid? Weren’t we getting sick of seeing all the tan and brown, rainbow-striped ripoffs out there? Furthermore, what if Instagram was acquired and shuttered? Wouldn’t we want to brand so that we could potentially switch services if there was a catastrophe? There had to be a better identity we could come up with.

I was driving around town with Emily and started explaining the issues with the name. I asked if she could think of anything that might work with the visual theme and the idea of artificially aged photos. She told me that in the pathology lab they routinely looked at slides on a dusty old Kodak projector from the late 70’s. It was called a Carousel. The name clicked. It was perfect. I immediately got to work on an icon and came up with a toyed-up version of a Carousel projector (we’ll save that process for a different post.)

Carousel shipped on May 11th, 2011. It’s been a ton of fun to work on over the past year. A few months ago we shipped an update that brought us up to date on all the features we set out to ship last March, including support for five languages. We’re very happy with where the app is. But don’t worry, we’re not resting on our laurels.

Now it’s time to get to work on Carousel 2.

Best thedailywhat: Supercut of the Day: A supercut of just the...

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:47:06 -0400

Best

thedailywhat:

Supercut of the Day: A supercut of just the gear-shifting in the five Fast & Furious films obviously required a few ground rules:

It had to be an obvious gear-shift moment, with the hand/gearshift at least partially showing on screen (there are several moments in the films where you see a character’s shoulder move as they shift gears, but those didn’t count unless you could also see part of the hand). Everything else — barring the brief titles for each film — was cut.

[supercut]

Midnight City (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 13 May 2012 01:21:38 -0400

Midnight City (Taken with instagram)

Gangster Squad TrailerRuben Fleischer has made what looks like...

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:23:10 -0400

Gangster Squad Trailer

Ruben Fleischer has made what looks like another awesome movie. Can’t wait.

GPOYW: When in Rome>Black Tie Optional Technology Awards...

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:15:00 -0400

GPOYW: When in Rome

>Black Tie Optional Technology Awards Dinner means why not break out my (thrifted) Tux, Ledbury and Church’s?

NYC! Go see the I Hate Being Single Season 1 Finale this Monday,...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:31 -0400

NYC! Go see the I Hate Being Single Season 1 Finale this Monday, May 14th At IndieScreen. There will be guests, music, surprises and the 2 part finale starring BEN KRONBERG, which from what I’ve seen looks awesome!

ihatebeingsingleseries:

Monday is a big day! We are doing a screening for the finale episode of I Hate Being Single!

Get your tickets today: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246876

Back in November we did a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for this episode.
So many people have put hard work into this project and we want to celebrate it in person!
The episode was directed by TJ Misny(Broad City I Heart NY), and Dp’d by Adam Newport-Berra (Broad City I Heart NY)

Come to the show and see the screening as well as some bonus videos, and cameos by web series stars like Morgan Evans (The Untitled Web Series), Ann Carr (The Actress), Elaine Caroll (Very Mary Kate) and more surprises.

I Hate Single’s very own composer Jake Zavracky ( Acting Reel Master Database) will be playing some awesome original music.
and a teaser by Matt Mayer and Adam Bozarth’s new Project which I can’t wait to see.