putting the j in jjosh

this starts off a little cheezy and then gets awesome. favorite part is ZG trying not laugh…

Today is our fundraiser in DC! It's been so much work, but now it's time to GET PUMPED!!!!

this vid…what a beautiful way to start the week…especially for my sister's LAST WEEK AT HER JOB!!!!! There really is more out there…

"bit and run" — Mario's Ladder from Cory Godbey on Vimeo.

Yeah, so this guy made a version of Dark side of the moon just using the audio capabilities of the NES sound chip. It sounds amazing, somehow. I've been listening to the whole thing over and over, there are some parts that are just haunting, and computer game-y at the same time. Go here to download for yourself, and here's a sample ("Great Gig In The Sky") of what I'm talking about:

when you announce that Jeff Magnum will be playing his first show in ten years and tickets will go on sale at noon…I do like their fail page though…

UPDATE – we got tickets! sweet! sold out in 15 minutes…

this is pretty sweet. Merton's got skills…

also, in some kind of internet irony, because everyone kept saying that Merton sounded/looked just like Ben Folds, apparently Ben Folds heard about it and filmed his own "tribute", which is also pretty good…the "bobby" song is especially inspired…

sometimes the links move so fast, and the internet works so quickly and fierce, and I end up emailing things to myself, and then I have no idea how, where or why I came across something…

so here it is…

It feels good to have been gone from the blog for a while, and then to come back and find things like this waiting for me on the internet….

Sometimes in the course of surfing the web, one comes across an achievement of cultural mash-uppery so epic that it defies all we know to be true. Where do people find the time? Why do they feel the need? How did they acquire the skills to make this happen? What does it say about our world?

It is within this context that I give you Paul O'Connel's re-telling of the Wicker Man as an Italian fumetti-style comic with Muppets. Take some time and read the whole thing. It's not that long, and the rewards are great.

MUPPET WICKER MAN!!!!

This is via ATDDTF, who got it from Robot 6, who got it from Tom Sp.

So you've heard about chatroulette, right? Have you tried it? I haven't.

But this guy has, and he's made a little film about it that somehow manages to adopt a charming tone about a tricky subject…good stuff…

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

[via Waxy]

I know, I know, but they actually make me laugh out loud…

"build a turtle fence/so we can pay our rents"…

This is kind of spellbinding. I don't know where I came across this…the intro is kind of long so I cut it for you…make sure to see the bit with PIglet as Dennis Hopper (or vice versa)…

Last week I stumbled upon this list of the 50 best wikipedia articles. I looked it over and thought "whatever, I'm sure they're not that amazing." And then I clicked on a random link to prove it to myself. And found myself at the page for As Slow As Possible, a piece written by John Cage for organ that is designed to be played "as slow as possible". So some church organ in Germany (pictured above) has been wired up to play it for 639 YEARS! It started in 2001. Apparently it's like a really big deal whenever a new note comes in…

Reminds me of 24 hour Psycho, the Douglas Gordan installation where he slows down Psycho so that it takes a full 24 hours to run. You watch it inching by and get seduced by its rhythms, the barely changing frame, the small movements. When there's a cut, it's a big deal. I remember watching it for a long time, then going away, leaving the museum, going to get a drink, coming back, looking at other artworks, and then coming back to it only to find that it was still in the same scene. Kind of amazing.

Anyway, check out this list of the 50 most most interesting wikipedia articles…like the page says, this will fill you full of interesting cocktail party conversation, which is a good thing…

the page is here

click over there, start reading and kiss your Thursday good-bye…

I haven't really heard about this animated show Clone High, but any show that includes an animated Marilyn Manson singing the praises of the food pyramid ahs its heart in the right place.

from this giant interview with an anonymous facebook employee that's making the rounds:

this guy had evidently added him as a friend, and sadly he accepted it, but literally stole all of this guy’s information, created a fake account, and was communicating with himself from the fake account. He was writing on his wall and posting back to the “other person’s” wall. We found out the guy actually had about fifteen fake accounts that he created, stealing other users’ pictures and information to create the accounts, and was actually communicating back and forth with himself. Just to try to make himself appear cool, I guess?

J: What do you think about that?

JG: Sounds pretty cool, I guess.

J: Yeah, the guy sounds alright.

JG: I hardly ever use my facebook account now. I don't really miss it either.

J: Yeah, me neither. Sometimes I would get that weird addicted-y feeling like I had to know what was going on with other people, even though they weren't people I cared one whit about.

JG: A whit, huh?

J: That's right, a single whit.

JG: Pretty wild the fact that they're tracking every single piece of information about their 200 million users, though, right? Every click, where the eyes go, keeping every shred of data…

J: Makes sense. There's probably novels of the future in there somewhere.

JG: Totally. Have you read kfan's wanna start a blog one-acts?

J: Genius.

Here's an info-dump of things I've been surfing…

Damn, why is it Batman Jones has got to get there on a bike? Also he's going really fast…

Here's the video for the new Vampire Weekend single, which normally I wouldn't bother linking to, but it's pretty good. Simple and well executed…

This is pretty amazing. This is software I'm using, but this guy is doing a million things I've never heard of/thought of. Good inspiration, and also a bit daunting.