On the other side of Mr. Deity, below Script Cops, and right next to Sands of Passion you’ll find the C-Spot – a fresh, weekly line-up of comedy series programmed and promised for all the 52 weeks in a year from Sony Pictures Television’s contest-laden, video-sharing site, Crackle.
Packaging successful, pre-existing shows with brand new [...]
Imagine if car manufacturers commissioned exclusive freeway access. You’re headed from Miami to NYC. 1-95 will accept Hondas and Fords only, but the 495 will have inked hot deals with Toyota and Chevrolet. You would never be able to take the most efficient route, because a fragmented labyrinth of highways would emerge, and drivers would [...]
At the online Style Magazine of the New York Times, an arty, 12-part web series starring twelve of film’s most promising stars wraps up this week and puts the unknown Brody Baker on the filmmaker map.
Baker, previously uncredited with any projects, was hired by T: The New York Times Style Magazine (which had already curated [...]
You got your baby with infectious laugh. Your Potter Puppet Pals. Your Pachelbel’s Canon. Some official music videos and, of course, your Evolution of Dance (though, with this last one, I honestly never understood why).
YouTube’s “Most Viewed (All Time)” list is some prime, venerated real estate, featuring some of [...]
During a short-lived crank call phase in junior high school, playing alphabet games with customer support was the most intelligent thing my friends and I could come up with:
Whatever Company’s Customer Service: Yes, may I please have your confirmation code?
12-year-old me through intermittent laughter: Ummmm, yeah. So, it’s “SEYMP718”…that’s “S” as in “sea”…“E” as [...]
“Like infidels through an hourglass, so are the Sands of Passion,” coos the title sequence voice over of this “Al Qaeda soap opera” set somewhere in a very Western stereotyped Middle East, where fathers pressure their sons to become suicide bombers, patients demand kidneys meant for transplant be converted from Judaism to Islam, and men [...]
Seriously, what’s cooler than surfing? Surfers don’t just ride the waves – they are one with nature. They don’t just predict ocean patterns, they have an intuitive, almost cosmic kinship with the great deep blue. Slate’s review of The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer said it right: “there’s something about the very act [...]
Slikstr is a mock videoblog of the titular start-up, which aims to be “the world’s first user-created and -controlled company” with content entirely dictated and directed by its customers.
What does Slikstr actually do, you ask? Not much, really. And that’s the joke: Waiting for Godot exasperation set in the quotidian absurdity of the cubicle and [...]
