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Audio & Video
The Feynman Series
Part 1: Beauty
Part 2: Honours
Part 3: Curiosity
Making Me Proud of My Ukrainian Heritage
I found this on BoingBoing and they said:
Vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Adam Martynyuk, on the right, throttles deputy Oleg Lyashko during a session in the chamber of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. According to reports, Lyashko had just asked Martynyuk to let him make a speech, which Martinyuk refused to do on procedural grounds. Lyashko then apparently called his interlocutor a Pharisee, at which point it was on.
The Chosen
For the third year in a row, my friends Travis and Wil (and others have popped in and out over the years) have competed in the Calgary 24 Hour Film Fest. Every year they take home a slew of awards and this year was no different. Here’s what the direction they had to follow:
This year the theme for the team was ‘Identity Theft’. The required prop was ‘noodles’ and the required action was ‘pouring out a drink’. – via Question Everything
They managed to win: Best Writing, Best Wardrobe, Best Male Actor, 2nd place: Audience Award. This is a hilarious and fantastic short, especially since everything was written, shot and produced in 24 hours.
Cookie the Ticklish Penguin
My hearts just about ‘sploded straight through my head when I saw this. SOOO CYOOOOT!
Via BoingBoing.
You Must Watch Portlandia
Two things have happened in the last few days: (1) Marc Maron, while interviewing Fred Armisen on WTF, recommended—by saying, in typical Marc fashion “I actually laughed in the first episode” or something like that—Portlandia, an IFC sketch comedy show and (2) I just saw this morning that the Vulture linked to my SXSW Live Blog because I wrote about Todd Phillips talking about their being “collateral damage” in comedy.
The reason these two things are connected is because of Brendan’s thoughts about Portlandia. This show does hit really close to home. Even though I’m not really a hipster, I hang out with a lot and I’m sort of on the hipster periphery. In this way, I see there being some collateral damage in this comedy. This show hurts a little, but not as much as it totally destroys me (in a good way). This show is amazing and hilarious. Check out how they open the first show.