And he proved it on The Graham Norton Show, with accompaniment by Take That’s Gary Barlow and the entire studio audience. Magic. (Via Neatorama/Laughing Squid.)
Sometimes, my mom attempts to channel her creative side and comes up with new and exciting ways to focus her energy into money making endeavors, God bless her.
“I’m going to open a bed & breakfast.”
“I’m going start a dog walking business.”
“I’m going to open a beauty salon.”
After watching this video, I now know it is important to knock her down swiftly and with as much venom as possible. If I don’t break her spirit and reinforce the notion that she can never, ever accomplish anything she puts her mind to, she might end up singing in an abandoned classroom with a few of my cousins.
Created by the popular (and immensely talented) digital director FreddieW, VGHS started as a kickstarter campaign where Freddie asked fans and video game enthusiasts to pitch in $75,000 so that he could make this series. Supporters blew Freddie’s modest goal out of the water and helped him raise over a quarter million dollars.
I mean why wouldn’t you want to pitch in some money to watch your favorite YouTuber make a series that sounds awesome? It’s about a school where students live video games (insert drama here)! VGHS is also jam packed with cameos from online and TV celebrities including Harley from Epic Meal Time, Zackery Levi from Chuck, and iJustine).
So tune in for VGHS’s first run on RocketJump. It’s also being released to Freddie’s channel on YouTube on a week delay. The pilot (above) sets the stage for the series. Episode two is expected to release this afternoon.
It’s hard to pick just one quote from this speech to demonstrate just how awesome it is, but as with many things Sorkin, the whole is even greater than the sum of its already awesome individual parts. And oh, what parts those are…
Sorkin touches on life, parenthood, his decade of cocaine addiction, the delicate passage of time, perception, and just how overwhelmingly dumb each and every one of those graduates are. Most importantly, he does it with his (patent pending) style of humor, grace, and humanity in the face of the overwhelming. These kids were lucky to be there, but we’re all just as lucky that Syracuse decided to tape and release this address because it’s – Sorkin fan or not – a word of damned genius.
Discovered RockyPlanetesimal’s beautiful tribute to side scrolling video games while at the Supercut panel at ROFLcon the other week. I feel better for having seen it. Hopefully you will too.
This thought-provoking short takes the already sci-fi idea of uploading your consciousness and imagines how corporate culture would corrupt it. Sometimes, the future seems like a scary, scary place.
When I was eleven, I saved my allowance for three weeks so I could buy “License to Ill” from the scary adults who worked the MusicPlus on Fairfax. Twenty-five years and many pencil-winding “surgeries” later, it is one of the few cassettes I’ve bothered saving over the years despite the fact I no longer have a tape player. (Other tapes that survived the CD-MP3 transition are “Trapped in the Body of a White Girl” by Julie Brown and the “Rock n’ Roll High School” soundtrack). So, here is a little Beastie love. RIP MCA.
Hey, let’s give Jay Bushman a big round of applause for his April picks! Some great stuff, amiright? I’m totally right.
And this month, we’re joined by the equally excellent Erin Maxwell! Erin is an editor and writer extraordinaire for Variety, and when asked to describe herself, she responded as follows:
You found me hiding under the desks of a vacant office where I made a nest of discarded Sharpies and laminated badges from past award ceremonies. I was raised by a roving group of temps and my only connection to the outside world consisted of a 2003 iPod from the Lost & Found, which only had eight episodes of Drawn Together on it. You spent the last three weeks teaching me hygiene and how to post.
That last part is definitely true. Say hi to Erin, and look forward to her picks!
Dubstep Warning: If you are not in the mood to club it out, you may want to hold on to this one for a midday pick me up.
The track is Delta Heavy’s ‘Get By’ and I know nothing about this type of music. But watching the games I played as a kid come to life and ‘dance’ to the beat makes this video worth a watch.
In case it hasn’t come up before, we at Here’s Some Awesome LOVE My Drunk Kitchen‘s Hannah Hart. We also love puppets! So here is Hannah Hart being interviewed by the puppets of web series Internet Adventure Hour. No spoilers, but things get a little meta.
