Not only has everyone’s favorite Watt been featured on his local TV affiliate, but he’s right now on the front page of BoingBoing AND he’s in the most recent USA Today. There’s still time to get more parodies out there, if anyone is interested.
Un-freakin-believable, and a huge story for free speech, copyright issues, and blogging. Way to go, Justin! I can say that I knew you when… đŸ™‚
UPDATE: And, evidently, in the New York freakin’ Times. Very nice.
So I spent nearly all of today working with my old, non-360 Xbox trying to make it a useful part of our entertainment system. I am A friend is now the successful owner of a system running Xbox Media Center, and connected to my home network.
I already have an Airport connecting our music to our surround sound system, and we use iTunes to stream all over the house. But I’ve got a decent amount of video/photos that I’d love to be able to access on the TV, and now, I my friend can.
Overall, I my friend followed this walkthrough, although because of the DMCA and other laws, they can’t actually link to the software necessary (which means, of course, that finding it is difficult, but not impossible). Part of the software completely eluded me my friend (the bootloader that actually makes linux a possibility on the xbox). However, there was another version, not mentioned in the walkthrough, that allowed me to bootstrap myself into XBMC, and streaming happiness. I My friend has no idea how it manages it, down deep, but it’s played every single video type I’ve thrown at it, perfectly. No stutter, no issues…just played them. I’m incredibly impressed.
So my previous post linked to a digital short done for SNL by the comedy group that calls themselves Lonely Island. Said short was on YouTube for a short period of time before being yanked for copyright reasons.
The group that produced it was hired by SNL recently, and their hire was at least partially influenced by their popularity online.
A popularity that grew because they licensed their comedy shorts with a Creative Commons license, allowing people to share their work freely.
Which NBC is no longer allowing.
Even though the Lonely Island guys own homepage links to copyright infringing pages of the material they produced for SNL.
*boggle*
Ha! So NBC has their own stream up of the rap. Except: the quality is terrible, it’s WMV, which means windows only, you can’t blog it like you can the YouTube vids….jesus christ on a pogo stick these media types just do not get it.
Is SNL getting funny again? Cause this is awesome with a side of fries. Potentially NSFW, depending on how uptight your workplace is. đŸ™‚
Interesting…the above now gives a “removed due to copyright infringement” notice. Is NBC crazy? Seriously? Let me get this straight: they (NBC/SNL) get money, from advertisers, to broadcast SNL. These advertisers pay SNL/NBC a given amount for airtime to shill thier products, and this airtime is charged for depending on how many people watch SNL. More people watch when they think it’s funny….and this is FREE ADVERTISING FOR THE FUNNY.
Truly, deeply insane. Plus, it’s already up under another name:
I’ve been paying more and more attention lately to easy-upload video hosting sites like YouTube and Google Video. These two seem to have stood out from the crowd for ease of use and clean design…but I’m just baffled as to how they’re still around. If someone tried this business model (upload your favorites! we’ll host them!) with music, the RIAA would have gone insane. There are dozens of movie trailers up on these sites, which are owned by the studios. Why isn’t the MPAA going apeshit to get these under control? Isn’t it disingenuous of them to allow this, but complain about people sharing movies? Should we apply the legal resources of copyright evaluation evenly?
With all of that said, the point of this post: Democracy kicks ass. It’s a player/browser for video, easy to use, intuitive, and open. If you have a broadband connection, download this now and play with it. It’s addictive. Between the software and their open source hosting service, Broadcast Machine…this is my pick for “gonna be huge this year.”
Wow. I can’t wait for this movie….the effects look incredible. Is this the first time that an animation technique has been used as an effect over an entire film? The only thing that I can think comes close is Tron…other examples anyone?
While I’m not sure this has any ties at all to the David Fincher film of the same name, nor to the Chuck Palahniuk book….the fact that it might is enough to make me giggle like a school girl.
or here for more trailers and music videos.
I have found a new hero for our time. A hero that will show us the way…light our path….and deliver us from evil.
That hero is Nacho Libre.
Jack Black as a 1970’s era luchador? Yes, please!
Check out this interview, as well as yet another amazing pic. It’s directed by Jared Hess, he-of-napoleon-dynamite fame, and co-written by Mike White, who gave us School of Rock.
Plus, you know: LUCHA!
I’m so there.
This must be the finest film ever produced. Nay, this may be the finest object ever crafted by human hands. I await its arrival every day, and will not be a complete person until I am bathed in its glory and wonder.
Short review of the new Joss Whedon film Serenity:
It rocked my face right off. Seriously. I’m looking around for my face right now. Has anyone seen it?
Go see this movie right now so that Joss may make many more of these.