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“32” Taylor Swift Parody video
This is a video about growing older and eating cheese. As of this writing, it has 1.7 million views on youtube, which is outrageous exposure for cheese to receive.
I directed, shot, and edited this video for Fuse.TV. Jeff Kornberg & Elaine Moran (the girl singing) wrote it, and I was helped by some very awesome UCB ladies named Diana Kolsky, Keisha Zollar, and Amber Nelson.
The Preservation Society IS BACK!
I made this video starring Taylor Moore & Yoni Lotan as an opener for Pete D’Amato & Chris Mann’s UCB show, The Preservation Society.
I directed, shot, edited, and made the music for this video.
The Jackets“Cleaning”
Karin and Ryan are best friends, so when one of them has a dirty apartment, they team up to solve the problem. Sometimes, they try too hard and bad things happen.
I directed, shot, edited, and made the music (well, a sound effect, Shania Twain & Faith Hill made the bulk of the music) for this episode of Ryan Williams & Karin Hammerberg’s series, The Jackets
The Jackets - “Eggs”
Ryan and Karin are best friends, sometimes they help each other figure out important things, like where eggs come from.
I directed, shot, edited, made the music for this episode of Karin Hammerberg & Ryan Williams’ series, The Jackets
The Jackets: The President
Karin’s husband, Asa, gets a job at the Secret Service, so Ryan has to watch what he says.
I directed, shot, edited, and made the music for this episode of Ryan Williams & Karin Hammerberg’s series, The Jackets.
A Park Bench/Yesterday: A Tragedy In Split-Time
A man and a woman sit on a park bench. The man is convinced they were there yesterday, but he’s not sure. Maybe they were.
Hey everyone. This is a short film I made a few months ago and am putting online now. I really like it, but hey, I made it, so maybe you have a different opinion. Either way, this is worth watching if you like: brain freezes, The Beatles, or laughing.
Starring Emily Axford and Yoni Lotan
I wrote, directed, shot, and edited this.
Music by Emily Axford, Andrew Huang, and me
Mamma Mia!
Kris Gutierrez’s report for Broadway.com as to what’s so great about Broadway’s hottest show: Mamma Mia!
I directed/edited/shot this for the Mike & Yoni Directed By… show that I directed in June 2012.Written by me, Mike Antonucci, and Yoni Lotan.
Featuring Yoni Lotan, Mike Antonucci, Ryan Williams, Kevin Mead, four girls, & some people from Canada who walked by.
Commercial For Sunglasses
Starring Ryan Williams
Want to have more sex? You should buy some sunglasses and then put them on your face.
My company, melge media, made this (we wrote it).
I directed and shot this.
Commercial For Roommates: Toilet Paper
Starring Kevin Mead
Here is another 30 second commercial for roommates!
If you currently have an adequate amount of toilet paper, perhaps a roommate is right for you. Consult your friends for more information.
My company, melge media, made this (we wrote it).
I DP’d it.
Darren Miller directed it.Commercial for Roommates: They Eat Your Pizza
Starring Darren Miller, Taylor Moore, & A Piece of Pizza
Do you like watching movies? Do you like eating Pzza? Great! So do roommates! If you currently enjoy your privacy and eating meals that you earned the money to pay for, perhaps a roommate is right for you! Consult your friends or Craigslist for more information.
My company, melge made this (we wrote it together).
I shot it.
Kevin Mead directed it.
Need a baby? Call Zip Baby: babies when you want them
Kevin Mead, Darren Miller, and I wrote this; Kevin directed, Darren produced, & I shot/edited it.
Travis Helwig, Halle Kiefer, Jamie Cummings , Ryan Williams, Allison Phillips, Emily Axford, & Taylor Moore all did a great job, so did Haaziq, Brooklyn, & Violet (the babies).
Shout out to Ryan Rigley & Sam Fox-Hartin for helping out on production.
Come to My BBQ: A song about a guy who throws a Labor Day barbecue on his roof for himself & his friends.
I directed and edited this video
Kevin Mead is the star, Darren Miller is the friend (and producer), Emily Axford is the babe. Kevin, Darren, and I wrote the song & Justin Mathew produced it.
Steven Levine shot, Andrew Ford AD’d, Sam Fox-Hartin PA’d, Drew Kaufmann Grill Master’d, & a buncha folks ate and extra’d.
Grey Goose Presents “Outside Insiders” for Blackbook Magazine
Grey Goose wanted to showcase three venues in New York’s meatpacking district who had a firm handle on catering to clientele outdoors in the summer, so melge made this casual, homey video for Blackbook Magazine.
I shot, directed. & edited this video with melge, I also made two of the three songs.
The video itself is currently embedded on [every single] page of Blackbook’s site.
Yoni Lotan tackles the important question at Internet Week NY: What’s the deal with all these screens?
Video by me.
Music by Decades.
Hey guys, check it out: the music video I shot, directed, and edited for The Vandelles new single!
Mike Antonucci made the waves graphics & Kevin Mead was my AD for the bar scenes.
A Brief Monologue About Lasers by Jason Sudeikis
Besides being an SNL cast member & movie star, Jason Sudeikis is a frequent performer at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s ASSCAT 3000 improv show. ASSCAT 3000 is an improv form which begins with a monologist performing an impromptu monologue based on a suggestion.During the Blackbook photoshoot with him, I gave Jason the suggestion “LASER,” this is what he came up with.
Swervewolf’s Blackout Baby: Pedro y El Lobo
This is a video shot in complete darkness with $90 cameras from Toys R Us, it features Bumblefoot, the gentlemen of the Swervewolf crew, & some ladies whose URLs I don’t currently have.
Shot & Edited by John Fitzgerald and me
Oliver Lewis, World’s Fastest Violinist, Plays Kanye West’s “Dark Fantasy”
Last week, the world’s fastest violinist came by the Blackbook offices to play along with Kanye’s “Dark Fantasy.”
He’s pretty gnarly.
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My new album is out! It’s called Tree Land Is Gone and it’s about Pharmocalypse, the time traveling cycloptic alien returning to Earth 100,000 years in the future only to find the planet’s been rotted out to the core.
Listen here: http://pharmocalypse.bandcamp.com
Diego Garcia did some beauty arts for it and I would like it if you listened and liked it.
“Popular” by Masai
This beat is easily the best beat that samples Wicked.
Kanye made it a million years ago and then it disappeared, hello.
DEAR TUMBLR!
HERE IS MY SHORT FILM, “Speechless”.
It’s 15 minutes short, looks pretty, and has ROMANCE, BETRAYAL, and GRANDMAS!
I highly recommend watching this. Paul’s a great young director with a bright future ahead of him. Also, Uncle Mike is incredible and needs to star in every movie. Every goddamned one.
Paul. I hope you get to read this.
This movie broke my heart a little bit, and if you could make a robot, like me, feel that within a span of 15 minutes then you should make more movies. This was really good. Hope to see more of your work soon.I’m sorry to keep shoving this down your faces, but if you haven’t seen it please take a look! I worked real hard to try and make you all feel things and shit.
Paul film tumblr boys.
A group of Israeli female soldiers, still in basic training, are in hot water for posting a picture of themselves—scantily clad—in combat gear.
WAR IS OVER IF YOU SNAPCHAT IT
lol at least this peple don’t do war stuf at palistines
- A new Animal Planet special claims to have surprising evidence.
The History Channel made an adaptation of The Bible while Animal Planet claims that mermaids may be real. Every other channel fills their entire schedules with “realty” shows with full writing staffs that feature nothing but footage of clueless poor people edited together for the middle and upper classes to mock. Meanwhile, our news is either blowhard cable “personalities” able to hide behind the banner of “opinion” or local broadcasts interviewing the most pathetic and drugged up minority “witness” they can find, hoping they will brighten up rape stories and make a “go viral.”
But, no, let’s complain about how the new Arrested Development wasn’t perfect enough.
You’re going to look real silly when they tell us where to find mermaids, Jon. REAL silly.
I liked the new Arrested Development
We’re extremely proud to announce that our new series for Above Average, “I Expect You To Die”, starts this Thursday! Here’s the poster!
This Thursday? THIS THURSDAY!
KILLER
Why It’s Time to Rethink Web Video Entirely
Producer Adam Westbrook recently built an essay called The Web Video Problem about how cinematic video content is wrong for the web, and that we can and ought to recreate the visual storytelling experience on the web entirely. Toward that end, he’s working on web publishing house (Hot Pursuit).
He writes:
In visual storytelling on the web we are still talking about images in deliberate sequence. We are juxtaposing these images, either over time (in a linear audio/visual way) or in space (like a web comic might).
If we accept this definition of visual storytelling (in the purest sense) then it doesn’t matter if it’s video, a web comic or even an animated GIF - or a combination of all these and more.
Combine this with the growing capabilities of the web browser, and the connectedness of the internet, and potentially we have the ability to tell dynamic, visual stories in a way that hasn’t been done before.
This excites me very much.
The essay is nicely built and designed with bold, scrolling visuals (using the curtain jquery plug-in, which yes, is very popular these days and can be downloaded here for your own building pleasure) so that you can choose to read the whole thing or just get the highlights. It’s worth checking out.
Bonus: He provides some great resources on visual storytelling:
A good briefing on the principles of visual storytelling are featured in the second issue of Inside the Story Magazine, available here. If you don’t want to pay for the whole thing, this free articlecovers a lot of the same ground. Scott McCloud’s comic book on comic books is an essential read for visual storytellers. Craig Mod’s essay on Subcompact Publishing informed some of the ideas about thinking web-natively, as did this article by John Pavlus and this piece by Bryan Goldberg. Finally, Steven Benedict’sanalysis of Spielberg’s cinematic storytelling skills demonstrate what visual narrative can acheive, and let Steven Soderbergh tell you why this new thing shouldn’t become like the movie business.
Image: Screenshot from The Web Video Problem
I’m all about this stuff.
Definitely cool ideas here. I’d love to do a narrative thing like this.
OH SNAP, WE ON LAUGHING SQUID!
This is TOO CUTE! Good job getting the word out about the Internet, Yoni!
Yoni is my main man, man.
Hey Stinkos!
Check out this NEW video that Kirk Larsen and I made for Internet Week!
This one as alotta fun!
yoni is a delight.
This was fun! Yoni is the best.
A repost vis a vis the tragedy in Oklahoma. I’ll finish writing out some thoughts about today’s other thing some other time.
Some people in my family were killed more than ten years ago by a tornado in Alabama, and some survived. Those who died, died bad, and the repercussions resonated through three families and several generations of those families. That tragedy will continue to have consequences for the direct and indirect survivors well beyond my experience, and the particular, personal details of that story are not mine to tell. Cathartic as it might be for me, I don’t believe you get to own everything you encounter.
There are some things I can talk about. Growing up in the south gives you a fascination with tornadoes. They are evil in intent and mythic in scale, fickle beasts, revered and feared in an almost spiritual way. As kids, before you really know the destruction they cause, and if you are lucky enough to never really live through one, tornado warnings are exciting. We would huddle in the hallways in school, not-so-secretly thrilled about the electric suspense we imagined in the air. In almost all cases nothing came of it. A lot of time, resources, and attention are spent warning people in the south about severe weather in general and tornadoes in particular. Watching weather reports, interpreting weather radar — these are regional obsessions when a storm is lurking.
In that storm a decade ago, I was in Birmingham while it passed north. I remember looking out my window in that direction at the line of clouds in the distance, and even though I couldn’t see any funnels, there was a distinctive, disturbing characteristic of colossally severe weather: purple clouds. Not just some kind of very dark blue, but incandescent purple. Electric.
After, I went out with family and friends to deal with some of the damage, in a rural area. That tornado was a jumper. Unlike the massive, linear tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa, this tornado was erratic, changing direction and lifting back up into the sky, and coming down again like a hammer. It would tear through a stretch of woods or along a road, then jump, and re-descend a couple miles away.
I’m not sure that mattered much when it came to people escaping. Many had no idea a storm was coming. For some who did, it made no difference. One report I remember from the aftermath news came from a man in a very small town that was mostly erased by the tornado. He told the paper how his neighbor, an elderly man living alone, was always paranoid about tornadoes. The old man was partly disabled, so the neighbor would check on him whenever there was a storm. He did this as the tornado approached the town; the old man was terrified, inconsolable. When it became obvious that a real tornado was coming, the neighbor realized he had to get back to his house to see to his own family. He tried to bring the old man, but he wouldn’t come. Finally the neighbor got the old man into a closet for some protection. Even though he wouldn’t leave, the old man pleaded with the neighbor to stay. But the neighbor had to go. The tornado came and spared the neighbor’s house, but the old man’s was reduced to kindling, scraped down to the bare foundations. The old man was dead. The thing that frightened him most in the world had killed him.
Tornado winds are strong beyond anything we imagine air to be capable of. The Fujita Scale (and the newer Enhanced Fujita Scale) are levels that at first glance are based on increasing wind speed. But that’s just a guess — a symptom. The Fujita Scale is a scale of damage, a measure of destruction after the fact, with the wind speed just what we imagine might have done the destroying. Tornadoes at the F4 level and up are strong enough to peel pavement off highways. But it’s almost academic trying to classify tornadoes after a certain point, because the destruction is so total that it’s very hard to tell if, say, that car was just flipped over and crushed, or flipped over and thrown into a building, then thrown somewhere else. Try filling up a garbage bag with wineglasses and throwing it across the room, then dumping them out. Would someone who saw the broken glasses know if they’d been thrown, or just dropped on the floor? Or stepped on?
At those high levels of strength, you may not survive a tornado even if you’re not picked up or crushed, because everything becomes a bullet. The cliche of straws being punched through trees is not a joke. The winds drive walls of shrapnel as deadly as any IED. When I was cleaning up after that tornado, I saw a half-smashed cinderblock building with lots of irregular, broken bricks along one face. But they weren’t bricks — they were car batteries embedded in the wall.
It’s hard to wrap your head around storms like this because there is so little we can do about them. There is no such thing as a tornado-proof building, at least not aboveground. I think that’s why tornadoes are so strong and scary, psychologically. We’ve learned all we’re ever going to learn about surviving them. And for those who don’t survive, it wasn’t enough and never will be.
My family moved to Oklahoma two weeks after the 1999 tornado. My father, however, moved there two days before it struck. We were in Tulsa, not OKC, but — having not visited the state yet — my brothers and I had no conception of the range of the tornado back then, or whether our dad was safe or not (he was).
Because of that (probably undue) scare, the devastation in Moore back thirteen years ago burrowed a fear deep in our hearts that never allowed my family the electric anticipation Chris felt in his elementary years. The mere thought of winds ripping life from its mooring made me curse that hellhole I used to live in and I’m glad my family escaped the tornado belt. For those who weren’t so lucky, I wish them the best and hope the kids trapped in that school make it out as best as possible.
david karp sold tumblr to yahoo for a large sum of money so he could then spend that money on getting every copy of this picture deleted from the internet forever
Man fuck man.
Winner, winner, chicken and rice for dinner and for sexing. Join me in determining the sex of this american classic.
Thanks you for watching and sharing Sex Your Food! It;s been one wild ride. We will return for Sex Your Food Season, Too! in summer 2013.
“What a long strange trip it’s been!” -Dr. Seuss
Dear god, could it be true? Sex Your Food Season 1 is through?
Who could knew and who could too? Look at this and look at you.
Chicken and rice
I’m sorry for not finding this album a couple hours earlier when you guys were all still at work.
HAPPY SOUL FRIDAY. ITS NEW CHARLES BRADLEY TIME!
CLICK PLAY. LET HAPPY. GOOD WEEKEND 4 U.
SIMPLE SOUL MATH.
Sorry, blogging this again because YISS.
Do it.
In 2010, I shot my thesis and screened it once. 3 years later of fine tuneing and it’s just about done! I am screening it for the first time since tonight at @paulbriganti’s birthday film festival at videology. 9:00. Come by! Poster by @danielspenser
Hi Haters.
I’ll be there
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- 16 tracks
Download100,000 years in the future, Pharmocalypse returns to Earth to find a decimated orb, just beginning to create new forms of life. This is the chronicle of his explorations over, across, and around this new Earth. - 15 tracks
DownloadLong after the fall of organic life, four robot best friends lose contact with the psychic robot mainframe. Pharmocalypse's The Unknowable tracks their pan-universal quest to discover what has happened.
