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Will Femia 150 days ago
Hey I just got back from Argentina. Did I miss anything?All this Michael Jackson memorializing reminded me of a chart of sampling that's been done of his songs that was viral a little while ago. I didn't realize it at the time but the guy who made it does these "sample maps" has a whole bunch of them. Also interesting to read how it went viral.I also liked this "Origins of the Moonwalk" video.Less cool but I still watched it, Billie Tweets.And I imagine this year's Thrill 2009 will be well attended.Just...(read more)
Will Femia 177 days ago
Insane. I wouldn't even do the gorilla stunt but the tattoo? That's just insane. (That said, at the recent International Tattoo Convention in New York City, one of the most common sights was cover-up work, so maybe this guy is giving himself a mental "out" with the idea that he might do a big sleeve to cover it one day. The part I don't get is that the phone is only $200. Surely that tattoo cost at least that much. Steve Martin's business card Remember those "literal video" spoof songs that...(read more)
Will Femia 177 days ago
While it's not typical for a TV show's Web support to contribute much to the actual on-air content, last week I got to participate in the production of a segment about an effort to plot as much as we know about North Korea on a Google Earth map file. The segment was based on this Wall Street Journal piece but you can download the file directly from the blog of one of the main participants in the project here. If you aren't able to make Google Earth work for whatever reason* I plotted...(read more)
Will Femia 189 days ago
Tight day today so I'm not sure I'll be able to post a longer list later but a few quick must-shares right now:RunPee allows you to look up movies to find out when is a good time to get up and pee and also describes what you'll be missing while you're up.Read Infinite Jest this summer! I'm on page 807 so I should be done soon but I'll still probably follow this group just to see what people are saying. Holding the bulk of the book in my left hand as I read instills a feeling akin to the week before...(read more)
Will Femia 190 days ago
New NY Times photoblog - "The New York Times introduces Lens, a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting: in photographs, videos, audio slide shows and other formats."From the above: This scene of everyone rushing in to get their shot is familiar. The few times I've been in a photojournalistic situation with other photographers the energy has been very similar.Tweeting too hard - I don't know how this algorythm works but the results...(read more)
