From the yearly archives:

2010

What’s Your Top 10 of 2010?

by Japhy Grant on December 14, 2010

This is the time of the year when fake journalists, busy with a hectic schedule of office parties and finding excuses to drink all the free booze publicists send them, phone in their copy even more than usual.

And if there’s one way to fill up a page without trying, it’s the Top 10 list. [click to continue…]

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The Proper Care & Feeding of Your Homosexual

by Japhy Grant on September 30, 2010

UPDATED: Do you know a gay or lesbian person? Then this post is for you. And considering that 1 in 10 people are gay, that means this post is for everybody.

You might have noticed that your gay friends have been a little depressed of late. Or maybe they’re outraged. Or, if they’re one of the many people out there questioning their sexuality or afraid to disclose it, they might just be plain terrified. Maybe you know why, but if you don’t, let me explain — and tell you what you can do. [click to continue…]

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The Cheat Sheet: 5 Things To Make You Smarter This Week

by Japhy Grant on September 13, 2010

1. San Francisco-based studio Soviet Montage has cracked HDR for video. What’s HDR? High Dynamic Range images are created by taking two (or more) shots at different exposures and combing them together, creating truer to life images in the process. It’s all the rage among photographers (there’s even a feature on the new iPhone), but using a beam splitter and two Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR’s, Soviet Montage was able to bring the effect to life. Why do you care? Because the results look like this:


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Searching for Godzilla on 9/11

by Japhy Grant on September 10, 2010


One of the things that has interested me since the early days after 9/11 is how the event would effect our national psyche; not in the obvious heightened security, fear of terror, flag-waving and nowadays, threatened Koran-burning. These are all obvious and conscious reactions. What interests me is the way the attacks have altered the national subconscious. In short, I’ve been looking for the 9/11 Godzilla. [click to continue…]

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True Blood and Mad Men are the Same Damned Show

August 29, 2010

One is about oversexed vampires, the other — oversexed mid-century office workers. Both are up for the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy this weekend. While on the surface the Southern Gothic goofiness of True Blood seems to have nothing in common with the Dostoevskian coolness of Mad Men, look under the hood and they’re the exact [...]

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The War On Stupid: Time to Publish a Magazine for Adults

August 25, 2010

TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults Exactly. (From The Onion)

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The Pitch, Or Why I Would Totally Write a Movie About A Slinky

August 25, 2010

So, if you haven’t seen this John August approved short video, called “The Pitch”, check it out– it’s hilarious. It’s also wrong-headed. Here’s why I’d jump at the chance to write ‘Slinky: The Movie”. (Hint: It’s not just the money.)

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Words, Words, Words…And Images, Too

August 19, 2010

I’m in the midst of putting together a collaborative video project for mae, in anticipation of their fall tour, ‘Goodnight, Good Luck.’ It’s been in the works for a while and I’m excited to get it up and running. I’ve also been staring at a lot of videos looking for inspiration (ideas to steal). This [...]

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America Needs a War on Stupid

August 18, 2010

We’ve become a nation beholden to idiots and it’s about time we do something about it.  America has a long and cherished history of anti-intellectualism.  Sarah Palin’s exhortation to ‘Mama Grizzlies’ is not all that different from Davey Crockett’s folksy speeches made on the floor of Congress when he was a U.S. Representative.  And both [...]

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Kanye West: Genius or Asshole?

August 13, 2010

I unabashedly love Kanye West. Mostly it’s for his brilliant ability to translate the bling-bling ego of urban hip-hop and translating it into a language that suburban middle-class kids can understand. Instead of hoops and glocks, Kanye’s fascinations include, if we are to believe the latest entries on his blog, “Dioni Tabbers by Masyuki Ichinose“, [...]

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