The Off Camera show recently wrapped their latest season with a pretty massive interview with Robert Downey, Jr. While that's certainly worth a watch, I would like to steer you to the prior episode with Scoot McNairy. Ole Scoot only came across my radar recently with his performance in the third season of True Detective but that inspired me to go back and finally catch up on Halt and Catch Fire, in which he gives a phenomenal performance.
The above video is just a little teaser of the conversation but you can hear the whole interview for free as a podcast or buy the video version over on their site.
For the last 800 days, @meganamram has posted this tweet every day. So I scraped those 800 tweets and put it in a spreadsheet to make some charts, like a normal person. https://t.co/pvGOfhXAV6
there is a direct to video movie from the late '80s that Nicolas Cage randomly appears in. this is the entirety of his performance. https://t.co/j0YcJSJ8Oy
I try to refrain from posting about every new podcast I help distribute via We Own This Town here on the ole blog but sometimes I just can't help myself. The latest episode of My Fantasy Funeral should not be missed.
Guest Spencer Cullum, Jr is a pedal steel player from Essex that stalked BJ Cole to learn his trade (Cole was Elton John's pedal steel player). He shares the selections of songs he'd have played at his funeral and how he'd give away prizes during his eulogy. For a show about how you'd design your funeral, this is a particularly light and fun episode.
Bonus, he gets into some Cockney rhyming slang that's hilariously educational.
I am a grown man who purchased this beauty from Mega Milkshakes and I don’t care that the old man in the background appears to be incredibly disappointed with this particular life choice. https://t.co/53MC4rMt1s
Re my @NewYorker cover: the bathroom I designed when we moved to Berlin
Kids were so in love with the NYC subway wanted to ease the transition.
When first showed it to my then 6 year old, he looked at it for 20 secs, then said „the JMZ trains are missing“ turned around and left. https://t.co/o5nBkWBJZk
Yesterday, I accidentally worked for three straight hours in total silence and the realization of what I had done and how productive I had been chilled me to my core. https://t.co/mQlAv4Q8vi
Slow week on the ole yewknee blog. Been neck deep in work projects and other things! Like, releasing podcasts, dropping hints, helping get new things out into the world. This all plays in to my constant contemplation about the role of blogs. Ideas are still forming around this but if you have thoughts on blogs, please get at me.. that is, assuming you see this here on the blog.
Anyway, here's some funs.
Where Are All The Bob Ross Paintings? - great mini-doc piece from the NYT investigating where the thousands of Bob Ross paintings went and why you can't buy them. Good to see Aaron Byrd pop up in there.
CATS trailer - I was fortunate enough to see CATS on Broadway and, lemme tell ya, this is the correct way to make a movie of it. Absolutely insane mixed with unbelievably self-serious.
A Spacesuit Ballet - this week was the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. Doing some research on the original space suits reveals that many companies bid on the job and came up with some pretty amazing designs. This ridiculous video compiles many of them.
We Fixed the Worst VFX Shot Of All Time - these pieces from Corridor Crew have been popping up in my YouTube feed a lot lately and I'm bizarrely into them. They spend some time here re-working the infamously awful CG shot of The Rock as The Scorpion King.
The World's Worst Translator - I didn't think I'd like seeing Arturo Castro as anyone except Jaimé on Broad City but his show on Comedy Central has been consistently entertaining.
here are the three different covers i created for 65daysofstatic's (@65dos) forthcoming new LP entitled:
replicr, 2019
these covers are for the vinyl, CD and digital editions of the record and will, we hope, speak for themselves more and more in the coming days. https://t.co/Xjs6D4QHST
