Maniacal Rage

Our short film Forever’s Not So Long has slowly been...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:26:52 -0400

Our short film Forever’s Not So Long has slowly been stacking up laurels. Last week it was accepted by the DC Shorts Film Festival and this week we heard it was accepted by the 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot in Seattle. We were also pleased to be nominated for Best Short Film at the Hoboken International Film Festival recently.

It’s fantastic to keep getting into festivals. We are waiting for answers from three more and then we’ll have to start deciding which we’re going to travel to in September.

The feedback we continue to receive on the Vimeo page for the movie is amazing and we really appreciate all the support everyone has been sending our way the last few months. We just broke 34,000 plays on Vimeo (!!!), a number we could never have dreamed of hitting when we released the film in March.

Brad Smith: Once we know where, I'll let you know.

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:51:30 -0400

Brad Smith: Once we know where, I'll let you know.
Me: Just call my pillow phone because I'll be crying into it.
Brad Smith: :/
Me: I like how you keep using the "undecided" smiley.
Brad Smith: I feel it's a better frown.
Brad Smith: iChat's frown is downright sad.

Ego Review at Appmodo

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:28:20 -0400

Ego Review at Appmodo:

Very nice review of Ego over at Appmodo:

Overall, Ego is the ultimate all-in-one web analytics and social media distribution application with a powerful user interface that allows you to track Google Analytics, Twitter, Feedburner, and more all from your Apple iPhone.

Don’t have Ego yet? You’re a fool. Go get it.

"Billy Mays attributes the power of his on-screen persona to an incident during his teenage years..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:34:27 -0400

“Billy Mays attributes the power of his on-screen persona to an incident during his teenage years when he accidentally ingested a Caps Lock key from an IBM PS/2 keyboard.”

- Billy Mays Facts (via david)

Mr. Dinosaur Had a Revelation (iamblessed) I wish I could get...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:43:58 -0400

Mr. Dinosaur Had a Revelation (iamblessed)

I wish I could get this at wallpaper resolution.

Cleveland Again! (via sarahcooley) See our river that catches...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:14:46 -0400

Cleveland Again! (via sarahcooley)

See our river that catches on fire, it’s so polluted that all our fish have AIDS!

Equally as awesome as the first one. Maybe better.

Cleveland! (via sarahcooley) You should come on down to West...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:14:00 -0400

Cleveland! (via sarahcooley)

You should come on down to West 6th Street, it’s the perfect place if you’re a douchebag!

Awesome. And even better: part one of two.

Storyboards from Michael Bay’s The Great Gatsby Why? Why...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:49:50 -0400

Storyboards from Michael Bay’s The Great Gatsby

Why? Why does he call it that? It’s almost like you just scanned the book for words you thought were neat and added them into the screenplay. Oh, actually, speaking of which, is there a screenplay we can take a look at, or do you just sort of only work in pictures and boom noises? And, this might be nitpicking, but “it was the best of times” is from A Tale of Two Cities, not The Great Gatsby. Do you think that all books are the same book?

This made me laugh from beginning to end.

April, May and June Music Purchases

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:36:00 -0400

Noble Beast
by Andrew Bird

The Open Door EP
by Death Cab For Cutie

All Of A Sudden I Miss…
by Explosions In The Sky

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
by Explosions In The Sky

A New Tide
by Gomez

Knives Don’t Have Your Back
by Emily Haines

The Halifax Pier
by The Halifax Pier

Fantasies
by Metric

Time To Pretend
by MGMT

The Glow Pt. 2
by The Microphones

Volume One
by She & Him

Sun Gangs
by The Veils

It’s Frightening
by White Rabbits

I got a little bit behind in posting these, but now I’m caught up. Also, I’ve switched to using a modified version of Komodo Media’s Sexy Music Album Overlays for the albums, which look a lot, well, sexier.

Lots and Lots of Icons (click for expanded view) Occasionally,...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:03:00 -0400

Lots and Lots of Icons (click for expanded view)

Occasionally, since I started Prettify, I’ll get email asking if it’s worth buying CandyBar to manage icons. My answer is usually yes, especially if you have a lot of icons. But replies tend to make it clear most people don’t have a lot of icons.

And, inevitably, I get asked how many icons is a lot. I currently have 18,747 icons in my collection. So yeah, that’s a lot. I’ve provided a full-size view of my CandyBar source list, fully expanded. You’ll get the picture (you’ll probably have to zoom the image in most browsers, since it’s nearly 7,000 pixels tall).

Interesting, J.Crew. I wasn’t gay before I got your email,...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:36:51 -0400

Interesting, J.Crew. I wasn’t gay before I got your email, but it has got me thinking you might know me better than I know myself?

Brian Fling: Speaking of Nazi Zombie mode, my new strategy involves less focus on getting the ray gun and more focus on staying alive.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:30:12 -0400

Brian Fling: Speaking of Nazi Zombie mode, my new strategy involves less focus on getting the ray gun and more focus on staying alive.
Me: It's funny, that's my LIFE strategy.

Dead Snow Trailer

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:24:19 -0400

Dead Snow Trailer: Okay, so this is basically Call of Duty’s Nazi Zombie mode: The Movie. Ridiculous.

T (via yay!everyday)

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:50:08 -0400

T (via yay!everyday)

Truth (via tinyblip)

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:46:20 -0400

Truth (via tinyblip)

Auto-Tune the News #5: Lettuce Regulation (via smadden) God...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:49:31 -0400

Auto-Tune the News #5: Lettuce Regulation (via smadden)

God damn this one is good.

Shawn Morrison: I also don't really get it... they crossed out "not long enough" so it's just "forever is"? Is that meant to be deep?

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:28:09 -0400

Shawn Morrison: I also don't really get it... they crossed out "not long enough" so it's just "forever is"? Is that meant to be deep?
Shawn Morrison: Tumblr baffles me. How pictures like this can get 1 bajillion reblogs.
Me: Yeah, it's annoying.
Me: You could totally game the system if you started posting specific kinds of things.
Me: Like a picture of a landscape with text in a weird font overlaid that says something like: I WANT YOU TO WANT EVERYTHING
Shawn Morrison: Haha. Exactly.
Me: Such ridiculous bullshit.

Christopher Reeve as Superman (via steven.bonner)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:35 -0400

Christopher Reeve as Superman (via steven.bonner)

Tip: Force Quit Apps in iPhone OS 3.0 Due to some features of the iPhone 3G S (notably Voice...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:58:00 -0400

Tip: Force Quit Apps in iPhone OS 3.0

Due to some features of the iPhone 3G S (notably Voice Control, which requires holding down the home button), the shortcut to force quit an app in iPhone OS 3.0 is different from OS 2.x’s hold home forever method.

In iPhone OS 3.0, to force quit an application, hold the sleep/wake button (the button top of the device) until the “Slide to power off” menu comes up, then release the sleep/wake button and hold the home button. After a few seconds the power off menu will disappear and your app will be forced to quit.

Fade to White (via absenter) I wish I could get a big print of...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:34:29 -0400

Fade to White (via absenter)

I wish I could get a big print of this photo.