Here’s what an iPhone with a translucent clipboard in front of the lens can do.
Brooklyn
Power of concentration
Incredible footage from a game show.
Why wear a fake boob over your real boob?
From footage.shutterstock.com
One day two things happened. My container of Silly Putty became available, and I’d written a fake newscast I was ready to perform at a weekly sketch show. I’d created a news anchor character at a small network who was very concerned about low ratings.
She tried to enhance viewership during a live broadcast by filling the studio with 4 month old kittens. When that didn’t work she made an appeal. If the audience didn’t start goddam tuning in, they’d be responsible for putting a broadcaster out of a job, leaving her with just a pearl necklace and a Hot Pocket. She glared into the camera and vaguely suggested a knife was on the set. Continue reading
Louis CK on how to treat your crew
I love this clip of Louis CK. During a Q&A after he was interviewed at the Paley Center, a woman said how much she loved his whole “f*** you” vibe and asked what attitude you should take when you’re in production.
Based on the tone of her question, I think he delivered an unexpected but really valuable answer.
L’Interview
Thank you, internet, for this picture from Hangzhou
This is my interview with Hangzhou, China-based podcaster and entrepreneur, Rueben Marley. We talked about what sparks creativity, the comedy scene in China and my film, Slow Down to the Speed of Virginia.
We suspected a local bureaucrat of giggling while plugging and unplugging my Skype connection, causing adorable drop-outs. Good interview though! Rueben’s awesome; you can find him on LinkedIn.
Le movie
“Slow Down to the Speed of Virginia”
I made this thing with help from talented people.
What law diploma?
I had a few ideas concerning the Loosening Up of Attorneys for the Good of Humanity. Hear ye:
- Be on staff at a law firm. Deserve your great reputation as a valued team member.
- Have a compartment or bin that locks. Hang on to that key. Keep it on your person.
- Have a framed lithograph handy of a landscape painting by John Singer Sargent (a. you own it, b. it’s portable and c. it’s at work for some reason.)
- When do people get in or leave? Look around furtively. Survey the scene. I say survey; you say surveil. If you’re surrounded by boatloads of litigators, then surveil it is.
- One evening, go with a work friend to see comedian Patton Oswalt at a comedy club around the corner.
- There could be a 2-drink minimum at said club.
- One might need a restroom after mandatory drinking.
- The office is without dispute around the corner.
- One might need a restroom after mandatory drinking.
- After taking advantage of the beautiful facilities at work, why not remove an attorney’s coveted law diploma from the wall, lock it securely in an overhead bin, hang a landscape at a cocky angle then flee the scene?
- I suppose one could have hung a Robert Mapplethorpe photo and made the same point. Life’s not only about billable hours, people. Why not hold a muscular pose for a while?
- Live a little
- Move paper weights, awards, plaques, pens, a stapler and a telephone to radically different spots on an Esquire’s desk. Be accused of fatally messing up an attorney’s discovery process for a pending matter. Laugh and deny everything. This will be familiar territory for the attorney.
If an attorney is, how can one be diplomatic, a white guy with photographs of his white family on display, doesn’t it make sense to sneak in a picture of a child of another race, inching her next to his kids’ photos? How much discovery has been disturbed now?
And thus the tenderizing of attorneys continues.
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