If you’re super bored and want to see our new 30 second promo ad produced by our friend Evan Meaney, go here!

I get beaten a lot on this show.  It’s cool though.

This is the art director of the film Coraline, which I am so nerdily excited to see. In the meantime, thought, they are posting some really great little (almost This American Life-esque) featurettes on the staff of Coraline over on youtube. My favorites involve the tiny hair lady, tiny sweater lady, and the guy who really loves to animate lady puppets.

p.s. have you noticed shambot gets updated in SPURTS now? I have.

So yesterday, I came home from work to find Bill and Emma recording trivial pursuit questions. Apparently you can film your own questions and submit them online for a chance to be on the game show (there is a Trivial Pursuit Game Show, for those of you who don’t know). And so, we filmed them. And then I edited together our attempts!

In Pursuit of Trivia from bthompson on Vimeo.

DTW’s Psychedelic Tunnel! from Emma Brown on Vimeo.

I finally got a decent video of DTW’s Psychedelic Tunnel! This thing is legend among the Trithart family. I know that it makes no sense, and that it really shouldn’t exist, but it does and it’s AMAZING. Next time you fly through detroit, make sure you make the pilgrimage between Concourse B and A. It’s worth it, i promise.

all of you media artists out there. If not, you’ll know what it is when you read about on Wikipedia here.

Anyways, I somehow stumbled upon a video clip of Ken Burns himself, speaking about the Ken Burns Effect. It is very interesting, and even funny. Enjoy!

I meant to post this awhile ago, like… right after Thanksgiving. But it’s still after Thanksgiving so I think it still counts.

While battling my way to the front lines at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade the only thing that should run through a Star Wars nerd’s head was running though mine.

Thanksgiving Parade Battle from Joel Gillman on Vimeo.

baby’s first christmas tree! from Allison on Vimeo.

Lindsey and I went to the third night of this year’s Blip Festival in Brooklyn on Saturday night! If you don’t know what that is (I somehow didn’t), Blip Fest is “a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge.” All of the artist make music in the “chipmusic” realm which is basically kids who grew up with Nintendo/Sega/Playstations and now make music using the hardware of their old ‘toys.’ They don’t just play games, record the sounds and remix them – they actually hack these systems and program/short-circuit them to make all sorts of bad-ass songs. All of this is accompanied by incredible live visuals projected behind the artist. Thick bass, sharp blips and bloops, decently prices booze, a few ravers and a ton of nerds made this a really enjoyable show.

Sulumi, the guy in the video, is from China and is apparently a big thing. I hadn’t heard of him until we saw him there but now I’m hooked! I bought the only album he has on iTunes but according to his Myspace page he’ll have a new album out soon. Also on the list of awesome artists I didn’t know about before: Bubblyfish (also awesome), Cow’p (okay, kind of a lot of the same thing), Nullsleep (looks like Scott Bowman, crazy intense music), and STU. STU (or Stu?) is from Sweden and is a total badass. He’s super chill, a little nerdy, pretty tall, very Swedish and has fantastic beats, unfortunately I’ve had a hard time finding anything about him online. Though we met two European (maybe French?) people outside the place who loved Stu. I thought the woman was going to flash us but she was just drunk and trying to show us her Stu t-shirt.

(I’ll be posting pictures soon!)