Thursday, March 31, 2011
Fernando Sign a Ball for Me
A 1982 tribute song to Dodgers Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela written by Steve Gardner and sung by Bill Momone. From the baseball music collection of New York Vinnie Richichi.
Link: YouTube via Vin Scully Is My Homeboy
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Source Code (Opening Sequence)
Watch the opening five minutes to Source Code, which opens this Friday.
Link: Trailer Addict
See also: Source Code (Trailer) | mattmaison.com
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Tron 3 (Teaser Trailer)
Early teaser trailer for Tron 3 that will be attached with the Tr2n Blu-Ray. Teaser preview, which acts as a short under the name "The Next Day," gives an idea of where the franchise is heading next; and follows right behind the last installment.
Link: Trailer Addict
See also: Tron Uprising Animated Series (Trailer) | mattmaison.com
Super 8 (Trailer)
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Trailer Addict)
Written and Directed by J.J. Abrams.
Opens Friday, June 10, 2011.
Link: Trailer Addict
See also: Super 8 (Teaser Trailer) | mattmaison.com
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Video: Kanye West - "All Of The Lights"
WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Link: YouTube via Prefixmag
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
"Friday" Singer Rebecca Black Is a Millionaire
Since hitting the online music store last Monday, "Friday" has amassed a staggering number of downloads, reportedly topping 2 million; the song currently sits at #45 on the iTunes Top Singles chart. According to 101 Distribution, an independent music distributor, iTunes pays out $.70 per single download in the United States. That's a much juicier check for Black and Ark Music Factory; even if the numbers are exaggerated, the intake from "Friday" could easily top $1 million. What's more, Black is planning to release an acoustic version of the song to disprove speculation that her voice is reliant on AutoTune. Cha-ching! (Forbes)
See also:
'Friday' Singer Rebecca Black Is a Millionaire, Thanks to Us | Gawker
Rebecca Black on Good Morning America | mattmaison.com
Rebecca Black - "Friday" | mattmaison.com
Rebecca Black on Good Morning America
I'm glad she isn't taking everyone ripping on her song seriously and that she appears to be a normal teenager.
If you haven't heard the song yet, you must: Rebecca Black - Friday
-Matt
Link: ABC News
See also:
'Friday' Singer Rebecca Black Responds to 'Worst Song Ever' Label | ABC News
Rebecca Black - "Friday" (Unplugged) | ABC News
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sucker Punch (Feature Trailer)
Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences. (Trailer Addict)
Opens this Friday, March 25, 2011.
Link: Trailer Addict
See also:
Sucker Punch (Trailer) | mattmaison.com
Sucker Punch - (HD Trailer) | mattmaison.com
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Stop Anthropomorphizing Me
I am not a human. I am a dog. I can't talk. I can't say a full sentence. Not even close. I can't experience complex emotions, I can't laugh, I can't rob a bank, and I have no idea that my name is Gerald. I can't even write, people, so please stop this anthropomorphizing business this instant.
It's not funny.
The amusement you get out of this unoriginal, overused—what shall I call it?—this fetish simply boggles the mind. What is your fascination with having animals speak? I'm a dog, for crying out loud. My brain weighs three-and-a-half ounces. Three-and-a-half ounces. I can barely understand what's going on around me, and what little knowledge I do possess is based primarily on smell. So tell me, why do you keep putting me at poker tables and making me dance and sing the blues? I do not wear hats and I certainly did not receive my doctorate in media criticism from Harvard University. I can assure you, if I were ever given a diploma, I would eat it. So, I beg you, for the last time, stop this right now.
Read the full article at The Onion.
Bee Stuck Between Screen Door, Front Door Going Fucking Nuts
Link: The Onion
As You Can See From My Name-Brand Clothing, I Am Not Poor
The kind of name-brand clothing I wear is very expensive. See these Karl Kani jeans? Eighty-eight dollars. Would I spend that kind of money on a pair of jeans if I were poor? Of course not. If I were poor, I'd think $88 was way too much to spend on a pair of jeans that, with the exception of a tiny Karl Kani logo embroidered on the front right pocket, are practically indistinguishable from a plain old pair of $25 Levi's. But I don't think that's too much to spend because, for a well-off person like myself, money is no object.
Read the full article at The Onion.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Video: Rebecca Black - "Friday"
This is either going to be the hottest jam of the summer, or the worst song of all-time.
The suggestions on the right side of the video's YouTube page are pretty slammin' also.
Link: YouTube via Sharapova's Thigh
See also: FAQ: Rebecca Black and the "Friday" song and music video | Guyism
The suggestions on the right side of the video's YouTube page are pretty slammin' also.
Link: YouTube via Sharapova's Thigh
See also: FAQ: Rebecca Black and the "Friday" song and music video | Guyism
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Nuclear energy: Risk of meltdown
"If Japan, the United States, or Europe retreats from nuclear power in the face of the current panic, the most likely alternative energy source is fossil fuel. And by any measure, fossil fuel is more dangerous. The sole fatal nuclear power accident of the last 40 years, Chernobyl, directly killed 31 people. By comparison, Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute calculates that from 1969 to 2000, more than 20,000 people died in severe accidents in the oil supply chain. More than 15,000 people died in severe accidents in the coal supply chain—11,000 in China alone. The rate of direct fatalities per unit of energy production is 18 times worse for oil than it is for nuclear power.
Even if you count all the deaths plausibly related to Chernobyl—9,000 to 33,000 over a 70-year period—that number is dwarfed by the death rate from burning fossil fuels. The OECD's 2008 Environmental Outlook calculates that fine-particle outdoor air pollution caused nearly 1 million premature deaths in the year 2000, and 30 percent of this was energy-related. You'd need 500 Chernobyls to match that level of annual carnage. But outside Chernobyl, we've had zero fatal nuclear power accidents."
Link: The Economist
Even if you count all the deaths plausibly related to Chernobyl—9,000 to 33,000 over a 70-year period—that number is dwarfed by the death rate from burning fossil fuels. The OECD's 2008 Environmental Outlook calculates that fine-particle outdoor air pollution caused nearly 1 million premature deaths in the year 2000, and 30 percent of this was energy-related. You'd need 500 Chernobyls to match that level of annual carnage. But outside Chernobyl, we've had zero fatal nuclear power accidents."
Link: The Economist
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
Link: The New York Times
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
A Day Made of Glass
Watch "A Day Made of Glass" and take a look at Corning's vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it.
Link: YouTube
Friday, March 11, 2011
Video: Yuck - "Get Away"
See them live at Webster Hall with Tame Impala on Monday, April 25, 2011.
Link: YouTube via A Heart Is A Spade
See also:
Tame Impala - "Solitude Is Bliss" | mattmaison.com
Video: Tame Impala – "Lucidity" | mattmaison.com
Video: Yuck - "Holing Out" | mattmaison.com
Video: Yuck - "Automatic" | mattmaison.com
Thursday, March 10, 2011
What’s in the Box?: An Half-Life 2 Inspired Short
Link: YouTube via Geeks are Sexy
See also:
Escape From City 17 – Part One | Geeks are Sexy
Beyond Black Mesa: A Half-Life Fan Movie | mattmaison.com
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
U of A's Derrick Williams is 2010 Pac-10 Player of Year
Arizona Wildcats sophomore forward Derrick Williams is the sixth player in school history to be the Pac-10 Player of the Year for men’s basketball.
The Pac-10 announced its postseason awards Monday, with Williams taking the top honor, as selected by the league’s coaches. He averaged 18.8 points and 8.2 rebounds in the regular season.
Arizona’s Sean Miller was selected the Pac-10 Coach of the Year.
This is the seventh overall Player of the Year award for Arizona — Sean Elliott won it twice — but the first since Jason Terry in 1999.
Here are Arizona’s previous winners of the Pac-10 Player of the Year Award:
–Sean Elliott, forward, 1987-88
–Sean Elliott, forward, 1988-89
–Chris Mills, forward, 1992-93
–Damon Stoudamire, guard, 1994-95
–Mike Bibby, guard, 1997-98
–Jason Terry, guard, 1998-99
Now, that is also amazing. In a 12-season span, Arizona earned half of the league’s Player of the Year honors.
Link: Tucson Citizen
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sub City
It's a short film - a visual poem - about that moment in New York when you emerge from the subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. Sub City New York is part of a larger series that will be filmed in London, Moscow, Paris and Hong Kong. Featured in Gothamist, New York Magazine, and The Huffington Post among others | Redglass Pictures.
Link: Vimeo via SATURDAYS Surf NYC
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Beyond Black Mesa: A Half-Life Fan Movie
Link: YouTube via Geeks Are Sexy
See also: Beyond Black Mesa: Official Trailer (Inspired by Half-Life) | mattmaison.com
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Homemade Chocolate-Dipped Beer Marshmallows
Link: the kitchn via lifehacker
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