How Pixar almost lost Toy Story 2

mike — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:42:20 +0000

Cautionary reminder that everyone, even Pixar needs to back up your work & verify your backups!

Backseat rock stars

mike — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:31:29 +0000

I love that these two kids totally bought into the video and didn’t they were too cool for school. Adorable awesomeness.

The two children in the video are my girlfriend’s son and his friend. A couple of months ago, they saw the GOYTE music video for SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW and fell in love with it. When they were riding in the car together, they would request it constantly and loved singing it. We joked about making a video for the song and the children loved the idea. One day, I set up a go pro camera behind my seat and when they got in the car, they saw the camera and got really excited. We filmed it over a few car rides and then I edited it together. -EH

every interactive designer’s dream

mike — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:40:37 +0000

Before After

Wordless Web takes any website and dewords it. Found at SwissMiss.

Dan Sherman did not recommend this to me in any shape or form.

Big League Shirt

mike — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:49:38 +0000

Reach into the pouch, grab a giant wad of Chew and wear this shirt with 80′s pride. $28 at HOMAGE.

for my fellow Mad Men

mike — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:19:30 +0000

If you’re reading this, you most probably went to ad school with me and most probably also watch Mad Men. If you saw this week’s episode, then I know you chuffed a little when Stan dropped that little bit of harsh realism onto your Sunday night.

Every week, Aaron Cohen at Unlikely Words writes a recap of the latest episode of Mad Men and Chris Piascik illustrates his favorite quote to go with it.

Buy this week’s ~~bitterness~~ print at Society6.

business or personal?

mike — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:34:13 +0000

Really digging this print from Ramsey Dau. A mere $90 at Poster Child Prints.

Found at OMG Posters.

Spill coke, get sticky hands

mike — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:16:08 +0000

Kill a few minutes with Coke’s Sticky Hands Toy.

heard it from the Slacktory.

The Dictator Endorses Mitt Romney

mike — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:30:42 +0000

Some great lines in here from Sascha Baron Cohen’s latest creation.

Found at Joe. My. God.

New shuffle finds some gems

mike — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:04:33 +0000

When it comes to music, I used to carefully sift through all of my playlists to find the perfect batch to feed to my hungry ears. Lord, that was tiring. Pat finally showed me the way and I said “fuck it.” I threw my iPod on shuffle & never turned back. The only downside to that is the official shuffle sucks. For some reason, it pulls up the same damn songs over and over again. So, you never get to swim in the deep end of your music collection.

But, then I switched to Groove as my official music finder and it’s been happy, satiated ears ever since. Groove hooks up with last.fm to find connections and give you new listening options.

That’s how I found these gems that were buried deep in the long intestine of my iPhone.

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White Rabbits – I Had it Coming

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Young The Giant – Islands

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Graffiti6 – Colours

Drink your impact

mike — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:35:07 +0000

For the vast majority of us reality-based individuals, being conscious of our environmental impact is an everyday part of our lives. So, we try and do better, but actually visualizing that isn’t always easy. That’s where 999Bottles comes in.

It’s a stainless steel water bottle with a brilliant counter attached to the bottom. Every time you refill, just twist the number & track every bottle of plastic you haven’t used. A pledge of $29 will get you the bottle & the app, so you can see fun facts that correlate to your number of refills.