February 2012
31 posts
Vimeo Festival + Awards Blog: Thanks for all your... →
vimeoawards:
Now that the digital dust has settled, we can confirm that the response this year was overwhelming — in a really good way. We received more than 14,500 submissions from more than 8,900 people in more than 125 countries. That’s more than twice as many submissions as we hauled in the last time we did this.
That’s a lot of submissions from a lot of people in a lot of...
dianaleopardwright:
danforth:
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women, though, they’re all ‘crazy.’ I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
—Tina Fey in The New Yorker
Inside Vimeo's Stunning and Snack-Stocked HQ →
ldeakfri:
Mashable tours Vimeo’s office….they dig our snacks and open layout : )
I have yet to discover the cooler with red bull but this does show our space in a good light.
Hollywood's Next Great Business Model: Praying... →
parislemon:
When asked why The Bodyguard was pulled from Netflix streaming following Whitney Houston’s death, Dan McDermott got the following response from a Netflix rep:
I just went and talked to my main supervisor as to why the movie had been pulled and the reason it was pulled was the production company pulled the streaming rights from us because all the publicity after Whitney Houston’s...
WRECK & SALVAGE: Tip a Filmmaker →
Let’s assume you are one of Netflix’s 20 million subs.
At the end of every month, you are presented with a list of each movie or TV show you have seen over the prior month. In addition, you can access the key artistic categories for each movie and TV show. Imagine the Emmy categories for TV and…
Watch(via Jay-Z & Kanye West - “Niggas In Paris” (Official Video) on Vimeo)
Love that this is on Vimeo
“Boston is really nice this time of year. Go there. But if you must come to NY,...”
– Best Yelp Response to “Going to New York City. What you do there?!” (via eoporto)
And how. Sometimes I hope a flood will open up and wash all the mouth breathers out of there.
“I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing–smart ones, stupid...”
– Liz Phair on Why Lana Del Rey Scares Rock’s Boys Club - Speakeasy - WSJ
WatchGrim Colberty Tales With Maurice Sendak, Part 1 (The Colbert Report) (by Comedy Central)
Make sure to watch Part 2 also.
“it’s got to be as bad as that looks like it is”
“the bed going up and down. your mother screaming. your father saying ‘shut up’”
“boys wear pants”
“not when they’re dreaming!”
“it is a...
Pinterest Often Confuses Me
I signed up for Pinterest way back when, I was excited that I got “justin” as my user name. I think it’s an interesting service and have been quite glad to see it grow in recent months. It is, by far, the place where things I share get the most attention/repinning. I fully appreciate the growing pains associated with the kind of scale they’re seeing but there are just...
