October 2011
5 posts
Support a new home for independent comedy in the... →
If you’ve spent any time in New York comedy, you know Carol Hartsell and Kambri Crews. Carol (among many other things) produces the ECNY Awards and runs countless shows; Kambri was (among many other things) the force behind Ochi’s Lounge, the much-missed independent comedy space at Comix. And seriously, those “among other things” are like, two dozen things each;...
I yell about food
Some dick writes:
While I often like Mark Bittman, like a lot of the recent generation of food writers (and, all too often, environmental writers more broadly), he talks down to the poor. As someone who doesn’t work two jobs, who doesn’t have to search under the couch pillows for change to buy their kids meals, and who lives a life of leisure and high-quality food, it’s real easy for Bittman to...
Olde English Apple ad parodies →
Raphael just reminded me that the first videos Olde English ever made were parodies of Apple’s “Switch” ads. Here they are, preserved in Internet amber, complete with Ben’s original web design.
(While watching, please remember: We made these nearly ten years ago.)
There are two things I would like to say about...
The first is that when my sketch group Olde English formed at Bard College in 2002, we were able to create, edit, and distribute our videos only because of the digital video revolution that Steve and Apple had a major part in bringing about. We pulled all-nighters editing sketches in a computer lab full of Power Mac G4s. We captured our footage using FireWire cables, edited our sketches using...
