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In a future episode of the Michael Showalter Showalter, Showalter and Paul Rudd re-enact the I Heart Huckabees incident.
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Perfect moment shared on Vimeo: Michael Showalter watching "Dick in a Box" for the first time.
Wake Forest Demon Deacon appears in new SportsCenter commercial via Andrew.
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Patagonia
Glad to see Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia on the cover of Fortune this month:Posted on a whiteboard above the reception desk, is today's surf report: "3-5 feet, check water quality." Not too promising. Which is why most of the 350 employees who work at this campus, a block's worth of sunny, yellow Mission-style buildings, are actually in residence. Write "double overheads, offshore wind" on that board, however, and watch the place clear out.
Last.fm unveils Events. Personalized concert recommendations based on your listening habits.
Fort Wayne Quick Step Part 2, or why I love the Internet + interesting humans
Last week, I posted the score and MIDI file for Fort Wayne Quick Step produced by Andrew Estel, after I found the original 1861 score by G.W Mudd in the Library of Congress archives.Yesterday, I posted a link to an album by Nico Muhly, a musician I've been listening to a lot while I design the new version of Vimeo. Today, Nico Muhly sent me an email thanking me for the mention, and adding Enclosed, a version of the trio from the Quick Step, re-scored for celeste, harp, strings, bassoon and bell ...Nico, thanks for helping me advance this project. Your version is sensational. Download Fort Wayne Quick Step arranged by Nico Muhly. Labels: Fort Wayne Listening to Nico Muhly
I love Nico Muhly's album Speak Volumes. If you like good music, you'll probably like Nico, too.
The do-it-yourself place setting via Courtney.
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7 stitches
During our book release pool party, I cut open my eyelid and went to the ER to get stitches.My mom + a few worried people want to know what happened. Here's the deal: Jakob, Ricky and I wore these space suits to the party. At the end of the night, when I was trying to take mine off to swap out my wet trunks underneath, I couldn't get it off because the fabric got wet and tightened. So, I sat down on a tiled bench and a friend tried to pull the suit off my legs, but instead she pulled me off the bench and my head hit the floor. Although bloody, the ordeal was painless. Also, to my disappointment, the ER was nothing like Grey's Anatomy.
Wii Loop Machine: Loop, manipulate, and play music with a Wii remote.
'Faking It' released last night
New York Magazine: The latest book from the boys of CollegeHumor is Faking It, which teaches you how to pretend to be worldly for fun and profit. At a party for the book in midtown last night, the CollegeHumor founders were dressed in faux-NASA spacesuits — they were faking it as astronauts, although, frankly, we thought they looks more like gay-porn stars ...No kidding! We really did look gay!
Flight of The Conchord's Jemaine Clement stars in Eagle vs Shark. Feels like a New Zealander version of Napoleon Dynamite.
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TAL segment on Showtime animated by Chris Ware via Courtney.
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Noah's featured in the NY Times:
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Noah’s video represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time. The Fort Wayne Quick Step
So check this: I was searching through the archives of the Library of Congress looking for old maps of my hometown. Randomly, I came across the sheet music for the Fort Wayne Quick Step, composed by G.W. Mudd and published by George Willig in 1841. I sent scans (1 and 2) of the music to my friend Andrew Estel, who studied music at both Wake Forest and IU. I tell him I'm curious whether he can read the music and perform it. Today, he writes back:Hi Zach, Andrew, you/technology are incredible! So, I followed his suggestion and opened the MIDI file in Garage Band, an easy-to-use music program that comes preinstalled on most Here's the piano version I started. Ooohhh, a club remix would be insane. Post a link to your version in the comments, or email to zklein@gmail.com and I will post here. (PS. For traditional musicians, here's a printable version of the sheet music. Record yourself playing at home, please.) Project Submissions: Nico Muhly from New York, NY Mike Lemovitz from Tampa Bay, Florida Erica made video of her playing, from Canada Labels: Fort Wayne Zoom H4
I decided that I want to collect sounds, so I asked Justin to suggest a portable device to help me. Following his recommendation, I purchased the Zoom H4 from Sweetwater Sound.Man, it's cool. It records MP3 straight to flash memory. The sound quality is so good, I've already once mistaken it for the real thing. Listen to the first official recording I made. It starts with me walking down the tunnel to the L subway platform, approaching some bucket drummers below. Listen to the very end, and hear me approached by one of the paranoid performers! CV is moving!
We're now on Union Square. Here's some footage from the new space.
Next five days:
Austin/SXSW.I want to meet everybody. Let me know where you are. Nick Gray -- get a last minute flight, seriously.
Robert Reich, Sam's dad and Clinton's Secretary of Labor, uses Vimeo. In his first video, he describes a date he had with Hillary Rodham.
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Qdoba
Qdoba opened its first location in NYC (208 E. 34th St., between 2nd and 3rd).
CV & NYNM @ SXSW
CV is co-sponsoring the New York New Media party at SXSW. Details here.
Our second book: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself
CollegeHumor's second book Faking It is available for pre-order on Amazon, and it arrives in bookstores nationwide on March 22.It's remarkably good.
Not in Fort Wayne this weekend after all. The inbound airplane to take me from JFK to Cleveland hit a bird while landing and they didn't realize until we were already on board and fueling us. They had to cancel the flight to take DNA samples. Crazy, right?
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"You just don't get it " and Social Networking
Mark Cuban:Youtube is what it is. A very, very popular, traditional media outlet that provides its content on the net. It is video on the demand that is absolutely no different than the video on demand that comcast or any other cable company or telco offers, except that its user uploaded, limited to 10 minutes and the quality is awful. It fills a need as a place to find anything. It has done a phenomenal job of using user created content and user uploaded stolen content to create a huge, huge audience. Unfortunately for Google, it remains to be seen if that is worth anything. One thing for certain. Its not a social network.via Jakob. |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |
