Ryan Moulton is a super-genius. As such, I knew it be awesome to work with him on something, so I ended up “Producing” his idea for a live-action adaptation of his high school web comic. According to Ryan… Hawaii Girl is a series of videos that I shot around May. We shot five episodes. It’s technically an [...]

Since apparently everyone is going to lose their job at some point in this economy, you might want to get your Karma up in advance. The Home Van (in Gainesville) needs bottled water, peanut butter, jelly, Vienna sausages, white tube socks, candles, tents and tarps, etc. They also need volunteers. Put all of that liberal guilt this [...]

“For some years I’ve been troubled by an apparent decline in the standards of intellectual rigor in certain precincts of the American academic humanities. But I’m a mere physicist: if I find myself unable to make head or tail of jouissance and différance, perhaps that just reflects my own inadequacy. So, to test the prevailing intellectual [...]

The Obvious Child by Paul Simon “I’m accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost its bite I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more I don’t expect to sleep through the night Some people say a lie’s a lie’s a lie But I say why Why deny the obvious child? Why deny the obvious child? And in [...]

Since I still don’t have my desktop up and running, I’ve been making room on my laptop hard drive. I found these gems: promo photos of Travis and my karaoke group, Just Duet. The whole idea, which was Travis’ brainchild, was that we’d perform a one-night-only show to open up for Inuit Jargon and Morningbell [...]

by Shaun Spalding This is the real America. Open range as far as the eye can see and thousands of miles of fence to keep you out of it.

This is a Please Respond segment that was supposed to be filmed in Orlando a year and a half ago with Kamphey, but we had to cancel on the actress because other people had already canceled on us. I still think it’s funny. (click here for more…adult content advisory…)

So I submitted this to McSweeney’s and it got rejected. Enjoy… (click below for more)

So I learned about a week ago that a video Kamphey and I did for SHARP Televisions called Smash Your Television got played on a German TV news spot about viral videos and new media. We gave the short version to SHARP right after we shot it and it was used as an internet promo, [...]

How Oil, Labor, and Government Mix in Mexico While Pemex has all the appearances of a real business, at least from the looks of its gleaming high-rise headquarters in Mexico City, the reality is that it isn’t permitted to behave like one. Aside from paying heavy tribute to the government, the company doesn’t have the freedom [...]