Update: one more.

Over the course of my life, my relationship towards Halloween has gone through so many phases, it’s difficult to determine how I feel about it now.  Here’s how it’s broken down so far:

– Age 5 through 10. When you’re seven years old, Halloween is the single greatest thing that’s ever been created.  It’s almost seemed criminal how amazing it is.  I remember getting back from a long night of trick-or-treating, pouring my candy out onto the floor of my living room, separating it into tiers and making elaborate trades with my brother (since he had the less discerning taste buds at the time, it was almost always a volume-for-quality exchange).

– Age 10 through 12. “Are we still doing this?”  Hell yeah, we’re still doing this.  Are you kidding? Read the rest of this entry »

Great week for Portal A so far. We just shot the pilot to a new show that we’ve been developing for a hot/cool minute (which one is longer?) and we have a new intern in the office, whom I’m sure you’ll meet very soon in one way or another.

This morning, as I dialed up my typical 3-20 internet videos to get a feel for what the kids are watching, I realized that basically every single one had some reference to Kanye West.  He may have taken a short break from the spotlight following the release of “Imma Let U Finish” ft. Taylor Swift, but his dominion over the internet and popular culture has soared to new heights.  Here are some of my faves from the Kanye meme vault.

Comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates at a show in LA:

Aziz Ansari on Letterman:

Zack Galifinakis’ tractor vid:

And for those readers out there, Kanye’s Live Blog of the University of Phoenix Graduation.

Pretty exciting to watch a youtube video of a TV report about our youtube videos. This must be the awkward transitional phase between the present and the future. Love it!

Love the spectrum of how into it people are getting.

These opening credits to the 1983 action/fantasy show Manimal are hilarious for a whole wolf pack of reasons, the most obvious being that they run about 1:45!!!?!   They must have only had like 10-15 minutes for the show itself, which is probably why it was canceled after three months.

I’m always looking for new, easy ways to depict sharks fighting bears, so this is gonna be right up my alley.

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

I like American cities as much as the next guy, but come on, how fun is this going to be?