(Above photo by Lloyd Bishop)
GUYZ! THIS IS HAPPENING TOMORROW NIGHT! Do you have your reservations yet? Well click that pic and make it happens. Look at this line-up, sons.
Alison Bennet
Frank Heijl
Mary Grill
John Milhiser
Carla Rhodes
Steve Soroka
Cory Cavin
Josh Lay
John Milhiser
Steve Soroka
Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting
Eliot Glazer (maybe you just saw him in a teeny tiny video called ‘Sh*t New Yorkers Say”
Hosted by yours truly!
This is happening tomorrow night! Come see the fun!
The Avett Brothers - ‘Denouncing November Blue’ live at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
I directed this video of The Avett Brothers playing live backstage at Late Night. It was so much fun and believe it when anyone tells you that The Avett Brothers are the nicest people on earth. Being fellow North Carolinians, we were able to swap high school stories, including one about their high school playing my high school in soccer and it erupting into a bench clearing brawl. Uh-mazing.
Major thanks to the LNJF staff especially Josh Lay for helping out producing and Edmond Hawkins and Justin Ulbrich for shooting and collaborating with me on it.
There are so many things about this video.
(*someone grew up skateboarding)
I haven’t checked it out, but I’m sure that’s what Smash is.
I randomly clicked on my tumblr inbox and found this message.
If you need to tell someone something important, by all means, do it today.
It works like this:
1. Ask someone a question - “Hey do you remember when you did that thing…?”
2. When they answer yes, you simply reply “IT WAS THEN THAT I CARRIED YOU”.
Try it out on your friends.
8PM at The Woods in Williamsburg tonight. FREE! Get psyched!
“Goodbye mailbox.”
If you were at the Portlandia panel today at the Paley Center, Julie Klausner brought up our shared love for the “TAT’S ALL FOLKS” ending to their recent Eddie Vedder sketch. She also quickly mentioned the ending of THIS sketch from The State. Truly one of my favorite scenes of all time. I used this as an example when I used to teach sketch writing at UCB. Basically, if you don’t like this… you’re a TERRIBLE PERSON.
I unfortunately missed the Portlandia Paley Center Panel but I’m glad I was THERE IN SPIRIT obviously.
“Goodbye mailbox.”
GOOD NEWS, me and Josh’s comedy show is back!! Next Monday, 1/23/12, 8PM at The Woods in Williamsburg!
Get ready for a fun show! We’ve got an awesome lineup, a sweet venue, tacos, $1 beers and $3 drinks before 8pm. Come be a part of the all new GOOD NEWS show. Stay for the haha’s!
The Avett Brothers backstage warming up for sound check! (Taken with instagram)
The Avett Brothers are on the show today and they did a little backstage jam for us. Stay tuned.
It’s coming.
GOOD NEWS IS COMING BACK.
Free show next Monday the 23rd e’erbody.
MODEL WIFE EPISODE 3 - “BEDROOM”
It’s here! Episode 3. Karme tries to occupy herself while Cory gets work done before bed. More episodes on modelwifeshow.com.
Shot by Matt Katsolis. Starring Karme Boixadera, Cory Cavin, Bill Grandberg, Josh Lay. Sound by John MacDonald. B Camera by Ryan Patch. Boom Operator, Andrew Koller. Hair & Makeup by Brianne McDowell.
Skateboarding is Magic!
Actually, it’s physics! And today I’m going to use my younger brother, Tommy, to illustrate this fact. He is an avid skateboarder, and he is also the airborne dude pictured above.
Let’s talk about this sick ollie he is doing over a pal. In order to get the board into the air, he actually applies force downward when he bends down and prepares to jump. The thing is, anyone who has taken an intro physics class knows that if you apply force in one direction, equal and opposite force is applied in the other direction. When Tommy bends down, he instinctively pushed the majority of his weight down on his back foot while lifting his front foot up and away from the board. Voila! The ground exerts force back on the board, and the second he lifts up his back foot, he has liftoff.
Once this board is in the air, Tommy moves his front foot up along the board, using the frictional force between the board and his shoe to urge the board even higher into the air. If you look closely at this picture, this is why Tommy has his front foot touching the board, and his back foot is slightly raised above the board.
Now, he just needs to sit back, wait for this board to reach it’s maximum height, and then let gravity take him and the board down. The bad news? Once he lands, the ground will exert the same force on him as the force he and his board exerted on the way down. Knowing he and the board weigh 78kg, and guessing that he is falling from about 1.7 meters, we can calculate that he will hit the ground with (1.7m)(9.8m/s^2)(78kg) = 1300 Joules of energy.That means the force of impact on his body is about 10 times that, so 13,000N. That’s about 3,000 pounds of force. A lot of that will be transferred to the wheels, but still.
His knees will be absorbing most of that shock, so skateboarders, please wear properly cushioned shoes, and change them on the regular when they begin to thin!
The answer to the age old question “how do you get the board to stick to your feet like that?”
(via amandalynferri)
