But this is it. This is where we start. Crowd-funded on Kickstarter; self-released on iTunes, Steam, and VHX. Our Edison is Steve Jobs, our Chaplin is Louis CK, our multiplex is VHX, and our Warner Brothers is Kickstarter. I hope you can be our Hitchcock, our Curtiz, our Méliès, or our Griffith.

I was pleased to see the measured tone of the White House response to the citizen petition about SOPA and PIPA, and yet I found myself profoundly disturbed by something that seems to me to go to the root of the problem in Washington: the failure to correctly diagnose the problem we are trying to solve, but instead to accept, seemingly uncritically, the claims of various interest groups.

it’s worth interrogating why we find images of over-the-top approaches to law enforcement funny or compelling A combination of anger as pathos (vicarious justice rendered), hero worship, and making light of authority?

The Comedy may be a challenging film, but it's one of the few character studies that has a clear focus and entertaining hook that will keep you invested. Heidecker was the perfect actor for this project. When he looks past his surroundings, you believe him. Sometimes making a joke is all you can do in a bad situation. For Swanson, life in its entirety is a bad situation.

Watch the episodes in this order: IV, V, II, III, VI.

An incredibly well-done dissection of the ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou’ soundtrack, replete with hyperlinks.

A plot walkthrough and an analysis of what the movie means. Good.

They're are distraught and stuck in a pre-maturity funk.

This is absolutely beautiful. "Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

Not so much 'debunked', but this article calls out Krakauer on a number of conclusions and omissions from his book (and the subsequent movie). To summarize: the poison/moldy seeds theory doesn't hold water, and McCandless probably just simply starved to death. McCandless had money and a map with him on his final trek, but the book and movie omit this. Also, one of the final self-portrait photographs might have a clue as to the "injury" alluded to in his final note: one sleeve of his shirt looks armless.

From Justin Ouellette. For future reference.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

I knew this was inevitable! "We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."

Great work, as usual. Understated, to great effect. Adam kills. The short bits are great. Want more.

Jim Carrey as a genius, the "representative jester of our time." "Carrey’s dream sequence of movies is a prophecy, a warning that this clanking ego-apparatus in which each of us walks around, this fissured, monumental self, half Job and half Bertie Wooster, cannot be sustained. Out of his own seemingly bottomless disquiet, Carrey writhes and reaches into the bottomless disquiet of his audience."

"Watch free documentaries."

Fantasy footage.

Oh no. Read the synopsis. What is this, Ghost World meets Fear & Loathing?

A variety of homespun video presentation software for all your art installation needs.

Check out "things for sale i will mail you" and everything else. Cute and creative and solemn and exuberant. Wonderful.

The page that holds the top scores of Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, the "Kings of Kong."

Typography in motion project for once of Vince Vaughn's rant monologues from "Wedding Crashers." Particularly well done.

"A Museum of Speculative Fiction-Inspired Spaceships." How big is the Death Star compared to Halo, or Marvin the Paranoid Android to Return of Jedi's Rancor?

Explanation and perspective on the looming screenwriters' strike from John August, a screenwriter.

Ending shots of old movies. Nice style and typography.

A great profile of the director, whose latest film opens tomorrow in New York City.

A masterful overview of the two fonts. How they look best and where they've been used.

A new one from Michel Gondry. Looks awesome! UGC!!!

A documentary on the interminable and massive mess that is the Iraq War.