Strawberry Swing Music Video →

April 11, 2011

Shawn Blanc links to this amazing music video by Coldplay. Even if you don’t much care for the music (like me), it’s more than worth it for the stunning visuals.

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) →

April 7, 2011

Great stuff from Austin Kleon:

If I waited to know “who I was” or “what I was about” before I started “being creative”, well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

You’re ready. Start making stuff.

You might be scared. That’s natural.

Why I Run a Flat Company →

April 6, 2011

Jason Fried:

Moving someone up to a managerial position just because he or she outgrew his or her current position isn’t reason enough. Adding managers to the mix sends a strong cultural statement about flatness giving way to hierarchy. We’re definitely not ready for that now. I hope we never will be.

How “The Fighter” shot 35 days worth of fight scenes in only three days →

April 4, 2011

They used a crew from HBO that films actual fights. Matt from 37signals quotes from the DVD commentary:

And what I kept telling everybody is that HBO does it in one take and they don’t know what’s going to happen and they never miss a thing. We have the luxury of showing them what we’re going to do in the morning before we shoot it and doing it over and over and over again. So why do you need 20 days? For what? To jerk each other off? To touch up your makeup? To go in the trailer and take a nap?

Stephen Colbert, The Roots, Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Hicks sing FRIDAY →

April 2, 2011

Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.

Update: Changed the link from the no-longer-available YouTube video to the official version on Hulu.