Scott Thrift and Ari Kushnir run an online video production company called
m ss ng p eces. The video series they produce for Cool Hunting won a Webby this year in the music/variety category.
This is part 2 of the interview with Scott Thrift. Read part 1 here.
Settlement Heart: What’s the wave of the future for internet video? Will people ever…
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Michelle Collins, blogger for Best Week Ever, who hosted LVHRD’s ARCH DL III and MCFGHT I, is performing uptown at Caroline’s Comedy Club on Thursday, May 31.
Bobby Tisdale will be the host for the evening of stand-up, short films, improv and sketch comedy, featuring the talent of Ms. Collins along with Reggie Watts and Baron Vaughn.
$10 cover includes 2 drinks.
Show starts…
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Details are sketchy, but it seems that two guys named Lane Buschel and Steve Bryant are putting together a Wii Tennis Tournament in Brooklyn on June 23rd, the weekend before the real Wimbledon.
They don’t have a location or sponsors yet, but there will probably be prizes–a Wii and maybe some games. There will definitely be beer.
Nintendo is in no…
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The inimitable Mia Riddle and her band are playing a show at Union Hall in Park Slope on Friday, June 1 at 9pm.
If you have not experienced Union Hall (not Union Pool) or Mia’s luminescent melodies (she’s in LVHRD MGZN 02), take this opportunity to celebrate June Day at an awesome venue–indoor bocce courts, fireplaces, regal library, backyard garden– and hear…
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Last night around the corner on Kenmare street Postopolis! began at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. We stopped by for a moment, slipped through slots in the open walls and heard Geoff Manaugh from BLDGBLOG speak on the spooky craft of blogging.
“If I were to stop writing BLDGBLOG,†Geoff said, “I’d be surprised if a year later anyone knew what…
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Just a reminder, in case you haven’t been waiting fever-fisted for the first glorious strokes of Summer:
Harry’s Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City is now open for the season with the freshest imported sand, volleyball, hot dogs, burgers, and pitchers of sangria.
You might remember Harry’s Beach from last year’s SLND CRS II, when LVHRD hijacked a water taxi…
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Scott Thrift and Ari Kushnir run an online video production company called
m ss ng p eces. In the past they’ve worked with Counts Media, Ghostly International, Treehugger, Cool Hunting, Flavorpill and thehappycorp global. They were the only video crew permitted to film the 2007 TED conference in California; the video series they produce for Cool Hunting won a Webby this year in…
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Remember to make it down to Storefront for Art and Architecture for Postopolis! at least one night this week.
Tonight you’ve got back to back pecha kucha presentations by Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), Dan Hill (City of Sound), Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat) and Bryan Finoki (Subtopia), followed by the opening reception. Starts at 6:30pm.
You should be there already, reading this on your phone.…
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We like to build things. Cardboard sets for our events, new desks at the office, walls at MoMA. We like to creatively manipulate our environment. Mold it with our hundred thumbs.
Yesterday afternoon we had a Memorial Day bbq. Chantal climbed up on the balcony and stretched a huge piece of white silk nylon fabric over the deck for shade.
After…
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Woodman from Turntable Lab dj’d a wild party at a roller rink in Shanghai over the weekend.
You can watch a video of the slip and slide dancing and marvel how these three words alone are enough to sell an awesome time: roller rink Shanghai.
Then look at the Turntable Lab Mustache Brigade post MCFGHT II.
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Hello, sun.
Look at these videos of the sun pulsing and wavering. You can stare as long as you like.
Thanks kottke.
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A toddler ruins monk art, tap dances all over a mandala in the sand at a Kansas City train station. That’s how they report it anyway: “ruining the carefully crafted picture.â€
We wonder if that’s the way the monks see it. A mandala isn’t about the finished pattern, rather the process. The act of creating lines in the sand is meditation. The…
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