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Saturday, October 28, 2006

My youngest brother, who’s both taller and better looking than me, is in this environmentally conscience commercial currently airing on MTV. He’s wearing his favorite necklace, made of white shells. I’m no director, but why didn’t they put him in a hummer? It’s a 3MB quicktime file titled fallen-hero.mov. I grabbed this video from the director’s site, collarsup.com.

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Mark has a couple, quick lines in tomorrow nights Law & Order SVU episode titled Clock. He’s the goof in the middle right of this screengrab from the episode preview. Im assuming these are his first lines in a national program and consist of the following:

“like what”

“yeah? we already do that ”

“and electing a little girl like you is gonna get them to do that?”

It starts at 10pm, Tuesday, on NBC.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

“After 149 games, 91 victories and a summer of dominance, the time has come for them to be the team on top. In the second season of the Minaya-Willie Randolph regime, the Mets have taken the first step toward a possible return to the World Series and maybe even a rematch with the Yankees.” – Mets.com

I didn’t know a rematch with the Yankees was part of their ten year plan. I doubt anyone other than the media would throw that nugget in there; Sure it’d be fun, but let’s wait till next year for a subway series rematch. Luckily for me, we have both the Padres and Dodgers battling for the West & Wild Card, it’s only a matter of time before NY heads out here.

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Friday, July 14, 2006

I never found episode two, so I’ll jump right to three. This time it’s a 39 MB download – kids-on-deck-03.mov.

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Friday, June 30, 2006

Our dutch intern just launched the fruits of his labor at Sole Technology in the form of Spotcovr.com.

From Ivo himself:

Spotcovr is a place where you can explore skate spots around the world and add your own, complete with full descriptions, photos and comments from other skateboarders.

Get in there and add some spots.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Awhile ago I wrote about my brother Mark landing his first real television gig on a Yankees kids show called “Kids on Deck“. The first episode aired a couple months ago, but I haven’t been able to see it until now. If you’re in the east coast tri-state area, or get the YES network on satellite tv, check out the show on Sunday mornings.

Here’s the edited version of the first episode, containing only the intro & Marks part (kids on Deck, episode one 58 MB, or click on the image to download the video). Here he is on Flickr, wearing his true colors at last nights Met game. God, I’m such a jock.

Listen for how many times he says “sweet” and my favorite, “This is the biggest hat everrrrr”. Well, he doesn’t stretch out the word “ever” but it’s still pretty amusing. Nice work mark. For all you Yankee fans, know that you’ve been infiltrated!

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I did absolutely nothing all weekend except read the DaVinci Code. It’s only normal I think, when you’ve read only a single book in the last 6 months to then not put one down for an entire weekend. It wasn’t because I was enjoying it or anything, although I was; I just really wanted to see why the movie was getting such bad reviews, when everyone loves the book. At $10 a ticket, I made up my mind early Saturday morning that I was going to continue reading until Susan & I were ready to see it in matinee format the following day. She had finished the book just before me, incidentally also reading it at a quick pace.

I read in every room in the house, including the kitchen and on the roof. I read in the car, and while waiting for an order at in-n-out. I napped more than once, In a chair, on the couch, on the roof and on the bed. Reading makes me tired. I ate granola bars for energy. At points, I felt physically ill, but I pressed on. By Sunday, I had completed the DaVinci code about 20 minutes to 1pm, looked up show times and we were in the theatre for a 1:25 showing.

I think the movie was pretty good but I was having trouble not recreating scenes in my mind from Indiana Jones every time someone said “Holy Grail”. They may have tried to cram too many things in there. The story itself gets pretty cheesy at times and is in no way profound or foundation shaking as all the media coverage would have you think. Morning news shows devoted huge segments to people demanding Ron Howard add the words “This is a work of fiction” to the opening credits. Seems like a profound waste of time really. It’s just a good story, not much else.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

We launched the new etnies Girl site this week. Still a few things to do. There’s a few comments about the new site on CSS Beauty and The Colab.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

My first real foray into organized sport has come to a close. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. We played about nine or ten games, with our final record at 1-9. That’s one win, and the rest losses! “We Got Served” (appropriately, our team name) even had one game ending in a mercy call, as we were down by about 14 runs in the early innnings.

I played right field the majority of the time, a single game at second, and the last game in center field. Center saw a lot of action, yielding my greatest out contribution. The infield is fun as hell and I didn’t do too bad at that position. Not too bad, in comparison with our overall team play that is which as our record shows, isn’t so hot. However, I do recall robbing a base hit with a nice stab to my left at second easily overshadowing any fly balls I may have misplayed in right.

Overall, it was a great experience, the contests were never serious and everyone was in it for fun. There was never pressure for any of us to perform, and perform we did not.

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Saturday, April 08, 2006

We went and saw Cirque du Soleil, Quidam last night in Long Beach. I wonder if this is the only group of people who have devoted their lives to perfecting these particular talents. The guy whose life calling is spinning around inside a giant metal wheel, is he the only one? Are their other spinners in the wings in case this guy messes up, or would he be replaced by some less interesting talent should he pull a hammy?

Anyone who makes these strange, and I’m assuming rare, talents their top priority in life has got to be a fairly eccentric, slightly bizarre human being. It really makes you wonder what it’s like behind the curtains. Are the balancing statue people married? They should be. You can tell they have the trust thing down when she balances vertically, upside down atop his shoulders. They share the same presumably top interest as well, balancing atop other people. The Cirque du Soleil site reveals that they in fact, do not have the same last name. They must just be dating, or more likely, she kept her maiden name for the stage.

My skill, it turns out, is finding free event parking due to lots that are unequipped to handle credit cards. Parking like this tends to unknowingly funnel you in with no option to exit before you realize you don’t have any cash. It happened at a World Baseball classic game in Anaheim, and then last night in the Queen Mary parking lot. Just tell the attendent, “I’m sorry but I have no cash, where can I exit?” and they let you right in. In the future I plan on being unprepared for such unexpected cash expenses. If I actually had the money I’d never be able to lie convincingly, Instead I’d just shell out the $10 and fume at the high cost of parking. Knowing that you spent at least $10 less than anyone else in that Cirque du Soleil tent is second to none.

As we left for the night, we passed the trailer area, where all the talent spends most of their time, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone off the stage. You could see the empty cafeteria trailer and just wonder what it’s like when all these people gather to eat meals. It’s bound to be just as fascinating as bodies spinning from hoops in the air. It so leaves you wanting more. Does one talent think they’re better than the other? Are those diablo girls kids, or just really tiny asians? There’s got to be a documentary on this already. Go see this spectacle of talents you’ve never thought, and can’t believe, actually exist.

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