Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar Feverish Velocity

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On Tour with Ghostland

My brother Alex is the coolest cat on planet. He works at home and on the road with Ghostland Observatory who have just self-produced their third kick ass record, and who are virtually constantly on the road putting on crazy laser-powered shows.
When the band was here in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I set […]


Sushi FTW

I covered a competitive eating contest for my friends at SeriousEats. Except that it wasn’t much of a competition - there was only one guy eating, and the record had never been set before, so it was pretty much a pointless show of extreme gluttony. But they had free beer, and Schlomo came with […]


SMITH Magazine Relaunch

My friends at SMITH just launched a new version of their website with all sorts of fun ways for people to participate. SMITH is a magazine of stories, and has until recently been mostly a traditional edited publication. However, after Larry and Tim had such success with their Six Word Memoirs project […]


sxxzsz - Dakota’s new video art project

My long time friend Dakota showed me a preview of the video project he is working on. Its going to be different each week, but the first episode he put out is pretty mind blowing. Its somewhere between a music visualizer and slow motion footage of birds flying backwards. I have […]


Command-Shift-3

My new nerd pal Amit Gupta just launched a new site where you vote Hot-Or-Not-styles on screen shots of web pages. Hilarious! He asked me to do a video thing that will be shown to people after they submit a site for judgment… I used Photo Booth’s new fancy fake green screen […]


REPLY YES IF MARRIAGE OK

For some reason, I am getting some kind of strange pleasure out of the fact that Katie had to wait to tell her coworkers I had tricked her into getting married because she didn’t want to take any attention away from the Internet’s Andre Torrez’s wedding.
Katie: haha, i just changed my relationship status as engaged […]


In Which I Link To Crafty Ladies I Know

Dear Internet,
How are you? Well, I hope. There are some new things I need to show you that I think you will like, made by friends of mine who are cool. You like to click links, right? If you don’t like to click links, then wtf are you doing all day?

My friend […]