Category Archives: friends doing cool things

Micah Hahn, on Typography

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.

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Cacophony Society

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Stemming from San Francisco’s now-defunct ‘Suicide Club‘, The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.” They claim … Continue reading →

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I Hate Perfume

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

From our friends over at WorkBook Project Lab’s Radar series comes the newest episode about New York based perfumer Christopher Brosius, from CB I Hate Perfume. Brosius is someone I’ve been following for awhile, since he left Demeter and started … Continue reading →

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15 inches in Detroit

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

I ‘inchvested’, about a year ago, in Jerry Paffendorf‘s Loveland project in Detroit. I just saw a mockup of my 15 square inches (i’m guesstimating this property at 3 inches wide by 5 inches long), and now I realize I am … Continue reading →

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Send Camille to film school with IndieGoGo

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

My young friend Camille Manybeads — a teenage Navajo filmmaker from Arizona — just got accepted to Idyllwild‘s Moving Pictures Program. She needs to raise about $5000 for a laptop, Final Cut Pro, a hard drive and a printer. Help … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced funding campaign: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

I love The Yes Men, “a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce. Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, our targets are leaders and big corporations … Continue reading →

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‘Unplug’, now in blog and online video form

Posted on March 19, 2010 by

Confirming my opinion that the next big online trend will be to turn the power switch to the off position, I bring you ‘Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg)’ from filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (and everyone’s favorite cranky editor, Dalan McNabola). … Continue reading →

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Film Festival Secrets: PDF guide to Film Fests (free!)

Posted on June 1, 2009 by

OK my friend and colleague on the fest circuit – Mr. Chris Holland – wrote a guide to film festivals. Like a proper book. If you’re an indie filmmaker and you’ve asked me for advice in the last year, you … Continue reading →

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