Matt Stempeck

June 2007

  • Modest Undertaking

    Sorry for the silence loyal reader(s). I really need to set up a way to automate posting, because I spend enough time at a computer screen. That’s what my attempt at mobile blogging my cellphone pics is…but clearly I don’t know much about CSS…I’ll try to bug someone at work to help me get rid of that extra crap.

    Anyway, from the photography newsletter Photojojo comes this fantastic fanatic undertaking:

    To create their stop-motion rendition of Modest Mouse’s “Missed the Boat”, they took original footage from the group, printed it out frame-by-frame on 4,133 sheets of paper, then took photos of those sheets of paper with a digital camera. Finally, they assembled thousands of photos into a four-and-a-half minute stop-motion video.

    This is one of many entries in Modest Mouse’s create a video contest, which inspired a lot better looking videos than Doritos’ Super Bowl commercial for a much smaller bounty.

    Other entries

    Also featured on Wooster Collective, a sweet street art blog.

  • Red sox ice cream

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    Red sox ice cream

  • Brian unveils dove products for the whole family

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    Brian unveils dove products for the whole family

  • Cali

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    Cali

  • Bunker hill

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    Bunker hill

    Washington monument jr.

    Finally home!

  • What $18 buys you at an airport

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    What $18 buys you at an airport

    Going on 7 hrs between last night and this morning…for a one hour flight

  • Goodbye jess!

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    Goodbye jess!

    We will miss the feline queen

  • Immigration protest march on the White House

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    Immigration protest march on the White House

    A lot louder and bigger than this photo shows

  • Garbage Pail Kids Reincarnated

    Looking back, these were probably the most foul things my parents let us near in the otherwise innocent ’80’s. I remember not being allowed to buy the most super-disgusting Ninja Turtle villain. I couldn’t find a picture of him but I did find this one that my parents did let me get:

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    But neither were anywhere near as gross as the many Garbage Pail Kids trading cards and stickers we had.

    So it’s good to see that they’re back, complete with a make-your-own feature that was the most fun I’ve had this week. The customization panel is also by far the best series of tabs I’ve ever been offered:

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    Unfortunately the share with a friend feature seems to be broken and there’s no way to embed your card anywhere (it was animated so the little rat comes over and eats at the pool of maggots), but still fun stuff for a Friday:

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    Make your own.

  • Captain Planet Fun Time Land

    Originally the title of our yet-unaired Community Programming TV show, Planet Fun has now spawned a blog (like all good things). Matt Richissin now has a new forum to share YouTube videos, and unlike 75% of the blogs on my blogroll (including mine), it looks like he actually plans on updating:

    Planet Fun 

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  • Energy!

    sums up just about every energy drink’s marketing plan / advertising:

    with the exception, of course, of my “favorite”, the commercial introducing Tab Energy drink, perhaps the most offensive-to-the-female-gender commercial I have ever viewed:

    “because it takes a special kind of energy to be a woman” [images of girls shopping, dressing, eating, and getting into car with boy]

  • One block from my new apt

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    One block from my new apt

    Say hello to the only person you know living in southwest dc.