The Whiteman Brothers produce 29 films in 29 days

A couple of my best home-boys from Monmouth have been making movies for a while now, and this month they’ve been working on a project where they create a short film a day every day. You can check out the project at http://whitemanbrothers.com/pages/febfilms.html

Since it is a leap year, that’s 29 short films that are each conceptualized, shot, edited and posted within a 24 hour period. They are short, but 29 days in a row is pretty spectacular marathon of creative output. And today, after 15 days I can attest that they are doing a pretty damn good job.

Here is a teaser to the series, which interestingly was shot in my basement about a week before February started. You can also find some of Whiteman Brothers shorts on youtube as well as whitemanbrothers.com

Their latest feature film, “The Disgusting Little Shiver,” which was shot last summer in Ithaca, New York is having it’s Oregon Premiere on Tuesday February 19th at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem. I’ve included a trailer, but having seen the film does not quite do it justice.

My only contribution to the film are the titles, which I hand drew based on the titles from “Pat Garret and Billy the Kid.” Kind of a fun side project.

The First Sneeze

I was just cleaning up my desktop at work earlier today and found a file from back in January called “First Sneeze.xls”

Basically the purpose of that document was to keep a record of the time of day I would sneeze for the first time. I’m not normally a big sneezer but for some reason there were a couple of weeks where I noticed every day, right around the same time, I would sneeze. Having just recently read some Edward Tufte books from the library I decided to keep a record of the specific time each sneeze occurred so I could create some visual order to it later. Thankfully though this didn’t last very long and I either became accustomed to the building or something changed with the ventilation system. I stopped keeping track because there was no more data to gather, and that was pretty much the end of the experiment. Obviously this isn’t a very fancy or elegant graph but hey, it is what it is, a record of my sneezing habits for 11 days of work. The January 5-6 and 12-13 are weekends.

InstantRimshot.com is a questionable name

So after having a series of conversations with some coworkers I launched instantrimshot.com last week. The site provides easy access to a “rimshot’ sound effect for use in comedic situations. The only downside is that only a small percentage of people I talk to, even those who I consider to be pretty smart, know the term “rimshot.” Not necessarily a problem if they didn’t all associate the term with something slightly less work safe. Stupid Jerks 1, Scott 0.

Rare Dudebrah Headset Hottie

Welcome to the first in my series of entries I’m calling “Headset Hotties” which examines corporate culture’s fascination with headset-accessoried customer service representatives. This one is a rare screen capture from support.com which features a headset-wearing man-hottie.

Notice the air of sexuality that is suggested, which might be typical in creating the illusion of a friendly, welcoming support staff. That is certainly the case with the female headset hotties I’ve come accross. In reality, the quality of customer service might not make a difference if he is good looking, but going purely on instinct, I want to see a disheveled, overweight man with 20 empty Red Bull cans in the background. I feel like I can trust that guy to help me with my computer.

One phrase stands out here, “experience instant relief,” which also seems strangely sexual. Now the next time I need to experience instant relief all I’m going to be able to think about is some 20-year-old guy with a headset.