Out w/ the Old

When the news industry had no enemy but itself, the hubris of Citizen Kane seemed the perfect metaphor. But then that whole internet thing happened, Hollywood became obsessed with rebooting everything shortly thereafter, and suddenly a vigilante-tycoon-with-a-fetish-for-print-media doesn't sound so crazy. Throw some action movie kebab on the fire, suggest it will debut in 3D, and well... "now you're playing with power." If the Coen brothers can inject their existential goo into True Grit, I don't see why the universe would have a problem with it.

BP Spills Coffee

As a show of faith in the ability of BP (or anyone for that matter) to clean up the oil spill, Upright Citizens Brigade presents you with some acerbic salve for the soul. After a long day of cleaning globs of petroleum off of whatever livelihood you've lost, what better way to unwind than laughing until you cry into your beer. Please, just be careful not to spill.

Love in the Time of Zombies

This Spencer Susser short features Mia Wasikowska (aka. Tim Burton's Alice) as the teenage crush of a young man recently orphaned during the zombie apocalypse. The tone lies somewhere between Shaun of the Dead and Gummo. But whether you're facing undead hordes or mere societal decay, who doesn't want a girl that can dispatch swift shovel-swinging justice?

In addition to shorts, Susser also does ads and he unveiled the feature-length Hesher (featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman) at Sundance earlier this year.

Motivation

According to Dan Pink, money just complicates things. All we really want in life is autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

RSA "Animates" play like a perfect storm of Common Craft (In Plain English) and TED talks. I'm hooked.