Our first Improv Everywhere mission of the year!  For full effect, watch it without your pants on.

charlietodd:

Here is the official video for this year’s No Pants Subway Ride.  Nearly 4,000 people rode the New York City subway in their underwear in the middle of winter.  This was the 11th annual ride, and it also happened in 59 other cities around the world in 27 countries.

Full report with photos at Improv Everywhere

Mmmmm Portlandia.

thirtydollarproject:

A slightly more aggressive version of my daily conversations. Kidding! (Sorta. DID YOU READ THE MARRIAGE PLOT?!) 

thechrisgethardshow:

TCGS #28 - Ruin This Show

Chris has to deal with the consequences after going on national television and announcing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon that he wanted everyone to come to the next taping of TCGS and attempt to ruin the show. No touching the panel. No touching equipment. Everything else was fair game. What resulted was a cacophony of chaos as performers and audience members alike came out in droves to ruin the Chris Gethard Show. Chris’ only ally for the night was CollegeHumor’s Jeff Rubin who made his first appearance on the show and waded through the insanity with Chris. Aside from Jeff the only other rest from the chaos were the amazing and hilarious dance routines of the bad-ass Cocoon Central Dance Team. In the end, Chris asked the audience to ruin the show, and the audience delivered. Consider this show ruined.

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A lowlight of my run on this series happened last night, when Chris and I exchanged prolonged glances of disappointment throughout the night.  

But in the weird world of Chris Gethard, that makes this episode a huge success.

Best of 2011

Was fighting the urge to post my best of 2011 list (see bottom), but fuck it, here it is:

#1 album:

• Hot Sugar - Muscle Milk EP.

Other Important Albums:

• Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil
• tUnE-YarDs - w h o k i l l 
• Wilco - The Whole Love
• Atlas Sound - Parallax
• Panda Bear - Tomboy

Best of (everything else):

• Planking (trend)
• The Chris Gethard Show (TV/Internet)
• Aakash Nihalani (art)
• Improv Everywhere (social experiments)
• Rob Malone (beard)
• Breaking Bad (TV)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (film)

13 cool things I did:

• This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.
• #14: I was in t the pit during this.

Best discovery in 2011 that did not come from 2011:

• Air (the band)

Goals for 2012:

• Go for it.
• Be more cryptic.

No Pants Subway Ride 2k11 this Sunday!

Wait a second… writing “2k” is worthless, isn’t it?  I might as well have written 2012.  Would’ve saved so much time if I had only written a 0 instead of a “k” as I wouldn’t have needed to write this paragraph of explanation as to why I should be writing 0 instead of “k”.

Also, if you haven’t funded Matt Adam’s Kickstarter for an Improv Everywhere doc, watch the segment above!  It’s great!  That’s how great the entire doc will be if it gets funded!

Happy 2012, ya dingos.

charlietodd:

To celebrate 10 years of The No Pants Subway Ride, director Matt Adams made this video telling the story of the very first event in 2002. It features an interview with a woman who was on the train that day and wound up being the star of the video. This footage was shot as part of a documentary Adams is making about Improv Everywhere, which you can support on Kickstarter.

The 2012 No Pants Subway Ride is this Sunday in New York and dozens of other cities around the world.

This might just be the greatest thing I made this year.  It’s weird, quirky, spontaneous and raw, and has a scene in which Rob Malone, Chris Gethard and I film each other filming each other taking a piss in public.  

I’ve never seen JD so befuddled as he was while watching this for the first time.

Hope ya dig.  …And happy new year! 

thechrisgethardshow:

TCGS HOLIDAY SPECIAL - THE SPIRIT OF GETHARD

After we cancelled the December 28th taping of The Chris Gethard Show, Rob “The Greatest Dancer in the World” Malone and Keith “Banana Man” Haskel approached the TCGS team to see if they could produce an hour long Holiday Special to broadcast instead of airing a re-run. We agreed to let them film their hour-long special as long as they shot, produced, planned, and edited the entire episode themselves and allowed the rest of the team to take the week off and relax. They would have no creative oversight from the TCGS staff and if they accepted, they would have to be responsible for the entire hour. They Accepted. This is that Holiday Special.

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Here’s a teaser for tomorrow night’s episode of The Chris Gethard Show, “The Spirit of Gethard”.

Directed/shot/edited by The World’s Greatest Dancer and Bananaman.

happy holidays.

Improv Everywhere: MP3 Experiment 8

As 2011 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting upon the fun things I worked on this year.  Kicking off the nostalgia trip comes July 16th’s Improv Everywhere MP3 Experiment 8.  I co-produced and shot it, and had 8 days to edit the hour-long 9-camera experience into one 6-minute video.  ’Twas intense, and I still wish I had one more day to finesse it, but I’m happy with the finished product.  The dumb push in transition that comes in at 3:50 will forever make me giggle. 

Bonus: The BBC interviewed Charlie and I about it (my first video interview ever).

Related/unrelated: If you’ve got some spare dough and support Improv Everywhere, please consider donating to Matt Adam’s Kickstarter campaign for a feature length Improv Everywhere documentary.

TREE CUTTERS.

J.D. Amato sleeps with his lights and webcam on.

Human Fish Explores The World Of Man… Part 1: MASS TRANSIT

We aired this bad boy on The Chris Gethard Show a few episodes back, but due to deadlines, we didn’t have time to smooth it out or add graphics.  Yada yada yada, here’s the finished one!

Starring David Bluvbland as The Human Fish

Shot and Directed by Keith Haskel

Edited by Rob Malone

Music: Hot Sugar - “Hanna D”

Graphics by Lisa Maria Hall

Excellent Dumpling with Random George and Chris Gethard.

I had a really fun morning!

drujohnston:

thechrisgethardshow:

TCGS #26 - Monologues Only

A lot people accuse our show of not being a real late night show. So, we decided to take their accusations head on and do the most “late night talk show” thing we could possibly imagine: Monologue jokes— an entire hour’s worth. Our audience sent in hundreds of jokes and we forced Chris to perform them unrehearsed in the style of a more traditional late night host. If Chris performed enough jokes correctly he would be rewarded. Likewise if he messed up enough jokes he would be punished. The awkwardness of the night was only balanced by our ridiculously cool musical guest Kevin Devine. Definitely a night to remember. Tune in and find out if we have what it takes to be called a “real” late night talk show.

Check out more content at TheChrisGethardShow.com

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By minute 50 I was sitting in the booth making up jokes and typing feverishly on the teleprompter. I was laughing so hard tears were streaming down my face. I love being apart of this show.

Hot Sugar can do no wrong.

hotsugar:

Molly Soda #Last X-Mas (Produced by Hot Sugar) (video by SteamClam)

Matt Adams is trying to make a feature length documentary about Improv Everywhere, but needs dough to do it.  Please support the cause, so that this awesome trailer yeast can turn into documentary bread.

These guys have helped me a lot through my career, and I’d love to see this thing come to fruition. FRUIT-ITION.

Okay, that’s not even a pun.  But I’m hungry and love Improv Everywhere.

charlietodd:

Matt Adams has started a Kickstarter campaign to complete the documentary he’s making about Improv Everywhere.  To kick off the campaign, Matt created a teaser for the film, embedded above.  Enjoy!  And if you can help him out, donate to the project.  There are lots of great rewards for donors.

I really do wish Trent Reznor flew private jets while making cool sounds the entire ride.

justdreamingaway:

A recording of Keith Haskel attempting to influence my dreams. I did not know this happened. If you weren’t aware, I’ve been broadcasting myself sleeping every night so that friends and strangers can do this. That said, I’m glad people are taking advantage of the opportunity to alter my dreams.

new kskill: DATE SANDWICH

Internet dating is full of creeps :-(

JD’s sleep experiment is giving me insomnia.

Aakash, stop killing it.  It’s already dead!

aakashnihalani:

“Grid” by Aakash Nihalani (Programmed by Buster Kapila)

As a testament to my belief in the awesomeness of this show, I recently bought a 3rd banana costume.

WATCH THE CHRIS GETHARD SHOW! It airs live every Wednesday at 11:00pm.

thechrisgethardshow:

Here’s a highlight reel of the Chris Gethard Show thus far. It shows off our cast, crew, house band, musical guests, dumbass bits, weirdness, and some bizarrely touching moments from the show’s run thus far. Please do enjoy it! If you’ve been trying to convince someone to watch the show, this is the video you should send them to make that shit happen.

Professor Lorimer J. Gundle achieves a yoga pose in his sleep that many humans can only dream about.

Also, furball.

FX Developing TV Version Of Web Series ‘Broad City’ With Amy Poehler Producing

This will probably be my favorite TV show of all time.
Bonus: A new kskill sketch featuring Ilana Glazer comes out in December.  Yeah! 

broadcity:

So, this is what we’ve been up to!

I don’t think we could be more excited about anything ever! I do want to take a sec and thank absolutely everyone that has ever been involved with one or many of our episodes.  This without a doubt took a village, and we hope that we get to bring the real deal back to our community and make more with you guys…ON TV!

Plan on being on the internet at 11pm?  If so, tune in to The Chris Gethard Show!  We’ll be streaming live from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and I can promise you that tonight’s episode will be more painful than usual.

thechrisgethardshow:

TONIGHT (11/16) ON TCGS #22 LIVE @11pm (EST)…

 http://thechrisgethardshow.com/episodes/tv22/

Musical Guest: The Strange Boys

Rumors of a NEW VIDEO from: the Lone Cornmeal Machine

On top of that will be one of the weirdest scenarios in the history of the show. All we can say is:

“Wills shall be tested. A hero may be born.”

Tune in live @11pm (EST) or watch on Blip.tv or itunes tomorrow.

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Watch live on uStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-chris-gethard-show

Or Watch live directly on TheChrisGethardShow.com: http://thechrisgethardshow.com/episodes/tv22/

We’re working on stuff for the future!

lisamariahall:

KSKILL team meeting. Go go go!!

aakashnihalani:

“X” by Aakash Nihalani (Programmed by Buster Kapila)

Extremely satisfying and reminds me of snails.

“The face that people make while shooting.” - Bryan Gaynor

Answer: WILLIAMSBURG!  Ahhhhh!  That’s Rob, Katie, and I from the day we were shooting these videos: Monster Bench - Puppy Monsters - Monster Dance.  How did they even get this photo?!

halloweenorwilliamsburg:

“I fuckin’ love farmers markets.”

Rob and I just wrapped our weirdest video yet. Catch the premiere this Wednesday at 11pm on The Chris Gethard Show.

You Shave My Back, I'll Shave Yours

Click the link above to check out a stupid image of Rob and I from Monster Bench.  Every click gets us closer to winning $10,000, money that we will put towards a big budget Beard Pals video.  

I hate spamming.  In fact, I didn’t even want to enter this silly contest.  But how awesome would it be if this stupid picture of Rob and I actually won us $10,000?!!?  We’re currently in first place, but a dumb cat picture is surging past us.  Now I am determined to win.  Fuck that cat picture, it doesn’t even make sense.

Please click the link.  We’d ‘preesh it.

UPDATE: We won! Thanks for your support!

Rob and I entered a shaving contest.

aakash!

aakashnihalani:

“Teleport Test” by Aakash Nihalani

Makes me happy.

williebhines:

wrongcharlie:

charlietodd:

What happens when you place a megaphone in the middle of New York with instructions to “Say Something Nice”?  Watch the video here: Say Something Nice

Awesome.

Very cool.

awesome.

doooooooooooooooope

aakashnihalani:

“Break Test” by Aakash Nihalani

Mp3 Experiment Eight – Save The Date – 2011 | Improv Everywhere

Correction:  If you can GET to NYC, come check it out.

charlietodd:

This is going to be fun. If you live in NYC, come check it out.

DELOCATED SEASON 3 UNDERWAY

I spend the next three months staring at this dude’s face behind a ski mask.

delocatedblog:

Get your envelopes and Elmer’s Glue ready: new Beard Pals drops this Sunday.

[art by Lisa Hall]

SEASON 3 OF DELOCATED OFFICIALLY PICKED UP

delocatedblog:

12 new episodes coming your way, some way, some how, somewhere in the future.

Fire up the “Fire Up” chainsaw!

Mad animals dying :'-(

Birds, fish, and now crabs, oh my!  This article sums up the mass exodus going down.

BP’s fault, yeah?

[via Rob Malone, who, on an upbeat note, wrote a delightful best movies of 2010 list]

2010 in Review.

Here are some things about 2010 worth archiving.  I tried my best to avoid the recency effect:

MUSIC:

Album of the Year LCD Soundsystem’s “This Is Happening”.

• Hits the spot for a dancing by yourself fest or massive party.  Irresistible riffs. Quirky.  Catchy.  Translates perfect live. Cool music video for “Drunk Girls”.  Even the live London Sessions studio recording rocks.  James Murphy for the win.

Other awesome albums:

• Holy Fuck “Latin” (prog rock at its finest)
• Social Network Soundtrack (another awesome Nine Inch Nails album)
• Kanye West “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (“All Of The Lights” makes my ears want to vomit, but everything else is dope)
• Das Racist “Sit Down, Man” and ”Shut Up, Dude” (these guys are the Indian Beastie Boys)
• Spoon “Transference” (straight up awesome rock, no frills needed)
• Free Energy “Free Energy” (picking up the pop-rock baton that Weezer dropped)
• Gorillaz “Plastic Beach” (tracks 4-6 make me go nuts) 
• Wavves “King of the Beach” (if Green Day’s Dookie came out in 2010, it’d sound like this)
• Arcade Fire “Suburbs” (this band was perfect in 2010, too perfect)
• Big Boi “Sir Lucious Left Foot” (half of Outkast is still Outkast)

Best Singles:

• Kanye West - Power
• Cee Lo - Fuck You
• Reggie Watts - Fuck Shit Stack
• Das Racist - Who’s That Brooown!
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - In Motion

Artist Most Listened To: Deerhoof

INTERNET VIDEOS:

• Insane Clown Posse “Miracles” - Ignorant humans bring on the lulz!
• angry ibex - If I could interview any ibex in the world, it’d be this one.
• trololo - If I made a best of 1976 list, this song would’ve been number 1.
• dog dancing meringue - This dog is a better dancer than Michael Jackson (because MJ is dead)
• Double Rainbow - I will forever refer to something as “double rainbow” instead of “intense”
• Backin Up/Bed Intruder Song - One of the few acceptable uses of auto-tuning, the Gregory Brothers killed it in 2010 by turning quirky news stories into awesome songs.
• Broad City “Yoga” - A female version of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Broad City was my favorite web series this year.
• meet the sloths - Ugly animals are cuuuuuuuuute

MOVIES:

• Moon (released in 2009, but I didn’t see it ‘till this year.  Sam Rockwell is on the moon and finds his own dead body.  Whaaaaat!?!?!)
• Black Swan (maybe the only victim of the recency effect, or maybe just plain awesome [it’s the latter])
• Exit Through The Gift Shop (3 seconds of my Poster Boy video is in it!)
• Babies (the most beautifully shot documentary I’ve ever seen)
• Avatar (so epic it’s still worth mentioning)

TECHNOLOGY:
I don’t own either of these, but they’re THE FUTURE:

• Microsoft Kinect - 3D camera for Xbox that tracks your movements so you don’t need a remote.  Cool as is, but the hacks are what have me hyped.
• iPad - Fuck laptops!

MOST DESPICABLE:

• BP Oil Spill - Earth is doomed :-(

NARCISSISM:
Although not a prolific year for the KSKILL brand (only released 6 videos on my YouTube account), I did help make a bunch of videos for other people.  Here are my favorite productions to have worked on this year:

• Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment 7 (editor, co-producer, shooter): 3,000 people listen to the same MP3, ending in a massive mummy party in Bryant Park.  This was the most draining thing I worked on this year, and by far my favorite.  Hit 1,000,000 views within 3 weeks!
• Aakash Nihalani’s STOP POP & ROLL (shooter, editor) - Aakash cube-a-fies a stop sign in Brooklyn, and we pay homage to street artists along the way.
• Training Wheels (producer, editor, writer)- Learning how to ride a bike was my resolution of 2009, and getting a video featured on The Daily What was one of my goals for 2010.  2 Birds, one awkward video.
• Poster Boy “Gone Fishin” (shooter, editor) - Shot in 2009 but delayed the release due to legal issues.  I’m happy we finally released this to help promote PB’s new book. 
• Beard Pals (producer, writer, actor) - I might re-edit it some day as it runs a little long, but I love how stupid this video is!  Written the night before we shot it, and I love the spontaneous wacky energy that came with the lack of preparation.  One of my goals for 2k11 is to make more spur of the moment videos.
• The Boy Who Cried Gay (producer, writer, editor) - This video had so much potential, but didn’t deliver. Shot over the course of 2 years, I lost focus along the way and over-edited it.  Fun nonetheless.
• Spoiler Alert - The first thing I ever shot on a DSLR.  Also, Jason Eppink is the man.
• Improv Everywhere (shooter, blurs) - MP3 Experiment 7, Black Tie Beach, The Tourist Lane,  No Underwear 2k10 (April Fools), No Pants 2k10, and a couple unreleased ones.  Not only did shooting for IE teach me how to shoot, but this has been one of my favorite gigs to date.  More fun stuff to come from these guys in 2k11.
• Delocated Season 2 (assistant editor) - I got paid to work on an awesome show for [adult swim]. Fuck yeah!
• Lastly, I was on the Apprentice.  Yeah!

LOOKING FORWARD:

 My full-time job wraps up in January, and I’ll spend the next few months making a short film/pilot.  Bryan Gaynor and I will be wrapping up our animated short, MATES.  And I’m sure I’ll bust out a few sketch comedy and street art videos along the way.  My resolution for 2011 is to stay focused and only work on projects that I love.

Cheers,
Keith Haskel 2010

weak in review

Here are some obsolete breaking news stories from the past week:

• Jason Eppink and I Am released a video of Shadow Machine, part of THE UNDERBELLY PROJECT, an installation in which dozens of street artists took over the walls of an abandoned subway station. [via the new york times]
• Aakash Nihalani’s OVERLAP exhibition opened up at the Bose Pacia gallery.  Das Racist was on hand at the after party, so I shot them performing “Who’s That? Brooooown!”.
• My friends at Last Pictures released their first pilot, Makin It.  It runs 25 minutes, but the time flies by.  It’s an extremely watchable highly entertaining show. Watch it, love it, share it.
• Street art pictured above is by Chencho.  Hope to photograph more of his work soon.

Till next time,
K

The Apprentice S10 Ep4

Charlie was the viral video guru on The Apprentice this week, and brought in myself, Matt, Chloe, and Caleb to help make videos for the contestants.  
You can catch me scratching my beard and making serious faces throughout the episode, starting at 14:21.

charlietodd:

I was on The Apprentice last night.  The teams were tasked with creating a web video, and I appeared as the guest expert to give them advice and ultimately help judge the winner.  You can watch it online.  (I’m mentioned by Ivanka at 6:10, meet with the teams at 8:08, and give feedback on their videos at 19:20.)  The show is a bit ridiculous of course, but it was really fun to do.  Improv Everywhere cohorts Matt Adams, Keith Haskel, Caleb Heller, and Chloe Smolkin can also be seen in the episode helping the teams film and edit their ideas.

The Social Network score: Free sampler EP + album preorders

If for no other reason, The Social Network will be awesome because Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored it.

ninofficialnews:

Trent and Atticus have scored David Fincher’s upcoming film The Social Network. A free, five-track EP of music from the film is available HERE right now along with various purchasing options for the entire soundtrack, which will be released 9/28.

The Social Network opens October 1.

Poster Boy: The Art Of War BOOK RELEASE AND SIGNING

thekarate:

FOUR CITY LAUNCH

Saturday, Aug 28th:

AE District Gallery

3852 N. Miami Ave.

Miami, FL 33137

8-9:30pm

Carmichael Gallery           

5795 Washington Blvd

Culver City, CA 90232 

6-8pm

17 Frost Gallery

17 Frost St

Brooklyn, NY 11211

6-9pm

Pure Evil Gallery

108 Leonard St

London EC2A 4XS

4-late pm

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Debuting my latest Poster Boy video tomorrow in Williamsburg.  Should be rad.

Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours

Take that, oil!

[via NY Times]

Poster Boy sentenced to 11 months in Jail

Sad day for anti-advertising activism.

DELOCATED SEASON 2 IS A WRAP!!!

Helloooooo six week vacation!

delocatedblog:

It was a long edit, and as you can see, I’m exhausted.  Shhhhhhhhhh!!!

We finished editing Monday.  The episodes turned out great, and I want to thank our hard working post team.

Here’s one of our editors, Mike LaHaie, on the phone telling his mommy what a great job he did.  Behind Mike, Will Cox oversees the color correct and obviously eavesdrops on the call.

Our other editor Jeff Buchanan takes a little ‘chill sesh’ on the floor of the color correct.

It’s all smiles as Post Coordinator Lindsay Washick and Supervising Producer Steve Ast pretend that my picture taking isn’t annoying them while they try to get work done.

Sound engineer Paul Hsu takes a ramen break from the sound mix.

He likes the band Cake.  He LOVES the movie “Freddy Got Fingered”.  He doesn’t know who John Coltrane is.  He’s a “vegetarian” who eats fish.  There’s a lot of chinks in the armor that we took great pleasure in constantly and mercilessly giving him a hard time about, but I don’t know where we’d be without the dedicated, enthusiastic, tireless, hard work of assistant editor Keith “Kskill” Haskel.

And finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge our post intern, Tom Fitzpatrick.  As he is demonstrating here, Tom’s main job was to make the edit tables go up and down.  But really, he was there to make the post process in general a little more adorable.  Thanks, Fitzy.

There’s no air date set as of yet for the second season.  But now that we’re done with the edit and I’m not as crazed, I will (hopefully) be updating the blog more regularly with more photos and stories and whatsuchhaveyou’s from the season and the edit.  And as soon as I get info on a premier date I’ll post it.  So keep checking in to the blog for Season 2 info!

“Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It’s yours to take, re-arrange, and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.”

-Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

[via publicadcampaign]

kskill's Music Picks 2k9

Top 10 Albums of 2009
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist
2. Kid Koala’s The Slew - 100%
3. The xx - xx
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Matt & Kim - Grand
6. Wilco - Wilco [The Album]
7. Doom - Born Like This
8. HEALTH - Get Color
9. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
10. Mew - No More Stories...

Honorable Mentions
Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

Album that’s so far passed sounding awful that you convince yourself it’s awesome until you ultimately realize that it’s just plain awful
Weezer - Raditude

Favorite Album in 2009 that was released in 2008
dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angels

Band to Look out for in 2010
The Tony Castles

Top 3 Most Listened to Songs from 2009 [via last.fm/user/kskill]
1. The Slew - It’s All Over
2. Grizzly Bear - Southern Point
3. HEALTH - Die Slow

Would be the most scrobbled song if you included the amount of times you’ve watched the video (ie, best video of 2009 award)
Major Lazer - Pon De Floor

Top Live Band 2009
Nine Inch Nails (Best show: 8/23 Webster Hall “The Downward Spiral Live”)

Poster Boy Cuts A Deal

The man accused of being Poster Boy took a misdemeanor and community service after admitting to being the man featured cutting up subway posters in a certain YouTube video.  The jerks over at NY Post fail to mention that the felony will be erased once the community service is completed….

Who knows, maybe some unreleased footage may start surfacing?  Maybe not.

DE(B)LO(G)CATED

Season 2 has been ridiculous and awesome and I probably signed something that says I’m not allowed to blog about it.

Fortunately, Jon will keep you posted.

Apatow, Universal pick up pitches - Ansari, Woliner score with trio of comedy concepts

The bad news is that this will delay Human Giant season 3 for a few more years.

azizisbored:

I’m very excited to announce that Jason Woliner and I have sold 3 movies to Judd Apatow and Universal! I am attached to star and Jason will direct.

One idea is tentatively titled “Let’s Do This” and is a road movie about two guys that work for a motivational speaking company.

Another idea is about two disgraced astronauts who have to go back to space to clear their names.

And the other idea is a movie based around Randy, my character from “Funny People.”

We’re currently working on all three ideas now and haven’t decided which we will go with first.

Needless to say, we are very excited to be working with Judd on these projects. Unfortunately, this does however put Jason and I’s plan to remake Short Circuit 2 (with myself playing the Michael McKean role in a revolutionary new makeup technique called “peachface”) on hold indefinitely.

Verizon iPhone in 2010?!

Thinking about going Droid if this deal doesn’t go down.  ATT is the worst.

kskill in Gothamist for NYSAT 2.0

My full set of stills from NYSAT can be found here.  Now, about that video…

NYSAT 2.0

Something interesting happened in New York City yesterday.  The ads vanished, came back, vanished again, some art went up, some more ads were posted, cops were called, 5 arrests were made…. I wonder if anyone shot any cool footage of the day’s events? [wink]

public ad campaign

new york times

animal new york

cronicasbarbaras

new york post

New Poster Boy Interview

Interesting new interview Poster Boy did w/ UK Street Art.  The Poster Boy Crew has been laying low lately, but rumor has it there may be a book in the works…

What are your views on advertising?

Advertising is bizarro art. Both are cut from the same cloth, but what sets them apart is intent. Art is driven, at least in theory, by the desire to express oneself. Advertising is driven by the desire to promote a product or service. Often times the two overlap making it hard to tell the difference. As long as there’s money to be made there’ll be advertising. I can’t deny that. With development of technology and the market comes increasingly elaborate ad campaigns. Sometimes the campaigns are funny. Sometimes they’re artful. But one thing I’ll never accept is public advertising no matter how clever the campaign is.

[via public ad campaign]

LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou

New LCD Soundsystem song is streaming over at 22Tracks.com.  The new album comes out in March 2010.

[via Pitchfork]

azizisbored:

Jay-Z feat. Aziz Ansari and Kanye West - Hate (DJ Aziz Ansari EXCLUSIVE)

Tom Green’s “Don’t Mess With A Man (After He Takes A Big Poo Poo)”

Sophisticated.  Catchy.  Poo poo.

New York Street Advertising Takeover

The morning of April 25, 2009, Jordan Seiler coordinated the removal of over 120 illegal advertisement billboards in New York City.  In the afternoon, he coordinated over 40 artists to have their way with these freshly cleared canvases. 

He coordinated with me to document the entire day of events.

I will coordinate with my laptop and edit the footage over the next few weeks.

Here are some pictures I took:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kskill/sets/72157617372639072/

Here are some stories that have been posted thus far:
http://www.woostercollective.com/2009/04/new_york_street_advertising_takeover_bri.html

http://animalnewyork.com/2009/04/artist-horde-turns-newly-whitewashed-billboards-into-public-canvasses/

http://www.cronicasbarbaras.com/2009/04/we-dont-want-ads-we-want-art.html

http://www.woostercollective.com/2009/04/more_photos_from_saturdays_new_york_stre.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rfullerrd/3478088306/

http://gothamist.com/2009/04/27/billboards.php

kskill spring 2009 mix

Party Hard - Andrew W.K.
Daylight - Matt & Kim
Dancing Choose - TV On The Radio
Beat That My Heart Skipped - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
Slipping Away - Nine Inch Nails
Wild International - One Day As A Lion
The Tears and Music of Love - Deerhoof
Gool Ol’ Fashion Nightmare - Matt & Kim
15 Step - Radiohead
Palmitos Park - El Guincho
Sustained Silent Reading - The Motorcycle Industry
Play Your Part (Pt. 1) - Girl Talk
Dynamite! - The Roots
Earth People - Dr. Octagon
 We ARe Rockstars - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
My Girls - Animal Collective
Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective 

“Alex Is Lovely” by Keith Haskel. Produced by Elan Cohen. Lyrics by Stevie Wonder.

Download: http://k-skill.com/alexislovely.mp3