“We have a Hulk.” Your argument is invalid.

I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

I’m a big Louis CK fan – his TV show Louie is one of the best TV shows ever made – it’s so far beyond your typical one-liners and Flanderised characters from typical sitcoms it’s scary. Some shows are hilarious, and on familiar subjects – bad dates, relationships, bullies. Other episodes are more uncomfortable, or just – stories. Taking time to learn about people and their relationships. There’s a bit where he spends about 3 or 4 minutes air-drumming to “Who Are You” while driving with his kids – no other show (except maybe Mad Men) would take so long to indulge in something that doesn’t have a laugh or a gag or a cut to someone making a funny face (Jim Halpert).

Since season 2 Louis has been writing and editing Louie with complete control and no interference, and he decided to take that logic to distributing a completely DRM free comedy show for $5 online – all written, produced and edited by himself – giving him complete control. He broke even in 24 hours and is well on the way to making a fair bit of money, without fucking over his fans.

It’s a real nice story of taking control of your art, getting closer to your fans, and hoping that people will do the right thing. You should read how he’s reacted to the whole experience. Cool story.

Beautiful piece of stop-motion animation. Via @marcusmacinnes

Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.

Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.

All screen imagery was animated – there are no screen replacements.

Produced, animated, filmed, lit, edited & graded by Tom Jenkins (www.theoryfilms.co.uk / https://www.facebook.com/theoryfilms – !NEW MAKING OF PICS ON FB PAGE! / @thetheoryUK / http://twitter.com/#!/thetheoryUK).

Shot using Canon 5d MkII, Dragonframe Stop Motion software and customised slider.

Music by the wonderfull Cinematic Orchestra (www.cinematicorchestra.com) and the track is Arrival of the Birds

Watch the video (can’t embed)

Today, as webfonts are buoyed by a wave of early-adopter enthusiasm, they’re marred by a similar unevenness in quality, and it’s not just a matter of browsers and rasterizers, or the eternal shortage of good fonts and preponderance of bad ones. There are compelling questions about what it means to be fitted to the technology, how foundries can offer designers an expressive medium (and readers a rich one), and what it means for typography to be visually, mechanically, and culturally appropriate to the web. This is an exploration of this side of web fonts, and a discussion of where the needs of designers meet the needs of readers.

Via Broadsheet.ie

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore iPad App Trailer from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

Wonderful stuff – looking forward to sharing things like this with my son when he’s old enough – he’s already zipping up and down the floors of Tiny Tower though he’s no idea what’s going on!

Via Fastcodesign

receipt racer from d_effekt on Vimeo.

Fun multi-device game via Dave Gorman on Twitter

I mean there is no justice. The rich win; the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead, a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims — and we become victims. We become weak; we doubt ourselves; we doubt our beliefs; we doubt our institutions; and we doubt the law.

Awesome speech.

Awesome song.

Blinky™ from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

Soon every home will have a robot helper.

Don’t worry.

It’s perfectly safe.

Written & Directed by Ruairi Robinson

Starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”.

Cinematography by Macgregor

Music by Ólafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes

Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish film Board