First Look: How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Premiere | Zap2it
Taking place at Punchy’s wedding. Apologies for the mild spoilers.
Can these advertising students get Jon Hamm to speak at their graduation…as Don Draper?
GradMen is a grassroots project lead by three advertising students at Atlanta’s Creative Circus. Their mission: to get Jon Hamm to speak in character as Don Draper at their ad school graduation. The kids have flown around the country getting today’s real life creative directors to pitch Hamm, cd to cd. Above is their video invitation to Hamm, check out more of their efforts here.
They might have to wait for the guy to finish shooting the current season, or take some time off from appearing on podcasts, otherwise there’s nothing stopping them.
Oh man, that is seriously enough to make me pass out. I mean, it’s the holy grail. I’ve watched SNL since I was eight – when my parents didn’t know I was watching. Literally, behind a door, through the crack – I’ve just been so inspired by women like Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin. That show is ingrained in all of us. It’s so iconic. Weirdly, I have a lot of friends on it now, so for those worlds to collide, is totally and completely overwhelming.
- Melissa McCarthy on her upcoming stint as host of SNL.
(Source: amyohconnor)
On Newsstands Nationwide August 23rd
First Look: The Amazing Spider Man (IMGs via EW, ONTD)
(I love the new multi-picture layouts)
Poster: Glee: The 3D Concert Movie | IMP
Yes this is a real thing and yes you are mad.
Second promo for TeenNick’s nostalgia fest, The 90s Are All That. Premiering July 25th at midnight.
I think my brain just exploded.
(via thedailywhat, ontd)
Want Some Retro with your USB Microphone?
Chikodi and I were just emailing back and forth about USB microphones to use for interviews. I came across this masterpiece.
Via GeekAlerts.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
This fall, I’m joining NYU’s journalism program, where, for the first time in a dozen years, I will teach undergraduates. Someone who turns 19 this year will have not one adult memory of the 20th century; for them, the Contract With America, the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the first Gulf War are roughly contemporaneous events, just as, for my 19 year old cohort, the Summer of Love, the Watts’ riots, and Kent State all seemed to have happened in that one busy month we called The 60s. When it comes time to explain the media landscape of the 20th century, I will be teaching my own youth as ancient history.
I could tell these students that when I was growing up, the only news I read was thrown into our front yard by a boy on a bicycle. They might find this interesting, but only in the way I found it interesting that my father had grown up without indoor plumbing. What 19 year olds need to know isn’t how it was in Ye Olden Tymes of 1992; they need to know what we’ve learned about supporting the creation and dissemination of news between then and now. Contemplating what I should tell them, there are only three things I’m sure of: News has to be subsidized, and it has to be cheap, and it has to be free.
—Clay Shirky, We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic. (via futurejournalismproject)
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
