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Video: The Olsen Twins Are The Latest Celebrities To Discover Planking, Etc.
In a weird quasi-Christmas card to their fans and customers, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have taken the various Internet trends of planking, storking, and owling, and “made them their own” for the holiday season. More »
The Obamas Won’t Let Their Daughters Watch Keeping Up With The Kardashians
I love how even when they’re dissing the Kardashian sisters and their various reality shows, Barack and Michelle Obama are respectful. More »
Meme Alert: ‘Stocking’ Is Better Than Planking
No, not stalking. Stalking has been a thing online for quite some time already. Stocking. More »
R.I.P. Jessi Slaughter’s Dad
This does not appear to be a hoax by 4chan. At least, not that we know of. More »
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t: The Cabinet
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.
It is unremarkable in appearance. Discovered in an abandoned industrial complex in the UK, it is 2 meters in height and constructed from slightly rusted steel. It measures 1.2 meters wide by 1.2 meters deep, and it has only one door which must be kept closed and locked at all times. The door opens inward; the lock, affixed to the outside of the door, consists of a slide-bolt, a hasp, and a padlock. The key to this padlock must be kept under guard at the adjacent security station by three personnel with Level 3 security clearance. The cabinet’s exterior features some corrosion and scratching, indicating its age. There are no other distinctive or identifying marks.
However, upon being unlocked and opened, THE CABINET reveals itself to be more than it appears. More »
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t: The Indian Lake Project
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.
On July 9, 1997, a metal box was discovered in a wooded area around Indian Lake in upstate New York. The box had clearly been buried for some time; it was only found after a hiker tripped over an exposed edge which had worked its way free from the ground. The lid of the box was decorated with three shapes– an upside-down triangle and two circles– and had no lock. Inside, the hiker found 21 photographs with varying degrees of water damage, three reels of 8mm film, and an assortment of documents. The photographs largely depicted children, and the documents indicated that these children had been part of a government-run experiment between the years of 1952 and 1955. The experiment was known as:
THE INDIAN LAKE PROJECT More »
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t: The Cave
Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.
The first entry of the webpage is dated March 23, 2001. It reads only this:
“Due to the overwhelming number of requests I have received to tell about my discoveries and bizarre experiences in a cave not far from my home, I have created this web page. I will outline the events that happened to me during the past few months. Beginning with my journey into a familiar cave in December 2000 and ending… well, it hasn’t actually ended yet. I will use my caving journal as the text to tell about my recent experience. I will give them to you as I experienced them, in chronological order.”
His name is Ted, and he’s a caver. He’s got a tale for you. It’s called:
THE CAVE More »
Crushable’s Going to Internet Week! So, What Is Internet Week?
Crushable – and several other representatives from our B5 Media sister sites – is going to internet week!
Internet Week is a weeklong festival in New York City dedicated to the changing tides of new media and technology. Events range in topic from the advertising, entertainment, technology, social media, and start-ups. More »
Infographic: Evolution of the Internet
Remember xkcd‘s guide to making people of different ages feel old by comparing movie release dates? The Daily What posted a similar hand-drawn timeline, for the Internet.
I started seriously going online right around 2000, though I definitely remember when Google replaced Yahoo! as the definite search engine in my elementary school computer classes. But to think that 4chan and Second Life came out in the same year? Or that Pandora has been around since before the Apple App Store? Blows your mind. More »
Joss Whedon Knows the Plot and Some Songs of ‘Dr. Horrible’ Sequel
Be still, our geeky hearts! In a recent interview with Joss Whedon, the New York Times didn’t shy away from asking about the Dr. Horrible sequel — and Whedon had something concrete to say! More »
The Highs and Lows of Shane Dawson’s YouTube Career
Shane Dawson is a man of a thousand faces, and thanks to YouTube, millions of people get to spend time with his original characters. With each of his weekly videos raking in three to five million views, Dawson’s main video channel has become YouTube’s third most subscribed of all time. But it hasn’t been all roses; skyrocketing to fame when YouTube was still an unsteady medium, Dawson has had his share of controversy alongside the record-breakers. Here, we track the highs and lows (with video evidence!) of his career, three years old and going strong. More »
Fan Service: ‘Dilbert’ Creator Pretends to Be His Own Fan
The cute way to impersonate a fan: Have Nathan Fillion dress up and infiltrate the audience at a Joss Whedon panel at 2010′s Comic-Con.
The not cute way to impersonate a fan: Do like Dilbert creator Scott Adams and make up a fake online profile that you use to defend Adams’ douchebaggery. More »
Girl Crushable: Sheena Matheiken of The Uniform Project
I’ve been a fan of Sheena Matheiken since the winter of 2009, when she was halfway through The Uniform Project. A New Yorker by way of India and Ireland, Matheiken had become burnt out by ten years of the advertising industry. Feeling the need to “reboot” her thinking and apply her creative impulses, she came up with the U.P: She would wear the same little black dress every day for a year, learning how to remix her outfits while gaining donations for an Indian non-profit that would send children living in the slums to school. The project was a success, raising over $100,000.
But this is not about the impact of fashion. That’s TheGloss’ domain; in fact, they covered U.P way back when. I want to highlight Matheiken herself — and what better way than with this video of her speaking at TEDxDubai. More »
Interview: ‘M. Night School’ Creator Discusses Trailers, Twists, and Whether He Expects Shyamalan to Actually Go Back to Film School
This past Monday, M. Night School launched: The cheeky website is trying to raise $150,000 through crowdsourcing — asking just a dollar a person — to send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school at NYU. We spoke with the site’s creator, BBDO copywriter Chris Baker (@funkmastabaker), about what he and the other creators will do if they fail to raise the money, what could be responsible for Shyamalan’s creative downslide, and the negative backlash they’ve already received. More »
Video Proof That Internet Memes Don’t Attract Girls
For its latest episode, web series Simple Pickup has guys try and use Internet memes as pickup lines for girls. Awkward.
Considering that the memes are aimed at guys (“Cool story, bro”), set the guys up as social rejects (Forever Alone and fapfapfapfap), and are intended to provoke rage (LOL U MAD?), it’s a wonder they don’t get slapped in the face. More »
The Internet Backlash Is Here, and It’s Coming From Celebrities
In a recent interview with People, Vanessa Hudgens — she of the third round of leaked nude pics — expressed her distaste for the Internet. When asked to name the best invention, the Sucker Punch star instead said, “I know what the worst invention ever is. The Internet. I think it’s ruining everyone, and it just makes everybody way too accessible — it just takes away the glamor and mystery of our business.” More »
Snap This: Donald Trump Prints Out Blog Post, Writes on It, Mails it Back to Vanity Fair Writer
We can’t tell if Donald Trump is being totally subversive by printing out a Vanity Fair blog post about him, adding his comments in Sharpie, and mailing the hard copy to VF editor Graydon Carter… or if The Donald simply hasn’t learned about Track Changes or other online editing programs. More »
‘M. Night School’ Website Is Raising Money to Send M. Night Shyamalan Back to Film School
Tired of M. Night Shyamalan‘s recent cinematic failures like Devil and Razzie Worst Picture winner The Last Airbender? Do you yearn for the days of such masterful suspense thrillers as Signs? If you’ve got a dollar to spare, you could help M. Night School in sending the director back to his alma mater, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. More »
Video Gallery: ‘Trust’ and How Hollywood Thinks We Interact on the Internet
David Schwimmer‘s second directorial feature Trust is a riveting cautionary tale about what happens when an innocuous Internet friendship translates to real emotional danger in real life. It’s also probably the best portrayal of the Internet and social media that has come from film and television. In the almost twenty years since the Internet became mainstream enough that Hollywood incorporated it into storytelling, we’ve seen digital communication portrayed as deadly, oversimplified, schlocky, and cringeworthy. And then a few filmmakers/TV writers completely get it. More »
Good News! Wasting Time on the Internet Makes You a Better Worker
A new study from the University of Copenhagen found that when a group of subjects watched a funny video before performing a task, they made less mistakes than the other group, who didn’t get to watch the video and instead listened to their peers’ laughter while they did the same task. So, they’ve concluded that allowing workers to cool off on the Internet during the day will actually make them more productive. More »