“I think this is the most dangerous thing I’ve done at the Lab.” “More dangerous than the lasers?” “Yeah.” These were not comforting words for the man seated closest to the confetti cannon. A minute later, an explosion of red, pink, and white tissue paper bits filled the conference room, …
We all know technology is changing nearly everything. It has affected food delivery, personal navigation, and the rhetoric of our mayoral candidates. I’ve been a tech junkie all my life, and a lot of that passion developed in the 12 years I lived in the Boston area (1995-2007). This is …
Comedy is important! Technology is important! Comedy and technology are important together! I recently sat down with Nathan Cykiert at The Verge. Mostly we just sat there, but after 53 minutes of silence and mindful eye contact, we talked about all sorts of fun things in this wide-ranging interview. Then …
I’ve been going to SXSW Interactive since 2007. Yes, I’m old. I remember lots from that first year: being overwhelmed by the lines and BBQ, catching a few SXSW Film screenings and escaping Austin just as the cool kids of SXSW Music began loading in. What I don’t remember is …
Editor’s Note: This post, while enlightening, is first and foremost a plug to have you vote for our SXSW panel. If you would prefer to be a mindless drone who simply takes orders rather than reading or contextualizing, you can follow that link right now. Thanks drone! Science has taught …
Loyalists and stalkers will recall the self-anointed “Greatest Hackathon Prize Ever” we awarded our Comedy Hack Day SF winners: an all-expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to meet Chris Hardwick and sit in on a recording of Nerdist. Well, four months later we finally made good and sent Conor Doherty and …
The comedy world has definitely begun to dip its toes into the crowdfunding pool—Myq Kaplan ran this satirical campaign, Eugene Mirman funded a festival, and Above Average now has a ‘Thingstarter’ series—but through all my research for our AOL show Funded, I never found anybody from the comedy world who …
Like most projects I work on, Comedy Hack Day started as a joke. At the time I was living in NYC with one foot in the comedy scene and one foot in the tech scene, working at The Onion and spending my nights and weekends at tech events. The more …
New York is a literary city and also a place that you’re worried may kill you at any moment’s notice, so it’s little surprise that our first two episodes of Funded that we shot there carried similar themes. Fittingly, our trip to L.A. this past week featured cameras filming cameras …
Cross-posted from Fast Company In a reminder that “what happens at SXSW definitely does not stay at SXSW,” Fast Company captured part of a conversation I had with Behance cofounder Scott Belsky and has posted the high-quality surveillance footage here on the Internet for your viewing pleasure. In the video, …
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