Rick guides Michigan to the Final Four.
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On The Gauntlet this week, Team Gus and Brooke come back from the dead and square off in one of the most popular Zombie games in existence: Left 4 Dead 2!
WATCH NOW ON BLIP: Episode 7 - Zombie Day
Zombies. ’Nuff said.
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To celebrate the release of The Hobbit this month, Kerry Shawcross and Chris Demarais, two of Rooster Teeth’s producers, will do in six days what took Frodo and Sam three movies to complete. They will walk the 120+ mile journey across New Zealand from the filming location of Hobbiton in Matamata to the filming location of Mount Doom, Mount Ngauruhoe. They will sleep on the ground, cross rivers, and of course, eat Lembas Bread.
Documenting the entire journey on video, Kerry and Chris will prove that one does simply walk into Mordor.
WATCH NOW ON BLIP: A Simple Walk Into Mordor Episode 1
This is an awesome fan adventure. Really happy to have this as a Blip exclusive!
“As Blip Studios’ first foray into original branded entertainment, the 10-episode reality gamer competition series premieres on November 1, 2012 at Blip.com. Working with Rooster Teeth Productions and GEICO, this reality competition is only for gamers and only online for everyone to watch”
—Blip Studios Premieres Reality Gamer Competition Series THE GAUNTLET
Really proud of the Blip Studios team today! You can watch every episode of The Gauntlet here on Blip.com.
YES! Get ready for this awesome video game competition we made with Rooster Teeth and GEICO. Premieres tomorrow!
Creative Development Job at Blip Studios!
Digital Development Executive, Unscripted/Reality (Santa Monica, CA)
We’re looking for a highly creative, hard-working development executive who wants to be on the front lines of the digital entertainment world. This position demands an advertiser-minded development workhorse who can think fast, write fast, and work under tight deadlines. You will work alongside the VP of Original Programming & Development and Blip’s dedicated in-house Sales team to shape our development slate and be involved in all aspects of show creation and sales. This is an opportunity to work with a small, highly experienced digital team with 250,000,000 views under our collective belts. Here you’ll have a big creative influence and be an integral part of the team. This is a contract position (Mon-Fri) in our Santa Monica office that includes free lunch every day!
Screw you, biweekly.
In 2008 mathematician Michael Schneider put together this incredible video illustrating how the mathematics used by Ancient Egyptians is identical to that used in computers today.
(via HuffPo / buy the Magical Egypt DVD set)
When Tom Hanks Invented the eBook Reader in 1988
via scrapsity
Actually, I think Asimov wrote about them in the 50’s. I didn’t intend on ruining your joke - it just happened.
I Sold a Movie.
I’ve been struggling with how to post this. I thought about writing a long, meandering post. I thought about just posting this.
Point is, I want to tell people. I’m very excited, and I hope that if this movie gets made, you will think it’s cool.
Congrats man! Huge accomplishment. Liam Neeson as Ghost??
In case you haven’t heard, we have a new CEO!
Blip today announced that Kelly Day, EVP and General Manager of Digital Media and Commerce of Discovery Communications, will join the Company as CEO. In her new role, Day will take responsibility for the Company’s next phase of growth for its industry-leading advertising and distribution platforms. Day will report directly to Blip’s Board of Directors and, will herself, become a member of the Board.
We’re really excited to have Kelly join the company. Stay tuned for big things!
Noam Chomsky on education (1989 lecture)
It wasn’t until late college/grad school that I bothered to think critically about the educational system I had just spent the last 15+ years of my life immersed in. At the time I was interested in social psychology and I read about Milgram’s “obedience to authority” experiment, John Taylor Gatto’s critique of compulsory education, and others like it. Finally I started to ask hard questions. I wondered if it was even possible for a modern day Plato or Aristotle to come out of our school systems. I regretted my willingness to blindly obey my teachers and school administration, and I thought about the implications of that at mass scale. Certainly I don’t think all schools are bad, or all teachers are consciously supporting this institution, but I absolutely do believe we’re doing it wrong.
and with this, I finally understand the fascination with Pinterest.
Eye candy!
