Shirt designs

Don't read too deeply in to these. They just kind of happened. I didn't put a great deal of conscious thought or effort into any of them. It's mostly just fun to doodle.

I'm open to suggestions and thoughts.

Auteurs

I like mashups. It's how pop-culture works today, and maybe always has.





If you can think of other variations on this theme, I'm anxious to hear about them.

The natives are getting restless...

Momentum

An official YouTube blog talked about Orabrush.
Ad Age talked about Orabrush in an article.
Silicon Valley Insider picked it up too.
Neat.

Overhaul

I've been blogging far far less lately. I think I'll give this page a redesign to infuse some new life. This is more for me than the readers, but in all honesty, so is the content.

End of the Digital Detox

I'm done with my Web 2.0 Fast, Digital Detox, or as Angela called it, my facebook diet.

I'll post a reflection on how the digital detox went, but right now, CES is going on.

And I want one of these.

Experimental Psychology - Change Blindness

Maybe I'm fooling myself, but I REALLY think I WOULD notice the switch. Who knows.

Augmented Reality - Share

Remember that ad I did with Andrew Bagley a little while back? He mentioned that he had been working on a pretty cool Augmented Reality piece for a major national magazine that would come out soon. That magazine was WIRED magazine, and the augmented reality spot was a little widget calling attention to Vampire Power.



See my picture on the Vampire Power website.


Try it. It's fun. And on the intro page, you might recognize some of the faces they demo at the bottom.

Anglilch

I've asked this question a thousand times, no joke.

About This Video

An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it.

See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today's Big Thing.

It's like Beck, Weird Al, and Led Zeppelin played backwards. I keep instinctively trying to understand what they're saying, and have to try to remember that they're not saying anything.

TopTenREVIEWS Reviews.

My first videos from TopTenREVIEWS.com are up. Here are two links.

I’ll be honest, it's not my absolute best work. I need to smile more and put more energy into these. I think that’s why they hired me in the first place, after seeing the OraBrush ads.

It's time in front of a camera, though, and I'm glad for that.

A Litmus for Authenticity

I haven't written anything substantial in a long time. I'm a little afraid of that. Writing isn't like riding a bike, and in all honesty, I'm not entirely persuaded riding a bike is like riding a bike. Without practice and persistence in life, I think we each may simply melt into a puddle of loosely sentient flesh.

That being said, you may just as likely melt while watching this video.



From what I can gather, this group broadcasts on public access cable in central Florida.

The lack of sophistication reminds me oddly of Napoleon Dynamite. Their whole existence is anachronistic. I mean, if you had to guess, when might you place this broadcast on a timeline? They're also local, but without location. While P.T. Katt and M. Gormley are in Florida, they could as easily be in any rural minor American locale. The same is true of Jared and Jerusha Hess' most recent work, Gentlman Broncos.



Again, the characters are only vaguely aware of themselves. They lack the proverbial mirror to actually see themselves as others see them.

There is a character in Gentlemen Broncos who would be right at home on the "Uncharted Zone". Lonnie Donaho talks about "the industry" and his "feature films" shot on a home VHS camcorder. He might also get along well with the proprietor of this local outfit.

These men are AUTHENTICALLY poor performers in a way that I am entirely incapable of, in a way that I doubt can be duplicated by parody (Save by Jared Hess). I could not make something this bad if I tried. They'll never win awards or critical acclaim. They'd be lucky to come close to covering their costs, though they just might from gawkers paying money to see what is, by most accounts, an absolute train wreck. They seem to be entirely unaware of any developments in their field over the last twenty to thirty years. What's more, they are either OBLIVIOUS to or genuinely Do Not Care what people think of their work.

I can't tell if these are the most remarkable examples of hubris I've ever seen, or the complete absence. They don't presume to elevate their work over others, or even to compare. By all appearances they are doing this for their own enjoyment. If anybody else cares to watch, that's simply a bonus.

Hubris or not, regard for others work or none, these two groups present the most undeniable, clear cases of authenticity anywhere in media I know of. They are transparently bad, but you know it isn't a joke to them. Nobody would invest the time necessary to produce so much ostensibly unremarkable work. In being so transparent, they're also more true than almost any mainstream electronic culture. It's made by and for them and theirs. And that's tremendous.

Michel Gondry seems to understand this in a way many other filmmakers don't. It's reflected in his movies, and I love his movies.

Copyright, Science, and Education

Larry Lessig is somebody I'd like to be more like. I know I've talked about him before. I admire his independent intellect and adaptability.

He makes more sense on the subject of Copyright than any other individual or institution I've ever encountered. Laws should Make Sense.

Shouldn't intellectual property be made more available with the passage of time? For a huge swath of archival footage, the opposite is true. After just a few years, all rights revert back to the owner of the copyright.

According to Lessig, that means that much of the 20th century's documentary work on film will literally decay and be obliterated instead of being digitized, democratized, and distributed for the good of those who could learn from and use it. Instead, it will literally rot.

Interestingly, the most progressive groups pertaining to open use of electronic media are not only very forward thinking artists like Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Girl Talk, nut also Al-Jazeera, the Arabic language cable news network.

See video below:

Liberalism

I sincerely do want you to listen to the audio here. It's all Ronald Reagan. And he couldn't be more spot on if he were speaking today.

It's real. I'm really done.

I'm done. I'm really finished with school. I'll never go to another day of formalized education if I don't want to. It's more bittersweet than I would have thought, but is certainly sweet.

I'm listening to Animal by Miike Snow right now.

from BYU Diploma Status
to Austin Michael Craig
date Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM
subject Your BYU Bachelor of Arts has been mailed


Dear Austin,
Congratulations on receiving your Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University.
As of 10/2/2009 your diploma was mailed to:
Austin Michael Craig
4** N 2** E
Provo UT 84606

Please allow up to 10 days for delivery via 'First Class US Mail'.
Please do not call Brigham Young University at this time,
as your diploma has already been mailed.

Click the following link to VIEW YOUR DIPLOMA!
https://www.michaelsutter.com/emaildiplomastatus?mailstatusid=8118-2051323-270

Congratulations again on your fine achievement!

Can't Stop Won't Stop

Really diggin' new stuff from some friend, Can't Stop Won't Stop.

iGo Web Ad

This is the ad that a family friend had me come shoot about a month ago in Tempe, AZ.

It's a flash video without any embedding options, so go on over to the iGo.com website to check it out. I'm on the third line, the "Laptop Charger" spots.

There wasn't a lot of wiggle room on the script. When I wanted to get creative with it, the director reigned me back in. Hope you like it.

3DTV. Finally.

I say finally, but to be honest, it's not even here yet. Heaven knows it's been a long time coming. Hope it actually comes to market soon.

Find of the Day

Remember the note I found on campus? It's the FOUND magazine find of the day. Dope.

Hey Austin,

Let me be the first to congratulate you for passing along the finest
of the finds... we've just finished posting your submission as our
Find of the Day. Head on over to www.foundmagazine.com and take a look.

Thank you SO MUCH for passing your find along. Each year we get around
three million visitors to the site to check on these finds-- you can be
sure tons of people will appreciate the effort you took to scoop up the
goods.

Take a look at the text and double check that everything looks good to
you-- if you'd like something to be changed, let us know and we'll gladly
take care of it...

So thanks again and as always... SEND US YOUR FINDS!!

All the best,
Jason and Davy and all your friends here at FOUND

FOUND Magazine | www.foundmagazine.com

PS3 Slim - I want it.

For your money, hands down the best Blu-ray player available. Upgrade-proof through Sony's free network. And this is a rather clever ad.


And now that it's $300, I might be able to buy one some day.

Fortunate