links for 2009-05-08

But actually, Lytle's self-made stuff was basically pretty awesome.

After a few weeks of messing about with a cheapie DV cam, the first professionally produced video from Jason 'Grandaddy' Lytle pops up on his Vimeo.

All this is missing is a text field for me to enter my email and get the PDF back: "»You're« is a printed portrait of your virtual web identity, displaying a mash-up of your interests feelings thoughts pictures music and everything you ever published in a specific web community. Your personal data is set in a new context as all data the java based web crawler founds is displayed at once as words or tags which get connected to each other if they are recurrent."

Docu about a Montreal graffiti artist whose stuff is actually extremely thoughtful/good (and comes with all the accompanying negative civil stigma).

Be the next Chairlift/Kanye video-smearer with Datamosher's e-z tutorial. Be warned: his eyes are terrifying.

Alert the everybody: the first season of Peep Show has made it to Hulu. Stop everything that you're doing right now and go watch. Serious.

"Suzette, Michel Gondry's aunt, was a school teacher from 1952 to 1986 and she tells Michel how it was to be a teacher by then in a rural and isolated part of France. But little by little, Michel discovers some family stories he was totally unaware of and uses his camera to explore it in a subtle but very emotional way."

"Pegg further talked about the plot of "Paul" which he described as "the story of two comic book geeks, fanboys types who go to Comic Con. They're on a trip of a life time across America. They're going to go to Comic Con, they're going to go to geeky spots they want to go. When they visit Area 51, they happen upon an alien who's out there and he enlists them to help him to get to a point where they need to meet his pick up ship. And so these two guys end up getting involved in the craziest adventure they could possibly imagine. It's like their dream come true. "