Justin Johnson's almost daily web-log

justin: dvx...hvx...it all sounds like s-e-x to me.

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:06:10 -0400

justin: dvx...hvx...it all sounds like s-e-x to me.

"The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:43:00 -0400

“The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.””

- Please Mark, we all know that “Starsluts” would be a far better term.

superdoofus-stratodrive: Hey Marissa, Justin says hello and...

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:20:01 -0400

superdoofus-stratodrive:

Hey Marissa, Justin says hello and wants me to let you know that he’s enjoying himself.

I’d like to point out that I actually don’t like cake that much. It was Erik’s fault.

franksino: erik: This is justin’s car in gta4 after he drove...

Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:03 -0400

franksino:

erik:

This is justin’s car in gta4 after he drove it off a building and through about 50 people!

how the heck do you get a car on a building

To answer Frank, you spawn a helicopter, you jump off onto a building that doesn’t have side railings that are too high, you spawn a car, you drive the car off, and epic damage ensues. It’s fun!

erik: This is justin’s car in gta4 after he drove it off a...

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:45:09 -0400

erik:

This is justin’s car in gta4 after he drove it off a building and through about 50 people!

Pretty proud moment in my life, if I say so myself.

My grandpa died today. He wasn’t in some awful nursing...

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:08:20 -0400

My grandpa died today.

He wasn’t in some awful nursing home connected to machines, it wasn’t in his sleep, he wasn’t in pain.

For the past several years he’s been working at a place called the Kennedy Center in his small town of Amery, Wisconsin. Every time I’d see him he’d show me new photos from renovating this and fixing up that. He wasn’t boastful about it, but you could tell he took great pride in making it a better place.

He had a heart attack, from what I gathered after my parents called this afternoon he was active as usual, working on the lawn at the Center, and then he died.

You know when someone starts getting up there in the years, that every time you see them could be the last. That was actually one of the main reasons I decided to lug my camera along with me this past Christmas.

I had captured the footage and started cutting it down when my hard drive stopped working. It kind of lost my attention for a couple months. Maybe that was good thing, now I can finish it as more of a tribute.

He was still so active even up to the end. I’m glad I didn’t drop the ball and leave my camera at home.

It’s odd when something ends. Every frame of video that will ever be captured of this man has been captured. Every photo, taken. No matter what. Makes all those frames and photos so much more precious now. Makes me glad I took the time to document the people in my life.

I know that no matter where he is now, he’s not sitting back and taking a break. That’s why my grandpa is awesome.

This is one of my favorite vidblogs with him it in, from Christmas 2003.

implodr: Wow… Apple, time to “borrow” this for a new...

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:01:21 -0400

implodr:

Wow… Apple, time to “borrow” this for a new commercial. I love the part at the end where they show you how to buy the song on iTunes. Hilarious and clever.

topherchris:

The OS X desktop as music video.

A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop.

(via)

An epic amount of work - mad respect.

SPCA…dorable.

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:59:28 -0400

SPCA…dorable.

Possibly my favorite Barely Political video ever. I got the...

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:13 -0400

Possibly my favorite Barely Political video ever.

I got the chance to talk to Gravel a bit during the shoot, dude’s a class act.

marco:

Mike Gravel Lobbies for the Obama Girl Vote

(via ryandestroys) “Zardoz,” what this is from, is...

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:41:46 -0400

(via ryandestroys)

“Zardoz,” what this is from, is actually a kind of good movie. Forget the fact it has a shirtless Sean Connery and a giant floating stone head with a wizard inside of it … there’s something magical about 70s sci-fi movies. There’s an odd, unmonitored oddness to them that you just don’t find very often in the mega-budget blockbusters that pollute the landscape of the future.

1000lolz: GTA IV internet dating

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:40:07 -0400

1000lolz:

GTA IV internet dating

Next Generation Gaming

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:06:54 -0400

marissa: http://tinyurl.com/6cjtnn
justin: we're getting a wii
marissa: ahahahah

"Remember when I drove past the theatre 2 days before Matrix 2 came out and a certain someone was..."

Thu, 01 May 2008 18:34:08 -0400

“Remember when I drove past the theatre 2 days before Matrix 2 came out and a certain someone was sleeping on the sidewalk outside the box office like a god damn homeless idiot? Remember when someone stood in homemade Darth Maul boots for six hours waiting to find out who the fuck Darth Maul was? Remember when you stood up and cheered for the fucking Hulk Teaser right in front of me? RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME?! Well, you were wrong to be excited about all those things. And Sweeney Todd. But don’t take it out on the one thing I’ve looked forward to for three years.”

- Dan Harmon on Grand Theft Auto 4 (via boringloser)

$100 for his Xbox Live name, Dave.

"McElhenney, Howerton and Day initially shot a pilot of [Always Sunny in Philadelphia] for $200..."

Thu, 01 May 2008 18:28:00 -0400

“McElhenney, Howerton and Day initially shot a pilot of [Always Sunny in Philadelphia] for $200 dollars on an AG-DVX100 and edited it on a home computer. (They claim that most of the $200 in expenditures went to pay for pizza and the cost of gasoline to drive to location shoots.) FX picked up the show and re-shot the pilot, again with the DVX100 (for a price, says FX, significantly higher than that of the original $200).”

- I love hearing stuff like this. Especially since “Always Sunny” is one of my favorite shows on TV.

Jesus, what an adorable little ball of puff. I mean, look at his...

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:43:03 -0400

Jesus, what an adorable little ball of puff. I mean, look at his little ears twitch! His little mouth! Good god Mr. Chatterbox, you’re the ultimate instrument of cute.

Then I read in the comment section, that little Guinea Pigs make this sound when they’re scared, and calling for their mom.

Suddenly, I felt heartbroken for the little guy. He’s so lonely, so concerned! A gut-wrenching twisteroo. Those little ears, now skittering with misery and panic … the tiny mouth, puckered in a gaping grimace of sorrow.

Chatterbox, I hope you’ve found solace by now.

Ultra Kawaii - Animal Idol Excellently animated by mister Ben...

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:56:24 -0400

Ultra Kawaii - Animal Idol

Excellently animated by mister Ben Ross. Really looks great!

ViroCop - coming soon.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:35:07 -0400

ViroCop - coming soon.

I have five invites to Brightkite

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:52:29 -0400

caro:

I have five invites to the private beta of Brightkite, a wacky little location-based mobile service that seems to think it’s going to outdo both Twitter and Dodgeball. It was getting tossed around in San Francisco last week at the Web 2.0 Expo and it seems decent. Privacy controls are more extensive than Dodgeball, which is something that I think concerned a fair number of people outside the early-adopter geek set. I’m a big believer in location based-services (LBS) as the feature that will really set off mobile social-networking, but nobody’s gotten it right yet. We’ll see if this one takes off. I’m not sure it will. But who knows?

Normally when I have invites to give away I shoot an up-for-grabs message on Twitter, but most of the people I know on Twitter are based in the Bay Area. I would kind of like to test this out in New York, where it seems like Tumblr has more of a foothold (to say the least). So if you want one, reblog this with an e-mail address to which I can send an invite.

This will also be a strategy to see if there are actually five people reading this.

I’m really interested in this tech … justinsuperstar@yahoo.com

From “Quiz and Erik” - homebrew Indy Mogul game -...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:50:41 -0400

From “Quiz and Erik” - homebrew Indy Mogul game - proving once again that our fans are awesome.

My copy of gta4 just

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:16:57 -0400

My copy of gta4 just came in - but i’m at the mets game! Oh curses!