Nora alerted me to these awesome covers dressed as Hobbit characters, but she said she didn’t see this video of Colbert interviewing Smaug. If you watch the last bit of the show he thanks Peter Jackson and then lists the people who helped animate the dragon for the show, which was about 50 names. Almost as good as President Obama doing a segment of the show.
Via Awesomer.
I was talking about this one Wednesday night with Mike:
Mike, “Deer-dra”, and a drunk asshole recommended this one:
Dan Harmon, creator of Community and podcast Harmontown, was on the Nerdist podcast and talked about trying to get out of a tv contract by creating something that the network definitely wouldn’t like. The way he did that was by creating something he would want to watch instead of trying to make something commercially successful. The result was the pilot for “Heat Vision and Jack“, with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver and Christine Taylor.
You should definitely watch the entire episode on youtube, but if you don’t have time, at least watch the title sequence, which should be queued up at 2:13 in the video below:
