Splitscreen: A Love Story from JW Griffiths on Vimeo.

This short film, filmed with two Nokia phones, is brilliant and fantastically well done. Found via the LaughingSquidhole.

In this second video from this year’s Zine Fest, I talk to Peter S. Conrad about the newest issue of his Attempted Not Known comic (order link). I was originally interested in the design of the book, which looks just like an old cassette tape, but Peter’s stories are always a pleasure to read too. In this video, I talk to Peter about how he made this book and some of his past projects too.

How do you guys like these videos so far? They are coming together pretty quickly, but I’d love to hear any feedback (too long/too short). The place was kind of noisy, so I had to keep pretty close to Peter so I could here him, but I think it turned out okay. Especially with the cut scenes.

I met Paul Nosa in Dolores Park late last summer. He had set up his solar powered sewing machine and was embroidering commissioned pieces on scraps of fabric. Most of his pieces were based on five word phrases suggested by customers, so I handed him a shirt and asked him to do custom piece with “yo-yos and bikes and shit”. I shot the above video while he was working on my shirt, but hadn’t gotten around to editing it until flying back from Saint Louis this weekend. I hope you like it.

By the way, the shirt turned out AWESOME:

Last November, I saw this guy using a magnifying glass to burn letters on to pieces of drift wood. I did a brief interview with him, but never got around to editing it until now. Check it out on the youtubehole. All I know is that his name is Ted. Anyone else know anything about him or magnifying glass art?

I’ll bring some watercolors, paper, and brushes for anyone to use, but folks are encouraged to bring their own art/craft materials too. Maybe we can get a mix of different mediums going, anyone wanna try making a Dr. Horrible doll? Anyone is welcome to hang out (you don’t even have to draw), but you haven’t seen the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog podcasts yet, check them out at DrHorrible.com

On a side note, Zeitgeist has a new cook named Jess and she seems like a cool girl. She asked me to tell my friends that she’s bringing back the breakfast menu on Sunday’s, so this is how I’m doing it.

Several of the tables at this year’s Zinefest were offering “make your own buttons” services. The basic idea was that for one dollar, you could draw a little image and have it made into a little 1″ button. I did three water colored buttons before I remembered an old idea I’ve had about cutting up a dollar bill and turning it into buttons. The result worked out even better than I imagined, especially the pyramid and eagle sections which must have been designed with this idea in mind because they seem to fit so perfectly.

$4 yielded me 3 buttons. Considering the value of a dollar right now, I think this was a good investment. I’ve long been searching for a 1″button maker, but neither Craigslist or eBay have yet to turn up anything decent for under $200.