How I Met Your Mother – Infographics


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How I Met Your Mother aired the 6th episode of its 8th season last night: “Splitsville.” Here are some infographics about each of the characters on the show celebrating its 8 season run!
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Hands on with Xbox SmartGlass


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At E3, I was wowed by a demonstration of Microsoft’s SmartGlass. The application brought a second screen to the Xbox 360 experience, offering an alternative way to control the device through the use of a smartphone. About 5 months later, Smartglass has arrived. Earlier this week I had a chance to play around with it. How does it stack up to the demonstration I saw? Read on to find out.
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Modern Family – Infographics


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Modern Family is on tonight at 9|8 Central time, so we thought we should share some infographics we created exploring the quirks of each family from the show!
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A Guide to Surviving in a Horror Film


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Some helpful tips on staying alive and keeping most of your limbs.

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The Source Filmmaker: A Preview



Yesterday, Valve introduced the Source Filmmaker, a tool for creating movies using the Source engine as the set and studio. The tool allows digital directors to animate characters, set up camera angles, and realistically recreate dialogue using the program. As they put it, you get all of the “lights, camera, and action” except you can do the whole process in reverse, which they believe is actually more effective.
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Childhood Pantone Swatch – Dexter’s Laboratory


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List: Successful YouTube Channels



As I discussed in my last post about YouTube advertising resources, YouTube is definitely the big dog in online video. Soon, I’m going to elaborate on what the YouTube platform has planned for the future as well as my thoughts on the proposed shift in media consumption, but first I thought I’d share a list of the some of the most successful channels on YouTube as a quick way of starting the conversation. These are not organized in any particular way and don’t show every single large channel, just a selection of some of the top performers. For a more detailed list, you can check YouTube’s own channels page or this unofficial list from VidStatsX.
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Snowy Manhattan at LACS


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Always a surprise to get to the office and see that we’ve ended up in a Manhattan winter.
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Los Angeles Center Studios – The White Room Pictures


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Here are some more pictures from around Los Angeles Center Studios. These ones were taken in “The White Room,” a set that can be used as a morgue, server room, or a laboratory. It’s been used recently on Chuck and Bones, among others.
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The Muppets Infographics


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“The Muppets” is hitting theaters this Wednesday and what better way to celebrate their return to the big screen than with some brand new shiny Muppets infographics?
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