Justin Porter Stephens

The Polaroid instant film camera is back — and it looks very familiar

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:56:00 -0400

The Polaroid instant film camera is back — and it looks very familiar:

The new Polaroid 300, which snaps and prints business-card-size photos, doesn’t look a thing like the angular Polaroid SX-70 that ruled the 1970s. Instead, the new Polaroid is all circles and rounded edges — just like the Fujifilm Instax Mini 7.

How did I miss this?

I love how perfect the drumming is while the rest of the band...

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:56:00 -0400

I love how perfect the drumming is while the rest of the band screws up a hundred times. I also love how Bernard rips the windscreen off his mic around 0:37.

Jonathan Richman - Parties in the USA

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:18:00 -0400

Jonathan Richman - Parties in the USA

Last night, Rog and Holden came over with Mike because their song “Tora Tora Tora” was...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:13:00 -0400

Last night, Rog and Holden came over with Mike because their song “Tora Tora Tora” was added to Rock Band. Rog killed the bass line on expert, but Holden failed on guitar and 88 percented his own vocals. Mike pointed out the song was so old he had actually played it a few times live. Then we all melted because there was six people and an overheating Xbox in a tiny room on a hundred degree night.

This was my favorite movie when I was eight. I only recently...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:57:00 -0400

This was my favorite movie when I was eight. I only recently found it the song in this scene is by Sparks.

"Diana"

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:09:54 -0400

"Diana":

My short, short story “Diana” was published in Ekleksographia (don’t worry, I can’t pronounce the name either) last week. I wrote it back in October for a flash fiction class I was taking at Lesley. Former fellow Emmanuel College English dept. all-star Eliza also has a piece in the same issue.

American Analog Set - Punk as Fuck Maybe my favorite song ever....

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:56:00 -0400

American Analog Set - Punk as Fuck

Maybe my favorite song ever. Maybe the most misleading song title, too.

Photo

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:14:12 -0400

Photo

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:12:17 -0400

1958fury: what is a gameboy camera The Game Boy Camera is the worst idea Nintendo has had besides...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:49:00 -0400

1958fury:

what is a gameboy camera

The Game Boy Camera is the worst idea Nintendo has had besides the Virtual Boy. And by “worst” I mean “best.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera

It came with a printer. The paper is old and dried out and doesn’t work anymore but you can use receipts and other heat sensitive paper!

I bought a Game Boy Camera on ebay.

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:51:00 -0400

I bought a Game Boy Camera on ebay.

Hipster Dad, Season 1

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:24:00 -0400

As I mentioned yesterday, since the stupid Geico cavemen got their own show and a movie starring the ETRADE baby has been optioned, I plan on spinning-off the American Apparel-wearing, bearded dad character in Toyota Sienna commercials into a sitcom called Hipster Dad. Jeremy, Aaron, and I planned out the first season:

Ep. 01 - Pilot

Things with Joe—the new, ex-jock neighbor—get off on the wrong foot when he teases Hipster Dad for stocking the cooler with PBR at the neighborhood block party. While Joe is well liked by everyone else at the party, Hipster Dad looks for sympathy from the message board he posts on but the thread receives no replies. Later, he starts a band with some of the other neighborhood dads, but gets upset when Joe volunteers to sing and insists they only cover Springsteen.

Ep. 02 - First Fixie

Hipster Dad deals with the fallout of kicking Joe out of his band by trying to convince his wife to get a chestpiece tattoo. His son then asks for a BMX bike as his first but Hipster Dad returns from the bike store with a fixed gear. Receives rejections on the freelance pieces he proposed to Pitchfork and McSweeney’s.

Ep. 03 - Mass Romantic

Neko Case guests stars as Nina, a jazz singer from the city, who relocates to Hipster Dad’s neighborhood. He quickly becomes smitten with her, but his attempts to reach out are thwarted by the fact that his wife and kids are always around. In order to spend more time together, Hipster Dad asks her to fill in the vacant vocalist position in his band, saying her voice seems like it would fit in with their “New Pornographers-ish” sound.

Ep. 04 - Rice and Beans and Skinny Jeans

Hipster Dad’s wife is stranded out of town on a team-building retreat the same night their daughter is having her entire class over for a slumber party. Left in charge of feeding them, Hipster Dad realizes he only knows how to make burritos so he makes a huge one, Uncle Buck-style. Later, he tries to get the kids to go to sleep by playing Joanna Newsom, but it only makes them cry.

Ep. 05 - Crisis MGMT

While up against a deadline and stuck in the city, Hipster Dad ducks into The Charleston for an afternoon beer, only to find the bar empty except for the two guys from MGMT. After hanging out with them all day and night in Williamsburg—while blowing off an important deadline and his son’s little league game and racking up a serious tab—Hipster Dad finds out they’re just two NYU students fucking with him for free drinks. Things go from bad to worse when Hipster Dad returns to White Plains to find out that Joe and Nina have gone out on a date.

Ep. 06 - Load In, Towed Out

Buzzed off a Manhattan one night, Hipster Dad accidentally bids $1200 on eBay for a pair of vintage British Knights hightops. In order to cover the cost, he decides to take his band on tour. However, they can only play bars in the surrounding area because his wife needs the Toyota Sienna to take the kids to school each morning. The day after each show, Hipster Dad spends all day in the local coffee shop, listening for any conversation pertaining to last night’s show and using his Macbook Pro to repeatedly search his band on Flickr. Tour is cut short after the van is towed while the band unloads their gear before a gig at an empty Cameo.

I think spinning-off those minivan commercials starring the...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:30:00 -0400

I think spinning-off those minivan commercials starring the bearded, young dad wearing American Apparel hoodies into a TV show called Hipster Dad would be an excellent idea. Basically, I see Hipster Dad as a thirtysomething who has a wife, son, and daughter but can’t quite get over how cool he was in his twenties or that his band no one cared about broke up. Ideas for episodes include him:

insisting, then purchasing, a fixed gear when his 8 year-old son asks for his first bike
struggling over his daughter’s graduation from kindergarten conflicting with a Pavement reunion show
trying to convince his wife to get a chestpiece
“accidentally” becoming unironically interested in Gossip Girl
starting a band with some of the other neighborhood dads, then getting upset when all they want to do is cover Springsteen

Network executives should feel free to get in touch with me.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 21:42:45 -0400

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Yesterday I had to parallel park while getting lunch. It was a tight squeeze but I made it...

Wed, 26 May 2010 15:22:34 -0400

Yesterday I had to parallel park while getting lunch. It was a tight squeeze but I made it surprisingly easy. Like, it could have been used in one of those silly videos you had to watch in driver’s ed. I felt pretty good about myself as I turned off the car. A guy walking by on the sidewalk watching even gave me a thumbs up.

John Linnell - The Second Longest Night Written by Jonathan...

Tue, 25 May 2010 10:37:00 -0400

John Linnell - The Second Longest Night

Written by Jonathan Lethem. I like to pretend it’s a Monster Eyes b-side.

Oh, Zooey. So what’s with M. Ward’s Eugenides-esque,...

Fri, 21 May 2010 10:54:06 -0400

Oh, Zooey.

So what’s with M. Ward’s Eugenides-esque, creeper facial hair?

Tetris Tetris Everywhere

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:04 -0400

Tetris Tetris Everywhere:

You know you’ve been playing too much Tetris when you start seeing colored, falling blocks when you’re away from the computer.

This Flickr group, Tetris Tetris Everywhere, mixes instances where actual Tetris blocks have been placed in the real world with real world images that look like they’ve come straight out of Tetris. Shipping containers, construction sites, beer crates, you name it, it’s here and it looks like Tetris.

Mirim, 01210 Polaroid 600 film, expired 9/09

Mon, 17 May 2010 11:24:51 -0400

Mirim, 01210
Polaroid 600 film, expired 9/09

Of Montreal - Disconnect the Dots I love how this is played at...

Mon, 17 May 2010 09:33:00 -0400

Of Montreal - Disconnect the Dots

I love how this is played at the end of The Puffy Chair.