Matthew Pollock

Ruben gave me his sxsw badge. Now to pretend I directed Zombieland for the rest of the week.

Never forget.

This is what you’ll find at a walmart in Texas. Why america?why?

I don’t know what everyone in NYC is talking about the weather is gorgeous.

For SXSW. Be back Thursday. If you’re at SXSW and want to hang Let me know.

eightbit:

“This is my thing now, this hat. I’m doing it. Go big or go home you know.”

I wear many hats at work… Specifically this one though…

noahkalina:

Broken Bells - Your Head Is On Fire

Not only was the Broken Bells show super awesome last night, but some lucky bystander had the great fortune of finding my Ray Ban Clubmasters and keeping them forever. Hooray for them!!! Boo for my wallet!!!

streeter:

joshruben:

hardlyworkingch:

Hardly Working: Same Shirt. The two most fashionable dudes in the office pay the ultimate price.

STREETER AND I WORE THE SAME SHIRT

I have to admit, he wears it better.

This has happened to me from time to time so it was a fun one to shoot. Enjoy!

bryanwashere:

Proceed as planned.

GPOYEABCWFW

Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Enjoying A Birthday Cupcake With Friends Wednesday

nerdology:

bryanwashere:

The TRON: Legacy trailer looks incredible. This will be a must see in 3-D.

YES!

Jesus this looks incredible.

This week’s edition of Music Video Monday is brought to you by: Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit Of Happiness” (feat. MGMT & Ratatat). It’s the second video for this track and is definitely much more entertaining than the first. Enjoy!

(via:blogwell,caseydonahue,thedailywhat)

collegehumor:

DIE HARDLY WORKING: The CollegeHumor Action Movie. The highest-budget, longest-in-production, craziest Hardly Working ever produced. See what really happened to our old office. Digg it!

This is great! A fun departure from your standard HW, if you can call any of them “standard.” Todd did a great job directing this and Gloo Studios did some amazing work with the effects. I had basically nothing to do with this other than the fact that I recorded some of the VO lines, but I felt it was worthy of a reblog.

Avatar didn’t win best picture. Good start to the birthday.

vincentpeone:

Our location today is a reel dump.

vincentpeone:

So our hotel is straight up haunted.

Looks like I made it to LA safely (Hint hint west coast friends).

Wednesday (3-3-10)

For Time:

21-18-15-12-9-6-3-1

Push-ups, Sit-ups

7:13

Missed last night’s running wod so I did a quick workout this morning. I have to travel for work so the next few wod’s will all be home friendly as I’ll be doing them in my hotel room. FUN!

Monday (3-1-10)

“War Frank”

Three rounds for time of:
25 Muscle-ups
100 Squats
35 GHD sit-ups

33:54

I still don’t have a muscle-up yet (haven’t worked at it as much as I should) so I subbed that out with muscle-up progressions starting from my knees (still a good workout). I also subbed out the GHD sit-ups with abmat sit-ups. Still a good workout either way. Doing 300 squats in a workout is pretty rough and my legs are definitely tired today. Good stuff either way. I’m gonna do my best to make sure I work out more in March then I did in both February and January. I’ve slacked a lot the past month and need to get back on track.

hipsterdiet:

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version

(via listgenerator)

Yes - its that amazing.

A little late on posting this week’s video for “Music Video Monday” but I think you’ll be happy I did. Ok Go has another amazing music video, big surprise right? Aside from getting pretty crazy towards the end it’s also interesting that this is pretty much a big ad for State Farm. This one was directed by James Frost who has directed other big videos such as Coldplay’s “Yellow” and Silversun Pickups’ “Panic Switch.” Enjoy!

thatisawesome:

Facebook [motion]

inspired by the internet. shot and edited by andy dulman.

Love it! Great job Andy, great apple eating Weston.

Shotgun!

(via willschneider)

One of my favorite moments in cinematic history. I say this a lot in my life. Basically anytime there’s an awkward moment I’ll end it with a, “Big Gulps huh, alright. Welp, see ya later!”

annnna:

The cast of American Idiot, the Broadway show, rehearsing at our downstairs lobby today!

The most random things happen in our office sometimes…

samreich:

“Fatal Decision 2: The Decision is You,” a Choose Your Own Adventure-type video.  Written by me and Patrick and directed by me.  Also produced by Steve, shot by Vince, and edited by Sam Jacobson.  Digg it.

For a while now, we’ve wanted to go the Choose Your Own Adventure direction with “Fatal Decision.”  Amir Cohen and the guys in Dev were good enough to build a custom Flash player for it.

Such a fun idea. Enjoy it!

Step 1. Sell body on the street for extra cash.

Step 2. Buy everything in the pictures above (except sunglasses ‘cause I already have those).

Step 3. Continue being awesome.

(source)

Remember when I went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago? This is why:

Jake and David Try To Impress SI Swimsuit Models: Part 1

Got to spend a couple of days in Vegas and shoot these funny videos of Jake and David with the help of Creighton, Jess, and Spencer. Obviously we all had a lot of fun working on these and causing chaos in Vegas. Enjoy! Parts 2 and 3 out soon.

GPOYW

Back in October I went skydiving for the first time right after helping Amir with this video. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and I’m really glad I got to do it. Not sure why it took me so long to post some photos but here you go. The word doofus comes to mind.

bryanwashere:

“Ok Dad”

joshruben:

pavblog:

DOG EATS DINNER!!! Lolz.

HAHA brilliant

jakeandamir:

Commute

Fun one to shoot. If you were curious as to what the office looks like this will help you get a better look at it.

driving2alaska:

indierawk:

Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun.

New video. Future tennis with a Jonas Brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lil’ Jon, RZA, anyone?

I’m a big fan of Vampire Weekend and I think the new album is great.  Also, RZA makes an awesome line judge.

I’m starting a new feature called “Music Video Mondays.” I’ll be posting a music video every Monday. Either something new or an old favorite of mine. Either way here’s the first one. Enjoy.

I can’t be the only person who noticed this.

USA Olympic Ice Dancer Meryl White is actually a Navi…It would explain the insane amount of white makeup she wears while performing…I smell a scandal…

(I guess I just admitted I watched Ice Dancing…whatever it’s not my fault USA curling is unwatchable.)

hardlyworkingch:

Hardly Working: I Want My Doctor

A fun one to shoot. Sarah almost passed out while shooting this one. So you should definitely watch it, if not for me than out of respect for her.

Monday (2-22-10)

Run 5K

25:31 (PR)

Last time I did this I kept having to stop for traffic and so it wasn’t a very accurate time. This time I ran along the west side highway right near my office. I felt good for most the run, but I could have definitely pushed more at the end. I’m not happy with this time at all and am excited to see how I do the next time I run this since I finally have an accurate time for a 5K to try and beat.

Friday (2-19-10)

Three rounds, 21-15-9 reps, for time of:

• Squats
• Push-Ups
• Sit-Ups

2:58

First time doing this workout. Felt like I was going pretty fast for the most part. Got caught up on the sit-ups a couple of times (I did this after the deck of cards WOD so I was a little beat up already). I’m curious to see how I do the next time I try this. It felt like a nice quick workout that would probably be good to do as either a warmup or cash out.

Friday (2-19-10)

Deck Of Cards Circuit

Take a deck of 52 cards and select one workout for each suit. Shuffle the cards, flip the first card over and do that exercise. The number of reps is the number on the card. For instance if clubs were air squats then when you flip over the 5 of clubs you do 5 air squats. Jacks count as 11, Queens as 12, Kings as 13, and Aces as 14. You’re finished when you go through the entire deck. Here’s what exercises I did:

• Hearts = Push-ups
• Clubs = Air-Squats
• Diamonds = Sit-ups
• Spades = V-Ups

16:28

I did this faster than last time, but last time I did burpees where as this time I did V-Ups. Still a good workout. When it comes down to it you’re performing 104 reps of each exercise. Not a bad workout at all.

breegoodrow:

The making of that hilarious Old Spice commercial…

Because I know you’re all curious as to how they did it. Makes me happy to know they executed it pretty much how I thought they did.

Fun Fact:

A few years back the majority of my editing work was commercials. Unfortunately for me I never got to work with Wieden + Kennedy. The creatives over there are brilliant. The Old Spice spots have been great lately (remember the LL Cool J spot?), and to top it off their client base is amazing. Just to name a few: Nike, Coca-Cola, Target, ESPN, Converse, and many more. Recently, while flying back in from a shoot in Vegas I happened to be sitting next to a producer from Wieden + Kennedy who works on some of the Nike campaigns. I spent the majority of the time confessing my love for the work they do. Especially this Air Jordan commercial, which is one of my favorites of all time. If I ever go back to the commercial world it will be a mission of mine to work with Wieden + Kennedy or at least creatives that are close to as good as them.

streeter:

That’s right, we’re launching TWO new Tumblrs today!

1. HardlyWorking.com - A place to watch Hardly Workings and get HW-specific news and info.

2.The CH Staff Blog, at Blog.CollegeHumor.com.  A place for the CH staff to post funny things we find throughout the day.  Also, we’ll post about jobs and internships here so follow if you’re interested in getting info like that.

A great read that focuses on the music industry and viral videos. Written by Damian Kulash Jr. of OK Go.

johnzanussi:

cleavingmind:

suck it Canada!

thatisawesome:

iammattjordan:

drinkyourjuice:

NEW BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE!

Broken Social Scene - World Sick

Epic (as if the band would have it any other way). The new album is out May 4th, which seems so far away now.

[via britticisms]

i play favorites.

Fuck yeah

Free VIP tickets to New Found Glory and Saves The Day. I don’t know if my 16 year old self would be proud of me or ashamed. Either way it was an awesome show and NFG killed it!

if you’re going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it…

Wednesday (2-17-17-10)

“Tabata This!”

• Tabata Row
• Rest 1 minute
• Tabata Squat
• Rest 1 minute
• Tabata Pull-up
• Rest 1 minute
• Tabata Push-up
• Rest 1 minute
• Tabata Sit-up

The Tabata interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals.
Tabata score is the least number of reps performed in any of the eight intervals. Unit for the row is “calories”.

41 (3,17,4,10,7)

This kicked my ass more than I thought it would. I definitely strategized a couple of the exercises wrong. Here are the breakdowns for each exercise:

Row: 3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4 (Did this one last so I was completely exhausted)

Squat: 20,20,20,20,17,17,17,17 (Should have tried for 18 or 19 and not 20)

Pull-Up: 8,7,4,4,4,4,4,4 (Should have tried for 6 and not 8)

Push-Up: 12,12,12,12,12,12,10,10 (After pull-ups this is tough)

Sit-Up: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7 (Would have liked to get 8 or 9 on this)

Overall I’m not happy with my score, but that’s what I get for taking a week off from both the gym and eating well. Vegas will do that to you. Did some medicine ball work as a warm up for this. Happy to be back in it.

New script I’m working on…NBD…

I’m probably going to post a before and after in mid March when it will be 6 months from when I started doing CrossFit. I’m definitely not the guy who posts pics of himself shirtless on the internet, but I’ll do it this one time since it doesn’t seem so gratuitous.

Wednesday (2-10-10)

Amrap in 10 minutes of:

• 5 situps
• 10 pushups
• 15 squats

12 Rounds?

Since I had to travel for work I wasn’t able to do the mainsite WOD so I snuck this one in after lunch and before one of the shoots. A great quick workout that you can do at home. I was going to go for 20 minutes but I needed to get ready for the shoot. The lunch I had definitely didn’t go well with this workout. Glad I got to sneak it in though.

Tuesday (2-9-10)

Resting 60 seconds between sets:
Back squat 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

First 4 rounds I did 155lbs. Last 6 I did 175lbs.

This workout isnt a 2-rep max… This is a DE (dynamic effort) speed work BS. Meaning you should take around 50-60% of your 1 rm and do 10 sets of 2. The idea is to squat your 2 reps as fast as possible, then rest 60 secs and repeat x10. The bar should not slow down on any reps and in reality go faster.

Halfway through I added more weight because 155 wasn’t challenging at all.