I direct Late Night Interview, perform improv comedy with ridiculous geniuses, take photos, make audio recordings, and build websites. Recently I also try not to fail at things I’ll probably fail at. I’m wearing a wig in this photo.Tumblr (3.0; @benjaminapple)http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kughudI1KO1qz73hvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/8104585">Kelly and Emily</a>.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277971044http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277971044Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:47:01 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8104585&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8104585&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8104585&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://latenightinterview.tumblr.com/post/277920357/lni-139-emily-strachan-and-kelly-hudson-as-twin">latenightinterview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/8104585">LNI #139</a>: Emily Strachan and Kelly Hudson as twin dog trainers Candace and Courtney Coblestein.</p> </blockquote> <p>This was very fun to shoot, but very difficult to edit because of how often we broke. In retrospect I wish we’d used the dogs a little more. It was great to have them there (one belongs to Paul Wielunski, the other to someone I’d never met) though.</p> <blockquote></blockquote>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277920654http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277920654Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Xhdy9zBEws&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Xhdy9zBEws&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Directed by the French motion graphics studio H5. It features a day in the life of a woman working in the London’s Square Mile solely through infographics; this includes labelled close-ups of everyday objects, product lifecycles, schematic diagrams, charts, and is generally illustrated in a simple isometric visual style.</p> </blockquote>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277825441http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/277825441Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:18:41 -0500“You’ve come this far, let’s not ruin it by thinking.” - Jerry Fieldinghttp://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/276467981http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/276467981Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:21:16 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DC0ymLJHmsI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DC0ymLJHmsI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>“I guess I’m a Racist” anti-Obama-health-care-plan ad. Everything about this is hilarious.</p> <p>The doctor at 0:12 really seems like he’s casually come to the realization that he is racist.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/274899644http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/274899644Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:16:49 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vv5doNOgcfw&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vv5doNOgcfw&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Tennessee Natural Gas runs a series of surreal, hilarious TV commercials featuring this dog. See ads <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSiZBE3c1j0">1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpynHubMA-A">2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxHN9ZhnRQ">4</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFykv3kBIY">5</a>. The weirdly-accented “Natural Gas” at the end of each one gets me every time.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/258774155http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/258774155Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:22:33 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4oSavAHf0dg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4oSavAHf0dg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>M-TRAN 3 Modular Robot.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/254603220http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/254603220Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:16:22 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QRvVzaQ6i8A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QRvVzaQ6i8A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Marvin Gaye sings the national anthem at a 1983 NBA All-Star game. Usually I don’t dig it when people change the timing, add a bunch of frills, etc., but Marvin Gaye managed to make the national anthem sound <i>sexy</i>.</p> <p>Found this video after getting an email from my brother about the British anthem, God Save the Queen. It includes this couplet:</p> <p>O Lord our God arise,<br/> Scatter her enemies</p> <p>This is the only such couplet in the song that doesn’t rhyme, but the song dates back to the mid-18th century, so probably it did back then, right? I think I’ve read that one of the way linguists (or whoever studies these things) figure out how people used to pronounce things is by analyzing poetry from those eras. This is cool.</p> <p>The same verse also includes the lines, “Confound their politics/Frustrate their knavish tricks.” Alright.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251177791http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251177791Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:46 -0500heyjb: So I feel like a totally douche posting this but I’m ecstatic so you’ll need to...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251060013http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251060013Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:46:06 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u20pvgQnxdA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u20pvgQnxdA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>“<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20pvgQnxdA">A SHOUTOUT TO BEN APPLE</a>.” This automatically comes up at the end of my reel as a related video. I don’t know the girls or the Ben Apple they’re talking about.</p> <p>It still weirds me out that there are other people with my name. Growing up I didn’t know any Apples I wasn’t related to.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251036701http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/251036701Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:12:27 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/249900055/tumblr_ktdfry3hv11qz73hv&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>If you missed Dreadnought’s “Improv With Elvis” show at Daioh Sushi last night, this two-minute clip will give you a pretty good idea of how it went down.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249900055http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249900055Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:35:58 -05006 p.m. - Orson Welles’ Basement of Terror at UCB. Frank Hejl’s script is original, tight...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249855090http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249855090Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:35:30 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qlKWzumrJNU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qlKWzumrJNU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>My Director/DP/Editor reel for UCB Beta Teams submission. My only regret is that it doesn’t feature more Brandon Scott Jones vehicles.</p> <p>I’d be interested to see other people’s reels. <a href="mailto:benjamincanfly@gmail.com">benjamincanfly@gmail.com</a></p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249368936http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/249368936Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:32:11 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P9ByGQGiVMg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P9ByGQGiVMg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>ASIMO’s object-recognition skills. Skip ahead to 2 minutes.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/248787815http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/248787815Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:34 -0500iamachilles: Dreadnought is performing an improv show tonight.  Not at Under St. Marks, not at The...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/248715068http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/248715068Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:59 -0500My Unfinished Novel: theoddsareagainstme: Excerpt: Most of them are crap, but I saw one about a guy...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/246313779http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/246313779Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:31:58 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OVNwBj-STKk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OVNwBj-STKk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theoddsareagainstme.tumblr.com/post/246308353/week-3-writing-a-50k-word-novel-in-a-week">theoddsareagainstme</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Week 3 (writing a 50k-word novel in a week) recap. Next goal is to learn how to juggle five things at once.</p> </blockquote>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/246308716http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/246308716Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:26:05 -0500<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt4noerYVS1qz73hvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Orson Welles.</p>http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/244218883http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/244218883Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:48:01 -0500theoddsareagainstme: A few times times this week I’ve run into friends who’ve commented, “Shouldn’t...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/242430983http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/242430983Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:52:19 -0500The Wikipedia entry for “chi blasts” - when someone shoots a ball of destructive energy...http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/241760300http://benjaminapple.tumblr.com/post/241760300Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:22:31 -0500