Okay, so I’m not really an internet superstar, but I did recently make a video with friends that “went viral” (I guess I am kind of a big deal). It all started one night, sitting at home curled up with my cats, drinking wine and watching House Hunters on HGTV. I was chatting with one of my other single friends about the wildy popular “Shit Girls Say” video. My friend says, “We should make a ‘Shit Single Girls Say’ video” and we instantly start to rattle off all of the ridiculous/sad/pathetic things we’ve said to each other over the past two years. Then, a quick text to one of our funny male friends and it was set – we were making this happen!

We had a small “production meeting” soon after, picked out locations, wardrobe, and made shot lists.  We planned to meet at 8am on a SATURDAY morning. A SATURDAY morning during CHRISTMAS BREAK. That’s how excited we were about making this video.

The whole video took about 4 hours to shoot, and about 8 hours to go through the footage, trim it down, and fine-tune it. We uploaded it on a Monday night, posted links on Facebook and Twitter, asked people to share, then we waited.

Thanks to friends sharing the link, we reached a couple hundred hits within an hour or so. I quickly developed the habit of checking the view count every few hours and immediately when I woke up in the morning. On the 2nd morning I sent an email to my video making partners titled “30100 – that’s not a zip code”. We had already received over 30,000 hits in less than 48 hours. I submitted the link to popular sites like BuzzFeed and StumbleUpon. Someone (a stranger) posted it on Reddit. It was linked to on the Huffington Post, reblogged a couple thousand of times on Tumblr, and showed up on countless other blogs. It made #3 on Adult Swim’s Internet Treasures the week it came out. Random people were making animated gifs. We kept hearing things from our friends like “one of my friends from New York just posted it on Facebook!” and “Wait, YOU did this?!” Yep, we did. The view count kept climbing.  9 days after we uploaded the video, the video hit a million views. At the time I am writing this, 21 days after uploading, we are at 3.5 million views.

I’m not dropping all of these facts to brag (I mean it is pretty awesome), but to point out how powerful social media is. We made a hilarious video but a lot of people make hilarious videos and not all of them get millions of hits. It thankfully caught on, and now I’m set for LIFE!

…Not really.

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This is Kevin. Kevin is well known & loved around the Tuesday offices because I talk about him all of the time. He brings joy and happiness to everyone he meets, even people that are severely allergic and will die if they touch him. After being encouraged by several people to start a blog about Kevin, I decided to dedicate the time and start The Daily Kev. Kev’s tumblr has been featured on a few websites since its creation two short months ago, and I believe he is headed for world domination. Kevination. Get used to it!

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I came across What Party? on Etsy the other week and immediately wanted to spend all of my extra cash covering my walls with these hilarious embroideries. The gallery above has some of my personal favorites, and there are many more in the Etsy store as well as on the artist’s personal website. A note to friends and family: make room on your walls because you will get at least one of these for Christmas from me.

Meet Traffic Coordinator, Michelle Rosenfield!

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This month we sat down with an “Integrator Extraordinaire!” Brittany Ludwig.  See what we learned about her!

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NBC Universal Studio Operations has a fantastic, content rich website that describes and promotes their studio facilities.  To further improve their site, NBCU wanted to streamline it for location scouts, producers and directors touring the backlot.  This was accomplished by auditing the primary website for the most relevant content and redesigning it for mobile displays.  The site puts all the most important information at the finger tips of filmmakers while keeping their other hand free to steer the golf cart.  Fire up your BlackBerry or iPhone browser today and have a look!

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There are only so many options for food near our office, especially for a vegan like myself. I’ve sampled some of the local restaurants – most of my food budget goes to HealthyCa every month – but I can only eat at the same restaurants over and over for so long.

With a new food truck on the streets every day (or so it seems), I’d taken it upon myself to harass one of my favorite food trucks, Mandoline Grill, on Twitter, in hopes that they’d park their glorious green truck in front of 5200 Lankershim.  Thankfully they were totally down to give NoHo a go!  Here is the lowdown on the trucks we’ve lured into our neighborhood.

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