I’ve scrunched myself into the bottom of the wood cabinet in the background and today the art team decided I should try my hand at doing a semi-splitz on our red cabinets. It looks more precarious than it felt. Thank god no one had to call OSHA!

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.

Hope you are enjoying the Holiday season! We at Tuesday are having so much fun that we decided to have a Secret Santa gift exchange. The rules were simple – pull a name out of the box and pick a thoughtful gift within our gift price range (and no gift cards).

Well, leave it to our creative masterminds to come up with some of the best Secret Santa gifts around! We really did get some fantastic gifts, and it was hard, but we managed to narrow it down to the top three in descending order.

Number 3

Electronics Gadgets for the Evil Genius

Number 2

Picture Frames with personalized messages from Ryan Gosling

And the Number 1 Secret Santa gift of 2011 is…

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THE FOREVER LAZY!

Cheers to you, Steve! No one can rock a Forever Lazy like you can!

For a little bit of team building and some friendly competition, we took a trip over to Pinz in Studio City for some happy hour bowling action. The “I am Sparetacus” team of Joe, Vin, Jeff and Steven dominated the lanes with a most righteous time had by all. Click here to see photos!

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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.

I'll be out in a minute!

Can you really train your cat to use the toilet? There are a lot of products out there and several books on the subject. One of my favorite sites and blogs to follow on the subject is www.kicklitter.com. A humorous take on the process from the cats perspective. You can also find links to products that can be helpful in the process on the site. There are other great sites with advice and instructions from old pros on the subject like Charles Mingus who wrote “The Charles Mingus Cat-alog for Toilet Training Your Cat” written in 1966. You can get the instructions online here – http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html. Although, I would have to say the humorous book from kicklitter.com with the instructional poster is nice to have as reference while going through this process.

Anyone brave enough to try? It can’t be harder than herding cats, can it?

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Fun little stop motion piece made by Hardcuore to promote do bem™ juice. More stills from the making of it can be found here.

Hardcuore also made another fun stop motion piece for do bem™ juice which can be seen here.

This is one that all of us designers can appreciate. Ratatat’s video for their latest song “Drugs” is nothing more than a bunch of stock photos and video strung together. It’s painful to watch much like it’s painful to use stock photography; something we have all done at some point, for better or for worse. Enjoy…. or not…

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The Animated Gif.

Remember the blessed days of Geocities when people, myself included, would sprinkle their newly made websites with all sorts of horrible animated monstrosities. The ever present “under construction” banner with the little man digging was a widely known classic. As a result, I feel like when you string the words ‘animated’ and ‘gif’ together people start to cringe just a little. Unless you are talking to a pre-teen who already owns an iPhone, iPad, doesn’t know what 8-track is and can’t comprehend the world without DVR. She wouldn’t know what the hell you are really talking about.

Matthew Cooper and Johnny Kelly are the brains behind I Am Not An Artist which started out with an initial 56 animated gifs and aims to grow into a space where other designers and creative types can participate by uploading their own gifs here. The project is an ongoing work in progress commissioned by the Elisava School of Design with concept, creative direction and design by Soon In Tokyo, a communications agency made up of former Elisava students and Teachers. The idea behind it all is to express that while designing can be fun there are a lot of frustrating, monotanous, and routine aspects to being a designer. You can see more of these animated gems after the jump.

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