Three Best Things 7/27/09 - 8/2/09

It was a STRONG week of internet.

• This one has already changed a small part of my life: How to watch a Michael Bay film… of course, its lessons are useful beyond just Michael Bay films. Any bad art is now tolerable! His advice involves dumbing your brain down while also training yourself to see “a mega abstract conceptual art project” instead of just a bad movie. In other words, treat it as if it’s a little bit dumber — and much, much smarter — than it actually is. Employed this strategy while enduring some smarty-smart accident called Let The Right One In last night. It really works!
• The wife and I have found a fun new highway game after reading People Like Angry Car Faces, which compares American car design with foreign cars and finds that domestics look “absolutely freaking livid” while imports convey “upbeat, capable.” It’s fun to describe the emotional state of each car you pass. Here’s a Flickr set of car faces to test your skills on.
• You remember that video of the wedding party entering the church to Chris Brown’s “Forever”? I Now Pronounce You Monetized breaks down how the video’s viral popularity wound up making money for Brown and his label… a good lesson on Free for the final generation of paranoid record labels.

Here’s the original wedding video, BTW: