Six months in a row of daily videos.

As a gift to myself, I got a Spider-Man t-shirt to add to my growing Spider-Man t-shirt collection.

And now my Spider-Man t-shirt collection consists of five times:

Which one should I wear the next time you and I hang out?

The cool kids at Teletoon had another premiere party, inviting a handful of bloggers to their HQ screening room for a sneak peek at the new season of Batman: The Brave and The Bold.

Check out my video of the event right here:

For those who don’t know, Batman: The Brave and The Bold is based on an old comic book series where each issue, Batman would team up with a lesser known character from the DC Comics roster.  On this new TV series, it’s the same thing – Batman teams up in each episode with a character who might not be popular enough to warrant his own show but who the fans would enjoy seeing animated.

This show is the bomb, I don’t mind telling you.  It’s obviously for kids, but it’s catchy and irresistable.  I have wondered for years why so many superhero cartoons are ugly, and why they don’t use the thick-line cartoony style of Powerpuff Girls or Spongebob Squarepants.  This show has finally taken that up.  I love the character design on this show.

One of the things I hate about superhero comics, and why no one gives a shit about them (generally speaking) is because they take themselves too seriously, and maintain a slavish devotion to ‘continuity’.  This show demonstrates how it should be done: there’s tons of little gags and gems for the comic book nerds who know the history, but they don’t care about reinventing the rules to suit the ridiculous story they’re trying to tell.  In one episode alone, we watched Batman fly a rocket ship into space, fly it to another planet in another galaxy in a matter of a few minutes, and then fight a race of aliens with an Iron Man-style robot suit that he changes into with the push of a button.

When they’re trying to be serious and Batman is hanging out on the Moon with Superman and the JLA, I hate it and I’m not interested.  When we’re not supposed to care about it the next time, it’s all in good fun.

I had a contest here on the blog to take a reader with me to Teletoon, and the winner would also get a Batman prize pack courtesy of The Silver Snail (follow them on Twitter! @SilverSnailTO)

What up to all my blogging, Twitter, and Internet brethren who were there: Michael Nus, 40deuce, Alice Quinn, Escape From RL, Sidewalk Hustle, Mental Kavity – drop me a line if I didn’t catch you in this list!!

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Today is Twitter’s 4th birthday!  The very first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006.

Just four short years, and look at how much the very nature of how we communicate has changed forever.

It’s funny that for all of the people on Twitter, how central it is to how I live my life, and how it’s almost like this little country away from everything else, there are still many people who don’t get what it’s about.

I describe Twitter as a party happening in a really big house. There are tons of people there; some of them you know, some of them you don’t. Conversations are happening everywhere. You overhear things that you perk up at and you join the conversation. The rest is chatter that you pay no attention to.

If our explanation doesn’t suit you, here it is, brought perfectly down to Earth for you.

Despite Twitter’s popularity and importance, there remain some non-believers.

Follow me on Twitter! Click here → @seanward

How do you describe Twitter to people who aren’t down with it?

This is just a makeshift tribute until I can put together something a little more fitting.

How many of these have you seen?

1972 TV special Intro:

Leave Me Alone (BAD CD-only track):

First ever performance of The Moonwalk – Motown 25th Anniversary Special on NBC, 1983:

The Jacksons – Can You Feel It (There was Strawberry Fields Forever, and Thriller, and in between there was this):

Captain Eo (exclusive to the Walt Disney World attraction) pt 1 of 2:

Intro to the Jackson 5 cartoon show:

Bad – extended video (short film, directed by Martin Scorsese, co-starring Wesley Snipes) pt. 1 of 2:

1984 Pepsi Commercial:

Awesome retrospective of Jackson moments (intro to Moonwalker movie):

Dipsetmuthafucka VS Edan – Rock & Roll Live from Craftista, Cologne, Germany

I don’t know if my homey Mike Long discovered this song on my blog or if he came it upon it on his own but either way, this is hype.

When I was living in Montreal a few years ago, this guy was the coolest guy I met and he was a real friend to me.

Very soon after I left Montreal, he moved to Korea for a while. Social Networking wasn’t what it is now, and we lost touch.

But last year I was at the Drake Hotel to see New Look and who do I see leaving the upstairs lounge as I’m heading in?

It’s Mike Long, my buddy from Montreal!

We catch up and I find out he’s a bona fide internet phenomenon, and we’ve been watching each other’s stuff ever since.

Subscribe to dipsetmuthafucka on Youtube.

In this episode, we go behind the scenes of Raymi‘s art show the afternoon before it opens for a special sneak preview. Yay VIP style! Very informative!

BONUS FEATURES:

Enjoy two impromptu interviews with party-goers, live from Raymi‘s Art Show!!

Dig Caitlin‘s strawberry allergy and fly earrings:

And how about Steph‘s early birthday present:

While you’re at it, enjoy Raymo’s official reportage of the event.

UPCOMING: you don’t even know who’s gonna be Kickin’ It With Sean.  And more Ask Sean so send your questions to sean@seanward.net!

Did you ever see how they shot like five or six of these so there are different ones in all different locations?

I’ve wanted to do a Bob Dylan-themed video for a little while now. Nuit Blanche is this weekend. Hmmm…….