which features great, often hilarious film. Like McSweeny's, the films are all shorts, and the work is well edited so that the selection presented for viewing on-line often carries a style that will appeal to most fans of the McSweeny's vein of satire and wit.
Wholphin is a new quarterly DVD magazine from McSweeney's, lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it.
[WholphinDvd.com]
The greatest part about the website is of course the fact that you can "watch stuff" via streamed video. The saddest part is that you can't embedd it. To take it home, order it on the website or in select stores (I found it at my local campus bookstore, actually) available for subscription ($50 for 4 issues, 1yr), but even just visitng the website is well worth having a peek what some really smart, creative, and hilarious people have been up to.
What's the deal with that name you ask? The website has this to say:
A NOTE ON THE TITLE:
What, you may ask, is a Wholphin?! Photographic evidence can be found languishing in the nooks and crannies of the internet, but those too busy to visit Google for the 28th time today can trust us that it's the lovechild of a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. A beautiful hybrid born of invention and exploration.
God bless you Dave Eggers.
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