That video is so fucking awesome it is unreal! Love the new site and thanks for the mention in the vid.

Loved the video

Can not have too many of these for that video and for that redesign.  SRS props.

Holden, I love the new design.  A lot.  It fills the browser space beautifully, and I second John's remarks on the bokeh.  And everything is more intuitive.

And thanks, guys.  Obviously if it wasn't for your quotes, I wouldn't have done it.  Just WAY too much stuff to shift through.  Hell, even WITH the quotes is was almost too much to shift through.

I used an HVX200 w/Redrock and an assortment of prime nikon lenses for most of the montage.  Everything else, the video-y looking stuff, is an HPX.   But I've decided I need a RED.  So now I have to choose one.

I also used a crane on a dolly for several shots, including the Stay Puft shot.  I also had a skate dolly, most notably for the Transformers shot.  Also a couple lowell light kits and just, you know, led flashlights.  It was all cut on FCP.

And Teague is, among his many other skills, a great editor.  He suggested a cool 60-70 seconds worth of cuts (which I resisted initially) that improved this thing by 400%.

Seriously, it looks beautiful.

From one web-designer to another: Great job. Makes me want to redo my site. 

LOVE the new website!!  It is sexy   

If you haven't, check out the About page, too. It's pretty sexy now.

Lookin' good. The only downside is the gif-quality of the icons. Kinda bums me out

That's a good point, and on that note: since Intermission and DiF share the same About page, the About Page should probably start with a brief description of both.  i.e. DiF: you sync your copy of a movie etc etc.  Intermission, same crew but 30 min long and not movie-specific.

Unless Intermission will someday get its own About link, the same way (I'm guessing?) the iTunes and Rss links will toggle appropriately once Intermission is fully out of beta.

That's basically a strategy to decide what episodes people hear, if what they're after is "highly rated" episodes. Assuming anyone comes to the site and says "alright, I'll give them a chance, which one is the best?" Not so much a means of tracking an episode's popularity, more a way of putting a best foot forward to someone who doesn't know where to start. I think of it as a greatest hits collection at the top of the stack.

To answer your question, I chose which ones got "good introduction" treatment, and which ones were deep cuts.  My personal criteria for liking an episode is how many cylinders I feel the episode fires on, the more the better, but it's all subjective.

At some point, probably soon, I'll actually go in an specifically pick which one goes on the very top, and second, and third, etc., by giving them even higher numbers. Right now all of the 5s are on top in some non-rating-based order.

I'd actually be open, if there were a convenient way for everyone to arbitrate between 131 episodes, to getting everyone's opinion to drive which ones are in the top ten or whatever. Might be easiest with the preferential ballot style voting we do on LCC.

Anyway, that's the ratings system.