David Dean | Serial Optimist - Part 1

All posts by David Dean

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Ref Jeff Is Back On The Court

We can’t wait for season 2 of the “Kroll Show” on Comedy Central, but lucky for us Nick Kroll has been putting out some hilarious videos to hold us over. [...]

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Catvengers!

WOW! So in love with the super fun art by Jenny Parks. Jenny is a scientific illustrator and a “shameless nerd,” which makes her pretty much shoot to the top [...]

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Give Life Back To Music

Gerrel Saunders, aka Gaks, is a ridiculously talented multi-disciplinary graphic designer and illustrator out of Trinidad and Tobago. He considers himself a “Master Vector Ninja” (no doubt!) with his primary [...]

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Mick Jagger’s Muse

How’s this for narrative arc? Marianne Faithfull – young, beautiful, married, mother, songwriter – meets Mick Jagger and leaves her husband and son. For a minute, Faithfull and Jagger are [...]

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‘The ArScheerio Paul Show’

My new favorite talk show is “The ArScheerio Paul Show,” which is simply Paul Scheer as Arsenio Hall. If that doesn’t sell you, then the first two episodes no doubt [...]

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PINK MATTER: 10,000 Balloons In Kabul

In less than a week, NY-based artist Yazmany Arboleda and 130 volunteers will hand out 10,000 globally-crowdfunded pink balloons in Kabul, Afghanistan. Here’s a link to a great video (less than a minute long!) [...]

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Rachel Bloom ‘Please Love Me’

Serial Optimist favorite Rachel Bloom is back at it with a new LOL music video, perfectly titled “If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate.” Her new album, Please Love Me, (she’s [...]

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‘Hanksy: It’s A Punderful Life’

From greeting card pun master to one of the most buzzed about modern street artists, learn about Hanksy, in his first documentary that premiered on Pharrell Williams’ i am OTHER [...]

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GOOD TO KNOW: Sextape Comedy

Premise: Three best friends (two guys one gal) living in New York City. They all have a deep love for comedy, but each in totally separate ways. One has a [...]

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Smile-Inducing Art Has Never Been So Cheap: 10,000 Balloons

How do you make 10,000 people smile? By handing them 10,000 balloons with sweet messages inside while they head to work one Monday morning. That’s what artist Yazmany Arboleda is [...]

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Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand Tour

In anticipation of “Arrested Development’s” fourth season premiering on Sunday, May 26th, Netflix is launching the Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand Worldwide Tour. Kicking off in London today, the Bluth [...]

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The Biggest LOL’s From The LOLiest Aparna Nancherla

It’s hard for me to even try and write an introduction to comedian Aparna Nancherla. She set the bar so high with this interview I feel like I should just get [...]

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How George Costanza Influenced My Late Teens

We all have that character from Seinfeld that we compare ourselves to, not in the annoying Sex and the City way, but in a way that we can all relate to Jerry, [...]