What is Wholphin?

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.

Available immediately by subscription and distributed quarterly in the same places you’ll find McSweeney’s and The Believer, each issue of Wholphin will contain a variety of extraordinary short films, docs, instructional videos, foreign sitcoms, and other cinema hybrids that deserve to be seen on very expensive televisions.

Best Video Magazine of 2009
SF Weekly- May 21st, 2009

2009 Urban Nomad film festival opens in Taipei
Taiwan News- April 23rd, 2009 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin No. 8
DVD Talk - April 20th, 2009 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin No. 7
DVD Talk - April 15th, 2009 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin No. 6
DVD Talk - April 11th, 2009 (PDF)

Wholphin No. 7 - Heroes and Aliens
Hammer to Nail - December 22nd, 2008 (PDF)

McSweeney’s new Wholphin to feature Rudd and Deschanel
Paste - April 25, 2008 (PDF)

Top 10: The Best in TV, the Web, Books and Beyond - No. 6
Rolling Stone - August 7, 2008 (PDF)

On DVD: Wholphin No. 6, “Perils of the New Land”
IFC - July 29, 2008 (PDF)

Wholphin, No. 5: A DVD Magazine of Unseen Things
DVD Talk - June 11, 2008 (PDF)

Wholphin, Issues 1-4: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films
DVD Talk - June 11, 2008 (PDF)

Wholphin Short Docs at Stranger Than Fiction
Media Rights - February 13, 2008 (PDF)

Wholphin 4 - I Want Short Shorts!
Media-Culture - January 29, 2008 (PDF)

Wholphin No 3 - Who Wants Short Shorts!
Media-Culture - November 17, 2007 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin 4
HARP Magazine - November, 2007 (PDF)

The Wholphin Dome: Coming to a Town Near You
Renew Media, Tribeca Film Insitute - October 15, 2007 (PDF)

Meats and Romance
Short End Magazine - September 24, 2007 (PDF)

Another ‘Wholphin’ Surfaces
USA TODAY - September 10, 2007

Wholphin Shorts
Documentary Magazine - Sept/Oct 2007 (PDF)

Short Film Archive
San Francisco Magazine - July 2007 (PDF)

Seeing the Unseen
Helio Mag - February 27, 2007

Three Questions for Brent Hoff
Time Out - February 14, 2007 (PDF)

Magazines in Motion
International Herald Tribune - February 12, 2007 (PDF)

What the Hell is a Wholphin?
Radar Online - February 06, 2007 (PDF)

Who? Wha?
Rolling Stone Magazine - January 26, 2007 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin 2
Harp Magazine - November, 2006 (PDF)

I’m Staying Home, Wholphin Ahoy!
Portland Mercury - October 26, 2006

Poetic Terrorism, and Wholphin #2
SF360 - October 17, 2006 (PDF)

Geopolitical Beach Volleyball
Domus (Italian Art Magazine) - September 30, 2006 (PDF)

Freedom of Information
LA Weekly - August 16, 2006 (PDF)

Wholphin Issue 2: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films
EDGE Boston - August 7, 2006 (PDF)

In Space; Somebody’s Watching
Austin Chronicle - July 28, 2006 (PDF)

Viva Border Volleyball!
LA Weekly - July 26, 2006 (PDF)

No Need for a Bathroom Break
San Antonio Current - July 25, 2006 (PDF)

Crossbreed; A DVD magazine with a hip pedigree
NY Press - July 6, 2006 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin 1
HARP Magazine - May 2006 (PDF)

DVD, Meet Magazine
Independent Magazine - May 2006 (PDF)

Review: Wholphin #1
Rockpile - May 2006 (PDF)

Dave Eggers Saluted
Prospect Magazine - April 2006 (PDF)

Sight Unseen
FADER Magazine - April 2006 (PDF)

Entertainment Weekly - February 24, 2006

DVD is the Vehicle for Wholphin Mag
Chicago Tribune - February 17, 2006 (PDF)

Magazine? DVD? Film festival? Wholphin!
Associated Press - February 16, 2006 (PDF)

Let’s Keep This Short
Newsweek - Feb 13, 2006 (PDF)

Catch of the Day; McSweeney’s goes treasure hunting - and shares the wealth
7×7 Magazine - Dec/Jan 2006 (PDF)

Sound of Young America Interview - Jan 14, 2006

Paste - February 2006

Bump, Set and Spike; Breaking Laws and Crossing Borders
Anthem - Jan/Feb 2006 (PDF)