I’m not a huge gun guy but there’s something great about a whole lot of dudes with machine guns shooting at cars loaded with explosives for fun. Yes, there’s an 8 year-old girl here who probably shouldn’t be but I’m sure her parents are teaching her proper gun safety.
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So amazing. I love that music videos are still places that allow for visual experimentation. I hope that never stops.
THE BPA - THE BPA ‘TOE JAM’ FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL from Fabio Resende on Vimeo.
Sometimes we make some okay TV stuff. Every once in a while we go big. I loved this.
Big thanks to Mike Shaw & Jonathan Mann, both of whom just killed this.
I wasn’t sure these were real until I recognized the old logo that started HBO movies. Someone’s got to find each of these and lay them out in a blog post.
I’m gonna start a new topic here on the blog for things that I often think about - art projects - that I have neither the time nor the money to afford. Maybe someday these will become reality and grace the pages of We Make Money Not Art but for now they’ll just live here. If some wealthy art student wants to come in and rip me off, please feel free.
Today’s Art Project I Can’t Afford (APICA) is The Perception Machine (which, granted, is a lame name).
The Perception Machine is essentially three separate interconnected viewing rooms each with two rows of seats facing a large screen. The seats are placed so that all people have a clear view the screen and so that, and this is important, the screen can clearly see them.
The seats are filled in the first theater with people. A short film starts, made of a variety of footage beginning with people doing totally familiar and comfortable things (family shots; dudes watching football; a wedding, etc) and then slowly transitioning into slightly more edgy material (passionate kissing; someone getting punched; a child crying) to extremes (a clip from a porn; a shot of a person who lost their leg in a bomb; etc). This goes on for say five minutes.
The film stops and the group of people is shuffled down the hall (which is actually a uturn) where they’re seated in a similar set-up. However, this time what they realize immediately as they sit down is that they are watching another group of people sitting down where they just were. The first group then proceeds to watch the second group experience the same footage they watched. Having just gone through the experience, there would hopefully be an interesting reaction to watching/experiencing the others go through the same feelings.
The film stops again. The first group then shuffles to the next (and final) room, yet another viewing station. This time, they sit and watch themselves watching the second group watch the video while hearing the audio from the video. It’s a recording of what just happened in the prior room.
They leave the installation with a new take on what it means to watch and to be watched.
Interesting?
So I wasted a ton of time over the last few nights working on this.
It’s dumb and mostly helped me learn more about Final Cut Pro but this is the kind of thing that makes me happy.
I love bad TV. God knows I’ve watched enough of it (and some would say made enough of it) to be considered an expert.
For a long time, I thought about starting a bad TV website. There’s just so much of it out there on YouTube, sitting undiscovered. Sure, the occasional gem gets picked up by BestWeekEver or by us at Attack of the Show but no one was out there really setting the bar for finding the best clips on a consistent basis. Until now.
Meet Cringe Video - the best YouTube channel ever. You’re welcome.
Some personal favorites:
Ticke The Ivories - PA Christian Piano Instruction at it’s best
Book Rack Drama - The Librarian in this is amazing.
And the Roger Sandersan show - perhaps the worst stand-up of all time.
I know I’m probably way behind on this but I was puttering around on YouTube tonight (on Apple TV no less!) checking out some old Beck videos when I happened to notice just a shitload of fan made videos for “Timebomb” the single he released strictly to iTunes last year.
Normally fanmade videos on the internet aren’t something to blog about but somehow I got sucked into watching about 15 of these and started enjoying each one more than the next.
I think it has something with the song (it’s monotonous yet joyful) or maybe it’s just the creativity of the Beck fans - either way it me feel good.A few of the best ones below.
Excellence in Papercraft:
Just Two Guys & a Staircase:
Troll Vs. Warm Fuzzies:
Guy in Bookstore:
Naruto Has A Timebomb:
Timebomb Kids:
Timebomb Mom:
And then there’s High Five Hollywood.
I like Michel Gondry, both his films and as a persona. He’s been able to hold onto all of the best aspects of childhood and integrate them into his daily life. Creativity, wonder, observation, play all run amok in his work.
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