Change the musical cues for the opening credits of Diff’rent Strokes and the sitcom goes from a wealthy old guy looking to protect two Harlem youths into something far, far, far, well, different.
Whatch’you talkin’ bout Willis? Talkin’ bout innercity pedophile blues, which incidentally is the name of the first single from my Marvin Gaye-Bob Dylan mashup album.
I kept screaming, do not go into the apartment building.
Mumblecore is a type of movie which tries to make boring, mundane things seem inherently interesting because it’s being done by twentysomethings with large vocabs and accompanied with a sweet indie-folk soundtrack. Think Wes Anderson, if Wes Anderson had no budget or personality or wasn’t talented.
Some of these low budget flick are actually pretty good, but most of them just come off as masturbatory. It’s the logical extension from people watching Richard Linklater’s early work like Slacker or Before Sunrise and thinking hey I can do that. Except they can’t. But they still do. Hence mumblecore.
Jake Szymanski’s “The Dirty Garage” may not have the couches rolling down the street of Billy Was a Deaf Kid, or the retarded cats of Charley the Retarded Cat (still the gold standard of hipster movie parody videos), but it may be the most accurate parody of the three.
French Canadian filmmaker Patrick Bolvin wondered what a fight between Bruce Lee and Iron Man might look like, so he created a 1-minute short film showing what might have happened if the two action heroes battled it out.
Swedish art student Tomas Nilsson modeled this wonderful Chris Ware-style interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood after the equally wonderful video for Röyksopp’s “Remind me.”
“We took to the hills of wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display. of sorts.”
My first thought was this has to be fake, but even if it is, a sort of giddy euphoria washes over your soul after a little bit and it’s pretty hard to resist The Baaa-Studs. It is an advertisement for Samsung’s LED televisions, but if you’re going to make an advertisement, this is how you make one to ensure people are talking about it.
Cody Lambert’s uncle (or Bobby Ewing for the older folks) getting brought up to speed on Facebook and ring tones from a judgmental animatronic crab. No, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. But I want to live in a world where Patrick Duffy hangs out with animatronic animals.
Also: Patrick Duffy has his own YouTube channel, hopefully he produces more of these shorts with him and the crab because this is gold. I could go for one a month, but would prefer one a week.
It’s like a hoedown meets Rahzel. Really it’s just Yuri Lane. I vaguely remember seeing something like this when the internet first started seven years ago. Still, what goes around comes around.
By James Furbush | February 24th, 2009 | 9:20 am PST
Greg Rutter has compiled a list of 99 things you should have experienced on the internet, unless you’re old or a loser or something.
It’s a good job of internet ethnography. A great place to start if you’ve met someone totally clueless or want to stroll down the memory boulevard. Also, if people look back at the internet, or what it was during it’s genesis, and this is what they remember I will feel ashamed.
By James Furbush | February 24th, 2009 | 6:05 am PST
This five minute video was made by Reza Dolatabadi as his graduate film in college. It took over two years to complete and is comprised of 6,000 individual paintings shown at a rate of 20 per second. Pretty amazing.
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