Dance Dance Revolution - Neighborhood Party Style!
A friend stumbled upon a neighborhood party and was lucky enough to have a camera on him. It’s life-affirming!
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The rabit escaped, but he’s a vampire now.
The Glory of Love - Karate Kid
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Author: Erik MartinHere’s some video leftovers for your Sunday afternoon.
Relicant Trailer
Disabled & Beautiful - Paralympic Athletes
Author: Erik MartinWhere I used to swim there was an older man with one arm who would do laps. He was much faster than me, which isn’t saying much. There’s something sublime about disabled athletes (as Matthew has explored). The normal human movement and geometry bending but not breaking.
Paralympic Swim Trials
It’s Horseshoe Crabs…and They’re Here to Save Us
Author: Erik Martin
I have an irrational fear of
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The OTHER Palin for President
Author: Erik MartinWhere’d the Cheese Go?
Author: Erik MartinShout outs to KungFu Phil, Onyx, Shamrock, George, and Zizi
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Applicant
Editor Jesse Reklaw found some Ivy League recycling bin treasure in the form of confidential Ph.D. applications from the 60s and 70s. Fortunately he published them as the glorious booklet Applicant. The applications are even complete with merciless notes from the dark-hooded review board. It makes your imagination run wondering what these jettisoned souls are up to these days. Funny and sad and sublime.
ApplicantMae Shi - Remarkably Dirty Animals - Found Video Editing
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed FUN!
Mae Shi - Remarkably Dirty Animals - Found Film Editing
DSACDAD sufferers, your prayers are answered
HAVIDOL is for the treatment of Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). It is the only known medication available for this newly recognized disorder. No prescription drug can promise endless happiness. However given HAVIDOL’s track record, and Future PHARMS commitment to perfecting life through chemistry, terminal happiness has become a real possibility. Take the HAVIDOL QUIZ
Writing Borat
The Writers Guild of America’s ‘Written By” column has a fascinating look at the writing team which crafted the Borat masterpiece. In Brains Behind Borat, John Koch lands a rare interview with the four writers of Borat: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, and Anthony Ant Hines.
They discuss the collaborative process of writing:
”People think you go out there and just improvise. But all our jokes are tightly honed and tightly written, and Sacha delivers them brilliantly and also improvises around the situation. But it’s about using our experience to assess how a situation’s going to go.”
And also tell some great stories about the production:
”We had one instance where the studio put their foot down and said we weren’t allowed to shoot a scene because it was too dangerous. But we only got word of that after we shot the scene. [The writing staff] had an idea that Borat gets lost in Mexico and the van breaks down, the exhaust pipe falls off. And Borat starts carrying the exhaust pipe, and it’s extremely hot, he’s walking through the desert. He takes a towel, wraps it around his head, and it looks like he’s a Mujahadeen operative with a rocket launcher over his shoulder. And then the idea was for Borat to walk across the border and straight into Minutemen.”
Raleigh, NC Promo Video & Flickr Mashup
The fine people at the Raleigh Convention Center made this whore-schlop promo video for Raleigh titled Shine, Raleigh, Shine.
I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Raleigh, but it most assuredy deserves better than this drivel. Let’s see if the internets and random chance can do better:
- Do a Flickr search for “Raleigh” under creative commons license.
- Sort by interestingness.
- Download the first 70 photos
- Spread the photos over the Shine, Raleigh, Shine power ballad in random** order
- Enjoy!
The end product is no “Discover Chilliwack”, but at least it has a pulse. Random chance takes a couple cheap shots, but also provides a few genuine moments. You’re welcome Convention center.
*Note: Photos were skipped if they were: referencing the British town Raleigh, referencing the bicycle brand Raleigh, and photos were skipped if they were particularly repetative. Searched by tags and keywords. Photos were ordered by their Flickr-assigned alphanumeric filename.
Raleigh Promo Video & Flickr Mashup ShinesThe 3 Redneck Tenors sing Beethoven’s 5th. - Why, God? Why?
Bikini Girls + Calculus = Mixed Emotions
Curious how Gottfrien Wilhem Leibniz would feel about this teaching strategy, but he would no doubt appreciate the How-to-do Girls’ binary appeal.
Still, any mind swift & flexible enough to mentally stradle the boobies-calculus chasm, probably does ok with the calc anyway…point being I don’t think this would have actually help my stiudying when I was in school, but you should buy a DVD for your friend or nephew in High School anyway.
Note to self: Open chain of Hooters/H&R Block stores.
Stylus Magazine’s top 100 videos of all time - now in one glorious playlist
David Gordon Green & Snow Angels at Sundance 2007
Southern gothic filmmaker David Gordon Green talks about his new movie Snow Angels with Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. Playlist also includes a 3 part Q&A with DGG.
Link via Takethemoneyandrun.org
David Gordon Green & Snow Angels at Sundance 2007Kentucky Fried Cannibalism circa 1987
Damn, was that really 20 years ago?!
Since When Do Big City Kids Know How to Have More Fun?
As expected Stomp the Yard crushed the box office this weekend. From all accounts it’s a solid flick. Director Sylvian White cut his teeth working with people like Jonze and Gondry, so don’t hate. Still, as Mr. Cranky so eloquently points out, there’s a disturbing theme in this film and it’s predecessor Drumline:
There are several lessons we learn in “Stomp the Yard” that we also learned in “Drumline,” which also featured a young, hip black guy going south to show southern black folk how to do things with flair. The biggest lesson is that hip, non-southern city kids can always do things better than southern kids, even if those southern kids live in a big city like Atlanta. The South isn’t connected to anything and they’re basically about five years behind the times when it comes to anything cutting edge. Their moves are very “Electric Boogaloo.”
-Mr. Cranky
Yeah, last time I checked The South dominates Hip-Hop not L.A. Only in flyover country minded Hollywood could a kid from Lala teach Hotlanta how to do things with flair.
If you have any doubt, check the Grambling Univ. Marching Band’s performance in the 2006 Rose Bowl Parade. They were dressed up as Star Wars imperial soldiers in the 100+ year old Parade of Roses and they still made it slick and banging. That’s THE geekest, whitest performance setting ever, and they still brought it hard. No way could a bunch of non-southern city kids do that.
MIKE JONES!
Lollywood in the 70’s
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Author: Erik MartinThe Glory of Love - Karate Kid
Author: Erik MartinTraffic in Souls - The Quaint Film That Built Universal Pictures
Author: Erik MartinTrailer for Traffic In Souls, one of the…
Erik Martin's Full Video Channel PostSunday Video Omlet
Author: Erik MartinHere’s some video leftovers for your Sunday afternoon.
Relicant Trailer
Disabled & Beautiful - Paralympic Athletes
Author: Erik MartinWhere I used to swim there was an older man with one arm who would do laps. He was much faster than me, which isn’t saying much. There’s something sublime about disabled athletes (as Matthew has explored). The normal human movement and geometry bending but not breaking.
Paralympic Swim Trials
It’s Horseshoe Crabs…and They’re Here to Save Us
Author: Erik Martin
I have an irrational fear of
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