26 posts tagged “video”
Yeah... as a thank you for hours and hours of overtime, my company just hooked me up with a SWEET $25 dollar iTunes giftcard.
Did I:
a) mention that it was sweet
b) mention that it was $25 (for free)
c) mention that it required extra unpaid hours of work?
Regardless. I decided to blow the money the finest way possible: Episodes of "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
You could be a commuter in Japan, then you'd have to deal with this kinda nonsense TWICE A DAY:
That's right, they have hired help to SHOVE you into a train car. Not enough that you bump a few elbows, because your trip will involve an excruciating 30 minute ride, face planted squarely in someone's armpit.
Yuck.
Wait for it... Wait for it...
Okay, it's probably not real, but it's on video, and we already know how I feel about "Scare Tactics".
Again, AWESOME.
Bad signing is the topic of the internet these days. It's funny because we all know how hard it is, and also how terrible it can be. And sometimes it can be REALLY terrible, like god awful:
Speaking of God, someone will send this to you probably by next Wednesday... It's the hottest thing on youtube right now. My advice is to wait at least 2 minutes into it, then it really gets good:
Okay, okay, maybe I was a little harsh about how much I dislike the Kanye West's track "Can't Tell Me Nothing." No doubt in the long term it will grow on me and I'll ever regret posting the previous post.
But seriously, if you had to compare that track with his OTHER new track "Stronger", you'd like "Stronger" better. Listen to it here, NOW!
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" establishes this by releasing the "real" video simultaneously along with the mock video, and posts them side by side on his vanity URL. He loves it, yet pokes it with a stick. A fat, bearded, farming stick. Fantastic.
"Stronger" on the other hand is a smash-up between what is the current "80's trend" splashing around the streets these days AND Akira. If you've never seen Akira, then stop reading this because you should be slapped. Seriously, stop reading, or at least rent it. For reals, I'll do it...
*SLAP*
Anyways, it defines an entire generation of people as of yet unlabelled by the BRILLIANT minds that exist in corporate marketing. It isn't cool per se to like Akira, but to have seen it means someone told you to see it. And that means you learned about it outside of standard moderators of pop-culture. Basically you were "in", and this video is a nod to that "in", because let's face it: you either get it or you don't. TET-SUUUUUU-OOOOOOOOOOOH!!!
But WHAT does it all mean? It means that Kanye, deep DEEP down, was once a 145 pound, 6 foot 4 inch senior who was in his high school's marching band. And he liked Monty Python. He'll never admidt it, but one day I promise you'll see a music video of his featuring a school of "funny walks".
Good = Dude from the Fiona Apple video "Not About Love"
Bad = Kanye West's new single "Wait Till My Money's Right" (or "Naaaaaah, Naaaah, Nah, Naaaaaah..." or the song that jerseyfresh OPENLY mocks despite her love for 'Ye. )
Good + Bad = Awesome
Awesome = This "video remix"
The best rule for motion graphics? Keep it simple. I think this is accomplished quite obviously by the ISSEY MIYAKE A-POC INSIDE campaign:
Make sure to watch the associated video... there's just something supremely relaxing about it. It's like what the commercials on TV would have looked like if motion capture had been available at the time.
I am so excited about the following video I couldn't get it up on this page fast enough. I'm literally shaking with glee after this find. I owe the man who sent me this link a drink. Bon Apetit:
Adobe finally caught up with a years old version of my graduate program and made a wall that uses sensors to act like the "computers" in Minority Report. Sensors + Programming + screens usually add up to fun, but leave it to programmers to find faults IMMEDIATELY with it.
The wall is an interactive display that incorporates pretty standard tracking ideas (my guess is infared as there's no mention of video cameras). But it's the comments section that makes this link stand apart... Apparently the people bitching about the installation, including my friend (the safari-dressed chap geekily tackling a second user), are being bitched about in the comments section.
FOR THE RECORD: everyone interviewed is probably already aware of what you commenters are saying... that's why we all went to school AFTER college to make things that work BETTER than okay. Sheesh.
My favorite comment:
BY AMSTERDAAM AT 07/14/07 08:17 AM
SliceWarriorX: CODIFEROUS: loutang82: blehh: louie21:
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the starting lineup for the world's first interactive billboard fanbois!
"D00d, I wanna see $Clear$Chunnel$ make somthing this r0xorz"
Are you a Shark (lion) or a Jet (water buffalo)?
It's worth the entire 8 minutes, but if I were you, I would get the dramatic retelling by Drew. F. Cummins. He does a great impression of the lions stalking their prey.
