I am actually wondering if there is a better way to listen to famous movie themes than having them played in 8bit.
No, there probably isn’t.
8bit reduces any song to its purest form of awesomeness and makes a good song better.
To prove my point, I present Misirlou by Dick Dale, aka The King Of The Surf Guitar. Read up on Wikipedia if you want to know more, I know this song from Pulp Fiction and won’t bother with a quick copy/paste to educate you about him. You know, the whole “teaching a guy how to fish” thing…
Anyways, thew song is not in stereophonic sound, as your grandfather might have enjoyed this amazing track, no! Glorious 8bit power from ages long gone (before the internet) will give this track a hidden depth that you haven’t experienced before.
You know, 8bit is like old wine.
“Now I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.”
Tribute to iD Software ("Doom"): ein Album in Flickr – Berlin-based street artists Mr. Tailon, Baveux, Kone & Epoxy (previously) treated a number of billboards around their hometown to some old-school culture jamming by augmenting them with the Heads-Up Display from Doom.
This great music video by director Matt Devine picks up an idea I had many years ago while watching the Olympics on TV by mistake.
I was sitting there, watching and wondering. Why on Earth would anyone want to watch a game of ping pong (or if you’re rather posh you might prefer table tennis)? Why? Maybe because their lives are so empty that only the clicky-clacky sound of a plastic ball being hit by two “athletes” on a mini-sized court reminds them of what once was a beating heart inside their chest but now only echoes the emptiness inside them.
Yeah, that’s probably one reason to watch a ping pong game.
To make this niche sport more exciting and have it watched by millions you’d probably have to play it with a live hand-grenade, I thought to myself. And only 15 years later someone makes a music video with my idea. And my idea alone!
Creative Concept: The Glue Society
Director: Matt Devine of The Glue Society
Production Company: Revolver
Executive Producer: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Caroline Barry
DOP: Danny Ruhlmann
Production Designer: Margot Wilson
Editor: Stewart Reeves for Guillotine
CG Supervisor: Bryn Morrow for Fuel
Lead Flame Artist: Chris Scott for Fuel
VFX Producer: Claudia Lecaros for Fuel
Cast:
The Red Team: Belinda Lee
The Blue Team: Micky Lung
Host: Austin Hollister
Now here’s a a fine specimen of what the young people these days call a “mashup”.
Take two sources that have nothing to do with each other and mix them in a video blender and out comes something new.
That’s how I would explain it. For a better definition you should look up the word in ye olde wikipedia in your local public library (if you still have one). Or “google it”, whatever that means. All this internet mumbo-jumbo is making my head dizzy. It also could be the fumes from the cans of paint in the garage I’m sitting in as I can’t afford a decent office. The life of a freelancer, what a joy! Thank you, world economy, for making my life even more miserable than I could possibly imagine.
But I digress.
This video features well known Star Wars characters doing crazy things that you would normally see on the MTV show Jackass (also available on DVD, you know.) That’s why it’s called Jedi Jackass and it works suprisingly well. I can imagine that this is what the people in the Star Wars universe are up to when there’s nothing to watch on holonet, or all the womp rats have been shot but there’s still time to waste.
Can these reviews from well-renowned papers lie?
“A new low”
-Bespin Star
“A plunge into depravity”
-Mos Eisley News
No, they can’t. So you know it’s good. Because it’s bad. And this Star Wars/Jackass mashup is tantalisingly awesome. Really.
No. Just two lazy guys who forgot they had a blog until the hosting bill arrived.
There will more more frequent updates now, I guess. I won’t promise, though. At least there won’t be a big gap of several months between posts. However, noone was coming here anyway, just a couple of friendly spambots trying to sell me enhancements for various purposes.
So if you are reading this, you are probably here by mistake. This is not the blog you’re looking for. I’m pretty, pretty sure. Feel free to stick around if you feel like you could do with yet another unprofessional geek blog that starts out weak, stays weak, updates infrequently, has a terrible layout, features old news with spelling mistakes that a five year old would be ashamed of, and is generally behind the times.
Of course, this fantastic video was yet again done by people with much more talent, creativity and attention for detail than me, but that won’t surprise any of you (mum, dad – thanks for stopping by).
The video is an entry in a competition from Barclaycard, a credit card company that probably won’t exist in 12 months. Unlike this video. It will stay with you forever – just like that weird rash that you caught on your holiday in Mexico.
