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Pulp Fiction Theme in 8bit
Dec 15th
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.”
via Superlevel and via Hoodohaufen
How to make the Olympics more interesting: Grenade Ping Pong
Dec 10th
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!
So… here’s Metal on Metal with Bastard.
via The Daily What.
Youtube snip:
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
The Lost Sheep Song
Mar 20th
We don’t call us ‘commandsheep’ for nothing.
Guess where that name comes from, I dare you.
While you’re guessing, have a song about a lost sheep.
Utterly, utterly sad.
WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE FIND THIS LITTLE SHEEP’S MUM? OH DEAR GOD!
Tesla Coil Imperial March – old hat already?
Mar 19th
To answer this rhetorical question in the most journalistic way possible: YES.
Proof: posted to the ugc video sharing site youtube on 19th February 2009.
In internet terms this is, in fact, a very old hat. Or old cheese. Runny, old cheese.
Well, so much for our journalistic integrity on reporting just the facts. Of course we have to post this. It’s (yet another) Star Wars related video. And this is what this site, the safe haven for embedded Star Wars nerdism, is all about.
So without further ado, please do applaud these true heroes of our time for their bravery in, er, science. Or something like that. There’s a Tesla coil, so it must be something to do with science. Possibly.
Power! Unlimited power!
via Nerdcore
Fierce competition for Max Reebo and the Cantina Band
Mar 13th
With the credit crunch and the downfall of the economy affecting everyone in the known universe, even intergalactic crimelords like Jabba the Hutt have to look into saving a credit here and there.
If anyone remembers the musical movie Return of the Jedi Special Edition with the horrible muppet band playing in Jabba’s palace… well.
What can I say?
I feel your pain.
It was horrible and over the top.
But I am not here to rant incoherently about a movie that is partly to blame for me being a crazy bitter old man.
Oh noes! Oh noes indeed!
I am here to show you something that should have been in the movie instead of the muppets musical number. A little boy. A little boy playing the harp. And he is playing the Cantina song from Star Wars.
His rendition is so beautiful that it would have melted Han Solo from his carbonite block.
Aren’t you a little short for a harp player?
Christian Bale is a lovely person
Feb 5th
You probably have already heard (again, we’re number one for old news!) that Batman actor Christian Bale went bonkers on the set of Terminator 4 and threw a tantrum.
Not because Batman he suddenly realised that the Terminator franchise has been squeezed to death by the previous movie and the horrible TV series (except that strangely hot Summer Glau Terminatrix chick), oh noes, something much more sinister happened: The director of photography walked on the set and was distracting Batman Christian Bale. Batman Poor guy couldn’t concentrate on the scene (probably something really important like pressing a button in front of a bluescreen) and had no other choice than to voice his anger. Also, I hear he had an upset tummy from eating too many bean burritos from the lunch van.
Now with stuff like that happening in the times we live in, sooner or later it goes viral on that internet thing the kids use. And then it gets mashed, remixed and put on youtube for the rest of us.
Final proof that threats, swearing and danceable beats mix so well together:
What the fuck is it with you?
You can get a free mp3 of the song here.
Mark Gormley is my new hero. You heard me.
Jan 29th
Now, many of you young and hip internet people (yes, you with your shiny MacBook and your tall, nonfat decaf latte, wearing a black turtleneck sweater) out there have probably already seen the videos of one Mark Gormley. The thing is, those young and hip internet people don’t come here much. They only visit this site to show others how things on the web should not look.
So for all the other people out there that do visit this site, my fellow internet losers, let me explain what Mark Gormley is all about.
I first saw his masterpiece Without You about 2 weeks ago, laughed about it but found myself playing it over and over again. Seriously.
Mark looks a bit like your average science teacher. Or if you prefer, your average normal white guy, age 45plus with a moustache. He seems not to care too much about his appearance and ist just doing his thing. More or less, he appears to have given up on any sorts of prospects for the foreseeable future and is recording his songs and putting them out there for all of us to see as a hobby to disctract from a boring life. At least that is my interpretation of him. Or in short, he’s a bit like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but with a musical talent.
The videos themselves have little production value, mostly greenscreen with some cheapo effects and miserable CGI pulled from the archive of an old Amiga 500. Now, of course, this is just my interpretation and has by no means any validity. Like anything I say, really.
So that you know what I am talking about, let’s have a look at Without You. This is my favourite Mark Gormley song so far.
Now that you have seen that, what do you think? Is he a menacing predator or a nice guy?
Actually, he is a nice guy. After his videos on Youtube took off, unlike many other internet “stars” that go viral, Mark Gormley stays down to Earth (although he goes into space in many of his videos) and comes across as a rather nice guy. See here:
Godspeed, Mr Mark Gormley!
This is madness! Get in the back of the van!
Jan 23rd
This is madness! That was the first thing that came to mind when I first saw this video a couple of months ago. Which demented brain came up with this crazyness?
Back off right there! My first impression, as usual, failed me. Just like that one time when I bought all that useless Jar Jar Binks merchandise because I thought he was gonna be BIG after Episode 1. Oh well …
What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate total work of utter brilliance and genius! Indeed it is!
Swede Mason, the artist behind this music video, has taken a simple quote from the cult movie Withnail & I (particularly popular amongst British students for its many drinking game possibilities. Just google this, will you?) and put some beats to it and … well. Turns out this is one of the best things on the Internet.
Ever.
For real.
I could (did, and will again) watch this for hours on end.
We’ve gone on holiday by mistake:
visit Swede Mason on MySpace and on his youtube page
Radiohead’s Creep on a Ukulele
Jan 14th
Amanda Palmer, lead singer for the Dresden Dolls, covers the famous Radiohead song Creep. On a Ukulele. FTW.
I don’t belong here:
via Cynical-C
