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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
JEDI JACKASS
Dec 8th
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.
Real Life 8Bit Waterslide Ride
Apr 1st
Yes, you read that right.
An 8Bit waterslide ride in real life.
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.
The Seed makes me glow inside
Mar 24th
The Seed is the title of this great animation.
It is very pretty.
And it makes me glow inside. In a good way.
Watch.
About: The journey of an apple seed.
Pretty colours ahead
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
via Laughing Squid
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!
It’s time for some Shatner.
Mar 20th
Another Friday evening wasted.
Meh. Where did my life go? Ah, down the toilet. Now I remember.
The only thing that can turn this evening around is a decent Shatner song. And by decent I mean not utterly terrible.
The only decent cover version that William Shatner ever did without sounding like rape and murder to my bleeding ears was Common People by Pulp.
Debatable, I know.
But as long as no one ever posts any comments and argues with me or Jon, I will continue my reign of terror on this blog.
Yes, I am desperately fishing here. That’s what cheap cider will do to a man.
No more blah, blah, blah!
This is NOT a Half Life video.
Mar 19th
But what is it? What’s in the box?
I’ll tell you what’s in the box, a stupid phone. It’s a viral video for Samsung.
I don’t like Samsung anymore since my T220HD decided to die on me. I have been waiting for more than 4 weeks for a replacement. And nothing happens. Very poor customer service.
So this video, along with all of Samsung’s products, please kindly go away.
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
So say we all: farewell ‘Galactica’
Mar 19th
Here’s an AP news video in which Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and creator Ronald D. Moore discuss the final episode of the Emmy and Peabody-winning Sci Fi Channel series ‘Battlestar Galactica’ which airs this Friday.
Frack. Gonna have to wait for the DVD release torrent so I can catch up with the final series here on the other side of the planet.
We’re Cylons!
