The most interesting part about this hilarious Cliff Roth remix from 1988, is the ridiculously dated disclaimer at the end. It states that “this edited version of an actual televised address to the American people was created as a work of art intended for entertainment purposes.” Less than 20 years ago such video editing was novel enough that somebody would seriously believe Nancy Reagan went on TV to tell kids that “the cocaine makes me happy.”
This clip remixes the OK GO treadmill video using legos. I guess I’m a sucker for click bait…
Not only did director Mreel777 animate only half the song, but each frame is up for too long creating a jerky and amateurish stop motion effect. Worse of all is there are noticeably out of focus shots peppered throughout the entire thing. All in all its a pretty terrible effort by director Mreel777 who is going to have to be a little less lazy if he wants to compete with Youtube Lego autuer, TazziToz. Watch his remix of the first Ok Go video, “A Million Ways:”
Clearly TazziToz has a superior sense of production design. Additionally, the camera work, while still lacking, is miles above Mreel777’s.
However, by far my favorite Youtube Lego remix is this Star Wars video by Vidmaster55 and his (former) friend. Vidmaster55 has actually done a couple of lego stop motions. Apparently, he works without the benefit of editing software. He builds a slide show out of still photographs and then shoots his computer monitor to create the video. I’m going to repost the video description of “Lego Star Wars: “Supposed” Final Duel” in its entirety. Its a fascinating case study of how creative differences can shatter friendships and get in the way of the work:
WHY THIS VIDEO SUCKS Oh my God!! This video sucks. Ok here’s the deal, I was over my (former) friend’s house and he well, insited on making a lego video. I mean he’s heard about my lego productions, (With every film I get better.) and he thinks that you can just snap a couple lego pictures make the slideshow, film it, insert a couple of sound fx and post it here. Well, its not that easy, and plus, if you want to have good audio you have to time the slideshow film, write a script, and discise your voice so it doesn’t sound like some “13 year old star wars nerd.” The whole Prosses takes about three to four weeks. My supposedly straight A student friend was like “Naaa we can do it in two hours or less.” TWO HOURS OR LESS?! what are you crazy!? I even explained to him how the procedure works. But no you can do it in two hours. Also to make the vid more interesting you should add music. My friend and I tried that. But he thought that you didn’t have to include it into your script that because of his “Brain Power” we didn’t need one. The film was suppose to be sort of serious like you know in star wars ep. III, but this dude thinks everything is funny, everything should be a comedy. Well sure enough he classifed the vid as comedy and when he did all the voices, you couldn’t even tell it was star wars. Now let me ask you a question. Do stormtroopes cry like little girls? Of cours not. But my know it all (former) friend thinks they do. So when we tried to film it and we didn’t succeed I ask him if we want to try a script. He said “What’s the point.” Now I’m really pissed off. He thinks, “Oh its no big deal, its not hard.” This kid, I’m telling you…. UGH!! And you know, now that I think of it, it did only take two hours. Since we ditched the script, killed the music and didn’t even care if it had good graphics. Then once we ran the slideshow on his P.C., the whole thing had that like thing going up and down the screen, so it didn’t even look right. (his computer didn’t have a flat pannel monitor so it mad the screen do that funky line thing) So obviously he isn’t my friend anymore. Ya see I’m not his friend just because he didn’t care about the hard work that it takes to make a lego video, but also he was being… well here I’ll tell you. At school he is always talking to me and being annoiying. So one day (the day of the halloween dance at school) I tell him to stop it and I’m not his friend. So of coarse he goes and starts to cry and wimper. Then during the dance he goes up to his mom (his mom works at the school) and says “Edward won’t be my friend.” So his mom come s up to me, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DANCE and embarreses me and says “YOU BE EDDIE’S FRIEND!!!” (We both have the same name…kinda freaky) So I say no and walk away from him and his mom. Now of course Eddie thinks everything is okay and walks over to me an is like “Hey dude!” And the rest of the dance was hell. Finally like almost two months later we aren’t friends. And according to him and his control freak mom I don’t exist! THANK YOU GOD!!! I gon’t have to deal with him and his [SENSORED] Mom!! THE END
Last year I saw the stage version of Disney’s Mary Poppins in London. The show was pretty lame but it did have this really weird trip out sequence where all these creepy toys come to life and terrorize the children. I haven’t actually ever seen the original Mary Poppins but it seems the story works best as horror.
Scary Mary is right up there with Shining and Brokeback to the Future. The Technicolor quality of the film footage and the iconic image of Mary floating through the air are particularly hilarious against the scary music; however, its Mary’s Exorcist style 360 degree head spin that really sells it.
If you haven’t click on a link that says Line Rider yet, you need better internet friends.
It’s not a game, it’s not a toy, and it’s definitly not a movie. It’s a flash thingy made by some dude and posted to some forum that is amazingly addictive and totally joyful. First play the game, then watch this movie that just popped up on Youtube.
I just caught this little ditty on the Interweb an felt it needed to be shared. For music and movie lovers alike, this will blow your mind. Credits are at the end. ENJOY!!!
Following the footsteps of the Grey Album and Purple Reign, Gnarls Biggie looks to mash up this years super group Gnarls Barkley with the sounds of the late, great Notorious B.I.G. The album is set to be released on July 18th, but a video surfaced recently to promote the forthcoming album. Check it out.
There is something melancholy about this mashup of George Bush singing U2’s song Bloody Sunday. It’s mesmerizing to watch and really evokes the somberness of his presidency right now.
I just can’t bring myself to listen to U2 so I can’t really tell you how much it sounds like the original song.
The recently interviewed System-D128 just released a video to commemorate Father’s Day this year entitled “Nathan Grantham.” The video samples from Stephen King’s Creepshow. Check it out.
For more from System-D128 check out his youtube site and make sure to check out his Glitterfish interview here
I recently had a chance to catch up with System-D128. If you haven’t heard of him before, the guy is really taking video remixing to the next level. I had a discussion with him about the concept of video remixing and this is what ensued:
First off, tell me a little about yourself and how you got started in doing what you do.
Im a bugged out cat from New York that directs music videos and video mixes with my DJ skills.
How would you explain the concept of video remixing?
I would have to compare it to djing, I remember getting a 12″ or maybe even a Cassingle. You would have the song, an instrumental, an acapella, a remix, maybe 2 or 3 remixes from the same or different producers, and maybe bonus beats or an extended version with a breakdown thats not in the original…
A video remix for me woud be one, two, three or more of these type of mixes in video form…
What would you say influences your film style?
one thing for sure is record covers, the linear notes, the text, the design of the artist’s name, the record label, just the look of the record in general and not just a old record, any record, even some of the current designs of the cd’s that are coming out.
The other thing is the movement of animation or scenes of movies that coincide with the break of a song, a scratch or maybe a snare or hi hats, anything thats moving with sound…
I remember seeing Wild Style way before there was a Wave Twisters and when the movie first starts the opening title of the movie “Wild Style” tries to animate with scratching…as far as the scratch going with video I think its Wild Style.
I get influenced alot of times thru something I bump into by accident, like I just seen this movie that has some crazy 80’s music in the intro called “Yor the Hunter from the Future” the cat looks like The Beastmaster but he gets on some future type s.h.i.t.
I really feel Baltimore Club Tracks where the beats have alot of samples from movies, cartoons, tv shows from yesterday and today…
There are plenty of music video and movie directors im feeling but Im waiting to get some props from someone out there first…Lets see what happens…
What projects have you done and what are you working on for the future?
I just finished doing a DVD full of mixes for the DJ Atrak tour…
I made an official video for the Quasimoto and Sun Ra song that was on the 1st Madvillain record, I’ve collaborated with Diplo on a bunch of stuff, I made Silver Back Mountain King for Bigg Jus, I got another video I made for Bigg Jus from the Poor People’s Day record he put out on Mush called “Illustrations of Hieronymus Bosch”, I made a SuperVillains MegaMix from the record with the same title by Suckadelic.
I did the world’s first official Baltimore Club Video for DJ Johnny Blaze’s “Muppets”. I got plenty more stuff I put out on mixtapes and such.
As far as the future goes I just did some stuff for Spank Rock, I’m going to make more Baltimore House Video’s, I just got a camera so im ready to start working on more original footage too,so look me up if you want to film.
Im about to finish editing the Hoodborn DVD,thats gonna be a postive move,there’s plenty of stuff on there, Ghostface Killah,Frank N Dank,Rashan Abdul Hakim,T.I. The Beatnuts,Steven Seagal,3rd Bass,Ralphie from the Andy Milonakis Show
its gonna be crazy!
Damn you sound busy, What is your connection with White label TV and what is White label TV?
Me and one of the guys from White Label TV both did original stuff for Blockhead. He wanted to use a few video’s I was involved with like the Muppets joint and a One Thing Sticky Mix, that was it.
I sent Him a bunch of other bonus things just to check out,and He was really feeling alot of the archived footage I sent out,so we threw a bunch of other idea’s around and it grew from there. There is alot of stuff I still havent seen thats on there, the DVD keeps changing I dont know when it will be released…
At first WLTV was going to be White Label Videos like a handful of White Label Records, Unathorized videos and music…But I think its more than just that at this point, We will all find out in due time…
Do you plan to work on a feature film?
Yeah, I would like to create a whole film from scratch, I think I could handle it, watching and listening to a whole bunch of genres.
I think I can make anything from a little more than nothing…
How much further do you think video remixing can be taken?
My personal opinion, a video battle with dvdj’s would not come off right, alot of people would disagree, If there is someone reading this who does think video dj battles can work, Im sitting right now on a blueprint for the Ultimate Battle DVD…
If someone wants to come forth with money and you think it will be lucrative, I have everything needed to make it happen as far as records, to a list of animators, to cataloged music video’s, lets make it happen…
To get back to video remixing, I think it could be whatever you make it, besides what I said previously, taking a mixdown thats complete and redoing it, audio or video, legal or not, pushing the limit…Anything can and will happen. I think it will keep going further unless that one person gets thrown in prison for 5 years and/or gets that 250,000.00 fine, then mixes will be harder to locate or they will have to come out correctly with the proper funds.
Are there any other guys out there that are doing a great job video remixing?
There’s people out there that have and still are doing a good job. You got EBN, ColdCut, Hexstatic, DJ Kentaro, Mike Relm, Q-Bert, DJ Yoda…
Explain your “Muppet Show” video, and did you work closely with Johnny Blaze on it?
I met face to face with DJ Johnny Blaze, so it wasnt a situation where I just put video over a song I liked, then started showing it to people…
The “Muppets” track was already on a record months before the video was made, so we didn’t work on the music together, I took the song the way it was on the record and added other parts of the Muppets show to it, like the new intro, some scratching, additional adlibs from the characters and the end segment…
Alright, first off, I want to say thanks for granting Glitterfish the interview. Do you have any shout outs or final comments?
I want to definitely give a shout out to whoever reads this, and whoever gives a give…
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“sprayin like pecticide, con commit suicide step into my realm and be fried by the statik………”
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