a whole buncha stuff

Figured I’d post links to/embed a bunch of videos that I thought of during our discussion in class yesterday.  It’s a pretty random bundle, but they’re all quite funny or interesting or weird.  So check them out, w/ a little blurb about each, after the jump. For some reason I’m having troubles with embedding video, and it should be super simple so I can’t fathom the reasons for that. So I’m just gonna do the links, and maybe go back and embed later when I figure out what the ()#@*% is wrong.

Here’s what I referred to as my favorite mashup of all time: Radiohead’s “High & Dry” w/ Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”.  The video is just some goofy collection of footage, it just happened to be the first hit when I searched the song.

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Here’s the recut trailer for “Scary Poppins”, which makes Julie Andrews practically look like friggin Voldemort.

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Here’s a funny political remix vid that watching the state of the union remix reminded me of. I first saw this quite a while ago, but it stays funny every time I watch it.

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I think I actually posted this to Twitter a few days ago, but here it is again. Sort of high on the wtf spectrum of remix videos (whoever made it dubbed the silly song over the original, though what the original video was taken from I cannot fathom).

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This last on is a mini-documentary (about 30 min long) in which 4 DJ’s are challenged to buy 5 records for 5 dollars and then quickly construct a beat using samples from those records. They don’t really discuss the art or the implications of sampling culture, because it’s been around for so long and discussed so much that the ideas behind it are sort of a given. But it’s a really entertaining piece of work that brings out the hilarious nerdiness of cratedigging culture (some of the records they find are really priceless–in a comic sense, not a monetary one) and the joy that these guys can find in cultural detritus.

*It’s now been removed from pitchfork, I guess it was a one week only sort of deal, but definitely check out their website

3 thoughts on “a whole buncha stuff

  1. Joseph Antonioli

    I just fixed the first video in your post, looks like the WordPress plugin was not activated.

  2. Hannah Epstein

    in response to the “Scary Mary” video –
    Just making note of how important audio has been to all of these recut trailers. The same idea that was used by Mark and Guillaume in their podcast project – you can take the same exact images from the original “Mary Poppins” (just like Mark and Guillaume used the same voice over twice) and recut them to eerie music, to create a new horror movie.
    Very cool trailer.

  3. Hannah Epstein

    just had to add… I sent the video to a friend over ichat, and her response was: “wait. what the fuck. this is scary!”
    She then proceeded to show her roommate… these are the IM’s from her:
    “HAHAHHA im showing to it liz
    and she like screams
    and is like NO NO NO I REALLY DONT LIKE THIS
    THIS IS SCARY WHY ARE YOU SHOWING HIS TO ME
    and she closes it and just shudders
    hahahhaa”
    congratulations to the successful re-cut artist.

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