They are just a band
This music video from Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip for the song “Thou Shalt always Kill” struck me as being catchy and thoughtful. It is a guide to life in modern day England for the music hipster. I love the litany of bands at the 1:30 mark.
Movies with No Signal
This video is a compilation of movies, mostly from the horror genre, where people find themselves is perilous situations, only to discover they have not cell phone signal.
The Beatles 3000
Sometimes history adds perspective, and sometimes it adds Scottie Pippen.
Spinal Tap and Engineers
This is Spinal Tap has become such a cultural touchstone that everyone knows it goes to 11.
We Got That B-Roll!
If you have ever edited a video and wanted to drop in some footage while the main speaker or narrator continues, that’s called b-roll. The name comes from film editing where your main footage is the A roll and you need to cut in some footage from a secondary roll, or the B roll. This shows that any business function can be pitched as an informercial, especially with tongue firmly placed in cheek.
(Thanks for Greg for tweeting this)
Weird Al Helps Explain Auto-Tune
Rocketboom continues their series of Know Your Meme with special guest Weird Al, explaining the tired musical trend using a software treatment called auto-tune, which corrects a singer’s pitch and makes them sound like a robot. From Wired.
Dilbert Doesn’t Shake Hands Anymore
There is recent trend going around where people don’t shake hands for sanitary reasons. Dilbert follows this trend.
How to Make a Baby
Even though this video has a provocative title, it is a great example of animating still photos into a video. It’s also really sweet.
Here are some notes about how they made the video from www.otherthings.com. Follow the link for more information:
We made this video using a technique called “pixilation”, which is a fancy term for stop-motion animation done with real people instead of puppets. We shot it, frame by frame, with Raquel’s Canon DSLR over a period of nine months. Those of you who stopped by our house might have noticed some mysterious tape marks on the floor in the living room. Those were for the camera tripod and our feet.
Animating over such a long period of time, using an increasingly pregnant woman as one of your puppets, means basically throwing out everything you might normally do in an animated film. For example, early on, we had this idea that we should wear the same clothes every time, for continuity’s sake. But as Raquel’s pregnancy developed, we soon discovered that the extra effort required to change in and out of our uniforms was going to interfere with the goal of shooting as many frames as possible, and might even prevent us from finishing the project at all. We dialed down the perfectionism, and in the process ended up having a lot more fun with it.
Hat tip to Bit Rebels
Pondering Celluloids
The following clip shows the way not to get a girl’s number.
Stop Motion Post-Its
Here’s a great animated short using post-it notes. If want to see the making of this film, here’s a link. It is longer than the film.