6 posts tagged “video”

I just finished reading the Wall Street Journal article about a particular audio clip spoof that was created and posted to Digg using Ted Steven's ridiculous comments during the recent congressional Network Neutrality debate.  The senator's comments were also lambasted by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

The spoofed clip was created by Paul Holcomb, an advertising executive and podcaster on his company's boldheaded.com site.  Holcomb created the wildly popular DJ Tubular Ted Stevens Techno Remix audio clip as a comedic take on senator Ted Steven's now infamous comments about how the Internet works, slicing and dicing choice tid bits from the dysfunctional speech to fit a campy, techno-house beat. 

Oddly enough, at the time he posted the clip, Holcomb wasn't completely aware of the functional and political ramifications of the Net Neutrality debate.  Since then, the spoofed speech remix has been downloaded from his site alone over 70,000 times since he posted it, according to the article, and there's also a music video  posted by a fan of the remix on YouTube.com that has been viewed more than 200,000 times.

What's funny about all of this is, Captain Tubular Ted Stevens still thinks he's right about how the internet works [it's a series of tubes after all] and that everyone else is wrong.  Additionally humorous, Holcomb is a conservative Air Force veteran and after the audio clip went completely viral on the net, he had reporters from all sides of the issue calling him to ask if he could explain Net Neutrality for their blogs and news articles, as well as people from left wing sites like CrooksAndLiars.com re-posting the remix approvingly and MoveOn.Org proclaiming the clip as one of "10 examples of grassroots lobbying on the tube-net".  

I guess Mr. Holcomb learned a valuable lesson from all of this: you have to be careful about what you post on the tubes, otherwise, they can get all gunked up with thousands of downloads of Internets audio clips that make fun of ignorant, conservative, republican chairmans of the Senate Commerce Committee and people just might think you're a bleedin' heart liberal commie prick.  Apparently Holcomb, showing his good sense, ultimately came out on the side of Neutrality after educating himself via "the tubes".  Now, if we could only get Ted Stevens on the right path.

Darin "Commie Prick" Marshall

I found the link to this video somewhere online recently but I can't remember where now.  I guess it took the producers of the project four hours to film all of the stop motion elements and who knows how many hours to get the sound effects all lined up and the individual frames edited and rendered.  I had an idea for a chess game that was filmed one move at a time from an overhead perspsective but this is a whole different enchilada [Update! see below the video thumbnail]:

Update!: This video has been removed from YouTube as of today but google video still has it. Must've been related to YouTube's Terms of Service changes for uploaded content that occurred recently: Google video space invaders link.  Thank you, drive thru!

A friend of mine and I were talking about the band that featured Terry and Dale Bozio and friends, and he mentioned that the album title was an anagram and sure enough, the wikipedia.org entry for them confirms the useless trivia fact that Missing Persons' first full length album title is indeed an anagram.  I guess Terry Bozio played with Frank Zappa on a few albums and then formed Missing Persons with his then wife Dale. Warren Cuccurullo, Patrick O'Hearn and Chuck Wild finish out the fabulous five members.

A couple of youtube searches later and I'm watching the "Give" video that my friend mentioned with the Missing Link guitar [apparently it's made out of chain link but I can't tell from the youtube vid] and the custom built drum computer played by Terry Bozio.  Youtube is amazing.

Too bad the reunion never bore fruit but I guess Dale still tours under the name Missing Persons and the guitarist for this band also played with Duran Duran on the Notorious album back in the day.  Wow.  I feel old.

Here's a few of my favorites by them...

Destination Unknown:

Mental Hopscotch:

Words:

I love this video from youtube that highlights subtle hints in the dialogue between Star Wars characters in selected scenes that there just might be some homosexual undertones brewing between some of them; especially from the two seemingly asexual droids we all know as C3P0 and R2D2.  Combine that with the Oscar nominated Ang Lee film Brokeback Mountain and some clever editing and you've got Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback!:

The Japanese are absolutely off the hook with robot technology.  One of these days, they're just gonna blast off of the planet and leave us all behind to sort out the big issues like global warming, thermonuclear war, Allah vs. Jesus, gay marriage vs. family values or whatever perdicament we find ourselves in.

Videos like this one make me think that these little robots are just the beginning and human scale bots are just around the corner.  Honda already has the Asimo robot which can run at a pretty good clip in a straight line or circles like a human all by itself with no one controlling it.  My hope is that these human sized robots won't be used in armed conflicts against people someday, although it's extremely likely that they will be used as replacements for human casualties.  Someday, we might all end up as slaves to the robots and the Matrix might not seem all that implausible.  Which pill would you take?  I would take the Red pill myself.

Here's the wrestling robot vid:

Here's the Honda Asimo running video [long]:

Why anyone would want to subject themselves to such an unpredictable and powerful force of nature is beyond me but I guess I would be considered a wuss by today's standards what with the motocross crazy heads, snowmobile jumpers, skateboarders, BMX bike pool riders and any other kind of extreme sport people do today.  This wave is unbelievably large.  The digitized sound of the wave crashing after being encoded into MP3 format is kind of eerie as well.  I guess that comes from high frequency aliasing of the audio signal.  That's geek speak tho.

Here's the vid: