Exorcist ‘81: Odd shoe ad from the ‘80s
What does this mean? Seriously. Is Wonder Exorcist Woman selling us shoes? There’s so much inexplicable going on here my brain hurts.
What does this mean? Seriously. Is Wonder Exorcist Woman selling us shoes? There’s so much inexplicable going on here my brain hurts.
Les Kiriki: Acrobates Japonais, directed by Segundo de Chomon in 1907, is a lovingly hand-tinted artifact from the early days of French cinema. Similar in technique to George Melies, Aragonese film maker Chomon was a pioneer of cinematic special effects. In Les Kiriki, Chomon creates the illusion of complex, gravity defying acrobatics by having dancers lay on a black floor and filming them from above. The feat, while not as miraculous as if they were actually standing upright performing the balancing act, is still imaginatively choreographed, requiring considerable skill. The use of absurd Japanese wigs, pulsing colors and the primitive set result in a witty and surreal little film. For the soundtrack I added The Ventures’ “Let There Be Drums.”
The second video is Chomon’s Le Spectre Rouge which was also made in 1907 but released in 1908. Music by Shpongle.
The Red Spectre after the jump…
After Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, where character Don Draper was seen crying, a new meme has popped up, almost instantaneously on the Internet: witness Sad Don Draper.
(via The High Definite)
What a brilliant antidote to the current highly lame trend of attempted personalised music selection software (Pandora,etc). This Brian Whitman fellow has got it right (even though he’s admittedly part of the problem, ha!). These services are only going to point you in the direction of some major label hackery you’d never notice on your own, anyways. Nothing will ever beat word of mouth and the recommendations of friends and relatives with excellent taste. Let the deletions begin !
I have a strong aversion to music recommenders and music similarity services. I especially deal with a lot of cognitive dissonance as the company I co-founded makes a lot of $$$$$ (that is 5 dollar signs) selling ordered lists of artists to multinational music streaming conglomerates.
Nonetheless, we recently completed our first live recommender system (to be announced near the Boston Music Hack day in October) and to perhaps get myself more comfortable with a future in which children will no longer ask their cooler older dope-smoking brothers what to listen to in lieu of some HTML table in a UL, I decided to really sign up wholesale to this movement. If we rely on these computer programs to learn about music, well we might as well rely on them to fix the sins of our past and delete the crap we are obviously not meant to listen to anymore.
“Future of Music (2010)” is a Mac OS X app that scans your iTunes library and computes the music you are not supposed to listen to anymore based on your preferences. It then helpfully deletes it from iTunes and your hard drive. Skips the recycle bin. Just like other recommender systems, it uses a lot of fancy math (and data from Echo Nest and last.fm) that really doesn’t matter in the end. Just click the button and let it take care of your life. I want it to also delete scrobbles and spotify playlists that feature the artists. Maybe it should read your email too and tell you who you shouldn’t talk to anymore, i could use that
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Chewbacca hairdid
The ultimate silent ‘Star Wars’
Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip: I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper
Japanese ‘Star Wars’ Sea Chicken Commercial (1978)
70s French Disco Dance-Off Between Darth Vader And C-3PO
A-Team Intro vs. Star Wars
Darth Vader moonlights as symphony conductor
Star Wars vs. The Mighty Boosh
Star Wars: The Environmentalists Version
Robotic French Space Disco inspired by Star Wars (1977)
21-87: How Arthur Lipsett Influenced George Lucas’s Career
C-3PO Catches R2D2 Smoking
Anthony Newley’s misbegotten take on The Beatles’ “Within You Without You” is so stunningly bad it has a certain hideous allure. It’s from the 1977 TV special The Beatles Forever, which featured Newley, Tony Randall, Ray Charles, Bernadette Peters, Paul Williams, among others, eviscerating Beatles classics. It doesn’t get much worse than this…and that’s why I dig it.
The Youtube description of the video is almost as amusing as the clip itself:
Movietone News footage of Sunbury 1974 (the end of the 60s) with Mr Newley’s epoch defining reading of George Harrison’s exotic toe-tapper from the Beatles Pop Art album Sgt Peppers. Newley is magnificent as always.
Tony Randall introduces the song.
