Have put together a lovely little puppet show. It features a couple of sock puppets, an iphone and a lot of big words. I think it's pretty cool, but I should probably tell you that I did the voices for it, so my opinion might be biased.
You can check out the full length directors cut at a special monochrom page, or you can enjoy the high visibility advertising infected shorter version at BoingBoingTV. It's up to you. Although the music on BB's version does add a certain something to the whole experience...
That's probably one of the main reasons I am having a tough time with this years presidential nominees.
Mr. Obama's slogan "Yes we can" is just a little too close to Bush Jr's 2004 slogan "Yes, America can". Bush also promised to unite the country, reaching out across the aisle to heal the wounds that were previously inflicted. It was a nice way to deliver empty campaign promises then, but I guess we can hope it won't be this time.
Anyone who paid attention to Bill Clinton's campaign and his promise of universal health care probably also remembers watching the health care industry and Republican politicians tear Hillary apart during a series of hearings about the subject. Health care reform was dead in the water for years afterwards. Now the same groups that demonized Mrs. Clinton are throwing bucketloads of cash at her. It makes you wonder what's up.
Since most of the media events around the election process don't really lend themselves well to communicating deep and well reasoned arguments or presentations about the presidential platforms, concerned citizens need to find other ways to try to create a picture of what they might be voting for.
One of those tools is the website opensecrets.org. They break down the campaign contributions politicians have received and present it in all sorts of fun ways. They don't draw any conclusions, doing a classic Joe Friday and presenting "Just the facts, maam". But it is at least a starting point for anyone who may want to take that information and do some things lie comparing it to congressional voting records.
Of course, the reform of campaign funding is one of the issues that needs to be discussed, but since Edwards was the person most interested pursuing that issue, you probably won't be hearing much about it in the next couple of months.
Still, it's fun to see where our corporate overlords are deciding to spend their cash ;)
Was a webtip not that long ago. That's the site encouraging people to create an album in the month of February.
One of the musicians taking part was featured in a webtip quite some time ago. He wrote the song "Hey Hey 16k"- a celebration of old skool computing that should be on every geek's drive.
Now he is back with a ukulele and a song about one of comicdoms towering figures, Alan Moore. Another name you may recognize from previous webtips.
So now you can go to youtube and check out a video for a song that combines all of that fun and goodness into one 3:29 video.
SpongeBob Squarepants. I don't know if I like it because I fight it an entertainingly surreal way to spend a few minutes, or if my brain has just melted in response to my children's bad influence.
Whatever the reason, I usually enjoying watching it. In German. I have never actually heard the English version. I am hoping that explains why I'm not finding something funny.
Apparently, the English speaking Spongebob voice crew dubbed some clips from classic films in order to prove that they needn't be type cast. The video has been making the rounds and English speaking viewers have been finding it funny as all heck.
So I watched it.
And I didn't find it funny. Sort of cute maybe, mildly annoying perhaps, but definitely not funny.
So, either I am suffering from a broken funny meter, or the only reason it is funny is because of the dischord caused by peoples associations of these voices with particular characters. Which would actually do more to prove that they can only be typecast than to disprove it.
Help me out. Check out the clips and tell me what you think. Am I missing out on some subtle delivery, or is it just not very funny
You know the spooky guys who work behind the counter at you local specialists video stores? The ones who know everything about the film you just checked out as well as the ones you didn't know you were working for?
Used to be me.
I was actually excited when I found out I had gotten the job at one of my cities video stores. The one with the largest collection of trash and cult films. The one that also had the largest collection of brown bag films, the one that was in the worst part of town. The risk of getting shot at or mugged was worth having access to every single film I could possibly imagine seeing.
Until someone tried to steal my car AND pull a gun on me. That was a bit much.
I wish I had the internets back then. Becuase now there are other people out there doing their best to pull all of the lovely little forgoten trash films together in one place so you can enjoy them without ever having to step outside.
Stage6.com has a channel set aside that specializes in public domain trash, and it's spectacular. Okay, they call it Cult, but still ...
Science Fiction fan? How about Voyage to the planet of Prehistoric Women? Attack from Space? Things to Come?
More into horror? Well they have one of the films that haunted my child hood for years, "The Brain that Wouldn't Die". "He's not the Daddy" is on my list of things to see as well.
Now I just need a group of friends to riff on the movie with me...
Wien | 16.2.2008 | 12:04 
