a “b” blog
Last night I saw a coming attraction for the re-make of Prom Night (2008), which seemed so shiny and new compared to the original. In fact, while watching the trailer I found it to be a sign of the times of Hollywood for a couple of reasons: first, it seems an excellent example that the [...]
Tags for this article: film , horror , movies , Prom Night , YouTube
[?]Last night, Anto and I spent the evening playing with YouTube. Anto did her Laurea in Philosophy at the Unviersity of Milan and here thesis was on [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], so it is always a joy to listen to her talk about his thinking. As we were talking we stumbled upon a scene from Derek Jarman’s [...]
Tags for this article: art , jacques derrida , john searle , ludwig wittgenstein , marin heidegger , philosophy , YouTube
[?]Well, I feel another bout of nostalgia coming on thanks to Brad’s comments here, and after doing some research on my past, I found this gem by [[Newcleus]] from deep in the depths of the early 80s. A band known for the first “wikki-wikki song” well before Wikipedia. I freely admit this song remains one [...]
Tags for this article: music , music video , rap , YouTube
[?]I was doing a little YouTube nostalgia surfing with the bambini, and after our fair share of old cartoons I decided to dredge for early 80s music videos. After enjoying the brilliance of “I Ran” by [[Flock of Seagulls]] I searched for “Saftey Dance” by [[Men Without Hats]]. And after watching that video, [...]
Tags for this article: music videos , nostalgia , safety dance , TV , YouTube
[?]Fifteen seconds into this clip comes one of my favorite lines from one of the best films of the last century, [[Night of the Hunter]] (1955). The other eight and half minutes is just a bonus 
BEN HARPER: “What religion you profess, preacher?”
HARRY POWELL: “The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.” [...]
Tags for this article: film , movies , Night of the Hunter , preacher , Robert Mitchum , YouTube
[?]One from the archives for all you fathers out there today. A scene taken from the 1986 classic [[At Close Range]], starring the great [[Sean Penn]], [[Christopher Walken]], and the sorely missed [[Chris Penn]] (his death in 2006 hit me kind of hard ’cause I always imagined my older brother was like Sean Penn, and [...]
Tags for this article: At Close Range , Chris Penn , Christopher Walken , film , movies , Sean Penn , YouTube
[?]photo credit: bionicteaching
Spent most of the evening last night dancing around my living room with my two little nutballs (full clarification: that refers to my children, and they are very EDUPUNK 
) to the Weezer “Pork and Beans” video. I’ve never been a major [[Weezer]] fan, though I liked the Buddy [...]
Tags for this article: Abbie Hoffman , edupunk , Stephen Downes , The Chicago Conspiracy Trial , The Teddybears , weezer , YouTube
[?]This is awesome, found it via Dan Coleman’s Open Culture blog, and it is just amazing how insane people can be (if it isn’t a fake, but I tend to agree with Dan that this is the real deal). Sometimes I love humanity, and the minute and half video below is why. Despite the [...]
Tags for this article: fun , insane , shark surfing , YouTube
[?]Finally, the last and mashed installation of my [[Dawn of the Dead]] (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using [...]
Tags for this article: archive , archive.org , audio , Dawn of the Dead , documentary , fun , future , horror , Internet Archive , mall , mashup , mashups , movies , music , new media , sound , videos , YouTube , zombies
[?]I got my first video response on YouTube today, and it is a pretty cool feeling. Much has been said about how bad the commentary can be on YouTube, and I tend to agree though I have had better luck than most. That said, the real genius of YouTube is in the video response feature, [...]
Tags for this article: escape from new york , mashup , re-mix , vproducerofbeats , YouTube
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