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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yardies are pretty much Nazi scum anyway.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

So my dad showed me a nifty CG video of a music playing machine, which triggered a memory of an ancient CG animation that I loved as a child, played on YTV when I lived in Canada. There a bunch of the other shorts on the side of the page. Anyone else remember these? I loved them and trying to track down the collections they belonged to, which are either impossible to find or pricey.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

If you liked that music machine video you may enjoy this new Cornelius video.

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Gingerbread Nazis
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

Pitagora Suicci!

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

[quote="Shapermc"]

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I hurt myself to feel alive!
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

The bad news is it's a pretty bad DJ Shadow song.

The good news is I could have cross posted it in both the pixel art and the squirrel threads.

dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrDAZOzn58

osho's channeling carlin in this lecture on the word fuck. not safe for work.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/117532.html

best anti-drug commercial i have ever seen. and i've seen lots.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Enter the mind of a convicted sheep-shagger!
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

In 1977, Anglia Television ran a "spoof" documentary called Alternative 3. The premise was that the intellectual elite, mathematicians, scientists &c. had been vanishing for many years and a blind eye was being turned. The documentary sought to investigate the reason; the mysterious Alternative 3, a conspiracy which recruited (or kidnapped) the best and brightest of the world's intelligencia in order to propagate a new society off-world.

While it was marketed as a hoax (originally going to be run on April 1st), some have begun to see this as someone out there trying to get the truth out. Maybe they are.

Oddly nobody's been particularly interested in looking into the vast number of botanists and entomologists who've disappeared over the last decade or so.

I mean; if you were terraforming a planet into a breathable atmosphere, wouldn't you need plants and insects?

Considering the program has been banned from a re-release; makes you wonder...

You can see it here. Music by Brian Eno, for those who cares, and can be found on his Music for Films album.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

no more conspirawiki for you, dude!
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

WHAT DISEASE IS IN YOUR UNDERWEAR?

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/117667.html
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

someone used legos to build a factory that builds cars out of legos. i think that's neat.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Link is kind of a douche.

dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

icke: the lizards and the jews

for what it's worth, the asshole students come across as even bigger assholes than the "the jooooooooos" types.

it probably helps that i think they're all flakes, but i find entertainment in the strangest things.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

bananas are an atheist's worst nightmare

ok, the banana part is funny and the rest is tedious.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

To quote my atheist roommate: "Then what the fuck is up with pineapples?"
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhh89RVs3ps

To quote a friend:

Funny thing. Editorialising exercises power over us by granting us the belief that we have omniscient power over the characters in media - and yet the editors reveal to us only as much as they desire, no more. We accept it greedily because we are the observers; untouchable, inviolate surveillance against which the characters are utterly impotent, such striking disparity of power gives us the impression that we are the controlling agent. Such a superficially obvious presentation of our power rapidly makes us forget the critical role of the editor. Perhaps our constant diet of narrative fiction and the novel make us so vulnerable to such exploitation. Perhaps in this day and age it is the mass media of news reporting and academic reports handed down from on high which help the editor to replace objectivity with himself; our lack of education and increasing specialisation in academia ensuring that the importance of scrutinising provenance and the reasons for its authority -- and whether it is deserved -- is no longer paramount.

I mean it's exceptonally well used here. The power seems to increase manifold because these people are so obviously more stupid than we are. And yet careful examination reveals that the map is incorrectly labelled. If we are to step back and analyse why a map would be incorrectly labelled in such a context, it rapidly becomes clear that the editors control the people on the street, direct their actions and make them unwitting actors, mere characters. As viewers we are beguiled and fooled every bit as much as they are yet have the temerity to laugh at people merely playing their role, perhaps every bit as sensibly as we would, but they are robbed of their dignity due to the editting voice. Just as easily as we could be.

The basic point is this: if a guy comes up to you in the street and asks you to point to a country, and has a map which is wrong, but you know where the country is yet the guy asks you to point to where the name is on the map rather than the country, don't point at the name on the map. Rather call them a Jew; antisemitism drives ratings sky high.

Or you know, lol Americans r dumbzor.

P.S. A New Führer
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

For all the Rob Wilson fans out there: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Greylodge

Ghostbusters: The Collect Call of Cthulhu

Spiders on Drugs
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Starts off funny then sucks.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Chris Marker's La Jetée. Nothing more needs to be said.

For those not in the know, this was later remade/reinvented by Terry Gilliam into the brilliant 12 Monkeys.

P.S. Play catch the reference with David Bowie's Jump They Say video.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject:

Turkish Star Wars.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Robert Newman's History of Oil.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Psychedlic, evil animated children's book.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Stephen Colbert on the O'Reilly Factor.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Live action Monty On The Run.

Some sick fuck has built all the screens from the C64 game in 3D, and then made his hamster go through them as if he's actually in the game.

I hope this video sparks a trend.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Morphable 3D face models.

This actually scares me.
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ApM · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

If that scares you, don't look at this one of reanimated paintings.

Is this the software responsible for that creepy-ass Orville Redenbacher ad, I wonder?

Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject:

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

The North American House Hippo is the subject of my favourite PSA. The message of the announcement is completely incidental to how adorable tiny hippos are though.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I wouldn't know. I'm not familiar with American TV politics, nor do I particularly care for them. It's my understanding that Stephen Colbert is popular at the moment.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

He knows that colbert is making open shots at the right-wing, but I think he admires him in a way for how he has ripped off O'Reilly's character. But after the Congressional Correspondents Dinner, I don't think anyone in political circles has not heard of Colbert.

O'Reilly also appeared on The Colbert Report the same day but I haven't watched either yet (I'm listening to the linked clip now).

Supposedly when he first met O'Reilly at the Time 100 dinner last year he said "Jesus take me!" (out of character) because O'Reilly likes Colbert's show.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Okay so that was an effort in O'Reilly stroking his ego and using it to take pot shots at the Daily Show/Colbert Report staff. I liked how he was trying to get Colbert to admit that he isn't really for the right-wing but instead uses that stance to attack them and towards the end he just started attacking Colbert directly.

I wonder what the "thing we pre-agreed not to talk about" was, but I'm betting it was the Correspondents Dinner.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

That particular blog seems to have more on the matter, such as:

- O'Reilly on The Colbert Report
- Keith Olbermann dissecting Colbert vs. O'Reilly
- Colbert steals a Fox News microwave
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Yeah, they're obviously playing off each other. It's kind of cute.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

"Tiddy Bear"
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

They are definitely saying 'Titty Bear' even though the text says Tiddy Bear.

I've been watching the Angry Nintendo Nerd and I actually think he's pretty funny. It's a bit like Consolevania/Videogaiden in that it's at its funniest when they're just showing game footage with a voiceover, and anything more ambitious than that and it starts to get shitty. I like it though.

'Fuck you, Roger Rabbit. You can die on a cross.'

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Ok I'm bored of it now.

The funniest bits are really when he forgets to maintain an ironic distance and says 'Robble robble. Here you gotta go and get the magic cards for Hamburglar' in a completely matter-of-fact fashion, like Hamburglar is some dude who lives down the road from him.

I've spent too much time thinking about this show's strengths and weaknesses. I am the Angry Angry Nintendo Nerd Nerd.

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I prefer the Slydog Studios guy (as seen on the IC frontpage):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhlLFGtIMM&mode=user&search=

The ANN just irritates me because it's like somebody making fun of hieroglyphics in comparison to comic books. Maybe you can get off a few funny lines, otherwise it's just an advertisement for a lack of perspective.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Not really because a lot of the games from that period are great and he acknowledges this. He highlights the flipside of that, the absolute shit people could get away with in those days because we as consumers didn't know any better. I don't have any problem with it conceptually.

It's just maddening because it's so patchy. He says some funny things sometimes and you see how it could be a good show if he got a shove in the right direction. For one thing there's too many shots of him drinking beer to show what a tough guy he is.

For another his schtick is repetitive to say the least. Ok actually I want to kill him.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The short Spanish film 7:35 in the Morning is something everyone should watch, right now.
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