A little teaser for the upcoming documentary about MC Frontalot and the emerging genre of nerdcore. I saw him a year ago in San Francisco at the Edinburgh Castle and the number of people mouthing the words along with him was, well, in the 10s to 100s.

I guess you know you’ve made it as a nerd cultural object when people are making fan vids of you.

Also, if you think nerdcore is a stupid name for a genre, try blog house on for size.

by cameron at 8am, Apr 24th, 2007 in documentary, music (0)

Classic track with an equally classic and memorable video. I once heard Derrick Carter end his set with this track and people went nuts despite the fact that he just kind of put it on after he was done. Nuts. Like they went pecans and cashews all over the dance floor.

by cameron at 2pm, Apr 23rd, 2007 in animation, music (1)

I used to live on Pine St., and I walked through this intersection hundreds of times. I certainly remember the Bank of America building, and the buses, but I do not remember the pigeons and certainly not the funky jam theme song to this intersection.

Super 8 piece by Mike Missiaen. Funky jam, unknown.

by cameron at 2pm, Apr 23rd, 2007 in pets, super 8 (2)

Ok. So there is some debate as to whether Shakespeare was actually born today, but he most certainly died on this day. In honor of him, here is a skit of The Beatles performing Shakespeare.

by mandydale at 12pm, Apr 23rd, 2007 in famous people, retro (0)

What time is it? Time to post more videos of robots!

This is the world of Kronoform, the robot time machine that can transform. Each time you tell time.

by cameron at 9am, Apr 23rd, 2007 in 80s, commercials, robots (0)

It’s Monday, and you know what that means… ROBOTS!

Today there was an insightful program on Morning Edition about the need to replace missing human labor with robots in the farming industry. Enter roboMOO, the milkinator! Suck. Suck. Suck. Suck. Repeat.

by cameron at 8am, Apr 23rd, 2007 in robots (0)

Minsuh and Dan helped to remind me of this lovely classic from animator Don Hertzfeldt, circa 1999.

I am a banana!

by mandydale at 12pm, Apr 20th, 2007 in animation, cartoons (0)

The history of 420, as explained by High Times editor to ABC News in a 2002 interview.

And a Price is Right classic clip:

by mandydale at 9am, Apr 20th, 2007 in drugs, game show, holidays (0)

I can’t believe I missed this the first time around. We’re so super late, but it doesn’t matter because it hits two of the primary wastered categories: robots and dancing. Oh, and it’s adorable.

Keepon (which I assume was named after the lyrics from the Spoon song) was designed and built by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski. More about the Beatbots at CMU.

by cameron at 4pm, Apr 19th, 2007 in dancing, indie, robots (0)

Coach Z in his breakout track, These peoples try to fade me. This song is so f’ing brilliant, I’m going to transcribe my favorite parts here:

Coach Z’s got money, but not much
Coach Z’s got money, but not much
Coach Z’s got money, but not much
I could use a dollar, I could use a couple bucks

…

Where my lasers at?
All the peoples try to tell me where my lasers at
And your mother tried to show me all the laser crabs
And I got a bunch of types, a bunch of laser dabs

{makes laser gun noises}

…

These peoples drop the BAAEERRRMM!

by cameron at 11am, Apr 19th, 2007 in animation, dancing, hip hop, music (1)