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Sure, sure. Everyone is all excited about the 30 year anniversary of Star Wars. But personally, I’m taking the next 3 years to properly gear up for the 30 year anniversary of Flash Gordon. (I recently went to the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and saw a movie poster of Flash Gordon as part of their series of films that feature outer-space, which reminded me how awesome this flick is. Hey — if the Smithsonian can feature Flash Gordon, then Wastered most certainly should).
Every once in a while, there is a man. A man who defies all classification, rejecting codifications like “California Surfer” and “Buffalo Hockey Hair.” This man is Malibu. Watch him talk about his recent recovery from a most massive injury:
I think Malibu is a poet of our times, and he may not be knowing it. Here’s the verse from his interview:
Well dude it’s like this
I saw this guy comin’
and I took the most
EXCELLENT HIT OF MY LIFE!
Next thing I knew
I was on the beach
takin’ in some cosmic rays
gettin’ healed by mother nature.
Takin’ a little brewski
holdin’ on to a beautiful babe
AND I’M FINE TODAY.
In case you missed the moment that inspired this magical moment in poetic history, you can see a repeat in slow motion video:
This beautiful black and white video of Tokyo alternates between timelapse and slow motion. It conveys a lyrical quality about the city that reminds me of Godfrey Reggio’s intro to Koyaanisqatsi.
30 years ago today, people were going to the theater to see this. I can see why people were unsure of the success of Star Wars; this trailer makes it seem more like a drama than a campy space movie.
This is one of those rare moments when you think to yourself, “there must be something lost in translation, and I’m definitely sure that cobra has been de-fanged and de-venomed.”
Someone please explain this to me. I heard a rumor that the mouth is sewn shut.
La Blogotheque is featuring a series of musicians who play in public places–just for the fun of it–called “Take-Away Shows”. Here are The Shins playing on the streets of Paris:
This PSA of a Native American crying is something I remember seeing sandwiched between unmemorable cartoons on Saturday morning during my childhood. It was also featured the film Diggers, which was recently released on DVD and tells the story of friends from a small fishing town in New York State that are slowly losing their way of life to big corporate fisheries.
Pythagoras Switch (ピタゴラスイッチ) is a children’s educational show in Japan. All of the bumpers feature crazy Rube Goldberg devices that are made from real components. When I first saw this compilation, I was convinced that the video was computer generated, but after careful validation I have convinced my senses that these are indeed miracles of mechanical engineering.
Prefuse 73 has a certain way of chopping up sounds and making them flow in a way that doesn’t sound incongruous. I remember hearing Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and wondering what it would look like to visually represent a track. Sam Smith takes a stab with this fan video.
Just as Prefuse 73′s music is good theme music for everything, it seems to be the source of a huge number of fan videos/experimental projects. Who needs to make music videos when you’re the music for everyone’s videos?!
