It’s Monday, and time for some inspiring video action. Imagine that your work is a giant flying-v guitar and that you are this fellow shredding the hell out of it:
Thanks to Ben for this wonderful piece of rockery.
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My last post was about filmmaker Bergman passing away this week. On the more pop-culture-meme side of things, today I’m giving tribute to Jerry Ringlien who was the creator of Oscar Meyer commericals that featured cute kids singing about sandwiches.
This campaign brought Oscar Meyer national distribution, and made bologna a popular part of many children’s lunch boxes.
This interview explains how another famous Oscar Meyer campaign, “I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner” came about:
But if you think hard, really, really, hard about the meaning of the lyrics, it is a bit disturbing to want to be a hot dog.
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One of my favorite directors, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman passed away this week. His films are deeply philosophical, existential, twisted, and troubling, but always with jaw dropping beautiful cinematography. Persona is one of my personal favorites, with a dream-like opening that suddenly turns to nightmarish horror. The narrative follows the life of two women, an actress and her nurse; their perverse relationship has been the subject of many film theory tomes.
On a lighter note, how about a remix of Bergman’s Seventh Seal with the Clash?
RIP Bergman.
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Pretty, pretty, pretty. And lucky for me, Pilobolus is performing right around the corner from my house for the next month, so I’ll have to see them perform live before they go.
Not sure how it connects to Hyundai, but it is gorgeous.
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Australia’s National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect’s PSA.
(Thanks Eric!)
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This is a Tesla Coil which has been modulated to create music. Apparently, it’s really loud:
What’s not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it’s firing.
Hold with it.
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Graffiti Research Labs (GRL) did a clever hack and turned those crazy plasma displays at subway stations into signs that say “NYC’s TRUE GRAFFITI PROBLEM,” “ADVERTISING = GRAFFITI” and simply “GRAFFITI.”
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