Posts Tagged Video
This Shit is Wack
So I’m totally lifting this story from Jezebel, but it’s news, and I feel it’s important enough to spread and get other people outraged about.
This is a video of Hope Steffey being attacked and assaulted by police officers, who she called because she had been assaulted. She is forcefully strip searched without being told why, by male and female officers, who allegedly never even requested for her to take off her clothes before becoming borderline violent. Even if they had asked her to, why?? The officers involved claim they became “confused” when arriving on the scene, and mistook Hope for the attacker. Confused?!? About what?! How?! Did they think a woman called the cops because she was assaulting herself? And if you’re not sure who to arrest, you probably shouldn’t start by beating up the first person you see when you walk in the door.
This is the definition of a dangerously incompetent, bumbling law enforcement agency – a woman calls them for help and instead of arresting her attacker, they beat her up, stuff her in a squad car, and then sexually assault her.
WARNING: The video is kind of upsetting. Actually it’s infuriating.
3 comments February 20, 2009
My Favorite Ad Right Now
Words cannot explain how much I love this ad. It is funny, cheap, and incredibly aware of how awkward it is. Look at the girl wiping the counter’s face for even more amazing-ness.
3 comments February 3, 2009
Two Women in Music
If you don’t know who The Dresden Dolls are, you should probably be ashamed of yourself. By my definition, anyway. For those of you who don’t know, The Dresden Dolls are Amanda Palmer, who sings lead vocals and plays piano, and Brian Viglione, who plays drums. They describe the music they play as “Brechtian punk-cabaret,” and while I’m pretty sure they’re the only ones to ever classify themselves under this made-up genre, I doubt anyone could evoke those adjectives better.
Besides their music being really awesome, Amanda Palmer is amazingly talented and a fabulous role model in a world where a lot female “musicians,” I mean, pop stars, gain notoriety for being really slutty, really bitchy, or going on prescription drug-induced benders. Sometimes she doesn’t shave her pits, she draws her eyebrows on in her now-signature style, and is just generally challenging the rules of what is considered beautiful and acceptable, mostly because she doesn’t seem to give a shit. She’s sexy and awesome, but could definitely kick your ass and take Britney down in a heartbeat.
This is the video for the single “Shores of California” off The DD’s last CD “No, Virginia.” It’s good time fun, and definitely low-budget, though loses some points for being so literal in terms of the lyrics. Look out for a special guest cameo (oh my God, shoes.)
7 comments December 7, 2008
Sharing Some Sights and Sounds
Isn’t it sometimes embarrassing to revisit what you created in Sight & Sound Film class?
Everyone thought they were such “auteurs”– not me!!! Although, I did create the soundtrack to the fisherman all on my own!
This is just bad, semi-good looking retardedness.
I remember my crew never helping me so I’d shoot mine alone.
Such stress over such stupidity!
Add comment July 22, 2008
So What If I’m an 18-Year Old Frat Boy
Okay, so I’m a few months late on seeing this video, and it’s not exactly a current topic anymore, but this student-made fake trailer for “There Will Be Bud” is actually hysterical. Usually I find most pot jokes and references to be really lame and easily worn out, but the sheer effort and production value (lighting?! costumes?!) that went into this video separates it from every other half-baked (no pun intended) college weed-related joke. And the parody of There Will Be Blood is spot on. The performances are pretty good too.
1 comment July 1, 2008
Dig
This is a music video to the song Dig, which is off Incubus’ most recent album “Light Grenades”.
I’m clinging to the song; but I hate this video.
I think it looks cheap, low quality, a lot of shit (like). And I don’t think its because I worked with HS, master of the dance photography. The shots of the dancer in Dig were poorly composed and sloppy! Paul Fitzgerald would make this director cry.
I say this with pride: I know if we were asked to make this, we would have done such a better job.
Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to listening to this album more especially when I try to fall asleep at night, because it is described as such: ” rhythms crash and the guitars wail, this is serious music, but they have a lighter touch.” Pandora.com
I wonder who writes these blurbs for Pandora.com because they are quite good.
More:
“Often, they use trippy, vaguely psychedelic soundscapes to set a tone that they later blast apart with tightly focused blasts of fury, such as the skittering “Anna Molly” or the intense two-minute ballast of the title track — or even how the acoustic introspection of “Earth to Bella” is ripped apart by shards of noise, not unlike Radiohead‘s “Creep.” – Pandora.com
May I add skeet skeet of the week to Brandon Boyd and his bassist is a fox too.
6 comments June 15, 2008
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Skeet, skeet, SKEET.
You may remember him as that girly-looking kid with long hair from “Angels in the Outfield” or the TV series “3rd Rock From the Sun”, but he grew up, cut his hair, and is now really hot and in good movies. So, that’s major points. A few years back he starred in the modern, noir-detective film Brick which was genre-bending and absolutely fabulous. He was also in Manic, with Don Cheadle, as a teen with anger management issues and Mysterious Skin, in the role of a sexually abused child that grows up to be a small-town gay hustler. They all rule. He’s a good actor in good movies (Stop-Loss not considered, since I didn’t see it, but if I had to guess, his performance was probably solid). I don’t care about making this well-written; he’s hot and talented, that’s all I have to say.
2 comments June 6, 2008
Looks Like Someone’s Got a Case of the Mondays…
Moving into new apartments is frustrating. It kind of makes me want to…
FUCK UP SOME SHIT
You’re welcome.
Add comment June 2, 2008
Salute Your Solution
Anyone who’s talked to me for more than five minutes knows I absolutely worship Jack White. I’ve loved him since White Blood Cells, and I’ll continue to purchase everything he releases until one of us dies. The latest Raconteurs album, Consolers of the Lonely, is no exception. Imagine if Iggy Pop, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, and The Beatles were forced into a blender, along with Jack White’s blues sensibilities and Brendan Benson’s 90s-pop aesthetic, and the result were dumped all over your head. Every album Jack releases, whether it’s with the White Stripes or the Raconteurs, is building and improving upon what he did previously. This is a great example of that. The arrangements are increasingly complex, but rarely overwhelming. What I am saying here is that the album is SO GOOD AND YOU SHOULD BUY IT NOW.
Anyway, the reason I’m really posting is just to show you the video for the new single, Salute Your Solution. It’s a cool stop-motion style performance video- a simple concept, but really nicely executed. And even though Jack White’s new haircut kind of makes him look like and old lesbian, he’s still got it going on.
A+++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN
5 comments June 1, 2008
