Look At This Fucking Hip-star

Thanks be to Look At This Fucking Hipster.

And give us this day our daily creep.

Dilemma

I'm just full of surprises today.
This is the first element of my installation. This is my animation, Dilemma:

It looks really good if you watch the HQ version off of Youtube. The compressors messed with it a bit. It was originally shot in hi-def and the uncompressed version is two GB. I'll post video and/or pictures of the installation when its done.

iPhone

I got an iPhone yesterday. When it comes down to it, the iphone is cheaper than internet on a month to month basis, although the initial cost was huge, 300 dollars is so much money. That is one hundred beers at the brotherhood or eating out every day for a month. Besides the issue of procrastination, my iPhone is great. People were telling me that the edge internet is slow, but i've not had any problems with it. It is fast enough for me to watch youtube videos and that is plenty. I used to live in freshman dorms on Evergreen campus where you would often have to wait an hour or more to load a youtube video. The battery life is short, but I can charge it when I'm asleep every night. A day long charge is not so bad, my old phone was starting to get there anyways. Thank you Apple, I'm enchanted... yet again.

Hipsters in Space

So, this is old, but good.
Commence non-committal dancing! Space hipsters, whatever!



I mostly enjoy that their space ship is a shoe

Snail Animation

Me and my buddy Charlie made this while we were fiddling around in AfterEffects. He told me I should put it on Youtube so I did. Hope you like the music choice. Laff a little?

The Ugly Caterpillar

This is my final project from last quarter, in case you can't read the title it is called "The Ugly Caterpillar." It is an adaptation of the story, "The Ugly Duckline." It is a puppet animation with loads of fun mats in it. I hope you like it and I will take questions from y'all.

Holy Fuck!

Holy fuck, its Holy Fuck!

wooooo! synthpop sans coherent vocals!
Holy Fuck - Balloons
Holy Fuck - Lovely Alien
enjoy

Turbonegro

Turbonegro sounds like a cyborg name, but it is actually a Swedish butt rock band.
My friend Jason just showed them to me and I am really happy. I recommend you listen to them because they are cool.

Also, just in case you didn't know, Butt rock is a child of metal and rock with nice clean vocals and dirty fucking lyrics. It is so gooooood. EETZ LIKE CANDY

Here are some youtubes:

Animation

Finally, after much heartbreak and many failed attempts, one of my animations has made it to the internet. Without further adieu, the animated walk:


I drew that in about 10 hours. HAH! Maybe this whole hand animation thing is overrated.
BTW, the colors are intentional and allow for better readability. If it were blue and purple you'd all be really confused right now. Funny thing, color theory is one of the most simple things. Myspace should provide a primer on color theory so people will stop making shitty pages. They would use the slogan "Hey, take 5 minutes to save everybody a headache."

Flexing my Youtube muscles

So I finally got something up on Youtube that I'm artistically involved in. I thank garageband and imovie for helping me. This is a cover of the Brian Jonestown Massacre Song "Telegram." Enjoy!

Good picture from when I was heavily bearded, too.
What do you think of the video?
Is the picture a good representation of me?

The History of Superimposed mouths

You may have noticed over the last several years the superimposition of mouths on characters in photos and video. This interests me.

The superimposition of mouths on images has its roots in the internet and probably began with the mass distribution of illegitimate copies of Adobe Photoshop. At this point, any bored person could waste endless hours creating hilarious/dumb/ridiculous images.

Here's one good example.








Some believe this started as a nod to the cult classic, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Though this makes sense temporally, this cannot be what happened. If the movie were to be referenced on the internet, it would be made fun of. The art of homage is lost on the great world wide web. This is why we must search for our sources elsewhere. To Wikipedia!

From what I can tell, this area was largely pioneered by Joel Vietch, owner of www.rathergood.com. His early work didn't use many superimposed things. A video(spoonguard) I remember from my childhood was one of his early experiments in using single elements of a face for superimposition. (ban spoonguard) It advanced further during the spongmonkey years as the meme began to pick up commercial attention. This may have been the first internet meme to make it into the mainstream. Maybe you remember this commercial:


After many years of flying under my radar, this year i have found a much more advanced use of superimposed mouths. In these videos they use video of a human mouth superimposed on animals faces.


Or roadkill faces


These things get played out pretty quickly

Thank You Adidas

I found a nice re-edit of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' "Beggin'." It was on an Adidas commercial at early o'clock and it was pretty cool. The video consisted of lots of famous musicians dancing around and (presumably) having fun at a party. Funny part of the whole thing was that none of the artists in the video had any hand in the song playing over them. Can they do that?

Here's the video for the song:



I love this music video because old shit makes me chuckle, the dancing at the beginning of the video is priceless. The decade is juxtaposed with what is 'hip' and now towards the end and that's fun too.

Whats New?

I heard the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was good, but wow.



You've been Rick Rolled
But seriously, is this good? The forum culture of the internet has become mainstream enough that this made sense to a lot of people. The bottom of the internet has been dredged up and i don't know what's going to happen

Also, Thunderheist

I was cruzing the intarwebs the other day and found these videos.
I immediately thought of my bored wankers.
These are two music videos directed by Eric Warheim of Tim and Eric's Awesome Show: Great Job! fame.

MGMT - The Youth


The Bird and The Bee - Polite Dance Song