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Kyle Cease:

Behind-The-Scenes

Here's a glance at how the "music industry" works:



If you laughed, that's fine - that's the point.  But you might keep on laughing until you cry, because it's DEAD ON TRUE.

sigh

Tubas In The Moonlight

By the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Gloriously stupid. I've always liked the band, but watching them is so much more entertaining!

You Can Be A Great Singer

First watch this video of "Bev and Bob":



Now, you sing. Anything. You're great.

More Time Travel

Of COURSE time travel is possible! We travel FORWARD in it easily enough...but going backwards or sideways, one might need to review this great "silent" film from 1923:

The Einstein Theory of Relativity 1923 from ricordidimenticati on Vimeo.

That Einstein was something else!

Time Travel IS Possible!

Just watch this wonderful video - the original Jonny Quest opening redone in stop-motion, and be prepared to be utterly SPOILED (you're going to want to see entire episodes like this, now!):

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo.

Be sure to visit the artist's additional pages to see more of how he managed this...

The whole thing boggles my tiny six-years-old-again mind.

I'm going to watch it again, probably with a bowl of Cap'n Crunch.

Wonderful Water

Osaka, Japan. A "water printer", which creates images with water:



I couldn't watch this without smiling. If I were there in person, I would be right alongside those kids, ooh-ing and ah-ing!

I wonder how this might look in a darker setting, incorporating some lights?

Ooh! Ah!

Tiny Tim - The Ice Caps Are Melting

Whether you liked his music or not, there is no denying that Tiny Tim was a true original - honest, well-mannered, strange, an expert in early 20th century popular music, friends with the Beatles and Bob Dylan, worked in a circus...

Here is "The Ice Caps Are Melting", from some television program, sometime in the 1960's:



Is it just me, or is there more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willy Wonka here? Sure, the frizzy hair, and the similar facial features, and "fine" manner of dress...but also the sheer loopiness, the psychedelia, the dark humor, the not-so-hidden undercurrent of malevolence?

Not to mention the bewildered children.

Tiny Tim was SCARY COOL.

I Have No Words To Add...

Indian Version Of THRILLER

Good gosh - WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?!? Mekhal Jashun = "Girdle Celebration"! Look around for Indian Superman, Indian Transformers, and Indian Matrix, too...You know, you can improve just about ALL the American video-tripe by adding catchy music, bright colors and a few great dance moves!

Some More Beatles

Here is some comedy from the BBC: Harry and Paul doing "The Beatles...Fifty years on". There are a handful of these out, some more than a year old - I only just found them, and thought I would share:



Another episode has the elder Beatles meeting up with the Oasis brothers, who keep calling the Fab Four "Knob'eds"...John gets them good by saying "They ought to call you fellows the Dung Beatles...because you're like the Beatles, but sh*t!"

B.S. Stars As B.S.

Here is the lovely Brooke Shields starring in "Brenda Starr".

This movie evidently was a big bomb when it came out in 1989...I don't know why. I think it is a great campy tribute to the long-running (only recently-ended) newspaper strip. The casting is absolutely dead-on. A few well-placed swear words toward the end of the movie are seemingly out of place in the context of the film, and therefore are even funnier than they might be otherwise (no swears in this clip, the first of nine).

There are plenty of funny/stupid things here to laugh at: "Donovan O'Shay" (Public enemy number three) is "Donovan Hochet" in the french subtitle..."Don't worry about me, boys...SHOOT!"...

My favorite part in this clip happens at about 8:15...

Incredible Puppet Production

The Narrative of Victor Karloch from Kevin McTurk on Vimeo.

Yow! A pretty far cry from Mr Roger's Land Of Make-Believe...


Looks terribly interesting - there's a bit more info about the project HERE.

"Empire Strikes Back" As Silent Film

Here we have a beautiful clip from "The Empire Strikes Back", remixed as a silent film, complete with tinkly piano score, missed frames, and title cards.

It certainly is amazing to see how much the feel of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" comes through in this - his influence is still felt more than eighty years after that masterpiece...

Lordy, what's not to like? I'd love to see the whole original trilogy like this!

Here is "Anachronisme":

Giant Deep-Sea Diver Walks The Streets Of France

Here's a video of a HUGE marionette. It looks like he's about thirty feet tall. He's walking the streets of France, looking for his lost daughter, a twenty-foot tall little girl in a yellow raincoat. He ends up finding her and walking her home.

What's not to like?



I believe this festival happens in Jules Verne's home town, as a tribute to his work.

Big Butter Jesus

During a recent trip near Dayton, Ohio, I took the advice of some strange friends and went to go visit the "Big Butter Jesus" - which is what some heathens call this huge statue of the big J. It's sort of yellowish-gray, and looks as if it might have been carved out of butter. Like for a state fair.

Some motorists get out of their cars and take a picture with three people to the right of the BBJ, making letters with their arms: "Y" (Jesus' letter), "M", "C", and "A". Yup - YMCA!

I just took a stereo photo of the big guy. First, click on the image to make it big, then cross your eyes until you get a third Jesus in the middle...focus, and there he is, in all of his three-dimensional glory!

Oh, and a STRANGE thing: my car's "Check Engine" light had been lit for about ten months - but just as I left the BBJ, the light turned off, and has remained off for several weeks now! NO JOKE. Hmmmm...

Way Groovy Beatles Vid

Here's a vid I only just caught - I guess it's been out for six or eight months, since it's an ad for the Beatles Rock Band. But it's not one of those ugly shots of the game with the wooden moptop cutouts, it's a really SHARP animated "cinematic" version:

Monolith Action Figure

Now you can own your own 2001 / 2010 Monolith:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/monolith-action-figure.shtml?cpg=128H

And with the general collapse of the US Space Program, unless you have fifty million dollars or so to piggyback along with the Ruskies, this is as close to the real thing as you're ever going to get.

*sigh*

Strange And Beautiful

Here's a neat video.

This is a photographic method called "tilt-shift". It is based on the use of certain lenses that have very specific focal lengths, which keep a central area in fine focus, while fuzzing out nearer and farther areas. Which ends up making the entire plateau look like a miniature (as this super-tight focus is often used in photographing tiny objects). This video artist, Keith Loutit, has used this method along with time-lapse, to create a movie that has that "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" stop-motion look to it. In miniature. But it's all REAL. Full-sized people, buildings, ships, mountains, oceans...

I find it all mesmerizing and beautiful.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Here's another: