There is something about this video... a tableau of post-colonial Americana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcs3OwrkcR4
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago)
A Jiana balisongJack Russell is a wide dogBudweiserGranStadium tranceChoreographed knife play
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago)
metafilter tells me that what I thought was a velvet painting is "Country Boy" by Tovine.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 06:18 (thirteen years ago)
The effort the young man must exert to both open and close the sliding glass door
You probably can't do it...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago)
http://yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=192&height=120&yt=w9Q2wQ0vxwk&flux=1&direction=rand
― Sébastien, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago)
there's something very napoleon dynamite about it
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago)
^^^^^^^^^ First thing I thought when I saw it last week.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago)
i saw you post this on damage contrlolz and i didn't even know what to say
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago)
the two-finger way she's holding her left hand
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkdIVJ3Nngo
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago)
I don't even know what to say and I'm only a couple of nano-meters from finding something v similar to this EXTREMELY COOL. But not...this.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:50 (thirteen years ago)
The lighting/staging/production of the 2nd one seems...too good.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago)
yeah, the painting of the cub gives it away imo
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah whoever put that weird painting there when it's not even a wall, it's a cupboard, just so there'd be something in the background on the left...dead giveaway.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago)
you guys are paranoid
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago)
100% sure that is not for real. They'd have to have been made in 1980-something, given the clothes and furnishing styles, but the vid quality is...wrong for that.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago)
The original uploader toftlin links to lists "SIUC" as a school affiliation. Southern Illinois University Carbondale? Perhaps the location is around there somewhere?I am also totally mesmerized by this video, for me the bizarre punctum is the plastic bag hanging on a doorknob in both of the videos. A colleague referred to it (and the mop, and the velvet paintings, and the mise-en-scene in general) as 'ripples in the ordinary' when we were discussing it yesterday...posted by jrb223 at 1:30 PM on November 4
I am also totally mesmerized by this video, for me the bizarre punctum is the plastic bag hanging on a doorknob in both of the videos. A colleague referred to it (and the mop, and the velvet paintings, and the mise-en-scene in general) as 'ripples in the ordinary' when we were discussing it yesterday...posted by jrb223 at 1:30 PM on November 4
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago)
these are totally staged but still great
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago)
I mean I could easily see it being bored midwest/utah types. also lol at 'jian sword dancing' 'jian' is just the chinese pinyin for 'sword.'
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago)
my guess is that they're some sort of ad agency viral
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago)
Gotta be.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago)
I want to believe
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago)
give up on the realness argument and enter a whole new level
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago)
BOOM http://vimeo.com/user7242268
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago)
nice
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago)
https://twitter.com/#!/erikaninja/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F17kah7
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago)
haha
wonder how many copies of that song they've sold through itunes so far
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago)
sorry guys what does "staged" mean in this context
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago)
i am pretty sure that these are not... secretly-taped videos of a guy having a normal afternoon
they are really great, the first one mesmerized me when i saw it, not that it can match the magic of the first time you see it and watch him give the lady the beer, and then later realizing that the guy is going to join the dance, just beautiful
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
the way the amateurish quality of the dance makes it that much more exciting when they actually sync up
and how it just cuts off
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago)
old
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/387997_273303649374396_144746785563417_790401_1218755171_n.jpg
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago)
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indeed, sword dancing has been practiced by a variety of cultures for millennia
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago)
the adoration of cats has been a human tradition every since man developed the capability to observe such beasts
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago)
but, what I'm saying is, internet-wise, old
ohhhhhhh thats what you meant
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago)
you're welcome
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago)
, idiot
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago)
yeah, this is obv. some fucking art project or viral thing not a couple of quirky midwesterners naively putting on a show or w/e. don't get the appeal, it's Napolean Dynamite.
― circa1916, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago)
like a swift cut from a jian sword, this thread is divisive
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago)
i think it actually is a couple of quirky midwesterners putting on a show?
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago)
Damnit I don't like this trend at all, where some internet hero vetoes a crazy ass video as "fake/viral/staged". Even if it's staged, it's still ~true~. Think abt it.
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago)
a show but like a show show
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago)
does the midwest have access to the real
― max, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago)
This may be worse than the Iwo Jima flag raising scandal.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago)
what does old mean in this context
― cozen, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago)
'I saw it already'
― boxall, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago)