Does "Jian Sword Dancing" have a thread yet?

There is something about this video... a tableau of post-colonial Americana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcs3OwrkcR4

A Jian
a balisong
Jack Russell is a wide dog
Budweiser
Gran
Stadium trance
Choreographed knife play

metafilter tells me that what I thought was a velvet painting is "Country Boy" by Tovine.

The effort the young man must exert to both open and close the sliding glass door

You probably can't do it...

http://yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=192&height=120&yt=w9Q2wQ0vxwk&flux=1&direction=rand

there's something very napoleon dynamite about it

^^^^^^^^^ First thing I thought when I saw it last week.

i saw you post this on damage contrlolz and i didn't even know what to say

the two-finger way she's holding her left hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkdIVJ3Nngo

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.

The lighting/staging/production of the 2nd one seems...too good.

yeah, the painting of the cub gives it away imo

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.

you guys are paranoid

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.

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

these are totally staged but still great

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.'

my guess is that they're some sort of ad agency viral

Gotta be.

I want to believe

give up on the realness argument and enter a whole new level

BOOM
http://vimeo.com/user7242268

nice

https://twitter.com/#!/erikaninja/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F17kah7

haha

wonder how many copies of that song they've sold through itunes so far

sorry guys what does "staged" mean in this context

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

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

old

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/387997_273303649374396_144746785563417_790401_1218755171_n.jpg

old

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, November 7, 2011 4:21 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

indeed, sword dancing has been practiced by a variety of cultures for millennia

the adoration of cats has been a human tradition every since man developed the capability to observe such beasts

but, what I'm saying is, internet-wise, old

ohhhhhhh thats what you meant

you're welcome

, idiot

sorry guys what does "staged" mean in this context

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.

like a swift cut from a jian sword, this thread is divisive

i think it actually is a couple of quirky midwesterners putting on a show?

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.

a show but like a show show

does the midwest have access to the real

This may be worse than the Iwo Jima flag raising scandal.

what does old mean in this context

'I saw it already'