Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

2.20.2011

Time-Stretch as Social Commentary

Randomly came across this video & was equal parts deeply disturbed & provoked to thought:



If there was ever a more clear window into the damaged psychology of stage mothers I'm not sure I'd want to see it. This is one of those rare occasions in which the warping of the media (the slight slowing of the video) is actually less warped than the real-life occurrence it documented!
Note the disturbed looks on some of the hosts' faces, as well as the utter cluelessness of the possessed stage-mom clapping in misguided, vicarious ecstasy.

4.30.2010

Fast Food Oddities: Cringe (& Gam)-Worthy Advertising

I guess since fast-food is so unabashedly terrible for you, the companies have to resort to super-bizarre advertising in order to get anyone to actually consider putting that crap in their bodies.

Add Japan to that mix and you get things like these:




Sexualizing Ronald McDonald should be a crime against humanity. Not because the creepy Ginger clown is sacred or anything, mind you, but just because he should remain as asexual as possible. He's a mascot for crying out loud.

Next up is a Wendy's training video from the 80's submitted by venerable friend of the Gam, Mr. Tubish. I guess Wendy's realized that anyone training for their job could use a little trip out to deal with the fact that they were about to embark on a harrowing journey into the Fast Food Inferno that is Wendy's.


Horrifying.

12.03.2009

Agonizingly Slow Destruction of a Kitchen

Came across this great video of an art installation that consists of a slowly rotating kitchen & the ensuing destruction:


Yes. It is great & amazing & genius, etc. But someone had the presence of mind to do this:


& yet another internet genius sped it up:


The possibilities are endless....

6.13.2008

Retro-Futurism

Stumbled onto this video from 1969 (date unconfirmed):

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor