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Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
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The Tower Burger gets some love from SuperSizedMeals.com and a forum for Corvette owners.
A couple of years ago, I posted a video I made called "The Tower Burger" on YouTube so a few friends could check it out and laugh. The clip is part of a 30 minute comedy short that my band made entitled "When We Were Champions." We made the movie around our house in Akron as well as the gymnasium at St. Vincent/St. Mary, where our keyboard player Josh went to school. (So did the King, LeBron James.) We all wrote our own characters and lines and acted in our own scenes, but tried to combine it all into one cohesive piece, striving to create the Hoosiers for this new millennium. Of course we succeeded.
This was one of my scenes, a commercial for McDonald's. It was an easy way to let the audience learn about my character, JJ "The Tower" Bower, star center for the Cleveland Cyclones. As a kid I always remembered the fast-food commercials that had star athletes just randomly show up at kids' pick-up games. Charles Barkley shows up in his uniform at the neighborhood park. He'd say, "Hey, Kids!" The kids would be all like, whoaaaaaaaaaa! Awwwweeeeeesomeeeeee!
This video is getting more and more hits, and I just noticed that I was getting hundreds of clicks from supersizedmeals.com, a website devoted to the various joys and stories and pics and video of gluttony, and Corvette Forum: "The Internet's Corvette Community."
Here is the mention in supersizedmeals.com.
Here is the mention in Corvette Forum.
I'm honored, to say the least. I love eating lots of terrible food and I like looking at Corvettes (although I'm too tall to drive a sweet 'Vette) and I like looking at owners of Corvettes writing about my silly video in their forum.
Here is the video. And if anybody wants to see the whole movie, I'll bring it over.
This was one of my scenes, a commercial for McDonald's. It was an easy way to let the audience learn about my character, JJ "The Tower" Bower, star center for the Cleveland Cyclones. As a kid I always remembered the fast-food commercials that had star athletes just randomly show up at kids' pick-up games. Charles Barkley shows up in his uniform at the neighborhood park. He'd say, "Hey, Kids!" The kids would be all like, whoaaaaaaaaaa! Awwwweeeeeesomeeeeee!
This video is getting more and more hits, and I just noticed that I was getting hundreds of clicks from supersizedmeals.com, a website devoted to the various joys and stories and pics and video of gluttony, and Corvette Forum: "The Internet's Corvette Community."
Here is the mention in supersizedmeals.com.
Here is the mention in Corvette Forum.
I'm honored, to say the least. I love eating lots of terrible food and I like looking at Corvettes (although I'm too tall to drive a sweet 'Vette) and I like looking at owners of Corvettes writing about my silly video in their forum.
Here is the video. And if anybody wants to see the whole movie, I'll bring it over.
Top Five Music Videos of 2008
Merry Christmas!
Isn't the internet great? When the people largely responsible for creating the music video concept and broadcasting it worldwide decided to "stop being polite and start getting real" the music video had to go somewhere, and here it is.
As my Christmas gift to you here's my top 5 music videos of the year, in reverse order.
Number 5 was created by Atlanta artist/musician Adam Bruneau for the Deerhunter song Microcastle. This is simple and beautiful, please enjoy:
#5 Deerhunter, Microcastle
The last time I saw The Buddy System live it was a while ago and they were plagued by a variety of technical issues. I think they were opening for A.Armada at the 40 Watt for the Anam Cara release party. The Buddy System rely very heavily on the visual components of their show, and that night they were having some problems with it. But when stuff like that happens to a band you just have to overlook it and give them the benefit of the doubt. Their last song, Return to Horse Mountain, rectified any set problems they had:
#4 The Buddy System, Return To Horse Mountain
On November 20th Radiohead released the video for the song Weird Fishes, created by fan/artist Tobias Stretch. It's easy to gush about Radiohead, but it's amazing that a band as big and as unbelievably grand as they are can still be as fan-oriented as they have been with In Rainbows. They really just defined how you are supposed to release an album and stay ahead of industry curves and such. Tobias Stretch was one of the 4 winners of the Aniboom Animated Music Video Contest, and the animation is pretty out of sight and creepy. The videos from the other 3 winners are great too. Most important band you can hear and see live right now? I think so. It's hard to argue against it. Nightmares ahead:
#3 Radiohead, Weird Fishes
This video for Toe Jam by The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal could possibly be one of the most memorable music videos of all time. The BPA (Brighton Port Authority) is Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim (who always has great videos). Directed by Keith Schofield at Streetgang Films:
#2 The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal, Toe Jam
And last but most certainly not least, you can always count on Björk for great videos too. Here's the beautiful video for Wanderlust, created by Encyclopedia Pictura and choreographed by Chris Elam. My video of the year was much-hyped and I think it showed up big time:
#1 Björk, Wanderlust
Isn't the internet great? When the people largely responsible for creating the music video concept and broadcasting it worldwide decided to "stop being polite and start getting real" the music video had to go somewhere, and here it is.
As my Christmas gift to you here's my top 5 music videos of the year, in reverse order.
Number 5 was created by Atlanta artist/musician Adam Bruneau for the Deerhunter song Microcastle. This is simple and beautiful, please enjoy:
#5 Deerhunter, Microcastle
The last time I saw The Buddy System live it was a while ago and they were plagued by a variety of technical issues. I think they were opening for A.Armada at the 40 Watt for the Anam Cara release party. The Buddy System rely very heavily on the visual components of their show, and that night they were having some problems with it. But when stuff like that happens to a band you just have to overlook it and give them the benefit of the doubt. Their last song, Return to Horse Mountain, rectified any set problems they had:
#4 The Buddy System, Return To Horse Mountain
On November 20th Radiohead released the video for the song Weird Fishes, created by fan/artist Tobias Stretch. It's easy to gush about Radiohead, but it's amazing that a band as big and as unbelievably grand as they are can still be as fan-oriented as they have been with In Rainbows. They really just defined how you are supposed to release an album and stay ahead of industry curves and such. Tobias Stretch was one of the 4 winners of the Aniboom Animated Music Video Contest, and the animation is pretty out of sight and creepy. The videos from the other 3 winners are great too. Most important band you can hear and see live right now? I think so. It's hard to argue against it. Nightmares ahead:
#3 Radiohead, Weird Fishes
This video for Toe Jam by The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal could possibly be one of the most memorable music videos of all time. The BPA (Brighton Port Authority) is Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim (who always has great videos). Directed by Keith Schofield at Streetgang Films:
#2 The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal, Toe Jam
And last but most certainly not least, you can always count on Björk for great videos too. Here's the beautiful video for Wanderlust, created by Encyclopedia Pictura and choreographed by Chris Elam. My video of the year was much-hyped and I think it showed up big time:
#1 Björk, Wanderlust
Francis and The Lights: "The Top"
Check out this video for the song The Top by a band called Francis and The Lights.
I know very little other than a few things I've heard from Vaughan & MKY, which are: his name is Francis Starlight, the band is from NYC, the video is directed by Jake Schreier, and Hank (Kuroma) and Nick (Velveteen Pink) saw Francis and The Lights live in New York during CMJ and came back to Athens raving about the show. Daddy likey.
Video: Dead Confederate "The Rat"
Here's Dead Confederate's new video for "The Rat" off of their forthcoming album Wrecking Ball.
Album comes out September 16th.
Album comes out September 16th.
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