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Darwin Deez “You Can’t Be My Girl” made with stock footage....

While wandering through the internet, sometimes you come across something weird and beautiful. Keith Schofield who brought us singing crotches in the past, now had some fun with stock footage.

As funny and ridiculous as it is, the video also tells us a sad and over-romantic love story. Fall in love, get married, have children, grow old together, live happily ever after. The images of perfect commercial love give the whole story an extra dimension. It’s not his life, it’s not his girl. Frustration, anger and fighting follows. Although it’s not technically perfect all the time, who cares, it made me laugh.

Darwin Deez "You Can't Be My Girl" from Keith Schofield on Vimeo.

 

Sensational stop-motion music video

Big-budget music videos involve countless people, crazy costumes, and elaborate sets. But Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s song Katachi was brought to the screen in a completely different  manner (although it could be argued the process was no less intricate).

The talented Polish animation team of Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski utilized approximately 2,000 silhouettes extracted from PVCC plates using a computer-controlled cutter. From there, the beautifully detailed, colorful cutouts were filmed frame by frame to create an amazing stop-motion video set to Tokumaru’s happy track. The feats the paper shapes undertake include everything from parade-like marching to choreography that rivals Olympic-standard synchronized swimming.

 

 

Appropriately, Shugo Tokumaru’s song title “Katachi” means “shape”, and given the stunning visuals the genius animators produced, I’ll take these cutout shapes over extravagant entertainers any day.

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NEW VIDEO: Shugo Tokumaru - Katachi

Sensational stop-motion music video

Big-budget music videos involve countless people, crazy costumes, and elaborate sets. But Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s song Katachi was brought to the screen in a completely different  manner (although it could be argued the process was no less intricate).

The talented Polish animation team of Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski utilized approximately 2,000 silhouettes extracted from PVCC plates using a computer-controlled cutter. From there, the beautifully detailed, colorful cutouts were filmed frame by frame to create an amazing stop-motion video set to Tokumaru’s happy track. The feats the paper shapes undertake include everything from parade-like marching to choreography that rivals Olympic-standard synchronized swimming.

 

 

Appropriately, Shugo Tokumaru’s song title “Katachi” means “shape”, and given the stunning visuals the genius animators produced, I’ll take these cutout shapes over extravagant entertainers any day.

Related articles

NEW VIDEO: Shugo Tokumaru - Katachi

The 10 Best Commercials of 2012

By Adweek

My favourite on no. 10: Beer Chase!

 

 

1) Three little pigs

 

 

2) The Jogger

 

 

3) Grandpa's magic trick

 

 

4) Charlie Sheen

 

 

5) Will Ferrell Super Bowl-ad

 

 

6) Red Bull Stratos

 

 

7) Halftime in America

 

 

8) Procter & Gamble 'best job'

 

 

9) Axe Susan Glenn

 

 

10) Carlton Draught

 

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Is It Old?

How many times have you received an email from someone with a link to some viral video that you saw years ago? “OMG you need to watch this video of a sneezing baby panda I found on the YouTubes! LOL!!!!!”

Yeah…I’ve seen it. 100 times. Two years ago.

But how can you really tell if a link you’re about to send to all your friends is old news to everyone on the planet except you? With the help of a website called Is It Old?, that’s how.

Plug in the link you’re about to send and you’ll be told whether or not the link is old or not.

So how does The Sneezing Baby Panda fair? You’re quickly told:

“ABORT. I don’t even know if computers can run this anymore. It has been tweeted 13,338 times already, and the first time was 1076 days ago.”

A little harsh, but at least you won’t make a fool of yourself by letting the world know that the rock you live under doesn’t have an internet connection.

Long-distance family portraits with the help of Skype

Photographer John Clang is using projected Skype video to make portraits of Singaporean families whose members are scattered around the globe.

In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture, often at a studio, with the resulting image framed and prominently displayed at home. The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two. So the Singaporean photographer John Clang devised a solution, piggybacking on the video-calling technology that already helps ease the dislocation of separated family members: Skype.

 

Josh Osho - Jesus Walks

 

I never much cared for reading music reviews– so I won’t bother here. I’m totally digging Josh Osho’s accoustic Jesus Walks cover posted above, so check it out.