Teleglitcher, an early video from my 2007 Pixel is Power project, has been featured in a special presentation at the New Zealand Film Archive. Kiwi visual artist Dick Whyte, with the help of Mark Williams, put together a screening of various experimental media, described as such:
“What do Miss Piggy, Britney Spears, Mussolini, Super Mario Bros., Charlie Rose, John Key, Ruth Richardson and Buster Keaton have in common? They are all the subjects of avant-garde films on YouTube. Film maker and academic Dick Whyte presents a screening of recent avant-garde films he has curated from YouTube. All of them re-purpose existing material into new works.
“Whyte says, “Technology has taken a long time to get to the point where video makers can sample with the same abandon as musicians and still image makers. YouTube heralds a new age in avant-garde cinema which is fully engaged with popular media.” The screening will be accompanied by short introductions to the films and their particular strategies, looking at the function of avant-garde moving-image at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” — New Zealand Film Archive
The show was screened at the Film Archive Mediatheatre, Wellington, in January of this year. See all films from the presentation at Whyte’s blog.
Anybody who’s bought a newspaper and looked at the back page today will probably have noticed a particularly poor Photoshop of Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt. This one, in fact:
The image that launched a thousand smirks. Maybe.
Well, guess who made it? That’s right, some fool whose text you are reading right now. Namely myself. Feel free to peruse the gallery below, which I am compiling in honour of this moment of (anonymous) fame for Harry Yack.
See here for a brief background on the image’s origin and why it’s such a poor Photoshop. Though I guess anyone with eyes is able to see that.
You know what? I forgot all about this thing, so it came as a pleasant surprise when I encountered it once again this afternoon. As with most of my stuff, there’s quite a few bugs in there, though these are by human error rather than design.
I thoroughly recommend Whiteboard Pong, though the Snake game is always worth a go… if you can stand the Roobarb and Custard Style wobbly lines!
I had almost completely forgotten about those poor quality videos I uploaded to YouTube for no other reason than embed them on my project blogs. Until this morning, when I was mucking about with the ‘Insight’ feature and discovered a large increase in views for a particular date: 20th April 2010.
Turns out Biased BBC used it to make a small satirical point about some politician or other at the beginning of last week. I shouldn’t really comment, as the closest I ever got to this genre was taking the mickey out of local MP Ian McCartney, and even that was tepid and rather childish.
Still, it reminded me about those pointless ‘Day in Your Life’ uploads I made. Incidentally, many have now been deleted because the fools over at YouTube cannot quite grasp the concept of a project video. Never mind.
As you might have read in the title, some rather enterprising person has translated my Uncyclopedia Poo Lit Surprise-winning article Age of Umpires into the Polish language. I’m kind of honoured, but at the same time nobody knows I wrote the thing. Excellente!
Excerpt:
Gracz zaczyna na stadionie w Wigan w District League, a jego celem jest awansowanie w krykietowej…
