I state quite confidently that this is the best entry I’ve made in five years of weblogging. Go away if you have work things to get done. This is an enormous time-waster.
Below you’ll find a fantastic collection of Sesame Street video clips. These are great. I remember many of these from when I was a kid. I’ve tried to organzize them as best I can. If you know of more Muppet/Sesame Street clips, please let me know.
Just now, ’cause I’m such a HUGE sap, I teared up when I heard the a-b-c-COOKIEMONSTER! clip when Kermit storms off the set ’cause the little girl keeps saying “CookieMonster!” instead of the letter, and she replies with “I love you…” and then Kermit comes back and she gives him a kiss on the forehead.
You heard me. You probably also heard me go “BLEEAIGH!” when I thought about it for a minute.
From the site (WMMNA) ’cause I think they summed it up best:
Because taxidermy can never be too creepy, Dutch (and super talented) designer Erik Klarenbeek has created Poekie. The battery-operated stuffed cat is fitted with a mechanism that re-creates the animal’s breathing and purring.
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
This is a surrealist game I’ve been working with my friend Ana. It’s an electronic update of the classic surrealist questions game “the exquisite corpse”. The idea is that you answer all the questions by typing your answer into Google Image search and post the answer in the form of an image that comes up. For poetic license we’ll say you can choose from the first 10 results but the idea is, of course, to work with the randomness of the responses.
1. What makes you happy?
2. What are you most ashamed of in yourself?
3. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
4. What is the first thing you remember?
5. What has gotten you through your darkest hour?
6. What did your parents’ house smell like?
7. One word that you use far too often:
8. One word that you associate with your best kept secret:
9. One word describing a recurrent theme in your dreams:
