Antville has a list of the 101 best music videos of the 2000s, and the list is fairly canonical. I recommend a look.
I would, however, like to point out five of the best videos not included on Antville’s somewhat limited list…
M83 – Don’t Save Us From the Flames: A sweet unrequited high school love story [...]
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The best music videos of the 00s not on this list
Posted in Music, The Internet, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged best videos, e-40, electric six, juvenile, kanye west, m83, music videos on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I read the news today, oh boy
Posted in Media, News, Television, The Internet, tagged News, new york magazine, narratives, day in the life, sources, new media on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NY Magazine tracks one day’s news back to its source, which is dually fascinating. (Make sure you read one of the great PDFs)
First, it’s notable what appears in the news on any given day. A day in the life of news seems to be governed by lots of big in-plain-sight events (the opening of the [...]
Sweding Star Wars
Posted in Arts, Movies, The Internet, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged casey pugh, diy, mashup, remake, star wars, star wars uncut on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Star Wars Uncut” asks the age-old question: What if you asked the Internet to re-make “Star Wars” in 15-second increments, then compiled those 15-second segments together to create a scene-by-scene remake of the original?
In our cultural moment, we have the unique ability to survey almost any kind of culture, no matter our location, and re-purpose [...]
Whom do you trust?
Posted in Arts, Media, Politics, The Internet, tagged anonymous, critics, Media, News, sam sifton, trust, yelp on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
OK, so people don’t trust the media.
But one would think that Republicans would trust Fox News… not so! It’s a big majority, to be sure, 65%, but that’s still a fair number who aren’t huge believers.
What’s strange is that we alternately trust totally anonymous crowds (Yelp, Amazon product recommendations, Reddit/Digg/Fark) and our closest confidants even [...]
What value hath Armond White?
Posted in Columns, Letters, Movies, The Internet, tagged armond white, criticism, district 9, film critics, roger ebert, rottentomatoes on August 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Armond White, film critic for the New York Press, has caused quite a stir online for his negative review of “District 9,” a widely-acclaimed science fiction film which opens today. Let’s set aside the film itself, which I have not seen, but instead focus on the commentary given to him. Within hours of his first [...]
Far be it from me to praise Zune, but…
Posted in Movies, The Internet, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged cinemash, mashup, mean magazine on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
these Cinemashes are pretty awesome.
I’m not sure how well the video works there, but they are mostly on YouTube. The idea is that these features each mash-up classic(ish) films with incongruous actors for hilarious results. The first — Zooey Deschanel as Sid and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Nancy in Sid and Nancy — is solid, but [...]
Better than Look At This Fucking Hipster?
Posted in The Internet, Useless Bullshit, tagged skinny girls on August 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Arguably yes!
It’s Skinny Girls, Big Sandwiches!
I can’t say what the purpose of this is, or why anyone (myself included) would click on it, but there it is anyways. I mean, I could have used that sentence to define 99.9% of the internet. Eating is an inherently kind of absurd act (in fact, most of our [...]
The new visual vocabulary
Posted in The Internet, Useless Bullshit on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, if you’re wondering what the picture is, you can click on it to find its origins. If, like me, you automatically recognized it, you are probably an Internet nerd.
Just for you, Waxy.org has compiled a list of these photoshopped images, the landscapes of internet memes, without their actual inhabitants in them. There’s some that [...]
Susan Boyle isn’t actually that good
Posted in Television, The Internet, Useless Bullshit on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is slightly old news, but her name has popped up again recently, so I figured I’d add my $0.02. If you haven’t heard of Susan Boyle, she appeared as a contestant on the show Britain’s Got Talent, and became an instant internet celebrity (yes, even more than the “Chocolate Rain” dude.) The video is [...]
“Best of the best of the best, sir!”
Posted in Education, Politics, The Internet on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From deep in the bowels of a long e-mail exchange between persona-non-grata-in-Chicago Bill Simmons and greatest hair runner-up Malcolm Gladwell:
I wonder if there isn’t something particularly American in the preference for “best” over “better” strategies. I might be pushing things here. But both the U.S. health-care system and the U.S. educational [...]
