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Video

• 08.16.08
  Bleep! - 8bit Documentary “Reformat The Planet” on PTV (Bonus MP3s from Covox, Firebrand Boy, & Sabrepulse)   Video (2)

  

  The good folks at Pitchfork TV are hosting 2 Player Production’s documentary on the 8-bit scene Reformat The Planet for a brief week. The film launched on Friday, Aug 15th, so you’ve got 6 days left to view it.

  
  

  Click below to stream the whole film:

  

  
  
  In honor of their 8-bit love, here’s 3 of my all-time favorite chiptunes:

  
  
  

  Covox - Dubslide

  
  
  
  
  

  Sabrepulse - Famicom Connection

  
  
  
  
  

  Firebrand Boy - Such Great Heighs (Cover)

  
  
  Firebrand Boy’s cover of The Postal Service’s Such Great Heights stands not only as one of the best chiptunes around, but also as one of the better covers ever created.
  
  I’ll buy that copy of LSDJ someday…

• 06.27.08
  Video: Kanye West feat Chris Martin - Homecoming   Video (0)

  

  While this Hype Williams directed clip came out three months ago, I just caught wind of it now. It’s a cute little love letter to Chicago, all done in black and white with the requisite touches of slowmotion and cheesy matte shots. I spent a handful of years living out there before I moved to Los Angeles, so there’s a soft spot in my heart for that city. Many lofty peaks, and exceptionally low points in my life saw light there and I love it for both.

  
  

  As a video, there’s really very little going on. I have to think that the basic target market for this video is both extreme Kanye fans and nostalgic ex-Chicagoians. Given the brilliance of the Murikami commissioned clip for ‘Good Morning’ and the Akira-inspired clip for ‘Stronger’, ‘Homecoming’ is pretty bland both by the standards of Hype Williams and Kanye. I’m fairly certain that nostalgia is simplistic and that’s why it works for ‘Ye and I.

• 06.13.08
  The best of the new absurd: Let’s Paint TV   Video (0)

  

  Every time I come across things that are so delightfully strange, it renews my faith in the world. One of those such discovery is Let’s Paint TV. I ended up randomly at a launch party for a web 2.0 venture. While I was terribly out of place, I managed to bump into a fellow misfit who, while double-fisting free Stella Artois, told me about the majesty of Let’s Paint TV. Strangely enough, 8 hours later I got a facebook message recommending the show to me from a someone I hadn’t seen in years. The stars were aligned for me to find this.

  

  Let’s Paint TV is the absurd brainchild of Los Angeles artist John Kilduff. The show is of those little gems who’s freaky energy that can only be contained by cable public access cable. It’s hard to really describe what it is, the truth of the matter is that you just need to see it for yourself. The constant of the show is John Jilduff on a treadmill while painting. What goes on around him changes: sometimes, he’ll blend smoothies while jogging, sometimes no-core bands will screech away in the background. All this is done against a slowly dissolving bluescreen. As the minutes tick by, the severity of the blue screen effects increases, like a drug kicking in.

  The topper to each episode is that it’s a call-in show and the people who call in tend to primarily harass poor John as he runs on his treadmill. Again, it’s really just something you have to watch. The entire spectacle is beautiful in its chaos.

  Tune in for the unholy union of these three influences:
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  You can watch Let’s Paint TV live every weekday from 11am to 12 noon PST on Let’s Paint TV.com and Stickam.com. You can call into the show and ask John a question (818) 528-4516.

  If you live in Los Angeles, you can catch him on the following Time Warner cable channels:

  Channel 3 - West Hollywood
  Channel 37 - Beverly Hills
  Channel 77 - Santa Monica
  Channel 98 - West Los Angeles-Eagle Rock

  If not, take a peek at the Let’s Paint TV Youtube Channel for archives of the show.

• 02.11.08
  bert and ernie go goregrind   Video (0)

  A video for the Dutch goregrind band Last Days of Humanity's track "A Divine Proclamation to End the Present Existence" using bits of Sesame Street. Never has the essence of my childhood been reappropriated in such a perfect manner. Video created by HAYW1R3