Saw this in late May and knew I’d be saving it for July 4th.
God bless Colin Furze…
Posts Tagged ‘video’
300 Fireworks Rockets Fired off At Once
Saturday, July 4th, 2015Shoegazer Sunday: Mermaids’ While Spectres Waltz
Sunday, June 21st, 2015My search for waltz-time Shoegaze continues apace with Mermaids’ “While Spectres Waltz.”
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Fuck You”
Sunday, June 14th, 2015SPC SCO’s Rose Berlin seems very out of sorts with you for some reason…
Teaching Robots to Sword-Fight
Thursday, June 11th, 2015Via Scott Adams comes word that a team in Japan is teaching robots to fight with swords.
I’ve seen enough movies to know that this won’t end well.
But honestly, this entire post is just an excuse to show the robot sword fight from Exterminator City.
(Remember, that’s the best scene of the worst film ever made…)
For Your Enjoyment: A Chicken Sneezing
Saturday, May 16th, 2015You really have to turn the sound on for this one…
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Drops
Thursday, April 16th, 2015Not seeing it on YouTube just yet…
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Glacial Place”
Sunday, April 12th, 2015Echodrone’s new album Five is now out, which is cause enough for Shoegaze fans to celebrate.
The video below is for the song “Glacial Place”:
The footage in the video is taken from the Philco Ford Corporation’s 1967 industrial futurist film The Home Of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.:
As glimpses of retrofuturism go, it hits a lot closer to the mark than most, offering a central home computer (“which is secretary, librarian, banker, teacher, medical technician, bridge partner and/or all-around servant”), computerized learning, bookeeping, etc., and lots of glowing screens. It even predicts online shopping! As always, the hairstyles immediately tell you the film’s actual era.
Philco actually manufactured the Mission Control monitors NASA used well into the 1990s. Ford sold Philco to GTE, and since then the brand has been broken up and licensed to various companies around the world.
Shoegazer Sunday: Living Hour’s “Steady Glazed Eyes”
Sunday, March 29th, 2015Living Hour describe themselves as “a psychedelic dreampop band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.” A Twitter user who recommended them described them as very Mazzy Star like, and they both share a certain breathy female twangyness.
Behold the Wonder That is Banglar King Kong!
Thursday, March 26th, 2015Did you ever say to yourself “You know what King Kong needs? Worse special effects, slapstick humor, stock footage, and singing!”
Then Banglar King Kong is for you!
High points:
In short, it makes every previous version of King Kong (including the Dino De Laurentiis version) look great by comparison…
You may be cool…
Friday, March 13th, 2015…but you’ll never be “Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark delivering a bionic arm to a seven year old boy” cool…