Entries For: December 2006
12/18/2006
Dick In A Box - Uncensored SNL Clip
One year ago, "Lazy Sunday" bombastically announced the arrival of The Lonely Island trio (Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer), the youthful saving grace of SNL. One year later, it's clear that didn't happen.
I can't say definitively that it's their fault; I've read Live From New York and watched a little Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, so I'm aware of the bureaucracy that squanders original sketch-writing in favor of mediocrity. But when something like "D*** In A Box" comes around, it definitely makes you wonder why, aside from that Natalie Portman rap, our boys didn't turn that show around in '06. This SNL Digital Short featuring an inspired Justin Timberlake is a funny, provocative, and refreshingly non-MSNBC-parody-based bit -- yet another glimmer of hope for the terminally ill variety program. SNL, the Lonely Island is still the cure for your disease. Godspeed in '07.
12/15/2006
Me and My Cell Phone -- The Past 25 Years
It’s a fact: web viewers love them some stop-motion. Girl Takes Picture of Herself Every Day spawned a generation of wildly popular time-lapse videos. Following the viral popularity of both Web 2.0 and the Dove Campaign, YouTube must have tipped Verizon off to the fact that you really can’t go wrong with stop-motion.
Currently the most watched video on YouTube, this perfectly targeted ad is actually quite clever. Do you remember those big brick phones from the 80’s? I used to have one in my car “for emergencies” and it was so big that I could barely fit anything else in the armrest compartment. Pretty amazing!
My favorite part of this blast from the cell phone past viral is somewhere in the mid-80s, when beretswere some how cool. Oh and the scrabble pieces, how fun?
12/13/2006
Slob Evolution
A response to the wildly popular Dove Evolution campaign, this video deconstructs the sharp, emaciated features of a male model. Watch as the rocker-esque model transforms into “that guy” who lives next door and never leaves the sofa.
Would you really want to see an ad for this lard-o plastered across your fair city? Created by the campaign against real life, this viral argues that consumerism has created the current standard of unattainable beauty. In reality, nobody wants to see the guy next door, except when he is getting the morning paper and cordially saying hello. So maybe, just maybe, the computerized falsehoods that advertisements project are in everyone's best interest....
12/08/2006
LisaNova to All.
LisaNova has the unique sense of humor that you share with your loved ones in random intimate moments. She revels in the tomfoolery of putting on a goofy play with your sister, or the guilty pleasure of alienating others with an inside joke between you and your best friend from elementary school. But the brilliance and mystery of LisaNova is all in the execution. Why is it that others with the same style come off as esoteric?
I think it comes down to the fact that LisaNova is funny. Probably funnier than your sister and your friend from elementary school. That factor, mixed with her onscreen candor and omnipresent sweetness, results in an online character we laugh with rather than laugh at. We always feel in on her joke.
This suitably goofy video holiday card is a great example of LisaNova's playfulness at work (Note: she acts like a goober and features a rare talent on the melodica). It's one of the many videos commissioned through a joint effort from YouTube and Coca-Cola to advertise their new video greeting cards. Happy Holidays Lisa, we're happy to be included.
