June 07, 2007

But I'm not well (Flash video thing.)
posted by Skrik 17 years ago
  • Did Google just buy them or something?
  • That first girl is super cute. Now I really want to work for that company. I have strange priorities.
  • Right there with you, six.oh.six. Right there.
  • Happy cogs. Sometimes I have faint recollections of when I was one just like that...
  • Full Cubed
  • These people can't be cogs. They're too happy. Now back to work, you slackers!!
  • More super cute
  • I am too old to comment without seriously creeping people out. Kill me now.
  • O, I'm totally serious about the question mark, What is the point to this video? What makes it stand out, or be worthy of notice? A bunch of people lip synch to a song and dance and clown about a little. People have been doing that ever since the first home movie cameras came out. If there's some sort of hook to this that I'm missing, would somebody fill me in?
  • I dug it. TUM - it isn't earth shaking, I'll grant you, but if seeing a pretty large group of people do something joyful, silly and concerted for no real reason is wrong, then I don't want to be right. Add in the cute New York techno-hipster thing, the gee-I-wish-I-worked-THERE thing, a decent pop-song from several years back and the single take and I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. But that's just me.
  • Yes, the apparent one-shot take coordination is impressive. But, at least from my jaded, old soul, it comes out more as sad than joyful. Anyone can see themselves on those young, happy faces, on their first or second job, and think what the industry and the market will turn these fresh, joyous people into, in a few years... *depressed*
  • > What makes it stand out As Flagpole and dirtdirt say, the filming in sequence is impressive. It's nicely choreographed and there are no big mess ups. The bit at the end is quite funny too. Unfortunately, one of my thoughts was "I'd love to be a boss at this company and fire these feckers for having too much fun at work".
  • MonkeyFilter: People have been doing that ever since the first home movie cameras came out. Kinda took the wind right outta my sails when you put it that way.
  • it isn't earth shaking, I'll grant you, but if seeing a pretty large group of people do something joyful, silly and concerted for no real reason is wrong, then I don't want to be right. I didn't say it was wrong, I just said it was completely unremarkable. Seems like anything that might be done on any given day by any given bunch of people in any given town in America.
  • I think you live in a different version of the world than I do. I said it wasn't earth shaking, and I meant it, but I should have added "not garden variety either". If this sort of thing is so prevalent as to be unremarkable, where is all of it?
  • Though I don't have permission, I'd suggest that TUM is a Gilbert & Sullivan afficiando/cultist. And that that is where this sort of performance is, even better maybe. Me, if I can get two fairly proximate notes out of my toddler, I'm thrilled. But I understand others have more ambitious projects.
  • I've gotta say, I enjoyed it. It's nice to see spontaneous (-looking) expressions of joy— they don't really seem to get old. Especially when they involve multiple hotties and a certain shirt that I really must get around to purchasing one of these days...
  • Upon reflection, it could be a generational thing. I grew up in the '80's when everybody I knew wanted to be the kids from Fame and the young MTV showed lots of music videos that were still fun, and so every young person and group of young people I ever knew was constantly making videos of themselves lip-synching and goofing around. Maybe previous generations, and later generations, didn't do that? When I enter the phrase "lip synch" into the search box at youtube I get 29,000 results, and the variant "lip sync" gets 35,000. Maybe this video is of higher quality, but for my money a good-quality video of the mailman putting a letter in the box is no more noteworthy than a poor quality vidoe of a mailman putting a letter in the box.
  • I'm nost saying that it isn't cute, or well-executed. I just thought maybe there was some angle I had missed, because I didn't understand what it was about it that had caught somebody's attention in the wide sea of Internet videos.
  • *has karma moment with TUM's 'not getting it' angle*
  • I grew up in the '80's when everybody I knew wanted to be the kids from Fame and the young MTV showed lots of music videos that were still fun, and so every young person and group of young people I ever knew was constantly making videos of themselves lip-synching and goofing around. Remember "Puttin' on the Hits"? I totally want that SILF t-shirt.
  • Given the choice between the hottie and the t-shirt, I'd have a hard time.
  • ...and for originality a perfect score of thirty!
  • Hey dirtdirt, long time no see
  • Heya Bluehorse, nice to be remembered after such a long spell of lurking!
  • Hmm. Can't say I like this video much nor am I as impressed with the makers of the video as they were themselves. Recipe for ruining an otherwise perfectly good, nay enjoyable song: 1. Collect 30 20-30something new-com kids, lubricated with beer and free pizza agree to do viral video to advertise pull hits for struggling new You Tube clone site. 2. Pick cool hip very slightly underground punkish rock song that you don't understand the meaning of (which makes it cooler because no one does). 3. When finished invent a new term for it (because lip synch is so 80s) and talk about how cool it was that you got filmed your 'lip dub' in just one take (step back and marvel at this if you have time). 4. Ruin song for pretty much everyone, particularly those rock snobs for whom it was a guilty pleasure *cough* *me*. 5. Edit all critical comments on your 'lip dub' because you thought it was cool, and hell it's your site: http://www.vimeo.com/clip:173714.
  • Gnash: now that was a lurk! Glad something was posted tht got your attention!
  • More unlurking!
  • Monkeyfilter: lubricated with beer and free pizza
  • This is like the poster video for people who grew up watching Friends. I find it hard to believe any modern workplace has no fatties, asians, blacks, any minorities whatsoever, shorties, baldies, people with bad teeth, etc. Either the place really is homogeneous, or, worse, they took out all these elements for the video. Face it, the office would suck if it were only Jim Halperts and Pam Beesleys.
  • You take that back about Pam.