Filed under: entertainment | Tags: dancing, dog, entertainment, labrador, salsa, video
In the department of absurd uses of streaming video, this clip of a salsa-dancing labrador takes the cake. There is, of course, more important news in the world (the least of which is that Washington state voters approved Referendum 71, that affords crucial benefits to domestic partners). But isn’t there also room for dogs who can do circus tricks?
I used to be one of those naysayers who clucked his tongue at dog lovers. And then I got a dog. Click play.
Filed under: art | Tags: civilization, marco brambilla, poetry foundation, video
Video artist Marco Brambilla created this very cool video for the elevators at the new Standard Hotel in New York City. The montage is created from more than 400 video loops of found footage, including iconic images like the scary Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbuster movies, roller coasters, marching bands, and all kinds of craziness.
When I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference last March, organizers had done a similar thing with those boring elevator monitors, transforming them from hotel announcements or CNN to screen short, animated films produced by the Poetry Foundation. Strange to be riding thirty floors in an elevator and listening to an animated version of “Let Us Consider” by master prose poet Russell Edson.
I’ve previously blogged about David Carr, the New York Times‘ self-proclaimed “carpetbagger.” He’s a crotchety, knowledgeable kind of guy (just like me). In this brief Root.tv interview, Carr comments on the appeal of integrating video. The footage comes from a panel in which it was noted that 1/3 of all posts from Gawker media embedded video.
Might be interesting to note your own reactions to this post: Are you more moved by this writing, or the moving images above? What’s the best method of conveying information, of providing opinion and analysis? Are we just lazy, and want our news spoon-fed to us, or is it that sound and images appeal to different aspects of the intellect?
