New From Spiff – Flickr
I like this one very much – layers upon layers of strangeness. As if the original one wasn’t obscure enough, using WoW images adds yet another in-joke. And there’s a nice attention to detail with regards to poses and angles that reflect the original photos. Thanks Spiff!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
If you want obscure, how about someone writes a new song for this video? That that would be obscure!
Great video Spiff.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
New “Flickr” video by Spiff…
As if you couldn’t tell by watching what I play, Jonathan Coulton is my favorite “new” artist. Ever since listening to him on TWiT, watching his Rock Band performance with Leo & V, and, of course, Portal, I have been a fan.
Want to know just how …
April 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Great video, Spiff! It captures the whimsy of the original, but it’s fresh and original in its own way. Congrats!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
That is just too funny. And surreal. And weird.
Okay, it’s more surreal than funny – but it’s definitely appropriate!
April 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
How about someone writes a new song for this video? Someone like Jonathan maybe? lol I know! He could write one called “Green” and use nothing but references to his other songs in it ( recycling dontchaknow). Let’s see, how would it go…
Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s a Skipper throwing stones
As a monkey eating fritos looks so sad
The futures coming soon they say,
Your brains are on my plate today
Someone is crazy here, or else they’re mad…
Mr. Johnson dances all around
Take care of me or else I’m gonna frown
Maybe I should send this over to forums.
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April 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Mmmm, soup with “noodles”…
April 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
See, now THIS is something I can get behind. Parody/homages are so much better when someone actually takes their time to get the details as close to the original as they possibly can.
Oh, and good job with that so far JoAnn, particularly something come up with on the fly. There are a couple meter discrepancies here and there (e.g. too many syllables in the first half of the first line). You could use “Somewhere in the Midwest” or “Up in Minnesota” to cut it down to the necessary six syllables.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Yay! More Spiff! He does amazing work in combining Warcraft & your music.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I have never played WOW, but I can see the brilliance. Good work, Spiff! Great attention to detail!
April 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Not directly related to this, and I have given Spiff my congratulations elsewhere, be assured, but I wondered if anyone else had brought this to the attentions of this blog or not but Gabe from Penny Arcade has used Baby Got Back as one of the soundtrack tunes to the latest installment of PA TV. Yay!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/04/21/pa-tv/
April 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
That was just beautiful. Like going back to your childhood home and finding it’s now made entirely out of fiberglass and orc parts.
For some reason it was the Warren Beatty bit that got me to laugh out loud.
-Cecil
April 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
That was brilliant. ^_^
April 21st, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I honestly didn’t expect people to like it that much. I mean, the song already had a video and didn’t need one from me. Thank you all for the kind words.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
That was fan-freaking-tastic!! Thank you Spiff.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 4/22/2008…
Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
That is very very funny. I’m watching it at school with the sound off, BUT I can hear the music in the head. Terrific work, probably my favorite of all the videos I’ve seen.