worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
When I’ve wrapped a present…you know it. Happy Holidays! (Taken with instagram)
Robb Padget, Tanya Ihnen and Steve Lekowicz of KATR Pictures know how to do holidays right. These two special videos from their Vampire Zombie Werewolf and Life From The Inside series are terribly clever and feature Padget’s original music. The VZW clip is delightfully odd, while the LFTI video is full of laughs, warm fuzzies and a Christmas carol you’ll want to add to your holiday playlist.
Watch:
- Vampire Zombie Werewolf: Happy Hollywoodays
- Life From The Inside: Holiday Greetings
The next time you’re trying to explain how fair use, mashups, participatory media etc. add value to a culture, you can bring up Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
“The music by Felix Mendelssohn was composed for male chorus in 1840 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s printing press,” Brunelle says. “After the ceremony was done, people said, ‘Oh, that’s just a wonderful tune, and it could be something sacred’ and Mendelssohn said, ‘It will never work with a sacred text.’ Well, how wrong he was, because 20 years later, the combination of Wesley’s words and his music came together, and we got ‘Hark The Herald.’”
Bart Simpson
There are only three yuletide plotlines on television:
- Gift woes threaten to ruin Christmas
- Work threatens to ruin Christmas
- Absent holiday spirit threatens to ruin Christmas
GPOY: Just climbed out of bed on Dec. 25 edition.
Thanks for being a part of my life this year fellow Tumblrs.
I holidayed up the front page of blip.tv. If you get bored later, you can give indie show producers the gift of a larger audience by watching a “very special” episode or two with your family and friends.
Egg nog
Not pictured: a LOT of bourbon.
