From Jerry:
Fake Design Studio Satirizes Artists Who Value Style Over Substance
From Emerson Dameron as seen on psfk.com:
Artist uses a tongue-in-cheek method to get noticed
Graphic Designer Amy West has created a brilliantly refreshing new project titled Grafik BS. The work sees a completely made-up design studio with its own fake Behance page aimed at an audience with a shallow understanding of design, or as West puts it, “those who have come to rely on the aesthetic qualities promoted by new technologies with graphic design.”
The studio”s “˜page” displays posters with meaningless messages giving users the ability to comment on her phony designs thus portraying our modern obsession with trends and style whether they be good, or bad. Continue reading “Fake Design Studio Satirizes Artists Who Value Style Over Substance”
Movie Guy Prank Call
Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical
‘Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical’ Geniuses Rhett & Link Talk Going Viral
by Kevin Fallon
The Daily Beast
August 11, 2013
Always wanted to see 11-year-old sing about cooking meth? Meet Rhett & Link, the viral video gurus who brought the dream to life.
We”ve all had that awkward experience. You file into a suburban middle school”s auditorium for your 11-year-old cousin”s production of Grease, squirming uncomfortably as little Timmy sings about Greased Lightning being a “real pussy wagon” and the prepubescent tween girl playing Rizzo belts a ballad about teenage pregnancy and sexual regret.
Now imagine if those kids were singing about cooking meth. Or, excuse me, “rock candy.”
That precise idea””the cringe-comedy of children earnestly performing age-inappropriate theater material””is behind the hit viral video Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical. Created by viral video gurus Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal (better known as “Rhett & Link”), this is the latest in their original Middle School Musical series, which also includes Star Trek and Superman entries. Continue reading “Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical”
NASA Johnson Style
NASA Johnson Style is a volunteer outreach video project created by the students of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was created as an educational parody of Psy’s Gangnam Style. The lyrics and scenes in the video have been re-imagined in order to inform the public about the amazing work going on at NASA and the Johnson Space Center.
via Neatorama
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