What's New, Memecat? http://www.memecat.com/blog/ A blog about memes and the cultural patterns that drive them. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:04:57 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Bad Television: Dating on Demand Amanda, who likes furry things.
Meet Danny, Gomer Pyle's less fortunate cousin. He ran across the street and never looked.
Meet Katie. She pretended to sleep in the back of some dude's car after he committed a pedestrian hit and run. That she watched unfold. Log in soon, because you could be the one who turns her in to the police:
Obviously, there is a lot of potential for spoofs in this genre of video.]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/06/bad_television_dating_on_deman.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/06/bad_television_dating_on_deman.rhtml Subcultures Television bad television datingondemand television Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:04:57 -0800 Unhuggables: The Best Coca Cola Ad Series Ever Unhuggables is the best Coca Cola ad series I've ever seen.
This ad from the series combines several unhuggables, and then introduces the worst on of them all: Mr. Porcupine:
Let the spoofs begin!]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/06/the_best_coca_cola_ad_series.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/06/the_best_coca_cola_ad_series.rhtml Advertising Europe advertising cocacola Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:43:25 -0800 Boats and Bots: Two Workable Themes for a Swedish Pop Hit Watching the Boten Anna music video, you'd think that Basshunter is singing about a boat named Anna that he pedals in a channel, in between using his computer and hunting bass at the club. Many people across Europe apparently thought so. However, a translation of the lyrics reveals that Boten Anna is about a girl named Anna that Basshunter thought was a bot in his favorite IRC channel. What is amazing to me is that either of these scenarios provides song-writing material for a blow-the-doors-off European hit song. Now watch the translated version of Boten Anna. It all should make sense now.
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/confusing_lyrics_to_a_swedish.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/confusing_lyrics_to_a_swedish.rhtml Music electronica pop sweden Fri, 30 May 2008 02:26:48 -0800 The Fishstick Dance You Look Nice Today podcast have unveiled a non-dance that is sure to take YouTube and the blogosphere by storm. There are many, many people out there who cannot dance (yet really want to dance). If you have been to a party, alone, sipping beer there by the fireplace, listening to music, attempting to look like you're enjoying yourself, you may have inadverdently done the Fishstick dance. Doing the "Fishstick" -- An Instructional Video.
Spotter: Mental Floss]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/the_fishstick_dance.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/the_fishstick_dance.rhtml Dance fishstick Wed, 28 May 2008 01:44:41 -0800 What is a videosong? Jack Conte defines a "videosong", an interesting type of music that is emerging on YouTube:
A VideoSong is a new medium with two rules: What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). 2. If you hear it, at some point you saw it (no hidden sounds).
Push
The Giant
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/what_is_a_videosong.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/what_is_a_videosong.rhtml New Memes videosong Sat, 24 May 2008 02:08:05 -0800 Captains of the Same Chuckleboat "You see, most people understand that they aren't funny. Internet people, on the other hand, each believe they are the captain of the same chuckleboat; this perception often can be seen in their clothing, which denotes that unique and skewed sense of reality that could've only been reproduced in the hundreds of thousands by a factory in Indochina." Source: Bob "BobServo" Mackey
A kid who likes turtles and got used to destroy humor.
Bob "BobServo" Mackey at last begins the process of (gloatingly) admitting guilt for their central role in the so-called "utter destruction of humor". Not really, though. Waving his hand about the dotted lines of some ill-defined problem is no way to gloat.]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/captains_of_the_same_chucklebo.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/captains_of_the_same_chucklebo.rhtml Humor Web Communities forums humor somethingawful Fri, 23 May 2008 00:54:33 -0800 Finding Emo black goldfish]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/finding_emo.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/finding_emo.rhtml Random Finds emo fish Fri, 16 May 2008 10:47:46 -0800 Mirror's Edge Mirror's Edge is a "first-person runner" from EA that appears to be inspired by parkour. Taking the role of the traceur are agents of a dystopian police state. They chase Faith across a mirrored skyline as she delivers messages and attempts to free her imprisoned sister.
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/mirrors_edge.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/mirrors_edge.rhtml Games Mainsteam games parkour Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:54 -0800 Animating Public Walls MUTO, a wall-painted animation by BLU.
Spotter: Andy Baio. ]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/animating_public_walls.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/05/animating_public_walls.rhtml Film animation stopaction Wed, 14 May 2008 01:46:00 -0800 ROFLCon Road Trip: FAIL! ROFLCon for only 8 hours on Wednesday in when our dog Sparkle's permanent urinary catheter failed. The balloon holding it in place apparently had been losing air in recent weeks and perhaps the sitting position in the car or the air pressure changes were the last straws. At 4:00 am, in Utah, it simply fell out. Sparkle was overjoyed, and I was completely devastated.
Sparkle on the road back to Los Angeles
We knew what we had to do. Kathy literally turned around and we drove another 8 hours back to our animal surgeon in Los Angeles. Sparkle is doing well now, recovering after a new catheter was implanted into her side. It goes without saying that the road trip to ROFLCon is off. We will stay here to take care of our dog. Oddly enough, I believe that the experience was worth it just to see how far you can push yourself when you have to.]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/roflcon_roadtrip_fail.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/roflcon_roadtrip_fail.rhtml Events dog fail roflcon Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:46:25 -0800 Supercuts Andy has identified and named a film genre meme in which an editor creates a repititive montage of a television show or movie: supercuts. This editing pattern is perhaps most famously expressed in a Casino remix that contains exactly what would be cut out from the movie in order to run it on prime time television.
I also stumbled on a gem of a supercut a while back: Like, The Real Orange County. Watching it again and again, I realize that I am still, like, not over it.
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/supercuts.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/supercuts.rhtml Film supercuts Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:42:31 -0800 Here Come The Celebrities list of celebrities who will be attending ROFLCon, I decided to add a celebrities section to Memecat. As I submit videos of these people to Memecat, I find that they are often referred to by the character they play or by a situation in the footage that made them famous. I have chosen to separate the internet phenomenon from the person behind it by identifying an individual by their given name (when it makes sense to do so).
Andrew Meyer
Andrew Meyer - "Don't Tase Me Bro"
Amber Lee
Amber Lee - Obama Girl
Randy Constan
Randy Constan - Peter Pan
Honglaowai
Honglaowai - Red Foreigner
Bus Uncle
Bus Uncle - Famous In China
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/here_come_the_celebrities.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/here_come_the_celebrities.rhtml Celebrities busuncle chocolaterain honglaowai leaveheralone numanuma obamagirl peterpan rickroll starwarskid tasering Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:05 -0800 Video Memes Scene From South Park hilarious scene from South Park features the Numa Numa kid, Star Wars Kid, Leave Brittany Alone, Chocolate Rain, and Dramadog.
]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/south_parks_video_memes_scene.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/04/south_parks_video_memes_scene.rhtml Mainsteam chocolaterain dramadog leaveheralone numanuma starwarskid Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:16:40 -0800 LOL Together LOL Together, a lolcat filk of the Beatles' classic.
I found this one after watching Boing Boing TV's recent spot on filk music.]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/03/lol_together.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/03/lol_together.rhtml Music filk patterns:filk Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:56:24 -0800 Subcultural War: Emos Attacked By Mobs In Mexico reports that young people - including punks and rockabillies - are ganging up on and attacking emos in streets and public squares across Mexico.
The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There's also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere. Source: Intersections
Depending on where they take hold, subcultures that are offensive to the mores of the established culture are going to run into serious opposition. In this horrible outbreak of violence, I think that the emo subculture has been striking a nerve in the young inheritors of traditional Spanish machismo. Their reaction is to attack people that they see as a threat to their mores. The violent mob literally wants to destroy the proliferators of emo subculture. And of course the emos and others that are concerned about the attacks are fighting back. It takes a long time for enough people to learn to be tolerant that it becomes woven into the fabric of life. This video is from a Mexican television station and contains footage of the violence.
Spotter: The Daily Storm.]]> http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/03/subcultural_war_emos_attacked.rhtml http://www.memecat.com/blog/2008/03/subcultural_war_emos_attacked.rhtml Subcultures emo patterns:emo patterns:punk patterns:rockabilly punk rockabilly Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:02:48 -0800