TV, first invented by the French in 1864 as a means of wirelessly transmitting morse code to deaf soldiers fighting on the front lines of the Venezuelan cold war - it was quickly discovered that the running costs were so astronomical, that only by selling advertising space would the system become financially viable.
Thus, the TV advertisement, or 'ad' was born.
Here, in no particular order, are some TV ads that we decided were amongst the best of 2011.
Many are ads that we have featured before - but, here they are again, so shut up.
This is a film by: Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, Jonas Georgakakis. Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.
Here at Castle Awesome, we hate hippies.
Not because of their unwashed hair & bad hygiene habits.
Not because they don't drink milk because it has hormones in it, but will gladly take acid from a stranger.
It's because they love everyone and dress like assholes
never the less, here is an awesome video of hippies reciting Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go at this years Burning Man festival which was held on Tatooine.
If you're a fan of Tin Tin get off your buns and sit yourself in a theatre showing Tin Tin now.
Preferably in 3D as it all comes to life a bit more with the extra dimension.
This dude turns his kitchen into a synthesiser, as my title would probably lead you to believe. It takes a little while for him to actually make it, so just sit tight and wait, he proves to be a talented kitchen music maker.
Also if you like his stuff you can find more of his work here.
With the release of the a new Limited edition 12" picture disc coming out January 13 we get ourselves a nice lil music video for Evil Twin. The video is for the hardest hitting track on the much loved Modeselektor LP 'Monkeytown'. Evil Twin was mostly created using Native Instrument's Razor created by the infamous Errorsmith. The track definitely has the DNA of the genuis-smith throughout it thanks to the programs use here.
Anyways enough chit chat.
Enjoy the Evil Twin video (below) and buy the Limited Edition picture disc here (it comes with the brilliant 'German Clap')
This has been seen by 33 million people already, so you have probably already seen it. Still, its awesome and hilarious. so you just have to deal with it being posted here.
We've seen plenty of completely stupid, unnecessary & overpriced gadgets at this years CES,
none more so than this fucking stupid thing.
An 8K LCD monitor.
OMG, almost 8 times higher res than standard full HD TV's.
But Dave, why is this stupid?
I'll tell you.
because it's still twice the resolution that even the highest resolution cinema cameras are capable of capturing.
congratulations Sharp, you built a TV that is only running at 50% capacity.
you fucking mongs. At this point in time, the TV & Home Cinema market will not expand past 2K for a very long while given the investments in standardising HD (anything between 720 and 1080).
We all knew that one could be made if someone wanted to, christ, we saw 4K monitors at CES a few years ago - only a handful got sold, but we got the message - realising that the sky was the limit.
But Dave, what about RED's rumoured 27K & 32K cameras?
The sole reason for shooting at a resolution higher than true 4K is for visual effects.... or there's not enough money in the budget for more than one lens. Even so, the final cut will always be exported at a more manageable resolution. 1080 & 2K will dominate the home market & 4K will dominate the cinema market. Not to mention the fact that the human eye is incapable of detecting resolutions upwards of 4K on a standard 50" panel.
This panel might have a niche market in post production houses or photoshop suites with more dollars than sense, but it's not likely.
The next major development we're going to see in cinema is the standardised upgrade from 24fps to 48fps, which initially I was 100% against, but now Kodak is well and truly heading down the shitter and 35mm prints are no longer gracing projection booths with their presence - I'm all for it, in fact, I can't wait.
Of course, 48fps will still fall well within the 50 or 60 Hertz that most monitors & projectors can run at, so the migration on the consumers end will be seamless.
Main point; Sharp, congratulations for continuing to make shitty TVs that nobody will buy.
So we'll soon be graced with another Wes Anderson tale entitled 'Moonrise Kingdom'. This first live action film he's done since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited.
Here be the synopisis.
"Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing".
WHAT A CAST OF ABSOLUTE RADNESS!
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray (an anderson always) , Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel and Jason Shwartzman (an Andeson always) to name a few.
Now get excited by watching this trailer. It seems to be very Wes Andersony.
To quote Bill Bryson "Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even those who have learned to live with it, it is often a murderous substance. We call it water."
On this particular day, the ocean was declared a "double code red" people were prohibited from entering the water under threat of being arrested. obviously that didn't apply to billabong pro surfers.
This was shot on a Phantom HD Gold by Chris Bryan, see more of his stuff here.
Also the song used is "Lower your eyelids to die with the sun" by M83
No doubt having a flight attendant like this would make american passengers forget about being man-handled and violated by TSA agents just 20 mins prior.
I met Scoot (Scott Mellis) when i was the pubeless age of four. I grew up with two sisters and he was really the sibling i never had with a penis. His first band 'Pool-Shark' (named after a Sublime track) first played in my garage with gathering neighbours and shitty side acts. It went down well but it really didn't touch the surface of what was to come from Scott.
Now and for quite some time he's been a man/boy-man guitar act. It's a tough battle to be recognised from every other one man act out there. But this is what Scoot lives for and I really think he's starting to find an identity as an artist/musician/hat-wearer.
So perhaps you'll enjoy his voice, his shit hair and music.
This is one of his best tracks, HoneyBee (see below). Recorded and filmed in a Backyard.
So this is probably the future of living. Get excited about being crammed into a 3m X 3m box. But it's ok because you can move the walls! Fuck you population growth.
