We all know the idyllic Christmastime scene. Cookies are baking in the oven, snow is falling gently in the yard, everyone is wearing their ugly Christmas sweaters, and The Annoying Orange is playing on the stereo. Yeah, you heard that right. The four producers behind the crazy popular Annoying Orange series - Dane Boedigheimer, Bob Jennings, Spencer Grove and Aaron Massey - have released a Yuletide album, titled Christmas in the Kitchen, featuring all of the popular characters from the kitchen singing their holiday favorites with (in)appropriately and punny updated lyrics. The album is admittedly a bit skimpy, clocking in at a mere 18:31. However, if you know a big Annoying Orange fan, it makes a great stocking stuffer, (as do the popular YouTube and Cartoon Network franchise's many other branded efforts). Most of the songs are Christmas classics, though one original song, 'Christmas is for Giving', has been written for the album.
- 11/30/2012
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
[Editor's Note: The First Drafts Series is a Tubefilter column that highlights and critiques the first online videos from the world's greatest online video stars. Check out previous editions of Fds here.] Before their Annoying Orange smash hit eviscerated fruit and scored a TV deal with Cartoon Network (not to mention licensing deals with Toys “R” Us and JCPenney), North Dakota natives Dane Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove created Donkey Kong: The Movie, a smartly executed, geek-tastic clip that humorously mocks old media action-thrillers: So what can we learn from Dane and Spencer’s seeds of greatness? 1. Anyone can animate. Dk:tm features a green-screened guy overlayed on a colorful moving background similar to the one in the game, using a simple image editor to create early 1990’s block video game level graphics. The lesson is that you don’t have to be a fine artist or endure a millennium of painstaking labor animating your magnum opus frame-by-frame. Instead, there are some really nifty programs such as After Effects and Photoshop that can transform an ordinary object (such as an orange) into a network-worthy character.
- 11/25/2012
- by Frank & Lynn Chindamo
- Tubefilter.com
The Roman Empire was brutal, repressive, tyrannical, corrupt, morally bankrupt… Well, nothing’s perfect, right? After all, the Empire’s collapse after 700 years didn’t bring freedom or reformation, but the Dark Ages – disease, ignorance, witch trials, book burnings, illiteracy, and all that other bad stuff which made the Dark Ages so damned dark.
It’s like that line in Monty Python’s Life of Brian: a Jewish revolutionary group is plotting the overthrow of their Roman overseers, and ringleader John Cleese declares, “After all, what’ve the Romans ever done for us?”
After which Cleese’s followers offer a shopping list – a long shopping list – of the benefits of Roman occupation. An exasperated Cleese finally concedes/concludes with, “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
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It’s like that line in Monty Python’s Life of Brian: a Jewish revolutionary group is plotting the overthrow of their Roman overseers, and ringleader John Cleese declares, “After all, what’ve the Romans ever done for us?”
After which Cleese’s followers offer a shopping list – a long shopping list – of the benefits of Roman occupation. An exasperated Cleese finally concedes/concludes with, “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
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- 1/16/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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