| Someone I know recently told me that I was too obsessed with the 80’s and the 90’s. This person, someone who generally has a pretty good eye for design, just didn’t get it. Well, for everyone else– here’s Gnarls Barkley’s awesome new video, which “…centers around the fictional public access TV show ‘City Vibin’ and is set in the early ’90s.” (Yahoo News)
Why aren’t there shows like “City Vibin’” on the air anymore? We’re stuck with shit like “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann.” It’s not too hard to see the appeal of those early 90’s days of yore, is it? A note to all epileptic viewers: MTV U.K. banned this video after its funky high frame rate animation failed the Harding Test– watch at your own risk!
+ Via Viewers Like You [contributor Max Erdenberger was the video's lead designer/animator]
Bonus: Check out this intentionally seizure-tastic Young Cream video by one of my favorite young photographers, Brad Troemel.
I’ve been researching medical journals on photosensitive seizure triggers and used all of them in this music video. PSS is interesting because you might not even know you have it until you begin convulsing.
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Rad video!!!
Seizures are weird. Isn’t it crazy that seeing certain colors or patterns can make some peoples bodies freak out? I think I need to browse some wikipedia…
it was cute, then the second half made it awesome.
did i say too obsessed? wait, was it even me? no? oh. i wouldnt say *too* obsessed, but does it ever strike you as being something really generational? we all seem to have our own understanding of different decades, some subtler than others, and it seems that the people who really appreciate the ins and outs of the where and why are the ones that prefer any particular decade. your thing with the 80s and 90s are going to be someone else’s fixation with the 90s and 00s ten years later, reminiscing fondly about gratuitous bullshit like bruno and carrie ann while calling whatever new trend comes up as BS. now i’m not saying it’s *all* relative, because this is indeed pretty great, but there’s no generation that really hates itself, y’know. there’s always *something* to fixate on.
Nah, I wasn’t referring to you Alan :) You’re completely right, though– I’m sure in ten years the early 90’s will have gone back to boring and passe, and the next generation will be waxing nostalgic over cheesy reality shows and low-tech (by the future’s standards) YouTube clips.
That video is fabulous. It made me sick in a Cloverfield fashion but, unlike Cloverfield, twas totally worth it. And I don’t even have nostalgia to colour my judgement - my 90s childhood was tragically bereft of such things. Thank you for bringing tha vibe to my attention.
Becky.
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This video is so awesome
I am so happy for Gnarls Barkley that they are not going to be one hit wonders and that it appears they actually are going to continue to make good songs!