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We’re making videos again, so Buddy Guys is back! This one’s pretty local, so if people who live around us in Surrey/White Rock don’t like it, then we’re pretty much out of luck. So. That was smart of us.
Anyways, we’ve started making videos again! Yay! Please reblog this if you like it so we know if we should keep going :)
New Overshare! PLEASE share this on Facebook!: http://j.mp/ShareOS10
As it starts to get further away from 2001, it’s a little bit more ok for me to celebrate my birthday. Not this year, when all media everywhere was all about the 10 year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, but regardless of the year I’ve sort of learned to just embrace the weirdness of it all, since neither event is going to move. Could just ignore my birthday but I need some excuse to buy weirdly-expensive-considering-‘the economy’ cupcakes at least once a year.
I’ll be posting an outtake video on Dunya and our Facebook page soon— shot this episode at 12.30 am after a full pot of tea and slightly weird things happened, most of which surprisingly didn’t even make it into the final product. So look forward to that.
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Must Listen: Amy Poehler freestyle rapping with Scott Aukerman and Adam Pally (as David Fiene) on this week’s Comedy Bang Bang.
I listen to at least 20 hours of podcasts a week, and the recent increase in amazing comedy shows is great— this is just 3 minutes of the kind of thing that I get to commute with all the time. Comedy Bang Bang in particular is always the highlight of my week.
I made a new episode of Overshare! Made one before this too that I absolutely couldn’t post, this is a re-shoot of that that I almost didn’t post, but a whole bunch of editing ended up making it totally watchable. So here it is! Enjoy and please share/reblog :)
New Overshare! This one’s called ‘Focus’. You know what would make my day? You watching it.
I’m actually going to try and take my own advice here and make another Overshare in, y’know, less than two months.
Enjoy and please re-blog!
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Intro music: Kaskade & Adam K feat. Sunsun - Raining [kthx remix] :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIWTB4VElU&
Aardman strikes again, because this looks like it just became my most anticipated animated film right now. Yes, above Pixar’s Brave, which I’ve been looking forward to for 5 years.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
New Overshare!!! WE BACK, WE GLOBAL! I don’t know what that means.
But school is over, and Overshare is back! So Enjoy. And please share it on Facebook, Twitter, and reblog this post: I’m worried no one will watch this since it’s been two months, and I feel like the subject matter beyond the jokes is something we all deal with in a big way nowadays.
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From Chris Lilley, creator of We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, the teaser for Angry Boys is finally out!
It’s hard to get anything from a trailer to a Chris Lilley project, but they shot this for 7 months and edited for a year: it’s going to be great. Early reports say better than the last two shows, which you’d think is impossible.
This afternoon I decided to just go ahead and finish up a short film that we shot on a whim this February. 1.5 hours turned into 7 (editing is the one thing in life I can do with no sense of time, laziness, or anything but joy, really) and here it is!
Jinx. It’s a short film that Shyam Valera and I wrote for an assignment in high school: make a film with no dialogue. So we did, but were exempt from handing it in because we were organizing our 3rd-annual city-wide film festival, so about a year later, when I was finally a video camera owner, we decided it was time to make something and this was just sitting there as a fun little idea.
So we shot during Olympic break (the Olympics took our school’s busses, so class was out) with help from Kevin Lam, Mannan Ahmed, and Dan Johnson. Total writing time ~2/3 hours, total shooting time ~8/9 hours, total editing/colour/visual effects (my 1st ever VFX shot is in there! See if you can catch it :D)/post time ~30 hours, I’d guess.
I hope everyone enjoys it— it’s not much, and there are definitely glaring flaws, but if you cracked a smile then I think it was a success. Let me know in the comments.
Thanks for watching!
-Kashif
PS I JUST WATCHED (half of) WILLOW SMITHS WHIP-MY-HAIR SONG AND I TOTALLY GET WHY IT’S A BIG DEAL NOW
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon: The History of Rap
When Jimmy Fallon first started his late night show, I had a feeling that he might just end up being one of the greats. Like, beyond Conan. It sounds crazy, but I think I should just put that out there now so I can say ‘I told you so’ 20 years from now.
This is great on a lot of levels, and is clearly a television show doing a bit that’s meant to go viral online. It’s also troubling. It reminds me of the fact that a lot of North American pop culture is really arts and culture from black folk that got taken and given a lighter face to sell to the wannabe-gangsta kids from the suburbs in order to take it big. This is literally two white guys telling/owning the history of rap, with THE ROOTS playing backup.
As problematic as that is, it’s also part of what makes the clip funny. If it was Jaime Foxx and Will Smith, I might think it was cool but not surprising or particularly forward-able. So when all’s said and done, as long as we can recognize this as a well put-together promo for The Social Network (and a fan-freaking-tastic performance by Jimmy Fallon; performing right along with TImberlake is no small feat), we can all look back on this and laugh. But seriously it’s weird that The Roots are the background in this, even if their instrumentals were perfect.
