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Some Bonus "Flutes and Hip-Hop" Favorite Track Links: Beastie Boys, Flute Loop and Busdriver, Imaginary Places.

Apologies to my Tweeps who may have already seen this from me.
Apologies to Mom for the source material for the headline.

Spin Control

Elegantly animated video for Moray Mclaren's "We Got Time" using multiple turntables and Zoetrope techniques.

"This Time It's Personal."

Swine '09: The Sickening is just a lame retro-rehashing remake of the 1976 original – Swine Flu: Bicentenni-Ill.

Pig Latin

Swine Flu explained by CG critters.

I feel better already. Seriously.

"Now, if you excuse me, I will be going to by ammo for my shotgun"

UPDATE: I realized I should probably provide some non-animated info.
Swine Flu: What You Need to Know. Via Wired

Word.

The Beautiful Word – Ogilvy & Mather (Paris) produced animated vids for Scrabble's 60th Anniversary.

More, here, and here.

I tweeted this earlier today, but realized that I have some followers here at WTF (that I don't have on Twitter and that may not even glance over there on the left to check out Fresh Tweets) that would appreciate these.

Take the Shot!

What appears to be an epic, single 2:19 long take of a frozen moment during a Dark Knight-inspired heist gone bad.

Created by Stink Digital for Philips' new "cinema proportion" HDTVs. You can see them – as well as the film in HD – here.

Spring Hopes Eternal

Today a friend tweeted the link to this fan-produced video for Trader Joe's. It – and a hint of Summer heat today – made me want to hear the Brazilian classic that inspired the parody. And while I'm about a month late, I thought I'd share before Spring comes and goes.

Also, If Hol and I have a song, Águas de Março is it. Specifically Susannah McCorkle's Waters of March. We even took private dance lessons to learn how to waltz in a square to it without embarrassing ourselves at our wedding reception.

Auto-Tune In, Auto-Turn On, Auto-Drop Out

Yes, it's Auto-Tune making everything sound better. Again. Groovy.

T(eething)-Pain

"I'm in a m*therf*ckin' crib! and I want my lollipop back!"

In case it wasn't already abundantly clear, Auto-Tune does, evidently, make everything sound better.

A Wolf Loves Pork

Very clever stop-motion featuring a "wolf", a "pig" and a lot of photos.

"Speaking Crazy To Power"

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More brilliant reporting from The Daily Show.

Kutiman Killed the Video Star (UPDATED)

I was trying to post directly from a blog post about the site in question Thru-You. It didn't really give you a sense of what you'll find should you click through. Check out the video below and the above link for more.



Kutiman Killed the Video Star

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Everything is amazing... and nobody's happy.

The very funny Louis C.K. on Conan back in October.

Stop Making Beds

A cool stop motion video of a song by and artist. Neither of which I know anything about.

Happy Holidays

Brilliant analog work from digital agency, AKQA.

You Can Tune A Piano, But...

Japanese "sound artist" Daito Manabe tuned his face. Electrodes hooked up to his face deliver shocks associated with the music he's playing — allowing him to play his face.

Truth, Still Stranger Than Fiction.

From HuffPost:

Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes. Watch the video below to see for yourself. Be warned, it's kind of gruesome.

"As designers we have to be optimists."

Legendary and highly-influential German industrial designer Dieter Rams interviewed for the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cold War Modern exhibition.

Yes Weed Can!

If You Need One More Reason To Not Vote For McCain/Palin

Listen to this:And, here's the comedic Montreal duo behind the prank on CBS's Early Show discussing the ease with which Palin was pranked (and how, of all the people they've pranked, only Britney Spears matched her in gullibility).