Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:56 am
Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:49 am
Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:15 am
rodox_head wrote:Well, in freshman year of high school I started listening to Boards of Canada, then around senior year I watched this short film, and now I'm the person I am today.phpBB [media]
Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:28 am
Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:32 am
rodox_head wrote:YTPs have a long and rich history behind much of current internet culture, I liken it to a musical genre like Industrial or Dance/Techno where it's evolved in different ways over the years and is also very rebellious in its nature, with its use of sampling and offensive humor. Much of older ytps, and even current ones, have lost the battle of copyright claims. I've been watching them since early middle school actually, so I'm glad I got to witness some of that history. DurhamrockerZ and OrpheusFTW are other great examples of old school YTPers that have left an influence with their King of the Hill and Skooks videos respectfully:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmKeVncJ2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpRPl8TlVBU
rodox_head wrote:I've watched a bunch of Michael Rosen ones too and they're an incredible use of sentence mixing. He has a personal history with YTP as well, but I think I've been blabbering on about YTPs for too long now
rodox_head wrote:Fun Fact: I think this guy may have actually coined the word "Spingebill" in his video "Spingebill applies for a job at the krusty krustacean" as a means to avoid copyright bots looking for the word "Spongebob"
rodox_head wrote:Funny story, that video was the first time I was introduced to Lain, then years later people started spamming a particular imageboard with Lain references so I asked my then gf at the time to check it out as she's big into anime. She found it weird and confusing, then I watched it and got completely enamored with its aesthetic and themes. I seriously need to rewatch Lain again, they say you need to watch it I think 4 times to get a full understanding of it. Youtuber Max Derrat made a video recently discussing it and bringing up the theory that Lain is a physical representation of the collective unconscious, which was my initial interpretation when I first watched it. Might I recommend the youtube animated series "Interface" by Umami. It's a lot more surrealistic in its design but I think it touches on similar themes, if you can decipher them that is . Great soundtrack as well
Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:20 pm
Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:34 am
rodox_head wrote:Well, in freshman year of high school I started listening to Boards of Canada, then around senior year I watched this short film, and now I'm the person I am today.phpBB [media]
Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:32 pm
Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:44 pm
rodox_head wrote:I got a car wash the other day and inside the tunnel someone graffito-tagged the wall with the message "*name* is a snitch, works with the cops". This is the same spot where, a couple months ago, another message was sprawled on the wall: "Death is a die and then you bitch yourself". There's a 65" CRT TV sitting out in the rain nearby with a message plastered on it about how the term "homeless" is just used by the government to keep people down or something, it was in a stereotypical "gangsta" font so I could barely read it. The same spot where I've seen messages of people giving up on fitting in, lamenting their status as a vagrant, or claiming the neighborhood watch are harassers.
This may be the norm for a lot out there, but this always feels uncanny to me since I'm used to graffiti being globs of indecipherable tags covering up whole sides of walls, not any attempts at coherent thoughts.