Captain Moonlight – Banana Republican
Thank fuck. Finally, in an election mired by the mediocrity of a possible Fine Gael government, and scarred by a deep apathy rather than any clear emergence of a “get them all the fuck out” attitude, someone has stepped up to the mark to codify the visceral hatred of most of us for the politician class seeking our vote. While there has been little signs of any outbreak of rage among the population out there as we plod through austerity... Read More
Future Sound Short Doc
This garnered something like 10,000 views in just three weeks. Seriously hyped material, speaking more of people’s desire to get an ear in on the thinking in a quickly evolving scene than much else maybe. Future Sound is a short college documentary by London based film maker Jamie Whitby. While a perfunctory enough piece, it does contain some interesting interviews with some of the main heads around the whole London scene. Features various... Read More
Vidiot: Stacy’s Story By Lunitic.
A video from Dean Scurry, for a tune by Lunitic – bit of a dodgy line on refugees, but other than that a real dark melody about life on junk in Dublin. Read More
Vidiot: Techno Jeep.
Julian Smith and his friends had an idea. It was a simple one. It worked and resulted in some ear drum irritating techno, far from a soothing remedy for a hungover Friday morning. Read More
Vidiot: Bike Hero
Vidiot: Morten Harket
This idea is so simple I don’t know why it hasn’t been done before. I can see this getting old, but until then I’d love to see more along the same lines. I feel that many’s a comic book nerds fantasy is played out in this video. Also Ah Ha’s lead singer Morten Harket has one of my favourite names of all time. Read More
Vidiot: Mr T Motivates
Written By Ice T, this song is part of a hour long motivational video in which Mr. T advises children about such topics as fashion, rapping and correct treatment of one’s mother. Here’s a link to random Mr. T fact generator. I could use it to fill the rest of this blurb, but i won’t , I’m not that person. Read More
Vidiot: Silence
Reddy’s always complaining about the need to update the DIY aesthetic for new technology, so I thought I’d flag this very good example of a video-maker doing just that. Lorcan Finnegan’s new video for Dublin locals Sickboy has got mad photocopy-based animation, playing around with the self-promotion aesthetic developed in the local music scene. Also has a real grim high-contrast opening shot of tower-blocks. Dead nice. Read More
Vidiot: More Street Fighter Love In.
Some people I know in the Tdot have been inspired enough by this “unadulterated madness” to organise a Street Fighter Tournament amongst themselves. That’s a full parry you’ll be watching there. I’m going to settle in and watch this myself instead. It’s the tale of what happens when Street Fighter legends like the old alcoholic Soviet patriot Zangief and Dalhsim, end up on the wrong side of copyright and... Read More
Vidiot: Absolute scumfuckcuntry
Scumfuckcuntry. That was the only word a friend needed recently, when prompted to describe this new venture of that arch charlatan Bono. ‘We Love You Ronnie Drew’ is a song dedicated to the fading but wonderfully gravel throated folk singer. But the guy is not even dead yet, and as a result this latest charity song comes across with all the sincerity of a smiling nurse suffocating a terminal patient with a pillow. You know its a choice... Read More
