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An Anthrocon 2009 Retrospective: Or, How I Learned To Stop Procrastinating and Finish The Video

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:35 PM on September 22, 2009 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/aL

I meant to have this done within a week of the con being over. That didn’t quite happen.

Often with these videos I run into editor’s block. There’s always one point where I just can’t figure out the right clip to match the song, and it stalls me. Then I stop and decide to come back to it later. And despite how much I really want to get it done, “later” sometimes means months later.

But it’s here now, so…

You can also watch it on YouTube if you’re on an Android phone or iPhone, but only because you can’t watch Vimeo on those. Seriously, only click that link out of necessity. If I catch anyone watching this on YouTube because they actually prefer it over Vimeo, I will smack them in the face with the Internet. No joke. I will literally pick up the Internet and hit someone with it.

Realization: Hideo Kojima is Video Gaming’s Béla Tarr, Except Not Talented

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 9:36 PM on September 14, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/l3

I didn't intentionally position Tarr so he was looking at Kojima all like, "You think I'm this fucking guy?" But it worked out pretty well.

Béla Tarr is the director of cult classic Hungarian films such as Sátántangó. Hideo Kojima is the designer of massively popular Japanese video games such as Metal Gear Solid 4. These two men actually have quite a lot in common, save for the medium they work in, their popularity, and their pretentiousness when discussing their craft.

Let me describe Sátántangó to you, briefly. The opening consists of an eight minute shot of the camera doing almost nothing while watching a bunch of cows:
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In Which Zacqary Compels The Internet To Force an Innocent Man To Dance in a Kilt

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 10:55 PM on July 6, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/xs

One of the things I missed at Anthrocon this weekend were the consequences of leaving a spur-of-the-moment comment on the Wolfire Games blog. The dire, dire consequences.

Just…watch this video…

I am so, sorry, John Graham. I never meant for this to happen. Please forgive me.

Anthrocon: It’s Like WWDC, But With More Animals, and No iPhone Announcements, and Not Like WWDC At All

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 1:11 PM on July 1, 2009 in Miscellany. View Comments Tags: , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/hJ

Well, folks, it’s that time of year again. The time of year when the entire economy of the city of Pittsburgh is sustained by about 3000 crazy people wearing tails. Once again, I will be one of them.

This, of course, will result in another musical video mashup that will draw the attention of lots of people and get an attempted takedown from YouTube by the Copyright Mafia. Like this one from last year:

I’ll hopefully be able to confuse the Content ID robots this time around, and perhaps have an even more clear-cut case of fair use, by mixing a few different songs together, altering some of their tempos and pitches at various points and resampling and inverting and slershkergerber. That’s totally a word. Shakespeare said it. In his sleep. Once.

Every day, I’ll attempt to do some kind of short writeup. It’ll probably amount to summarizing whatever I tweeted that day, though. If you’d like to keep track of my Anthrocon experience up-to-the-minute, just search for tweets from @XerxesQados tagged #AC09. Or click the link in the previous sentence if you’re lazy.

See you there, if you’re going, and reading this, and stuff.

What If Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Were A Tarantula?

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 12:29 AM on June 16, 2009 in Filmmakery. View Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/X2

If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet lately, you’ve probably heard that there’s been a lot of violent reactions to the likely-fraudulent Iranian elections (If you rely on television or newspapers to hear about current events, then you have an excuse for not knowing). While the streets of Tehran are filled with protesters and trigger-happy police, the pressure is on other world leaders to make a choice: acknowledge Ahmedinejad as President and condone his totalitarian tactics, or walk away from negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

This tense situation leaves a burning question in the mind of everyone in the world: what would this situation be like if the disputed Iranian President were a tarantula?

This femto-length film is my attempt to answer that question: