Video Round-Up is a weekly post collecting an assortment of videos from around the web. Whether they be music videos, creative viral marketing, just plain cool, or just plain ridiculous, they will all be found on Video Round-Up.This week's videos are all about taking something and making it your own; and almost always does so with song. So get out there, figure out what you can change for the better, and do it! (I heard the world needs some love, so you're welcome.)
Viral video producers more creative than me have seen the connection between landmark American presidential elections that changed the history of our nation, and Pokémon. It's fair game, though, and a funny portrayal of the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the 2008 campaign.
Am I crazy? Am I insane for liking stuff like this? The Round-Up a few weeks ago featured an AMV of Super Mario World set to Coldplay's "The Scientist," and it was surprisingly affective. This video contains scenes of a (if I remember correctly) sad episode of Hey Arnold! about Arnold's past and his biological parents. The music is taken from another heart-breaking episode of Cowboy Bebop, if you're interested. (And you should be.) The zaniness of a kids show that necessarily revels in slapstick and lightheartedness made into an emotional music video works, dammit, and can only exist in this age of the internet.
This video is less about creating a mixture of two different things, unless you count the new addition of violins to Steve Vai's act. I'm glad to see he's still an incredible guitarist, and that he can somehow still write unique shred tunes after all these years. My obsession with his music is long bygone, but I can't help but appreciate him still.
This new video for "This Too Shall Pass" by OK Go has received quite a lot of press. Since it deserves the attention, I'm bringing it to Cerebral Pop. A Rube Goldberg machine this huge is impressive on its own, but its synchronization to the song is incredible.
I'll end with this live remake of the opening song from the Disney classic A Goofy Movie, "After Today." It's a good song that must remind people my age of what it was like growing up with Disney musicals in the 90s, right? Well, even if you're not familiar with this movie, just watch the original animation in the bottom corner for reference; this shit is dead on and great fun to watch. Why can't I be creative?!
Viral video producers more creative than me have seen the connection between landmark American presidential elections that changed the history of our nation, and Pokémon. It's fair game, though, and a funny portrayal of the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the 2008 campaign.
Am I crazy? Am I insane for liking stuff like this? The Round-Up a few weeks ago featured an AMV of Super Mario World set to Coldplay's "The Scientist," and it was surprisingly affective. This video contains scenes of a (if I remember correctly) sad episode of Hey Arnold! about Arnold's past and his biological parents. The music is taken from another heart-breaking episode of Cowboy Bebop, if you're interested. (And you should be.) The zaniness of a kids show that necessarily revels in slapstick and lightheartedness made into an emotional music video works, dammit, and can only exist in this age of the internet.
This video is less about creating a mixture of two different things, unless you count the new addition of violins to Steve Vai's act. I'm glad to see he's still an incredible guitarist, and that he can somehow still write unique shred tunes after all these years. My obsession with his music is long bygone, but I can't help but appreciate him still.
This new video for "This Too Shall Pass" by OK Go has received quite a lot of press. Since it deserves the attention, I'm bringing it to Cerebral Pop. A Rube Goldberg machine this huge is impressive on its own, but its synchronization to the song is incredible.
I'll end with this live remake of the opening song from the Disney classic A Goofy Movie, "After Today." It's a good song that must remind people my age of what it was like growing up with Disney musicals in the 90s, right? Well, even if you're not familiar with this movie, just watch the original animation in the bottom corner for reference; this shit is dead on and great fun to watch. Why can't I be creative?!
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