Music video WTFs

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What's your favorite music video WTF?

My current favorite is this ball of insanity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

So many things to love about this video. So. Many. Things.

SUNITA SOMETHING

sunitasomething

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this music video will go down in history as one of the all-time greats, alongside “weapon of choice” and “sabotage”

I am not quite sure it's at the level of those, but it's.. surprisingly close, for me.

p.s. I'm typing this comment from the floor of my house as I wait for the ambulance to come fix my broken pelvis.

da_Doctah

I have to think this is not the way you want to treat your biggest pop stars:

http://youtu.be/ETYg0wqbR_o

error

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VurhzANQ_B0

Maciejasjmj

@codinghorror said:

My current favorite is this ball of insanity:

There's a fairly amusing review of this one.

As for WTFs, there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pOq4hyoX9g

Or with a funny as hell literal lyrics version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aGFrVSTAY

Zecc

That sinking feeling when you realize you had Gmail open, so this just went to your YouTube history.

PS: I haven't seen that many literal versions, but my favourite is Total Eclipse of the Heart

dhromed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEVqFB4WUo

WHIP IT GOOD

rad131304

What does the fox say?

http://youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE

boomzilla

I've always enjoyed the Chemical Brothers' rendition of a youthful Moroccan crime spree.

http://youtu.be/UVrwzjtBHq0

mikeTheLiar

On my phone so I can't be bothered to track down the link(s) but pretty much anything by Die Antwoord. (Beat Boy and Enter the Ninja come to mind)

riking

Holy, crap, the amount of shot reuse in the first video is unreal. Also bad lip-sync...

Nagesh

@codinghorror said:

p.s. I'm typing this comment from the floor of my house as I wait for the ambulance to come fix my broken pelvis.

At old age you should only do stunts that your body can handle. My grand-father also had sudden urge to do disco dancing and then he broke his hip. Now we are all dancing to hospital to get lunch and dinner to him.

dhromed

@Nagesh said:

Now we are all dancing to hospital to get lunch and dinner to him.

INDIA

algorythmics

@Nagesh said:

At old age you should only do stunts that your body can handle. My grand-father also had sudden urge to do disco dancing and then he broke his hip. Now we are all dancing to hospital to get lunch and dinner to him.

well now we know Nagesh does not get his Yoga powers from grandpa

Onyx

@dhromed said:

INDIA

He's living that Bollywood dream.

Nagesh

Hospital food is bland and testless. So he needs to eat good home cooked meals.

dhromed

They only use five peppers for a plate of food instead of seventeen?

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This is how we designed Discourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLoHifu6aM

Also this is our software engineering process depicted in visual form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag

dhromed

I wonder if there will be a day that software engineering/production will not be like this, all day, every day.

But I also wonder if older forms of production (carpenting? EE? construction?) actually suffer from the same problems, and we're just too blinkered to notice and don't want to give up our stupid in-jokeyjokes.

HardwareGeek

@dhromed said:

But I also wonder if older forms of production (carpenting? EE? construction?) actually suffer from the same problems

I don't know about carpentry or construction, but EE? Heck, yeah! These days most EE (at least digital) consists of writing software models of what you want the circuit/logic to do, then writing software to test that model, then running the model through a special compiler that makes the hardware from the model. And writing scripts to automate various parts of the process. And Excel. Specs are written in Excel. And VBA, to turn the spreadsheets into models of (parts of) the design.

Why else would a hardware geek like me be here?

dhromed

@HardwareGeek said:

Why else would a hardware geek like me be here?

Well, hardware geek can also mean that you know all the specs of all the video cards, and you don't have to look up what those weird dashed numbers mean every time you want to get some more RAM.

HardwareGeek

@dhromed said:

Well, hardware geek can also mean that you know all the specs of all the video cards, and you don't have to look up what those weird dashed numbers mean every time you want to get some more RAM.

Um, well, that person would also be a hardware geek, but not a hardware geek like me. So there.

dhromed

Well, I thought you were that kind of hardware geek.

dkf

@HardwareGeek said:

These days most EE (at least digital) consists of writing software models of what you want the circuit/logic to do, then writing software to test that model, then running the model through a special compiler that makes the hardware from the model.

A few people — the geekiest of the hardware geeks — write the base libraries that those special compilers use in synthesis, the actual descriptions of the individual pieces that hit the hardware. We've got one of them at work; he's a bit… well, let's just say he fits the stereotype pretty well.

Maciejasjmj

@HardwareGeek said:

These days most EE (at least digital) consists of writing software models of what you want the circuit/logic to do, then writing software to test that model, then running the model through a special compiler that makes the hardware from the model.

You tell that to my lecturers. Most of them still believe that with a soldering iron and a few 74xx chips they can rule the world.

Filed under: specifically NAND gates, homebrewing PCBs... the horrors, the horrors...

dkf

@Maciejasjmj said:

You tell that to my lecturers. Most of them still believe that with a soldering iron and a few 74xx chips they can rule the world.

Let's see them make a bus or a network card with those NAND gates.

Filed under: computers are analog devices and only pretend to be digital

Zecc

@dkf said:

computers are analog devices and only pretend to be digital

I've always considered "digital" to be a subset of "analog".

dhromed

"sufficiently digital"

nobulate

Why not: http://youtu.be/K8nrF5aXPlQ

http://youtu.be/K8nrF5aXPlQ

whoops.

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Err, how does one embed videos?

[1]: http://youtu.be/K8nrF5aXPlQ@nobulate said:

Why not: http://youtu.be/K8nrF5aXPlQ

http://youtu.be/K8nrF5aXPlQ

PJH

@nobulate said:

Err, how does one embed videos?

The URL, and only the URL, on a line by itself. A few other things can be embedded that way. It's called 'One Box'ing round here for some reason...

aliceif

In honor of @presidentsdaughter, have one of my favorite bad music videos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzU1Uz8ujw
Or maybe I am just not indie enough to understand all the metaphors.

dhromed

like for silversun pickups

Maciejasjmj

@dhromed said:

like for silversun pickups

Don't know the band, but this song is "meh" at best.

Here, have a WTFy music video for an actually good song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsrCNJhic4

Also, Talking Heads = instant WTF (complete with 1980 bluescreen technology!):

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (1980/ 2013) (HD)

speaking of good songs, I just found a 1:15 excerpt from the new King Crimson lineup and I'm pissing my pants like a 15-year-old fangirl

Luhmann

@Maciejasjmj said:

Here, have a WTFy music video for an actually good song:

Any tool video except Hush is a serious freaked out WTF.

M_Adams

+1
For the Tool song. Thanks!

HardwareGeek

@Maciejasjmj said:

I'm pissing my pants like a 15-year-old fangirl

I REALLY didn't need to know that.

chubertdev

You know that one Tool song?

Luhmann

Just straight from the streets of Brussels ... nobody knew they where making a music video and the officers really stepped in it. They recognized the artist (Je suis un grand fan!) and let him get away with it. Stromae did a similar trick again in the montreal metro.
Conveniently with english subtitles for all non-french speaking people.
http://youtu.be/S_xH7noaqTA