Today’s Internet curio that should hold your attention for at least 10 minutes: Yooouuutuuube, a Flash-heavy site that breaks down clips frame-by-frame, shrinks those frames down, then creates a huge matrix of flipbooks, each going through the embedded video on its own timetable. It’s one of those sites with a lot of rabbit-hole potential, which is why I’ve decided to share five clips that look pretty amazing when put through it; feel free to share your own.
(The embeds are of the originals; the stretched-out versions are linked from the titles.)
Sadly, clips that aren’t embeddable can’t be processed by the site’s backend, so you’re out of luck if you want to multiply Beyonce and her dancers a billion times. Here’s hoping this will make up for it.
You thought this video was straightforward when you saw it originally, right? Well, now, it will make you see stars.
3. Billy Idol, “Eyes Without A Face.”
I like to think that this site will also make people appreciate the sort of cinematography that is striking even when it’s shrunk down to thumbnail size.
2. Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights.”
Because there’s never enough Kate Bush.
1. “Shrimp Running On A Treadmill With The Benny Hill Theme.”
You already know.
[HT Nick Minichino]
That’s pretty cool.
Check out some YooooooooooooooouuuTubed Emergency Broadcast Network. That shit’s intense. http://bit.ly/KEYlo
First music video I thought of when I grasped what the effect was — and now I’m dating myself — was this.
@Chris Molanphy: Excellent. Along similar lines: Michel Gondry’s video for The Chemical Brothers’ “Let Forever Be.”
Personally I find that the early nineties video aesthetic works best for this, especially in the “squared” distorted aspect ratio that is the yooouuutuuube standard. See Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam” and Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole” (the latter was a friend’s idea).
@Chris Molanphy: Oh. My. God.
My brain went here: http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&id=9AXNBR2smPY&startZoom=1
OK, everyone’s links are awesome. Thank you, Internet for this gift which we have this day recieved!
Here’s one more just to flatter/embarrass an Idolator regular.
@Chris Molanphy: holy moses that was awesome.
i thought of “take on me” too.
since “sledgehammer” was filmed in stop motion, i thought that might look badass too. it does:
http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&search=peter%20gabriel%20sledgehammer&startZoom=1
Maybe not awesome but definitely appropriate: Plant Man
TOTALLY Awesome: James Brown Is Dead, and Drug Against War.
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