live action recreation of the intro the the simpsons
This is beyond cool. Follow this link to You Tube if the embedded player thingy doesn't work. I removed the embedded player thingy because it was slowing the load time of the page. The video is still really cool, though.
(via Waxy)
Update - I'm just going to add a two more cool things here which don't fit anywhere else, but go nicely together with the video above:
This guy bought an old Superman pinball machine, customized it, and it was reborn as a Futurama pinball machine, complete with spinning Slurm can. Awesome.
At boingboing, Cory linked to this ten minute video of Disneyland's Main Street USA, right after it opened in 1956. Very, very cool.
Comments
That is the coolest thing i've seen in awhile...But please no live-action SIMPSONS movie!
Posted by: d. burr | March 4, 2006 01:07 PM
OMG that's freakin hawsome!!!
/me cross posts
Too bad it's set in England for that Marge and Maggie scene or it would be amazing!
And maybe a live-action SIMPSONS movie wouldn't be too bad. But it would have to be a short.
Posted by: starshine_diva | March 4, 2006 01:26 PM
Greetings from Kuwait! That Simpsons recreation was hilarious! This is the first time I comment on your blog... It is so entertaining! I am new to the blogging world! (My blog is at miscellaneousraine.blogspot.com.)
Posted by: Raine | March 4, 2006 01:27 PM
Hee. It even had Homer butt crack!!
Posted by: allison | March 4, 2006 03:22 PM
And yet, I'd eat things for money...
Posted by: Becky..Absent Minded Housewife | March 4, 2006 03:36 PM
Amended...I'd eat SOME things for money...not ALL things. Perverts.
Posted by: Becky..Absent Minded Housewife | March 4, 2006 03:38 PM
Ey Caramba
Posted by: Ludger-B | March 4, 2006 04:53 PM
Ok, that rocks.
Loved Just a Geek audio book. :)
Posted by: Thing | March 4, 2006 06:44 PM
Hil-air-ee-ess!
Had no idea you had a blog, iz bookmarked, shall read often.
Posted by: foreignemmy | March 4, 2006 07:13 PM
Hahahahhahahahahhahahahhahah!
Posted by: Joe Eversole | March 4, 2006 07:17 PM
ROFLMAO! I am so posting this in myspace and LJ. Good lord. It's 11:13 on a Saturday night. That would sound bad - but I'm taking a break from cleaning up after a party. What kind of party ends before 11pm?
Mine.
Thanks for posting that link. Sheer brilliance!
Posted by: honeythunder | March 4, 2006 08:17 PM
That was pretty good! I wonder why they made it...perhaps a promo?
Posted by: teflonjedi | March 4, 2006 10:03 PM
pretty cool, but
1) Why did they put a bass clarinet neck and mouthpiece on the tenor sax? (Perhaps to make it look slightly more like the cartoon??)
2) Why didn't they "flip the negative" for the driving scene? (What do they call that in the digital video domain--mirror image filter?)
3) It seems to be a 16:9 clip squeezed into a 4:3 frame. (For example, the screen on the TV in front of the couch is virtually square.) Is this on purpose?
Posted by: bassclar | March 4, 2006 11:46 PM
Wil, I found your blog through a friend of mine who is a regular reader of yours. I must say that you're looking good! I used to have the biggest crush on you years ago! *LOL* I remember having posters from those teen magazines hanging all over my room! Oh, the good ol' days! Have a great day!
Posted by: Tish | March 5, 2006 06:21 AM
@bassclar
They have to work with what they got!
I think it was probably filmed in England. So that explains your driving scene.
And the whole thing was about looking like the original. So that answers your other questions ;)
Posted by: starshine_diva | March 5, 2006 08:26 AM
This dude loves toys
Posted by: gamerscircle | March 5, 2006 09:08 AM
Geez.
Disneyland: The WASPiest place on Earth.
Posted by: Exick | March 5, 2006 09:11 AM
starshine diva: I wasn't wondering why they were driving on the left side of the road, but why they didn't "flip the negative" in the editing room to make it appear as if they were driving on the right.
And are you suggesting that they had a tenor saxophone without a neck, so they happened to use a bass clarinet neck they had laying around instead? I suppose it is possible, but it doesn't seem very likely.
Posted by: bassclar | March 5, 2006 01:59 PM