byo remix

BYO Remix: Knights of the Magical Light

This one requires patience. First, start up the music:

While it runs through its creepy over­ture, drag the sound down on the video below. Then, when the music hits 0:32 exactly, press play:

You can stop the video around 0:30… or let it run until you get bored.

I had com­pletely for­got­ten about this car­toon, but I totally loved it, and I’m pretty sure I owned many of the cor­re­spond­ing toys. It was a sort of techno-magical, post-apocalyptic King Arthur. After the suns went out (?) con­struc­tion work­ers, sci­en­tists, and news anchors (!) all became weird war­riors. Holo­grams were the big sell; the action fig­ures came with holo­grams!

Here’s a link to the music; its native video accom­pa­ni­ment might actu­ally be more edi­fy­ing than the Knights of the Mag­i­cal Light.

 

Prince Achmed BYO Remix

I’ve got one! But you’re going to have to be quick.

Right now, press play on the sound­track here:

While that’s play­ing, drag the sound down to zero on this clip—from Prince Achmed, made (impos­si­bly) in 1927 and thought to be the first one of the first ani­mated films:

Hit play on the Prince Achmed clip when the music hits 0:22.

Matt: best genre ever.

Prince Achmed via the always-great Jil­lian Tamaki.

Update: Lots more on Lotte Reiniger, the direc­tor of Prince Achmed, here and here, thanks to Britta. You must click those links, scroll down and look at the stills. They just sent me spin­ning into a beauty-induced fugue state; I think I saved every sin­gle one into my Dropbox.

 

BYO Remix

1. Start this Del­ri­ous time-lapse video of clouds in San Fran­cisco, then imme­di­ately pause it to let it buffer and lower the vol­ume to mute. (Noth­ing against His Boy Elroy, who pro­vides the orig­i­nal score. I actu­ally used that music in a movie of my own once.)

2. Press play on this song from Jason Kanakis and His Coali­tion of the Unwilling.

3. Start the Del­ri­ous video. Full-screen it, if you swing that way.

Two great tastes that taste great together. Del­ri­ous dis­cov­ered via Towleroad and Kanakis via Aur­gasm.