Here we have some catchy nerdrock with an adorably goofy video, casting the members of Low Water as a trio of nerdy scientists on the run from a rather listless dominatrix type and her rollerskating hench-ladies.
If some of the girls in this clip look familiar, you may remember them from Tech TV or the early days of G4 - Morgan Webb, Laura Swisher, Sarah Lane and Cat Schwartz are all on hand, circa 2004, to make you pine for the Attack of the Show and X-Play of days gone by. The clip ends with a bit too much footage of everybody just kind of hanging around having fun, but since when is watching people have fun a bad thing?
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is widely regarded as the worst of the Trek film series. But while that's arguably true (personally I much prefer it to that 2009 JJ Abrams reboot mess) there's no faulting director William Shatner for lack of ambition.
For his lone directorial effort in the Trek franchise, Shatner envisioned a grand tale of friend against friend, man against God, and Kirk against Rockman. He planned for the film to climax with Kirk's spectacular fight against five rock monsters, but they had to be cut to one Rockman for budget reasons and then the sequence ended up getting cut altogether. Too bad. As seen in the screen tests above, this had the potential to be an unforgettable sequence: two glowing eyes suddenly blink to life in the dark rock face, and then a great, jagged shape breaks free from the wall of stone and comes lumbering toward a terrified Kirk, the ground shaking with its every massive footstep. Sure, it would've been goofy as hell, but it would've been goofy in the most awesome, old school Trek way.
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Lance Cardinal is an artist from Vancouver who built himself an absolutely insane model of the Muppet Show set, everything from the stage itself to the backstage area where Kermit would spend the whole show coping with diva pigs, exploding chickens and other common annoyances of the showbiz trade. Cardinal has done some stunning work here, and the rest of his site is also worth a long look. As a f'rinstance, just check out his Evil Dead mini cabin!
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In the fan-made clip above - a mod based on the game Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force - you get to tour a Kirk-era Federation Starbase and see what all the redshirts got up to when they weren't being killed by dikironium cloud creatures or some damn thing. The bowling alley is no great shock, but some of their other forms of entertainment are a little more surprising.
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Roz Chast is best known for her New Yorker cartoons, but she has a surprising sideline creating these crazy little egg things here. Click the picture to embiggify, or visit her website to see more.
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Before he became a director, Terry Gilliam was an animator with a bizarre, instantly recognizable style. In his fantastic 1979 book Animations of Mortality, Gilliam offers up a lot of original artwork along with pages of full-color print adaptations of animated sequences he created for Monty Python's Flying Circus and other TV shows of the era. As a kid I re-read the book obsessively, aching to see Gilliam's titles for shows like The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine in motion. It only took a couple of decades, but now I can see this stuff on Youtube with but a few clicks of the mouse. It was worth the wait.
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