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I love watching videos of cops caught screwing up or just looking like fools! I think it’s because we’ve all seen so many video of cops busting culprits and smelling like roses. Here’s a quick offering of cops looking like renobs.

This is like a clown van! How many bodys are in there….?

It’s the same move over and over. Mix it up guy.

Not sure if this one is real, but it made me laugh.

Look both ways fail.

And worst of all…

OK govy, let’s go… I mean, you’re not even trying anymore! Thought process of the USAF brass, “Alright, it’s been 8 years since 9/11 and I think people are starting to finally relax. I think it’s time for a lil reminder *evil laugh*!!” Have they no shame anymore?! Click HERE to watch the local WABC news report. Ridiculous…

This is a great example of how someone took a played out idea and executed it perfectly. The two things that work for this piece are the lighting on the car (hard to match the scene without HDRI probes) and the motion capture they did for the movement of the “robot”.



I believe this ad was created by the same company, but for a different car. The studio that created the spot is a Canadian-based firm called The Embassy Visual Effects, Inc. There is a great write-up on how they accomplished the task HERE.

You can’t animate 3D objects that well, so you have to put a guy in a wetsuit-looking thing with about 150 infrared reflectors on it whilst being recorded by special infrared cameras… NERD ALERT!

Yesterday a good friend of mine Ben posted some terrible vintage commercials on his blog. Being the grizzled YouTube vet that I am, the videos inspired me to dig deep into the genre as only we y00t00bz take please in doing. About 20 minutes into my bender I came across this diamond…

Ok, let me start off by saying that what you’re about to watch is just about the most ridiculous and desperate attempt to relate to employees that I’ve ever seen. Often times in bad videos like this there are a few notable moments to call out, but this video is just bad the whole way through! I will say though that my favorite part (it was a dead heat ’till the end) are the high fives everyone gives each other at the end of the song. Check out the guys jumping and cheering in the background trying to act like they’re SOOO EXCITED ABOUT PEDDLING GREEN GIANT GREEN BEANS!!!

Per my last post, here is a live performance (by the original writer) of the theme song to Taxi. The song is called “Angela”, and is just a straight out jazz jam!



The hook might sound familiar to some who used to follow the hip hop group Souls of Mischief (the group later changed their name to Hieroglyphics).

Kind of like with the animated shorts post, from time to time I’m going to showcase photographers who catch my eye.

Often times when a new photo style catches on, I buy into it for a while but eventually chalk it up to trend. That however is not the case with HDR photos! Once the tutorials started hitting the the web, a lot of attempts to pull off the style fell flat (including my own). It’s for that specific reason that good HDR photos are even more impressive to me.

Great times were had by all during the good ‘ole days back in the Hood, especially with my great friend Sean Stiegemeier. For an entire summer we’d ride our bikes down the hill to McDonald’s for a quarter pounder value meal, then back up to his house for an afternoon of playing Beavis and Butt-head on his computer. It was during these summers that we both developed individually unique passions for film and photo. Even though we were only in middle school, we still made legitimate attempts at making our own indy films.

Our first pass at motion picture fame was a short called “Tag Ripper-Offers”. The story was simple, our underground mattress tag-ripping ring was being surveilled by the Fed’s and was on the brink of getting clipped.

The second film we tackled was called “Bicycle Bounty Hunters”. A movie that was deeply inspired by our devotion to a little known 80’s movie called RAD. If you can imagine a mixture of RAD and the tv shows Taxi and Dog the Bounty Hunter, you’ve got our film!



Our run of McD’s and indy films was cut short when Sean moved to Park City Utah when we were 14, but we still stayed in touch and promised to eventually work together.

Fast-forwarding to today, we’ve both been successful in our own fields and still keep the collaboration alive by helping each other out with various things that are in the others wheel house. Most recently I’ve helped him with some motion graphic elements, and he’s been super generous me using his photography for my website background (one of them).

All that said, Sean’s an EXTREMELY talented photographer/director of photography with a very fruitful career ahead of him. Check out some of his photography HERE, and keep the inspiration alive!