This is truly beautiful. In the video below, video artist Crumbs Chief mashes up an insane number of musical dance numbers, matching them to the mashup track “Come Again (Beatles vs Rare Earth vs Beaties vs Daft Punk vs Cypress Hill vs Boston)” by the Kleptones. Basically, if you can think of a famous dance scene from a movie, it shows up here somewhere. Yes, even Napoleon Dynamite. You can watch the video a bit bigger on Vimeo.
Note: the abrupt ending is intentional, as this comes from a section of a much longer mashup work (“Uptime/Downtime”) that doesn’t have clear seams between tracks. There’s a project to make videos for each section of the double album. Anyway, without further ado, get ready to freak out with joy:
Kleptones – Come Again (Beatles vs Rare Earth vs Beaties vs Daft Punk vs Cypress Hill vs Boston) Video by Crumbs Chief from The Videotones on Vimeo.
(Via The Daily What.)
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While I like that they included Newsies, I was a little disappointed that the dancing bike scene from the great movie “Rad” was not included.
posted by Addie on 7-22-2010 at 2:36 pm
I only watched the 8:17 one posted here so they may be include elsewhere, but was shocked that that they didn’t include the Time Warp. No Billy Elliot either. Meanwhile that dance from Hair seemed to get quite a bit of early play.
posted by Jess on 7-22-2010 at 3:22 pm
Fun – but isn’t this an epic copyright infringement?
See you in cell block 9, pal!
posted by curlyfester on 7-22-2010 at 5:49 pm
@curlyfester – basically, yeah. There’s a lot of discussion in the nerd world about copyright and how it’s not working for exactly this kind of work. Many argue that mashups (the simplest example being the music that goes along with this video, or the work of Girl Talk) are new works that use existing works as building blocks (in the same sense that composers use notes as building blocks — no one owns the notes, and you can reuse themes as long as you innovate and create something new).
Having said that, yes, under current copyright law, this video is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
posted by Chris Higgins on 7-22-2010 at 5:54 pm
Wonderful!
posted by S2 on 7-23-2010 at 2:31 am
What about the scene from The Breakfast Club? I might have missed it, but I can’t believe that one being left out.
posted by The Library on 7-24-2010 at 2:32 am