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What happens when you take popular commercials of the 80’s — ads for The Clapper, My Buddy, and Sure Solid — and turn them into a video collage? Sheer mayhem. Check out this “Call and Response” video from video artists Wreck and Salvage for a strangely mind-numbing experience:
That’s amazing.
posted by RSN on 11-7-2007 at 10:02 am
Well that was totally trippy!
I kept waiting for Buddy to turn into Chuckie.
I have to go take some advil/prozac now.
posted by JaneM on 11-7-2007 at 10:55 am
There’s a point in the My Buddy part where it sounds like the kids are singing “poke-in-eye, poke-in-eye….”
posted by Higgins on 11-7-2007 at 11:15 am
Well, thats alot cheaper than taking drugs, but just as effective. Trippy.
posted by Lauraebk on 11-7-2007 at 12:11 pm
Amazingly triptastic! ! ! !
posted by Johnny Cat on 11-7-2007 at 12:35 pm
Thanks! I’m going to go have a seizure now.
posted by ella blue on 11-7-2007 at 4:02 pm
Okay. That TOTALLY freaked me out…in a great way!
posted by r on 11-7-2007 at 10:05 pm