also check out this low-budget half hour fan flick:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fanboys

1. You should have known this was a bad idea.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-In-The-Hole
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bellydancer-accident-and-a-funny-one-at-that
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slip-n-slide-of-fire
http://www.videosift.com/video/Always-set-your-ebrake-or-else
http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Not-Drink-Then-Drive-Or-Else

2. Bad ideas in retrospect.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Caravan-problem
http://www.videosift.com/video/Boogie-Boarder-plants-his-head-in-the-sand
http://www.videosift.com/video/UF-Student-tasered-at-John-Kerry-Speech
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-is-what-happens-if-you-talk-on-your-phone-at-a-concert
http://www.videosift.com/video/pwned-by-a-water-ride
http://www.videosift.com/video/slideplayaccident
http://www.videosift.com/video/Didnt-go-exactly-as-planned-Ouch

3. Potential bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-message-for-those-who-want-war-with-Iran
http://www.videosift.com/video/You-will-be-the-hit-at-any-party-when-you-bring-a-lion

4. Knowing what your doing is a bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/Old-Man-Goes-Nuts-In-Car-Wash

5. Looks like a bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jump-in-the-waters-great
http://www.videosift.com/video/Low-Budget-Tattoo-Removal
http://www.videosift.com/video/Redneck-Carnival-Ride

"Made possible by all those protecting the USA"
ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE
MARINES

From YouTube comments:
-ShelterDogs question
I'm just curious though. What does this have to do with the Armed Services? Did they film this?
-ssreef Reply
No affiliation with the forces, just thought people should remember waht they are still doing to protect. We filmed this over a weekend on $150 camera......low budget !!!

aha

Oh, now we know the dog's name (&brand) is Tillman I'll tag the other two videos.

I cannot "unbastard" myself. Once you're born to a single mother you can't be unborn to a single mother. Luckily the internet is big enough for the two of us. Maybe one day I'll find my father...is that you daddy?

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
I hereby *ban you from the internet. Come back when your no longer a bastard.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
First! you %*$$*%* **%#@!!!

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
I stumbled across the sift while making a cheesy ultra low budget ninja movie. For my college film making class. (No I'm never going to post it on YouTube.) I was doing a search for some special effects tips on putting in lightsaber effects. And my Google search pointed out this video to me. After that I lurked for about two or three months and then finally joined.

I think what drew me too it was the maturity of the VS community. I never once saw a "first!" or "You %*$ $*%* **%#@."

I hereby *ban you from the internet. Come back when your no longer a bastard.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
First! you %*$$*%* **%#@!!!

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
I stumbled across the sift while making a cheesy ultra low budget ninja movie. For my college film making class. (No I'm never going to post it on YouTube.) I was doing a search for some special effects tips on putting in lightsaber effects. And my Google search pointed out this video to me. After that I lurked for about two or three months and then finally joined.

I think what drew me too it was the maturity of the VS community. I never once saw a "first!" or "You %*$ $*%* **%#@."

First! you %*$$*%* **%#@!!!

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
I stumbled across the sift while making a cheesy ultra low budget ninja movie. For my college film making class. (No I'm never going to post it on YouTube.) I was doing a search for some special effects tips on putting in lightsaber effects. And my Google search pointed out this video to me. After that I lurked for about two or three months and then finally joined.

I think what drew me too it was the maturity of the VS community. I never once saw a "first!" or "You %*$ $*%* **%#@."

I stumbled across the sift while making a cheesy ultra low budget ninja movie. For my college film making class. (No I'm never going to post it on YouTube.) I was doing a search for some special effects tips on putting in lightsaber effects. And my Google search pointed out this video to me. After that I lurked for about two or three months and then finally joined.

I think what drew me too it was the maturity of the VS community. I never once saw a "first!" or "You %*$ $*%* **%#@."

You all call yourselves gamers?

Someone actually is making a Zelda movie - low key and low budget, but I want to see it nonetheless.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Zelda-Movie-Trailer-Fanmade

If you really want terrible, and from a show that nearly made it an entire season, check out the low budget attempt to resurrect Battlestar Galactica: Galactica 1980 (it's on hulu.com or torrent it).

>> ^blankfist:
I have to admit, this cheaper version is really lacking in story. I couldn't get into the HAL story at all.


Oh, I don't know. I thought Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite really "got me there."

Tags for this video have been changed from '2001, space odyssey, low budget, cheap' to '2001, space odyssey, low budget, cheap, kubrick, arthur c clarke' - edited by kronosposeidon

That's an interesting point. I don't think there's any correlation, however, between artistic accomplishment and "selling out;" the latter does not necessarily impede the former, nor does corporate success DEFINE artistic accomplishment. I certainly don't believe one can measure artistic accomplishment by the number of commercials your song is in, or how much playtime your song gets on all the radio stations. But again, I would argue that those things are side notes and perhaps useful tools towards achieving your own intrinsic accomplishments.

I look at it this way: an artist, the true, down-to-earth, sincere artist, is going to create art no matter what. The art, whether highbrow or lowbrow, gets made either way, and of course it will be judged whether the artist seeks approval or not. I think it's a problem when the artist seeks only the approval of others: "critical success" and financial success. You can say plenty of nasty things about that person, but the truth of it is they have some degree of talent and want to make money with it- that's fair. It's not ideal and it ain't the Beatles, but it's fair. Now... the "true" artist is ever-changing, ever-improving, and most importantly, ever-creating, no matter how she is judged. The twist is that it costs a lot of money to be any kind of artist, and even on a low budget, that artist is going to need money, even if only as a means to create more art. Thus, by allowing a song to be used in a big commercial (in this case for a corporation whose public image isn't too bad) she achieves that means. It doesn't mean her creation is meaningless, and it certainly doesn't mean that her future work will be either.

If you define "selling out" as "selling your art," then everyone does that. If you define "selling out" as "selling someone rights to use your music," then Yael here is clearly selling out. But none of these meanings seem at all "bad" to me. If I were to define "selling out," I'd probably go with "catering your creations to fit someone else's needs." Even that, though, doesn't seem all that bad. A fine artist who works commissions is essentially doing just that. Any hired illustrator is at least partially doing that. Any film composer or ad agency, same deal. Any of these people could be "selling out" just so they can fund the art that they WANT to create. Moreover, in the process of "selling out" they may find fulfillment in the work they are doing. In this particular case, Yael isn't even doing that; she's merely selling rights to use her song, presumably created as her own song and not a jingle, in a commercial.

On a side note, the commercial marketplace is becoming more and more viable a venue for music artists, I think. High-end ad firms have people that seek out, scout, if you will, the newest and freshest sounds. Obviously they are paid to do so for the success of the commercial and corporation, but that doesn't change what they aim to do. For a while, I kept my thumb on the pulse of popular TV like Buffy and the OC, which miraculously discovered piles of unknown(to me) bands. To relate to visual art (which I guess is the world I'm comfortable with), I'd liken being asked to be on the OC or an Apple ad to being asked to display in a commercial gallery with dozens of artists whose work you know and like. In this world, I think those who take on these jobs either learn to enjoy them, or simply use them to feed the efforts they DO enjoy.

Phew. Finally, upvote for the Lynyrd Skynyrd ref.

Come with me, brother (and sister) brontosauri, as we pay low budget tribute to the world of 09y3wurkjhsfe holy crap I can't get this barbie watch off my hand! help?!

yep. saw this one a few months back. my buddy berticus recommended it.

great camera and lighting work. and for a wicked-low-budget flick, i'll forgive a few of the inevitable plot 'holes' that comes htiw levart emit... oh shit, s'ti gnineppah again...

I love the commentary from said article:

"Yesterday’s video of Silvio Berlusconi humping a meter maid is, apparently, a fraud. Some low-budget German satirical film called Bye Bye Berlusconi. Our first defense: who knew Germans made funny movies? ...

The reason we believed the video was real is because it seemed like it came from of the more socially acceptable end of his range of insane behavior."

Well, it is *politics... political satire that is, except the conjugation so to speak doesn't really work hence my awkward senetence here.