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>> ^Pprt:
Typical... Chinese people love to be copycats.
The pioneer here is Denny Dent
Dan Dunn really perfected the art, though.
Have a look: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Dunns-Paintjam-performance-art
He has many videos on YouTube... well worth the watch.


That's some pretty sweet sweeping generalization there Pprt. Yeah, Denny did it first and Dunn did it better, but it's still quite the performance, and she also added the rotations and a bit of choreography to it and made it her own.

Mostly though, nice racism.

I think this video's kind of hilarious. The soundtrack is what does it for me.

Did anyone catch what happened just before Fox stopped covering the election?

We were watching (for laughs) Comedy, CNN, CBC and (for laughs) Fox that night, and when things looked like they were going well for Obama (but well before the real news channels called it) we flipped back to Fox to see it had dropped coverage and was screening sitcom reruns instead.

That got a laugh from all of us, and we were wondering if somebody from Fox just went "This is BS. Hell with it. I'm leaving. Run some sitcoms or something. @#$%" or if they just shrugged and cut.

Did they even air the acceptance speech? I think shortly before it we flipped back and they were showing old Simpsons eps.

Cute. Pretty song.

wow! love the look of this game, and wow, sia's music in a videogame trailer -- could not have seen that coming ever.

also i liked assassin's creed... barring the ending.

>> ^Zonbie:
OH SNAP! Republicans are voting for Tina Fey!


I would go Republican for Tina Fey.

ugh, definitely in the valley and definitely closer to coming out, which means really, really offputting. right from the start, there was something very, very slightly and yet horribly off. uncanny valley is such an interesting phenomenon...

As a sweeping generalization coming from my own upbringing and experiences, I think Chinese people (and their government) tend to value aesthetics greatly, and thus a decision like this is upsetting but not very surprising. At the same time, though, this sort of mindset isn't at all an Evil China exclusive; look at magazine photos (where in some magazines, they're more painting than photo now anyway), musician/performer successes, diet trends, fashion trends, the meat of the advertising world ("You're not good enough. Buy this and maybe you'll be less horrible.") etc. And I definitely can't endorse high-and-mighty comments about how evil China is; they're just as evil as everywhere else, but they're not as good at covering it up. You say the Chinese media is state-run like that's uncommon. Did CNN lose its "Joke" status? China's just more transparent about it.

Returning to the topic, I read an article on this earlier in the week (which carried a little more substance to it) and apparently the story is that the girl you SAW was selected early to perform (she IS a singer, and a nice one), but during the last rehearsal a powerful politician decided her voice had to go. Thus the music director scrambled to find another good voice, which he did, but then the owner of that lovely voice was deemed not cute enough to represent China. Both kids and their families say they are okay with it (of course, they might have been instructed to say that), the singer that she's just happy her voice was used to represent China. I think that's a classy way to come off it, and whoever's handling PR for China seems to have done the best they could after the fact (ie not denial). I still don't agree with the decision, as I think both kids were adorable, and I feel confident that if the visible girl made it through auditioning and rehearsals, she was indeed a great singer anyway. It's unfortunate that this one dude with all the power decided otherwise, but hey, that's art.

And finally, to whoever posted that quip about slave labour being related, that's gotta top my personal list of dumbest correlations ever. And further, a country that is known to use slave labour might be a sad thing, but is it much better to be in one of the many countries that quietly but enthusiastically continue to fund said labour?

My overall point is this isn't a good deed by any means, but I suspect that the world is chomping at the bit to cry foul at China, given the one-sided press it gets. And as another poster commented, on the grand scale, who really cares about lip-synching? (Pavarotti lip-synched in the 07 Winters, I think... due to age and cold air?)

PS: Milli Vanilli was AWESOME. Blame it on the Rain was such an awesome song I'm not even upset about the whole lip-synching faking debacle.

Reused score! Theme from The Crow ('Birth of the Legend') by Graeme Revell... I thought that was sacred; it's like using Danny Elfman's Batman score for some other film...

I love these videos... she strikes a wonderful balance comfortably between airhead and poignant critic of the medium. Excepting the 'gross' and 'sorry' comments, I've found myself making a lot of the same light pokes at things gamers have come to accept as part of the medium. ie large sweaty men carrying fitted women's clothing in AoC, useless NPCs, etc. Great fun!

Also I had the same comments about the little sisters being creepier when saved.

oh wow. i upvoted 3 seconds in, and i only now wish i could upvote again.

>> ^reallyboredofcollege:
Why is the tag 'engineering' attached to this?


For the concept of "draaaaainage?" Let me explain. You have a milkshake. And I have a milkshake. And I have a straw. And my straw reaches acroOooOOooOOoss the room. I drink your milkshake.

Still trying to understand the rationale behind buying the plat edition when the original's copy protection makes it unplayable. Also, this guy really needs a hug. And finally, I find it hilarious how he tries to keep his anger on while doing routine tasks like downloading, searching out a directory, and copy-pasting.

"it's just me, man." *shrug*

awesome.