Walkie Talkie Man

February 23, 2004 6:25 PM

Walkie Talkie Man
A heck of a yarn of a song.
What promises to be one of the those super over hyped videos, see it now before it becomes passe.
And the song is pretty good too.
posted by fenriq (20 comments total)

That was DARN good.
posted by ColdChef at 6:31 PM on February 23, 2004

very good...will mtv play it tho?
posted by amberglow at 6:39 PM on February 23, 2004

loved it! thanks fenriq.
posted by madamjujujive at 6:47 PM on February 23, 2004

Great! Much better than The Passion...
posted by moonbird at 7:01 PM on February 23, 2004

Very, very wow.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:22 PM on February 23, 2004

cool video, song was kinda cheesy...
posted by stifford at 7:34 PM on February 23, 2004

KnittingFilter

(My grandmother knitted the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video. It was dope.)
posted by Frank Grimes at 7:51 PM on February 23, 2004

More videos for cheesy songs and an grossly out of date bio for the band can be found here.
posted by Foaf at 8:14 PM on February 23, 2004

and yay Steriogram!
posted by Foaf at 8:17 PM on February 23, 2004

Hand crocheted video...cool!
posted by wsg at 8:30 PM on February 23, 2004

Yay - Steriogram's a New Zealand band!
posted by wilberforce at 8:49 PM on February 23, 2004

Gondry's a great director. Another video of his for Radiohead's "Knives Out" is here. His video for the White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl" using Legos is even better than this yarn one, I think. Can't find a link for this last one, though.
posted by josephtate at 8:57 PM on February 23, 2004

I found it amusing that while they only depicted people knitting, many of the items they showed close ups of were, in fact, crocheted.

I imagine there are about 5 other people on metafilter who might also have found it amusing. Or at least noticed it, even if they didn't find it amusing.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:03 PM on February 23, 2004

I wondered if I was going mental, or if I saw crocheted final pieces there. How nitpicky of us needleworkers.

I am available for rock video work, I'll do a rock crochet puppet for oh...say....$5-10k. But it'll be worth every damn penny.
posted by Salmonberry at 12:36 AM on February 24, 2004

Warning! shameless plug ahead... if you're into this kind of stuff, check out the video collections of Gondry, Jonze and Cunningham I've seen all three and they're great.
posted by swordfishtrombones at 4:55 AM on February 24, 2004

No, ColdChef, that was YARN good!

Get it? Yarn? Ha ha!
posted by tommasz at 5:10 AM on February 24, 2004

Another outsourcing yarn.
posted by maggieb at 7:31 AM on February 24, 2004

Excellent!
posted by Lynsey at 9:50 AM on February 24, 2004

White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl" video. popups
posted by Feisty at 1:33 PM on February 24, 2004

I was probably the last person on earth to see that white stripes video. Very cool. the low res iconography reminded me of this.
posted by NortonDC at 10:11 PM on February 24, 2004