Again and Again
May 13, 2008 7:59 PM   Subscribe

OS X as music video. (SLYT) Dennis Liu's interpretation of "Again and Again" by the Bird and the Bee, using a particular operating system as inspiration. It does feel kind of like an Apple ad, but it's quite creative.
posted by fungible (30 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Hmm. Well, see, this is just me, but these are my problems with this:

1) I fucking love The Bird and the Bee, and I would much rather see Inara than the chick they had lip-synching to this
2) I fucking love the video to "Again and Again" and I would much rather watch it than... well, most other things these days.

Otherwise, cute, I guess.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 8:09 PM on May 13, 2008


Somebody really really wants to work at Chiat.
posted by MarvinTheCat at 8:18 PM on May 13, 2008


A++++, cute chick, clever idea, would watch again
posted by Spacelegoman at 8:34 PM on May 13, 2008


This was already posted in the CCTV thread.
posted by oddman at 8:40 PM on May 13, 2008


The Windows XP version: intentionally crappy.
posted by msaleem at 8:44 PM on May 13, 2008 [2 favorites]


Nah, this would be the XP version.
posted by Artw at 9:27 PM on May 13, 2008


F*ck this Mac-only garbage.
posted by dw at 9:28 PM on May 13, 2008 [1 favorite]


We need a BeOS version. Oh yes.
posted by Artw at 9:37 PM on May 13, 2008


F-all-y'all.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 9:38 PM on May 13, 2008


so this guy filmed his computer usage while resizing text, changing his desktop background and edited all down to music? amazing! i can't even fathom how i manage to type on my pc it's so backwards! i'm suitably awed... which is not all that much.
posted by eatdonuts at 9:49 PM on May 13, 2008


Woo! Loved it; that gave every appearance of lots of hard work and I thought it well done and appealing

Suck it, pretentious haters.

(I've been coming down on that side of the divide a lot lately, haven't I? Guess I'm not pop-cultured enough.)
posted by ZakDaddy at 9:49 PM on May 13, 2008


F*ck this Mac-only garbage.

You needed a Mac to view this YouTube page?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:06 PM on May 13, 2008


This is pretty cool, actually. I had never heard the song before (and I like it), that chick IS hot, and the music video was pretty creative. It wasn't all typing and resizing text, but basically the entire song's lyrics are on the screen in some way, either via MS Word, different users' background images (with the 3d rotating cube transition), dashboard apps, or images in photoshop. It obviously took a lot of work to make this video.
posted by hellphish at 10:15 PM on May 13, 2008


Suck it, pretentious haters.

The haters are the ones being pretentious here?
posted by delmoi at 10:18 PM on May 13, 2008 [1 favorite]


also: a higher quality version
posted by hellphish at 10:23 PM on May 13, 2008


I wonder if there's a way to make this in Mac OS 7.5....
posted by hellojed at 11:04 PM on May 13, 2008 [1 favorite]


Wow, they did using only a one button mouse!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:43 PM on May 13, 2008 [1 favorite]


did this
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:43 PM on May 13, 2008


Meh on the video but the band is fucking great. Thanks.
posted by Tlogmer at 12:27 AM on May 14, 2008


Cute girl, bad video. (So I guess the FPP was ok)
posted by darkripper at 1:02 AM on May 14, 2008


What's the screensaver being used after the glowing butterflies one (about 1:55 into the clip)?
posted by emelenjr at 3:50 AM on May 14, 2008


The video is pretty slick. Fuck all the haters.
posted by chunking express at 6:33 AM on May 14, 2008


I like the song and the video, but I think they're trying a little too hard to be the next Cansei de Ser Sexy, who are cool because they weren't even trying to be in an Apple ad in the first place.
posted by ericbop at 6:57 AM on May 14, 2008


ericbop, i'm pretty sure this is an unofficial video.
posted by chunking express at 8:12 AM on May 14, 2008


I have decided I like it.
posted by oxford blue at 7:10 PM on May 14, 2008


I like the song and the video, but I think they're trying a little too hard to be the next Cansei de Ser Sexy, who are cool because they weren't even trying to be in an Apple ad in the first place.

ericbop, i'm pretty sure this is an unofficial video.


Er, yeah. Methinks the problem here is a little not-knowing-what-you're-missing.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 7:54 PM on May 14, 2008 [1 favorite]


Oh, that's quite lovely. I would totally watch that non-existant 1960s TV show.
posted by Artw at 9:29 PM on May 14, 2008




From the link: The Bird & the Bee contacted me, and they really liked it. I scored two tickets to their next concert in NY, and we hope to meet up. Hopefully they will let me direct their next video!
posted by chunking express at 5:04 AM on May 15, 2008


Me too, Artw. Me, too.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 9:04 PM on May 23, 2008


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