8 Bit Waterslide

April 7, 2009 12:12 PM

8 Bit Waterslide -- In Real Life! [slyt]
posted by empath (21 comments total)

Shades of Teeny Little Super Guy.
posted by jedicus at 12:20 PM on April 7, 2009 [1 favorite]

♥
posted by egypturnash at 12:22 PM on April 7, 2009

That took no time at all - win!
posted by From Bklyn at 12:25 PM on April 7, 2009

cute!
posted by joelf at 12:33 PM on April 7, 2009

My only wish: That teaandcheese had any other videos.
posted by Plutor at 12:38 PM on April 7, 2009

Awesome.
posted by vibrotronica at 12:43 PM on April 7, 2009

Reminded me of two of my favorite music videos:

Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind (More 8bit goodness)

The Superfantastics - Tonight Tonite (Cup-people-go-to-prom goodness)
posted by Someone has just shot your horse! at 12:46 PM on April 7, 2009 [1 favorite]

Tea&Cheese MySpace profile doesn't have much up now, but it could expand.

The video created for the Barclaycard waterslide competition, which is apparently just the beginning (for Barclay's Youtube Channel).
posted by filthy light thief at 12:47 PM on April 7, 2009

(So in retrospect, the Architecture in Helsinki one isn't so much 8 bit... but still awesomeness!)
posted by Someone has just shot your horse! at 12:48 PM on April 7, 2009

The chiptune-esque background music is really good, too.
posted by box at 12:49 PM on April 7, 2009

2-D stop motion is really an ingenious timesaver, and a trip, besides!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:49 PM on April 7, 2009

More TLSG, previously.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:51 PM on April 7, 2009

Love it, thanks!
posted by hifiparasol at 1:07 PM on April 7, 2009

Someone: Architecture in Helsinki is very 16-bit. You can tell because there's more than 16 colors. :)

8-bit computers were terrible. Half the fun of using them was imagining what we could do with faster machines.
posted by Malor at 1:10 PM on April 7, 2009

Pretty neat, although I am personally annoyed by any pixel art automatically being referred to as "8-bit". I am aware that that is mostly my own problem, but I refuse to let it go.

Also, the "in real life" part of the title felt misleading, too. Stop motion /= real life, regardless of being posed on "real" objects.

Despite the fact that I'm a picky semantic bitch, I did find it amusing. The music was fun and the digitized-sounding voice was well done.
posted by owtytrof at 1:14 PM on April 7, 2009 [1 favorite]

16 bit, at least.
posted by Artw at 1:48 PM on April 7, 2009

All right, this was really neat. Thanks!
posted by Joey Michaels at 3:56 PM on April 7, 2009

That's probably the single most fun and useful SLYT ever pasted into the big blue. Empath Rocks!
posted by SinisterPurpose at 12:26 AM on April 8, 2009

Speaking of semantic bitchiness, to my mine, /= looks like "divide the left hand variable by the right hand value, and store it in the left hand variable" to me. Does anyone use that for not equals, instead of just using the "≠" character? (The HTML entity is ≠)

Pixel art roolz.
posted by fnerg at 2:02 AM on April 8, 2009

Never seen a /= before, it's != everywhere else.
posted by Artw at 8:44 AM on April 8, 2009

That's what I get for complaining about semantics, eh? ≠ it is, from now on!
posted by owtytrof at 11:53 AM on April 10, 2009