Video Pizza

August 16, 2009 4:45 AM

Video Pizza
posted by minifigs (29 comments total)

Turning turning in the widening gyre
The pepperoni cannot hold
posted by mdonley at 4:48 AM on August 16, 2009 [3 favorites]

Via Videogum
posted by minifigs at 4:51 AM on August 16, 2009

Be kind, rewind.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:51 AM on August 16, 2009

The pepperoni layout is so symmetrical, a real pizza is never like that. Figures the flashy video stuff would be stylized and perfect and unobtainable. This is the way the the patriarchy keeps real pizzas insecure and vulnerable, comparing themselves to impossible topping symmetry.
posted by idiopath at 5:32 AM on August 16, 2009 [7 favorites]

That is terrible.
posted by scrutiny at 6:13 AM on August 16, 2009

you owe a lot of people a few minutes of their lives back...and we're going to hunt you down to retrieve it....
posted by HuronBob at 6:19 AM on August 16, 2009

THAT CENTER PEPPERONI IS MESMERIZING
posted by man vs sun at 6:39 AM on August 16, 2009 [5 favorites]

Hypnotic. And very "Awesome Show, Great Job!"
posted by Monster_Zero at 6:42 AM on August 16, 2009

That is terrible.

What in god's name are you talking about? It's a pizza spinning on top of a black garbage bag for four minutes. On what planet is that terrible? Stupid planet, that's where.
posted by billysumday at 6:50 AM on August 16, 2009 [8 favorites]

Interview with the creators.
(I'm having trouble resisting the urge to put quotes around "creators.")

idiopath, it's apparently a real pizza. A real Red Baron pizza.
(I'm having trouble resisting the urge to put quotes around the word "real.")
posted by PlusDistance at 6:52 AM on August 16, 2009

I'm concerned that it's there spinning around for three minutes and no one is interested in grabbing a slice of piping hot Red Baron.

Maybe this was filmed on Stupid Planet.
posted by man vs sun at 7:03 AM on August 16, 2009

Did you eat that pizza after you filmed it?

We tried. It was a little rubbery after sitting on a turntable for an hour and a half, and didn't taste too great. So, we stuffed it down the garbage disposal with a taxidermy deer leg

.
posted by man vs sun at 7:07 AM on August 16, 2009 [1 favorite]

For those of you who chose to read the comments first, this video is like Zombo.com without a voiceover. Also, you can't do everything with this video.
posted by gc at 7:19 AM on August 16, 2009 [1 favorite]

If that is a "real" pizza, than it has been primped and beautified. I am sure they had an aesthetic technician to rearrange the pepperoni to a pleasing pattern. They sure don't come out of the cardboard looking like that. And every humble pizza at home is going to hold themselves to that standard, not even knowing that all they would need is an aesthetic technician and some fancy video tricks to look that beautiful.
posted by idiopath at 7:21 AM on August 16, 2009

If I had seen that at about 3:30 last night, my world probably would have exploded in a frenzy of delight.

Sunday morning is not the optimal time for spinning pizzas, though I still enjoy it. It should be longer though.
posted by nosila at 7:34 AM on August 16, 2009

Yule love this video.
posted by sourwookie at 7:35 AM on August 16, 2009

We should run this on TV on a loop during national holidays, just as a gift to the nation's hard-working suburban pot dealers.
posted by The Whelk at 8:00 AM on August 16, 2009 [3 favorites]

idiopath, it's apparently a real pizza. A real Red Baron pizza.
(I'm having trouble resisting the urge to put quotes around the word "real.")

You should have. That pizza looks awful, especially the crust.
posted by defenestration at 9:25 AM on August 16, 2009

It should be longer though.

It's only a trailer. The real video comes in at a whopping full hour of spinning video pizza montage.
posted by scrutiny at 9:50 AM on August 16, 2009

Yeah...I'm saying longer than an hour. And auto-restarting the DVD just isn't the same. I need new angles. Rrrrroll that beautiful bean footage!

um, I need to stop posting in this thread I think.
posted by nosila at 9:58 AM on August 16, 2009 [1 favorite]

My band played a show in January with video pizza on one of the visualization screens, and we served free hot dogs to the audience. More people were crowded around video pizza than either the hot dog table or the stage.
posted by jake at 10:05 AM on August 16, 2009 [2 favorites]

I think this would have been more effective with a slice of pizza removed.

But I don't know why.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:14 AM on August 16, 2009

PROPERTY OF WCHV
NOT FOR SALE OR RENTAL


The pizza, or the video?
posted by blue_beetle at 11:52 AM on August 16, 2009

we covered it with a shiny gold cloth to conceal it. The lighting in the video makes it look more like a plastic garbage bag

There is no way that they are not lying about this.
posted by orme at 11:53 AM on August 16, 2009

That is terrible.

Yea, but Everything is Terrible.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 12:24 PM on August 16, 2009

The Pizza loves us!
The Pizza forgives us!
posted by The Devil Tesla at 12:28 PM on August 16, 2009

I turned he sound off and watched this with Moondog playing in the background, and immediately wished I still smoked weed.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:34 PM on August 16, 2009

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOPIZZA
posted by DU at 5:28 PM on August 16, 2009

I think this would have been more effective with a slice of pizza removed.

But I don't know why.

Things that are whole look perfect and we do not want to disturb the perfection. Things which are incomplete must be eliminated and therefore consumed. Have you never been to a mall?
posted by SinisterPurpose at 8:40 PM on August 16, 2009