A Little Teapot Short and Stout
December 13, 2009 9:57 AM Subscribe
Living Photograph: Chris with Teacup One minute, one second of your time that you may or may not want back.
The best part is at 0:43.
posted by hanoixan at 10:01 AM on December 13, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by hanoixan at 10:01 AM on December 13, 2009 [2 favorites]
Someone needs to edit this to give him a violent Dragon Ball Z-like powering-up halo. He has that perfect constipatededly angry expression to make me feel like he's about to go Super Saiyan on everyone's ass.
posted by griphus at 10:03 AM on December 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by griphus at 10:03 AM on December 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
Oh no. I'm not clicking any video link with the word "cup" in the title. I learned my lesson the last time...
posted by Thorzdad at 10:11 AM on December 13, 2009 [10 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 10:11 AM on December 13, 2009 [10 favorites]
I do not wish to see his handle nor spout.
posted by loquacious at 10:14 AM on December 13, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by loquacious at 10:14 AM on December 13, 2009 [2 favorites]
I find Brock Davis to be hilarious...thanks!
posted by jeanmari at 10:21 AM on December 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by jeanmari at 10:21 AM on December 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
What if this was looped endlessly and broadcast 24-7 on some channel you passed all the time, like channel 8. Eventually, that would make you go crazy.
posted by etc. at 10:25 AM on December 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by etc. at 10:25 AM on December 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
Finally the internet has given us the "moving pictures" like they have in Harry Potter.
posted by m0nm0n at 10:26 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by m0nm0n at 10:26 AM on December 13, 2009
This would be good in a frame at MoMA. As a SLYT, not quite so much.
That said, if Flash or HTML 5 makes it popular to have pictures that loop like this in place of conventional JPEGs, that's a good thing. Perhaps future versions of Photoshop will analyze photographs, determine what should and should not move, and make living photographs like this.
And then, once computers pass the Turring Test, we will finally live out Harry Potter's dream (Not jinxing you, monmon) of speaking to Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:29 AM on December 13, 2009
That said, if Flash or HTML 5 makes it popular to have pictures that loop like this in place of conventional JPEGs, that's a good thing. Perhaps future versions of Photoshop will analyze photographs, determine what should and should not move, and make living photographs like this.
And then, once computers pass the Turring Test, we will finally live out Harry Potter's dream (Not jinxing you, monmon) of speaking to Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:29 AM on December 13, 2009
Better idea: We use our singularitan photographs of the Christmas party to ask who, exactly, we slept with after drinking too much eggnog.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:31 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:31 AM on December 13, 2009
I just had a staring contest with a youtube video and the video won.
posted by sugarfish at 10:34 AM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by sugarfish at 10:34 AM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
jeanmari's Brock Davis link it chock full of cool stuff.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:35 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by cjorgensen at 10:35 AM on December 13, 2009
Metafilter: higher standards than MOMA.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:39 AM on December 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:39 AM on December 13, 2009 [4 favorites]
I'm pretty sure this is a test reel for Warhol's Blow Job. (Haven't seen the film? I highly recommend watching it).
posted by Nelson at 10:40 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by Nelson at 10:40 AM on December 13, 2009
I understand that at 1:02, Chris started beating his really irritating brother-in-law -- the one with the brand new cellphone / camera -- to death with a teacup but until police are able to find a body, they really have no grounds for pressing charges. (In fact, in one article, Dade County Sheriff's Office spokesman Will Kefflehauser said, "I'd've done the same damned thing myself!")
posted by Mike D at 10:45 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by Mike D at 10:45 AM on December 13, 2009
For the do-it-yourselfer: go here and upload any portrait photo you have handy. Result is guaranteed to be at least as creepy.
posted by PontifexPrimus at 10:45 AM on December 13, 2009 [7 favorites]
posted by PontifexPrimus at 10:45 AM on December 13, 2009 [7 favorites]
damn virals...
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:47 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:47 AM on December 13, 2009
Well, I watched it, read the comments, and clicked away from the thread. Then I realized I was grinning; I enjoyed it more than I consciously realized. A bit of surreality that did, in fact, brighten my day. :)
I love the YT comment that one poster is going to remotely upload that to his parents' digital photo frame remotely. What a thing to come home to!
posted by Malor at 10:57 AM on December 13, 2009
I love the YT comment that one poster is going to remotely upload that to his parents' digital photo frame remotely. What a thing to come home to!
posted by Malor at 10:57 AM on December 13, 2009
The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough.
posted by Ratio at 11:06 AM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Ratio at 11:06 AM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
I liked it. It had a David Lynch meets Jim Jarmusch feel.
posted by elwoodwiles at 11:08 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by elwoodwiles at 11:08 AM on December 13, 2009
Fucking chilling. Seriously.
*reaches for camera to make his own*
posted by nevercalm at 11:21 AM on December 13, 2009
*reaches for camera to make his own*
posted by nevercalm at 11:21 AM on December 13, 2009
Where do I apply for the return of my minute and second?
posted by Cranberry at 11:29 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by Cranberry at 11:29 AM on December 13, 2009
I particularly liked the small eyebrow raise at 0:15
posted by Petrot at 11:42 AM on December 13, 2009
posted by Petrot at 11:42 AM on December 13, 2009
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Flagged for being exactly what it says on the tin. I was warned, so I can't in good conscience say it was offensive.
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:54 AM on December 13, 2009
Flagged for being exactly what it says on the tin. I was warned, so I can't in good conscience say it was offensive.
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:54 AM on December 13, 2009
I am so grateful for the iPhone screencap feature right now.
posted by sourwookie at 12:03 PM on December 13, 2009
posted by sourwookie at 12:03 PM on December 13, 2009
Needs a pinkie lift.
posted by Edward L at 12:05 PM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Edward L at 12:05 PM on December 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
Where do I apply for the return of my minute and second?
You can't. You were warned!
posted by cjorgensen at 12:25 PM on December 13, 2009
You can't. You were warned!
posted by cjorgensen at 12:25 PM on December 13, 2009
fish tick: i can barely hear the birds, but i think they're noisy house sparrows. they're kind of raucous like that.
and i liked this. it seems chris thought about the composition (or maybe he's just lucky), what with the bit of red flower on the teacup carrying through the red of the lamp and all the warm ruddy tones in his skin; it could have been a bit better arranged, but it wasn't bad at all.
posted by miss patrish at 12:45 PM on December 13, 2009
and i liked this. it seems chris thought about the composition (or maybe he's just lucky), what with the bit of red flower on the teacup carrying through the red of the lamp and all the warm ruddy tones in his skin; it could have been a bit better arranged, but it wasn't bad at all.
posted by miss patrish at 12:45 PM on December 13, 2009
That reminds me of what is done now on network football broadcasts. Instead of a photo of players they have a few seconds of video where they lift their head up and smile.
posted by zzazazz at 7:40 PM on December 13, 2009
posted by zzazazz at 7:40 PM on December 13, 2009
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