Take Tube Dubber, for instance. A mash-up tool that amazingly takes YouTube to an even stranger place. It allows you to combine the video track of any YouTube clip with the audio track of another.
How is this helpful, you might ask? Well, I mentioned magic earlier. What happens if I combine a popular movie about magic with the preeminent song about magic? Even more magic, right? The answer: some surprisingly badass yet expectedly stupid teen wizards. So yes – it’s more magical.
I’ve also discovered that Tube Dubber is capable of cranking the crazy level of YouTube upwards, past 11, and screaming into to the lower stratosphere. By combining two elements commonly accepted as nuts – Japanese games shows and William Shatner – I created something so insane that it appears almost normal. It may in fact have gone full circle through our plane of reality, rendering its components sane while leaving us mentally shattered.
The possibilities are endless. I can combine two things at random – say, two suave dudes like Don Draper and Bruce Campbell – and create something even more suaver than the sum of its parts. Or I can take an awesome movie trailer – like “9” – and use it to enhance another movie that needs some help being more awesome. This thing is literally an “awesome enhancer”.
Again, most times crap + crap = more crap. But sometimes there is beauty in the juxtaposition of random things. A whimsy in the gestalt.
Or, we could all just be going batshit insane.
That was time well wasted.
ReplyDeleteThanks - I agree. The 9 trailer combo is my favorite. It's about 20 seconds shorter than other trailers, so the end is usually off, but it really puts some hair on most other trailers' chests. It works very well with Titanic, for instance: http://tubedubber.com/#1qkrGi9Ciws:OnoJecu9e7c:0:100:0:0:true
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