Summer Fun with Girls and Boys

Another day, another 80's video. But, this one is an honest effort, so watch it, ya jerks. It means well and the chorus is tight.



via awful vision

Vimeo is better than you? Tonight on bbC.

Birds-on-Fire's new show-reel, part II

Birds-on-Fire Show Reel '09 from birds-on-fire films on Vimeo.

Hey, bbClap here. I know BoF posted Birds-on-Fire's new show-reel somewhat recently, but I uploaded it to Vimeo and I think Vimeo just looks better and sorta kinda wish that BoF would stop emailing YouTube versions of our work around to people, BoF, you dick.

love ya, pal.

Anyway, hope you liked it, if you hadn't seen the other version before.

Checkin' in with the Kattmeister

So, I thought I'd do a lil checking in with the "always-descriptive-with-his-names" Phil Thomas Katt, a fellow Music Video Director and (according to his autobiographical time-line on his website) radio personality who once faked his own death in 1986 as a publicity stunt to push his album "Nine Lives" in skating-rinks and record stores across the land (Pensacola, Florida-ish). The Unchartered Zone, a Music Television Show and awesome website, gave me the info I craved.

I found this patriotic (to Americans, whom are perhaps Patriotic) music video that he directed, which I hadn't seen before. Check it out:


via UZ's youtube channel

One thing that I really admire about Katt is the way he prices his music videos. I, and BoF for that matter, could never get away with his pricing system. Basically, Katt charges by the cut. What do I mean by "charges by the cut", you ask? If he has to cut one shot and dissolve into another shot, that's a cut, and that'll be extra money. However, you can purchase the "5-Clipper", which gives you up to five "clips" for about $100, or you can break that down (as Katt did for you simpletons on his website) to $20 a clip.

But, bbClap, what is a "Clip"? Well, I think they're what are also known as "scenes", or perhaps it's the act of cutting to and from different scenes that is considered to be a Clip. Here's a direct copy-n'-paste from Katt's Production site, explaining the five things that a clip may be:

Clips:

-Can follow a story line with actors and/or the artist playing parts.
-Can be cool scenes inserted around the song
-Can be models looking good throughout the Music Video
-Can be different angles of the artist performing

Actually, I really have no fucking clue how Katt's pricing system works. I really don't. But, I agree that a clip can be models looking good throughout the Music Video, I get that, I'm with that. Also, I do know that Katt Productions puts Intro and Outro credits, or titles, on your video for no extra charge. So, that's cool.

Whoa, where've YOU been?

We haven't posted in a while. BoF has totally gone ape-shit AWOL, and Capn Stubby is off squeezing out his seed across the land.

What's all this mean? Well, if it ain't broke, do as the Romans do. So I did, and here is the result: Hello.

Well, here's another video from the guys over at Sick Animation:

The Suicidal Sun, a greeting card series

Hello, Darkness, I'm your old friend. I've made you a present.



This greeting card is for you to share with your loved ones. It's based on a sculpture I tried to make out of styrofoam in college. I gave up on it cus it was hard to make a 10 foot sculpture out of styrofoam when your only drive to make it is the quickly dissolving notion that it may be a little humorous to see a cartoon sun putting a gun to its head. After you've inhaled a bunch of styro-dust and you can't figure out how to make the sun's arms stand on their own without snapping under the weight of its styrofoam gun, you suddenly start to realize that one day your organs will betray you and fail you and you will die, so you then put down your large file and sandpaper-block and you go outside, get a cool drink somewhere, and if you're lucky, stick your wiener in a hoo-haw.

aaaanyway, go 'Stros!

-BoomBoomClapenstein

a million people can't be wrong

what the hell? This video has over a million views and up until now I was not one of them. Were you? Well, now you are:



So, gang...what the fuck is up with that? Cobras and babies? So, this is okay to do? I guess so. Going to sleep now, knowing the truth about cobras and babies...which is that they DO mix. Thanks. Bye.

New Birds-on-Fire Show Reel

Birds, here.


music track: About "Think Niles Drink"

My collaborators and I (Birds on Fire Filmsmiths) have recently cut a new Show Reel, and just in the nick of time really. With bbClap off in NY doing getting his "Office Situational Comedy" on and having not brought the rest of us along for the ride, we decided to cut a new reel with some of our newer work (still has some of our older work on there too).

Anyway, hope you like it.

High FIve while you Deep Dive, bro.

dudes, bbClap, here.

So, I've been doing some spring-cleaning on my computer. Found some old stuff and I thought I'd share it with you.

-The annual Fuck Justice Reatreat for Attorneys and Paralegals. You going this year? Last year was a blast!

(I actually don't remember why I made this. No idea. I remember photoshopping it kinda, but that's it. Not sure who that dude is in the picture, think it's my brother's ex-boss??)

-High Five whilst you Deep Dive. With your bros.

(This is the gayest image that ever popped into my head, two good buddies or "bros" doing it and high-fiving each other in encouragement. Had to draw it out. You understand.)

-Please, Sir, don't be a jerk.

(hmm, another one whose initial motivation to create it I am uncertain of)

Philly's Phinest

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while the cat's away, us mices will play

hey, guys. So, I haven't heard from bbClap in a while (aside from an email he sent me after my last post telling me it was "lame" and that I was a total "dickface"), guess he's doing alright out there...in the world.

Anyway, I know this isn't the kind of stuff bbC would post, but you have to realize that I don't really give a shit. Where's Capn Stubby, by the way? Holler.



via bedazzled

"My Horny Ceiling", a TV Character?

Hey, gang, bbClap here. Awesome news for you today!

(a graphic we used for the pitch session of our new show)

I don't really have much time to get into it, but I wanted to let y'all know that we recently got the green-light from VH1 to begin development of our TV Show, "Work Sucks". They've ordered a Pilot and 6 episodes to start off with. As I may have reported here or at our Birds-on-Fire website, we've been working on this show idea for 10 long years. "Work Sucks" is a new office-place sitcom about the relationships in the workplace and all the hilarity that ensues. It's actually pretty spectacular.

The Pilot of Work Sucks (tentatively titled "Suckin') develops two of the main characters, Bob, a young, snarky drone working out of a cubicle, and Roofus, an entity that is literally the ceiling of the office - who for some reason is very much alive and can talk, and, much to the dismay of Bob, is very horny.

Bob has to deal with the usual work-environment hoopla: office politics, the broken coffee machine, his aloof boss, the beautiful co-worker... all while also having to dodge the very blunt and indecent proposals made by Roofus, most of them ending with requests that Bob put his penis inside any and all holes that happen to be in the ceiling tiles. Needless to say, Bob's job ain't gettin' any easier! Get ready for a zany look into the unexplored territory of the modern workplace, and ceilings that wanna suck it.

Anyway, just wanted to let you guys know that we're still out here, fighting the good fight, to bring you quality television. Wish us luck, buddies!

pretty good knock-knock joke

Title says it all, I've got a pretty good knock-knock joke for you, scoured from the indescribable (if you're lazy) depths of Youtube and surfaced to you with an effort so indescribable that I'm not even gonna go there, sister.



please do check out more great ass shit from Sick Animation by clicking the link I used utilizing html technology that allows me to just highlight a word and insert a link, the words in this example are "Sick Animation" and the web address I used was www.sickanimation.com, but the wonderful thing about it is that I don't have to tell you that, I can just provide a link, it'll be blue and underlined and you'll know it's a link because you're not a fucking idiot, or the chances of you not being a fucking idiot but just not really understanding the internet and just somehow stumbling across my blog and sticking around to read all this are pretty slim, so I'll take my chances, you mother fucker.

Exclusive Interview with Bebe Rico & a Computer Vagina

Whoa, this just in, guys: We have an exclusive interview with Bebe Rico. Who is Bebe Rico and who the hell are we? I'll get to that below the video, but for now, check it out, World:



Let me break down the sentence "we have an exclusive interview with Bebe Rico" using one of my legendary mother fuckin legends (like map legends, you know?)

----LEGEND----
we = Boom Boom Clap + people w/ internet
have = copy n' pasted embed
exclusive = found it on Youtube somehow
interview = I have no idea what is being said, something about shampoo?
Bebe Rico = it's that dancing baby and maybe it's like a shampoo mascot or something, fuck you, you figure it out. Judge me? Shit, I don't think so, asshole. I got two years left til I retire from this shit hole and...

also, I think I found Bebe Rico's recorded birth on Youtube, too. Check out computer vagina:



more Bebe Rico on youtube

Sketch Drama by Brandon Hardesty

Capn Stubby, here:

As a dude who spends a lot of time behind the camera it makes me ecstatic to know that there are people out there like Brandon Hardesty in front of it.

Brandon reenacts scenes from your favorite movies and then posts them to youtube. His gimmick? He's good at it.

Ten pages of angry contemptuous dialogue from Glenngary Glen Ross? No problem.


Attention you disgusting fatbodies! You are in a world of shit!


A quick visit to Shermer, Illinois.


Nerdier bloggers would post his Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, and Clerks vids. I'll let you find those for yourself.

Instead, have 12 Angry Men.


And last one from Fargo

We've gone corporate, dicks.

(Us pitching our ideas about graphs and how graphs can help express things)

Hey, mom and dad.

Sorry we haven't posted in a while. Capn Stubby and I have been a bit busy lately with some more commercial type work. So, I may not need you to lend me money again this month. But, don't hold me to that, god damn it. I'm your son.

anyway, check out this video of Dr. Strangelove and some muppies doing some Red Ingle:

here's a picture

Hey. No poems for you today. You dried me up, you smothered me with your readership.

So, I'm just gonna show you this picture (via our friends at PPP, some time ago) and hope that you'll think about what you've done with your life and if you'll ever have half the conviction that these gentlemen obviously had at some point in their lives:



Sure, laugh at them if you must. Go ahead. As you live your painfully self-scrutinized life, just remember that while you are really just too embarrassed to be alive, you really cant touch this.

Ain't no shame in my game, y'all.

bb Clap, here:

First off, motherfuckers, I just wanna give a shout out to all the people in the world.

Every single last one of you motherfuckers up in this bitch we call "Teh World'. Teh world is a big place, and I wanna shout out at it. I wanna shout things like "I'm shouting" to all y'all. When I say "shout", you say "ing".

Shout-ing!

Naw mean? Fuck you if you don't. Peace.

(edit: That was my lil bro, bbcjr. I told him I'd let him get his bleegspeezy (blogspot) on with me.)

anyway, I, too, wanna give a shout out to all teh people in teh world, all the people in the world who ain't go no shame in their game. Heroes, if you will. Not the kind you find on NBC, but the kind you find on YTB....or, "youtube".

"baby's mommas dancing for they babies" heroes:



"pleasantly psychotic hippie" heroes:
(thanks to my lil cousin Lucas for sending this my way)