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April 5, 2014 12:39 PM Subscribe
Five minutes of the 70s PBS Logo spun 63 progressively weirder ways and pitch-shifted. Trance-inducing.
1:45 of the infamous Viacom 'V of Doom'.
For no good reason: Public Beatdown Service.
1:45 of the infamous Viacom 'V of Doom'.
For no good reason: Public Beatdown Service.
After Effects is truly the modeling clay of video editing packages.
posted by Suddenly, elf ass at 1:09 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by Suddenly, elf ass at 1:09 PM on April 5, 2014
Yes ... yes ... must kill ... them all ...
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:22 PM on April 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:22 PM on April 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Five minutes of the 70s PBS Logo spun 63 progressively weirder ways and pitch-shifted
After a few minutes watching this fullscreen, my memory of any text description became hazy and I started to fear you had actually said it 63 minutes long. Would I be able to stop watching before then if it were?
posted by aubilenon at 1:31 PM on April 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
After a few minutes watching this fullscreen, my memory of any text description became hazy and I started to fear you had actually said it 63 minutes long. Would I be able to stop watching before then if it were?
posted by aubilenon at 1:31 PM on April 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
We have a late contender: The Screen Gems S from Hell.
posted by dr_dank at 1:37 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by dr_dank at 1:37 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
I would have this replace the CNBC screen in the lobby of my office building, except it would be unfair to the reception staff.
posted by at by at 1:45 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by at by at 1:45 PM on April 5, 2014
This is the S From Hell full video, I think.
posted by George_Spiggott at 2:28 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by George_Spiggott at 2:28 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
I've seen this, a few years ago. I would've clicked away, but at the time wanted to figure out if any of these pitch changes would get me to a set of chords I'd enjoy. Nope. Still don't like it. As a kid, it wasn't dislike, no, it was outright fear and hatred. All those weird late 60s - early 70s cues just made me shudder as a little girl. I guess it was Stockhausen's influence on those composers, wasn't it? How I can listen to him and enjoy his work, but can barely abide those old cues, like the Viacom Pinball and the Paramount TV Closet Killer, I don't know. Probably because I was 4, and wasn't listening to Stockhausen at that age.
And speaking of sounding like Boards of Canada... This is pretty badass.
We should give the aural/graphic jokesters this 70s cue and see what they can do with it. Graphically, I love the negative space in the logo, by a Minneapolis station owned by the Metromedia Group, which had been a clutch of DuMont O&Os or affiliated stations in the 50s, and became the basis of the Fox Network in the 80s. Talk about trance, what could you do with that "11"?
posted by droplet at 2:55 PM on April 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
And speaking of sounding like Boards of Canada... This is pretty badass.
We should give the aural/graphic jokesters this 70s cue and see what they can do with it. Graphically, I love the negative space in the logo, by a Minneapolis station owned by the Metromedia Group, which had been a clutch of DuMont O&Os or affiliated stations in the 50s, and became the basis of the Fox Network in the 80s. Talk about trance, what could you do with that "11"?
posted by droplet at 2:55 PM on April 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
The only one that I'm convinced is deliberately intended to inflict mental distress is DIC.
posted by George_Spiggott at 3:04 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by George_Spiggott at 3:04 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this bad boy yet.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 4:19 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 4:19 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
'm surprised no one's mentioned this bad boy yet. yt
GAH.
Well, it is Russia.
Even as an adult I'm sufficiently unnerved by a small handful of logos that I simply will not read any of these threads with my computer's volume on. My parents thought I was the single most lunatic child in existence, and i was so thrilled when the internet proved them wrong.
posted by like_a_friend at 4:28 PM on April 5, 2014 [4 favorites]
GAH.
Well, it is Russia.
Even as an adult I'm sufficiently unnerved by a small handful of logos that I simply will not read any of these threads with my computer's volume on. My parents thought I was the single most lunatic child in existence, and i was so thrilled when the internet proved them wrong.
posted by like_a_friend at 4:28 PM on April 5, 2014 [4 favorites]
this is all just Boards of Canada announcing their next project, isn't it?
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 4:34 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 4:34 PM on April 5, 2014
There are many metaphors that can be applied to a life, and one of them is a successive layering of blessings and curses, synonyms for the chances that experience works upon each of us and how they influence us.
Thought of that way, this clip has been a minor, personal curse for some years. I'm not sure why I watch it approximately once a year. Something is actually soothing about it, to someone who grew up with 70s Sesame Street, Electric Company and 3-2-1- Contact. But anyway, I've long teetered back and forth on whether it's "enough" for Metafilter or not. It hasn't been deleted, so I guess it is.
Happy curses, everyone!
posted by JHarris at 5:24 PM on April 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
Thought of that way, this clip has been a minor, personal curse for some years. I'm not sure why I watch it approximately once a year. Something is actually soothing about it, to someone who grew up with 70s Sesame Street, Electric Company and 3-2-1- Contact. But anyway, I've long teetered back and forth on whether it's "enough" for Metafilter or not. It hasn't been deleted, so I guess it is.
Happy curses, everyone!
posted by JHarris at 5:24 PM on April 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
WGBH in Boston needs no special effects but gets them anyway.
posted by adamg at 5:29 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by adamg at 5:29 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
I'm really glad you posted this JHarris. And especially glad for the "Think About" link from droplet. I had never thought I'd hear that one again, but the Internet preserves everything.
It's weird to think of Boards of Canada as reproducing the music of my childhood, but really it is. Those days when I was sick, at home alone, watching daytime PBS and all those weird shows with the electronic contemplative music. The sound of childhood loneliness but happiness too.
posted by honestcoyote at 5:56 PM on April 5, 2014 [6 favorites]
It's weird to think of Boards of Canada as reproducing the music of my childhood, but really it is. Those days when I was sick, at home alone, watching daytime PBS and all those weird shows with the electronic contemplative music. The sound of childhood loneliness but happiness too.
posted by honestcoyote at 5:56 PM on April 5, 2014 [6 favorites]
I really would love to just see HUGE compilations of this 70s/80s motion graphics stuff. There's youtube videos like this and this, but i just can't get enough of this stuff.
posted by emptythought at 6:04 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by emptythought at 6:04 PM on April 5, 2014
None of these ever bothered me much, but I always found the deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle-doo VIACOM really unsettling. It honestly has a lot to do with my distrust of all corporations.
posted by Sys Rq at 6:05 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by Sys Rq at 6:05 PM on April 5, 2014
For me, the UA logo from the Pink Panther cartoons was one of the creepiest ones.... but I also found it fascinating? Like "I am frightened by you, but I need to figure out how you tick, you sick freak."
The Russian one I posted earlier, I'm glad I didn't see back then, because it creeps me out now. But then again too, child-me was also terrified of the flashes-of-statue-faces in the "Shock the Monkey" video. So I probably have some weird things in my head that have just always been there.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 6:09 PM on April 5, 2014
The Russian one I posted earlier, I'm glad I didn't see back then, because it creeps me out now. But then again too, child-me was also terrified of the flashes-of-statue-faces in the "Shock the Monkey" video. So I probably have some weird things in my head that have just always been there.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 6:09 PM on April 5, 2014
Forget production companies, how about the FBI warning on the videotapes? That made watching Transformers videos seem like a dangerous task.
posted by dr_dank at 6:15 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by dr_dank at 6:15 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
And speaking of sounding like Boards of Canada... This is pretty badass.
They got some mileage out of those Thinkabout videos. I remember watching them in class circa 1991.
posted by Sys Rq at 6:21 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
They got some mileage out of those Thinkabout videos. I remember watching them in class circa 1991.
posted by Sys Rq at 6:21 PM on April 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
There wasn't very much in the "PBS freak out" that I didn't see during the 70s on a cheap TV with poor picture quality and bad reception.
Also related: 2006 article about TV Vanity Cards (and the editors INSISTED that the illustration was not SUPPOSED to look like the author)
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:58 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Also related: 2006 article about TV Vanity Cards (and the editors INSISTED that the illustration was not SUPPOSED to look like the author)
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:58 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
That's a good article but one thing bugged me about it.
Ubu is a still photo, sure, but Ubu is STANDING.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 7:14 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Ubu is a still photo, sure, but Ubu is STANDING.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 7:14 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
And to think we used to have fact-checkers to avoid such errors...
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:21 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:21 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
I MUST TELL JODIE FOSTER ABOUT THIS
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:46 PM on April 5, 2014
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:46 PM on April 5, 2014
Mom?? what happed to the movie? What is this thing? Its scary.
Oh, its just a thing dear. Go to bed now.
But why is it here, what’s it for?
Its just a special TV thing that comes on when the TV goes to bed.
posted by quazichimp at 10:18 PM on April 5, 2014 [4 favorites]
Oh, its just a thing dear. Go to bed now.
But why is it here, what’s it for?
Its just a special TV thing that comes on when the TV goes to bed.
posted by quazichimp at 10:18 PM on April 5, 2014 [4 favorites]
Droplet, that "11" spun and twisted is the vocal part of Palace Posy on Boards Of Canada's latest album!
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:50 AM on April 6, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:50 AM on April 6, 2014 [2 favorites]
OMG, I TOTALLY HEAR IT!
Dammit, I need to start working with some musicians right away! I have a good ear going to waste!
posted by droplet at 8:54 AM on April 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
Dammit, I need to start working with some musicians right away! I have a good ear going to waste!
posted by droplet at 8:54 AM on April 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
I have an idea for a new ringtone.
posted by i_have_a_computer at 10:00 AM on April 6, 2014
posted by i_have_a_computer at 10:00 AM on April 6, 2014
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