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beccatoria ([personal profile] beccatoria) wrote2012-07-26 08:35 pm

Vid: Techno Groove [Electra Woman & Dyna Girl]

Me and [livejournal.com profile] cyborganize made a FANTASTIC CRACKTASTIC MESS OF A VID. I solemnly swear that nothing in this vid makes any more sense in context. ANY. ANY MORE SENSE.

Title: Techno Groove
Editors: beccatoria & cyborganize
Video: Electra Woman & Dyna Girl
Audio: Technology Song // The Polka Dots
Summary: OMFG IT'S TECHNOLOGY! GET IN THE ELECTRACAR!

Direct download available here. 45 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.

Password: vidses


Cross-posted to [livejournal.com profile] vidding and [livejournal.com profile] h1v3m1nd

Other vids available here.

[livejournal.com profile] cyborganize's notes, from the [livejournal.com profile] h1v3m1nd cross-post: We unearthed this short-lived Kroft children's show through a chain of internets involving [livejournal.com profile] metatxt and soap opera proto-fandom. What I find most fascinating is its presentation of video itself as a superpower through a reliance on cheesy analog effects. Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, inept though they may be, trust in the magic of television to save the earth from techno-evil! I ended up using the show (along with The X-Files and Max Headroom) in a screening for my Intro to TV course, paired with 1970s video art. I couldn't resist mashing up [livejournal.com profile] beccatoria's crackvid with some of that footage (Nam June Paik's "Global Groove" and selections from a PBS documentary "Video: The New Wave") to highlight this dialogue between the mass media and the art world. Of course, it's digital technology that enables such manipulation -- for the coda, I distorted the image by databending to suggest a trajectory from those early experiments to our present-day mediascape. But [livejournal.com profile] beccatoria would want me to add that you REALLY SHOULDN'T TAKE THIS TOO SERIOUSLY.

[identity profile] ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com 2012-07-26 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*laughs* Hee, that was great! I know of the show but never have seen it myself; however that totally didn't keep me from enjoying the vid. Lots of fun! :D ♥!

[identity profile] beccatoria.livejournal.com 2012-07-27 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :D I'm so glad you enjoyed it and yeah, you totally don't need to know the show to get the cracktastic gist of the thing. Though if you were interested, I'm pretty sure it's all on YouTube, it's only 8 episodes long.

Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it! :D