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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.
lynnenne: (mood: lolbuffy)

[personal profile] lynnenne 2012-07-30 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
I remember being COMPLETELY IN LOVE with this show as a child. There were so few female superheroes that I glommed onto this pair despite the badness of the show. Thank you for reviving the cheesieness!

[identity profile] beccatoria.livejournal.com 2012-07-30 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for letting us know. It wasn't this show but I totally have memories of glomming onto all the peripheral female characters in shows like the A Team or the original BSG or Star Trek and desperately pretending/hoping they'd get more to do. If I'd ever seen this as a kid, I imagine I'd have responded the exact same way! \o/