Vid: Techno Groove [Electra Woman & Dyna Girl]

[beccatoria]

Me and 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

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Cross-posted to vidding and h1v3m1nd

Other vids available here.

cyborganize's notes, from the h1v3m1nd cross-post: We unearthed this short-lived Kroft children's show through a chain of internets involving 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 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 beccatoria would want me to add that you REALLY SHOULDN'T TAKE THIS TOO SERIOUSLY.

Comments

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

*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 ♥!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

That was marvelous! Never seen the show but that was fantastic crack!

[destina.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I had mostly convinced myself I made this entire show up in my head, and now here is beautiful crack, made from my childhood delusions. *g* So much fun!

[china_shop]

HEEE! That was AWESOME!! \o/

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

1. WOOOOOOHOOOOOO \o/
2. pssst the download link is wrong -- should be .mov
3. I am posting to h1v3m1nd with a few notes
4. how the heck do you get blip embeds to work on LJ?

[lynnenne]

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!

[chaila.livejournal.com]

I'm still kind of speechless. HEEEEE. This is such hilarious cracky brilliant hilarity. And also hilarious. The pinnacle of vidding brilliance really has to be Electrawoman's inability to escape a freaking NET at the end, because it's REAL until she finds a magic button to get rid of it. Video editing and special effects > nets! OMFG IT'S TECHNOLOGY.