Super Furry Animals Get 8-Bit 'Lazer Beam'
For those of you who don't know Super Furry Animals, let's sum up - psychedelic Welsh pop group, once got Sir Paul McCartney to eat celery in time to their music, not as famous in the States as they should be.
But let's add to that list - commissioned excellent video game-related music video [.MOV] for their song 'Lazer Beam', directed by Aurelien and Florian Marrel, and imagining the band starring in their own side-scrolling arcade brawler. Points to note - the Final Fight-style overlay map, and the Metal Slug vs. Moonwalker type 'gameplay', as people are forced to dance by the sheer power of the SFA's sonic weapons. Oh, and now we want to play the 'Lazer Beam' game, and it doesn't exist, damn you all to hell. [Via RobotWisdom.]
Comments
Thanks to the total awesomeness of embedded javascript and Flash, that link doesn't work. I had to go to http://paranoidprojects.com/start.php, browse to directors, and select the appropriate person and video.
Posted by: John Beeler | November 30, 2005 1:21 PM
Ah, you're quite right, they changed some code, I think - I've moved the link so it directly links to the .MOV - hopefully that's not too rude.
Posted by: simonc | November 30, 2005 1:26 PM
Great video.
It's interesting that esoteric geek culture is now hitting slightly mainstream coolness. This video, for example, and Beck's most recent ASCII vid. Not sure what the overall significance of that is, but I'm sure it's, er, significant.
I guess it raises the question: in 20 years, will bands be making parodies of the Warthog video and GTA?
Posted by: John Beeler | December 1, 2005 8:05 AM
i called it 16bit color because it looked like more than 256 shades to me-- was i wrong?
Posted by: RobotWisdom | December 2, 2005 2:26 AM
I think I'm using '8-bit' as a style descriptor here, for retro and geeky, and it isn't technically true - I agree, it's probably more than 256 colors.
Posted by: simonc | December 2, 2005 8:09 AM