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Tucker's Tertiary
Musée des Arts et Métiers via Abulafia
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When does a bad movie become a monumental message? If you are like me you may have spent many a Saturday morning watching MST3K on comedy central ripping bad movies with Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot and the gang. While most films deserve these royal send ups we do tend to forget that someone put their heart and soul into a vision, perhaps emptying themselves into a gasp of creativity. In the past these films may have been relegated to the trash heap only to be viewed by an archivist or lone affectionado. Ah but the ‘New’ Media revolution has forever changed this.
The value of these individual voices was recently reinforced by a kids movie we found one rainy day on Netflix when our house was feeling low ebb’d and feverish throughout. Little did I know that a shared movie would break me into pieces.
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Evidently I am Banned in Germany
Evidently I am banned in Germany. Or at least my YouTube videos are. I received this message a few days ago concerning a video of my kids, Rooster and E, dancing to Sean Kingston’s ‘911 Fire Burning’. Okay, okay so it is really just because I have a video with the title and a section of the music on my site and it is no more an issue than if someone told me the audio was too loud for preschoolers – (just keep them away from using a browser dang it).
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I have to admit that I did have a momentary thrill of being banned by a WHOLE country; I mean really! Those Germans do have an odd threshold on weird. My first thoughts were that of those ‘Banned in Sweden’ ads for video of a more, shall we say, salacious nature. Yeah, I just referenced Swedish adult films and my kids in the same paragraph, deal with it – The door out is just to the right, feel free. Anyway….I actually felt a jolt of adrenaline when I started to read the notice, only to crash down to the floor reading –‘You may need to do nothing..’
Wait, what? For 5 seconds there I was a criminal content pirate on the lam from international agents looking to shut me down. “Avast! Matey your cause is lost”, I would yell from my widows walk –(well, I could have one, just work with me here folks)-“my servers are scattered around the world and on Mars. You may catch me but you will never shut my content down! All Hail FSM!”
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Seriously- I had the sweaty palms, wide eyed adrenaline rush and the acidic stomach I imagined an underground hacker must feel being one step ahead of law enforcement. You know, just like Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume’.
Or maybe it was the 3 day past date turkey slices I just ate, either that or a flash of male mid-life crisis. (hey, seriously I am too strapped for cash to afford a tricked out Viper or even a customized Dodge Dart with mag wheels and thrush side pipes. I take my fantasies where I can find em’).
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Regardless, the video is pretty cute, Ying and Yang those two. Go ahead and Watch it here. When you are done I have a whole multimedia slide show of the kids at the beach, takers anyone? Come and see it before the Hamptons tourist council slaps me with a cease and desist.
