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robotech_masterI was just watching a presentation that Internet Archive honcho Brewster Kahle gave at the Library of Congress—it's available as a 90-minute RealVideo here—and I discovered to my astonishment that the Internet Archive isn't just for webpages anymore. Among other things, they've gotten together with etree, a network of authorized-live-taping-band show swappers, to create an archive of CD-quality permission-granted live shows from bands like Rusted Root, Guster, and a local Missouri band, Big Smith, which includes members of the family with whom my family had a blood feud going eighty years or so ago. :)
They've also got an archive of old movies and video files, including a wonderful little gem of satire that I just got through watching: Your Name Here. Described as, "The ultimate generic industrial, made as a spoof. A film built around script and visual cliches: shots of highways, farms, unidentifiable manufacturing operations, and super-scientific laboratories," this movie includes things that, if they were cliched then, have aged into even greater hilarity now. The movie is presented in a perfectly deadpan, completely generic style, with the announcer going on about how the company was formed and the product was invented, with a different voice saying, "your name here" or "your product here" wherever it would have been mentioned. Great stuff.
They've also got an archive of old movies and video files, including a wonderful little gem of satire that I just got through watching: Your Name Here. Described as, "The ultimate generic industrial, made as a spoof. A film built around script and visual cliches: shots of highways, farms, unidentifiable manufacturing operations, and super-scientific laboratories," this movie includes things that, if they were cliched then, have aged into even greater hilarity now. The movie is presented in a perfectly deadpan, completely generic style, with the announcer going on about how the company was formed and the product was invented, with a different voice saying, "your name here" or "your product here" wherever it would have been mentioned. Great stuff.