Strangelove's Online Video News Summary

Running the Montreal Marathon 2010

Dr. Strangelove — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:21:28 +0000

A three-part documentary of Dr. and Mrs. Strangelove running the Montreal Marathon.

Bed Intruder Parody

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:16:01 +0000

A made-for-Youtube news story . . .

The original news story:

And the parody . . .

Volkswagen Assvertising

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:11:59 +0000

I think they want us to buy their cars . . .

“Club Seat is a promotional entity of Volkswagen Group UK which hosts special events around the globe. The Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Gstaad 2010 is one such event.” — Steve Hall

Girls: Douche Before You Ask For A Raise

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:06:10 +0000

No really, it is an ad . . .

Parodies of Gansta Rap-Crap: “Bitches Ain’t Shit”

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:59:50 +0000

I love this shit . . .

Star Wars Uncut

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:34:04 +0000

“Hundreds of Internet users remade “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film last year, 15 seconds at a time. This month they all played a part in Emmy history. The finished product, “Star Wars Uncut,” won an Emmy last week in a relatively new category, interactive media, heaping new attention onto a project that its producers call a “user-directed broadcast.”” — New York Times

School Starts Real Soon, Dudes . . .

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:04:16 +0000

A video by Dr. Strangelove

America on the Path to a “sort of totalitarian state”

Dr. Strangelove — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:27:16 +0000

“[U.S.] Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.”– Time

The End of Men

Dr. Strangelove — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:14:59 +0000

“Women now earn 60 percent of master’s degrees, about half of all law and medical degrees, and 42 percent of all M.B.A.s. Most important, women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees—the minimum requirement, in most cases, for an affluent life. In a stark reversal since the 1970s, men are now more likely than women to hold only a high-school diploma.”

“Jennifer Delahunty, the dean of admissions and financial aid at Kenyon College, in Ohio, let this secret out in a 2006 New York Times op-ed. Gender balance, she wrote back then, is the elephant in the room. And today, she told me, the problem hasn’t gone away. A typical female applicant, she said, manages the process herself—lines up the interviews, sets up a campus visit, requests a visit with faculty members. But the college has seen more than one male applicant “sit back on the couch, sometimes with their eyes closed, while their mom tells them where to go and what to do. Sometimes we say, ‘What a nice essay his mom wrote,’” she said, in that funny-but-not vein.” — The Atlantic

When Emus Attack

Dr. Strangelove — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:17:10 +0000

A video by Dr. Strangelove . . .

American Apparel’s “Sleazeball”

Dr. Strangelove — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:40:30 +0000

A good read about a “sleazeball”:

“It wasn’t having oral sex with an employee in front of a female journalist that now threatens to undo Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. Nor was it simulating oral sex with another female member of staff whom he had ordered to pretend to masturbate in front of him. The 41-year-old’s professional and personal reputation isn’t even on the line because at least three female employees have filed sexual harassment lawsuits against him (all the cases were settled before reaching trial); nor because he walks through his factory in his underpants and conducts meetings wearing just a thong – or a sock.” — The Guardian

Brain Fatique

Dr. Strangelove — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:06 +0000

“when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas” — New York Times

Viral Protest: Target Ain’t People

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:08:14 +0000

A great example of using YouTube to protest corporate anti-gay activity:

Not Much “Cable Cutting” Going On (yet…)

Dr. Strangelove — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:30:34 +0000

It will take a new generation to break away from the TV:

“The proliferation of Internet video has led to much talk of “cord-cutting” — a term that has come to mean canceling traditional pay TV and replacing it with programming from a grab bag of online sources.

But so far Americans are not doing this in any meaningful numbers. “Nor is there any evidence of it emerging in the near future,” said Bruce Leichtman, the president of Leichtman Research Group, which studies consumer media habits.”" — New York Times

Tween Video Blogging Gone Wrong

Dr. Strangelove — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:23:07 +0000

“With the astuteness of a seasoned anthropologist, this child drank deeply from America’s heartland and found therein the raw symbolic materials of gangstas and flavoured frozen drink. A nation adrift in unrestrained gun ownership and bad nutrition provided an answer to her problems – the brain slushie – the delicious destruction of one’s opponents.” — read the full article by Dr. Strangelove at The Mark