More Stop-Motion Vids

Since we’re talkin’ stop motion video (see my previous post about Neighbours, an innovative short artsy film made over 50 years ago), and since Kenny just mentioned it in the comments to that post, let’s look at Poop Today, a very short stop-motion viddie made a couple of years ago. It went semi-viral a couple of years ago and boasts some 69,032 YouTube views as of this writing. The soundtrack includes a cryptic song with an offensive lyric, but the Internet is unexpurgated and you deal with it, yes? Here you go:

I find it endlessly fascinating how these ideas ping around, and how people make their own versions on the same concept. I guess this is whatcha call a “meme,” meme being a word I find beyond annoying, but I don’t know a shorter way of expressing the thought in this case. Here’s an answer to the “Poop Today” video above, called “Poop Tomorrow.” Just some teenagers goofing around in a basement, but still:

That being said, it would appear that the undisputed YouTube Champion of this business is a vid called “Tony vs. Paul,” with over 4.5 million YouTube views. Maybe you’ve already seen it. It doesn’t try to achieve as much as “Neighbours” did, but it’s fun nevertheless:

There are a lot of people on YouTube trying this stuff. The means of production are in our hands, people. Can the Revolution be near?

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