{"id":500,"date":"2006-09-22T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/09\/22\/friday-night-videos-ink-blot\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T17:55:14","slug":"friday-night-videos-ink-blot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Ink Blot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (2006)<\/b>
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This video is one of the tightest I’ve seen in a long time. It’s visually striking, with an endless parade of Rorschach inkblots in which the faces of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse appear. It’s thematically apropriate, what with the use of inkblots as a psychological test and the song’s subject matter. It’s focused, creating a visual language and sticking with that, and yet it’s not static, the inkblots moving from abstract shapes to much more explicitly concrete images as the video progresses.<\/p>\n

Plus I always liked how good of a rebounder Barkley was.<\/p>\n

Pham Quynh Anh & Marc Lavoine: J’esp\u00c3\u00a8re (2005)<\/b>
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I am not crazy about the song, but I do enjoy the visuals. It’s as if the creator saw the Gnarls Barkley video and said, “That’s cool and all, but it needs more of everything<\/i>.” I’m pretty sure the video for J’esp\u00c3\u00a8re predates the one for Crazy, but let me have my illusions.<\/p>\n

(A tip of the hat to Storme<\/a> for pointing this video out to me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (2006) This video is one of the tightest I’ve seen in a long time. It’s visually striking, with an endless parade of Rorschach inkblots in which the faces of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse appear. It’s thematically apropriate, what with the use of inkblots as a psychological test and the song’s subject matter. … Continue reading Friday Night Videos: Ink Blot<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t