Matthew Rutledge » Video http://mattrut.com It's my website, but you can read it! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Direct connection http://mattrut.com/2009/12/06/direct-connection-2/ http://mattrut.com/2009/12/06/direct-connection-2/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:44:25 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=1490 While the previous video was more of an internal self-promotion video for WFAA in Dallas, this video was a major ad campaign used during junctions and station breaks for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV. It is simply stunning — these promos have a futuristic, whimsical, avant-garde tenor paired with a bit of psychedelia. It might be the closest TV ever came to producing something obviously influenced by cocaine.

Trudy Haynes is my favorite. “I’m your direct connection… to the grapevine.” But I love it all — the weird sunny/rainy/lightning bolts over Philadelphia City Hall, the dramatic electronics from the stock ticker and meterological equipment, the “Whoo!‘s” from the electro-disco sound track, it’s all fantastic.

PS: I have written a blog post about this before, but the clip keeps on disappearing from Youtube. This time, I snagged a copy of my own so that it won’t happen again. (All copyrights respective of their owners, this is for educational purposes only.)

]]> http://mattrut.com/2009/12/06/direct-connection-2/feed/ 2 Back when leotards told the story http://mattrut.com/2009/11/30/back-when-leotards-told-the-story/ http://mattrut.com/2009/11/30/back-when-leotards-told-the-story/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:41:28 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=1487 Thanks to my inimitable friend Joseph, who has a penchant for finding all the weirdest crap that youtube has to offer, I have now watched this 1980 WFAA-TV (Dallas/Fort Worth) promo video eleventy times.

It is nuts how in 1980, mustachioed men in leotards were simply “court jesters” that told the story of TV ratings success, and not big flaming homosexuals doing pirouettes.

This is really worth a watch — for a number of reasons. It offers a glimpse into a world of broadcast television that used to spend lots of money to develop strong brand images, and it also offers a glimpse into the world of leotard-wearing fancy men circa 1980 in The Metroplex.

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I would argue that this is the height of the “second golden era” of Saturday Night Live.  I know every last one of these songs, too.  Best moments: the neigh in “The Devil Came Down From Georgia”, and the way Bobbi sings “black hole sign-ign, won’t you come…”

]]> http://mattrut.com/2009/09/09/somebody-check-the-woofers/feed/ 0 I’m eusing eumah! http://mattrut.com/2009/08/30/im-eusing-eumah/ http://mattrut.com/2009/08/30/im-eusing-eumah/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:01:20 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=975 I could write academically as to why Kath & Kim is perhaps one of the wittiest, most subversively brilliant comedies to spread across the British Commonwealth, but I’ll just let the jokes speak for themselves. This is from Series 3.

Kel’s 50th birthday slash Epponnee-Raelene-Darlene-Charlene Craig’s baptism involves line dancing and karaoke (to “Fox on The Run” by the Sweet, among others), and Sharon “Unlucky In Love” Strzelecki finally sticks it to Kim and forces her to endure a harsh ride on a mechanical bull. I’m that pleased for ya, Sharon…

]]> http://mattrut.com/2009/08/30/im-eusing-eumah/feed/ 0 If you are what you drive… http://mattrut.com/2009/07/27/if-you-are-what-you-drive/ http://mattrut.com/2009/07/27/if-you-are-what-you-drive/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:57:24 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=715 Then you’re in the shop weekly, French designed by built in Wisconsin by angry AMC employees, and 0–60 in 12 seconds!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Renaults, I really do, I just can’t think of a worse time in US history for them to have hit the domestic market.

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