Punk rock

Audio of MOGWAI's "PUNK ROCK," the lead track on the album COME ON DIE YOUNG, synched up with the video footage of IGGY POP interviewed by PETER GZOWSKI sampled in the song.

"Do you understand what I'm saying, sir?"

Muppets take "Manhattan"

The combining of film dialogue with scenes of animation/puppetry has now become something of a YouTube phenomenon. What once took hours of work with analog video, is now relatively easy with the right software. The true mark of a good bootleg edit, of course, is the confluence of image and sound, and—usually more important—technique.

The Muppets are ideal for this type of re-editing. The ambiguity of the mouth movements create a believability of just about anything that can be said—moreso than cartoons.

There is just so much to love about this bootleg.

Apocalypse Pooh

A recent edition of Canadian film Journal CINEACTION included a piece about an early bootleg video called APOCALYPSE POOH. Though it could be considered a "mashup," the work pre-dates the internet-era. It was circulated on bootlegged VHS tapes, along with other early examples of copyright-violating underground cinema that became possible once video was consumer level.

It has now surfaced on YouTube. As far as I know, the artist is still unidentified.