I have a feeling I will be posting many videos this week. I have a backlog to go through :).
Tonight's offering is Look Around You, which is... difficult to explain. I think you'll either love it or think it's the stupidest thing you've ever seen.
It's a British television program, intended as a parody/satire/homage of the sort of educational videos that were created in the 1970s and 80s. Think 3-2-1 Contact, or most of PBS's programming, and especially of the videos you watched in school. Look Around You REALLY reminds me of the ridiculous chemistry lab videos we watched in Chem 121 at Ohio State. It even reminds me a little of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The first series is made up of 10-minute shorts that are presented as educational videos that you would watch in school. The second series is more like something you would have seen on PBS.
The key is that they are totally ridiculous, totally wrong, very British, and and seemingly very authentic. I honestly had to verify for myself that these were created in 2005 because they really look like they were made in 1980.
For me, watching these is both really amusing and also strangely nostalgic.
But enough talk, you really need to experience it. So courtesy of YouTube, I offer two of the episodes I've seen. The first is the Series One episode titled "Maths," and the second one, which is my favorite so far, is from Series Two and is about food, weight loss, and the scariest image ever found.
I really wish I could have the Look Around You music as a cell phone ring tone, and the "Look Around You" theme song montage is great - it starts 3 minutes into the second video (5 minutes from the end) :).
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