I realize this was sort of an odd pic for Friday Free for All. It’s a video by a dude named Ely Kim, who’s apparently an MFA student at Yale. It’s really repetitive, it goes on forever, and don’t expect there to be any sort of payoff, but it’s also strangely mesmerizing. It’s kind of like the gay Asian version of Dance Floor Dale. I also sort of wish he were Latino so I could’ve called it “Mexmerizing.”
Anyway, if that’s not your cup of tea, after the jump I’ve also got a commercial the Coen Brothers recently did, for an anti-clean coal organization. I mean, they’re not really anti clean coal, they’re just trying to point out that clean coal doesn’t really exist. The problem with making political commercials overly satirical like this is it only leaves you about five seconds to explain what the f-ck it is you’re actually talking about. And putting the web address at the end of your commercial? Doesn’t work. Remember those ads with “Now what?” and nowwhat.com at the end? No one went to that site and I still have no idea what those were for. Because the answer to their rhetorical question was almost always, “now I’m being entertained by something.”
