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Did I mention I was recently in a music video?

Brian Risk — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:29:22 +0000

Katharine Whalen and Will Dawson had me and my band, Graveyard Fields, appear as the cast from “The Breakfast Club”. I (of course?) played the lovable nerd “Brian”. It was a bit of a stretch in character, but I managed. You get a quick, sweaty shot of my face. Carol and Andrea look just super!

Kitty Stands Up

Brian Risk — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:46:20 +0000

Our newly-adopted cat really enjoys standing up (and rocking out to the Zep).

I’m excited about the Felix Obelix CD!

Brian Risk — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:32:41 +0000

Painfully appropriate Windows 7 dominoes display

Brian Risk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:15:04 +0000

This domino display draws a painful parallel to the Windows boot time. Not only that, but it “crashes” half way through and needs to be “restarted”.

Billy Mays Autotuned

Brian Risk — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:05:49 +0000

Spiraling and hypnotic… I’ve watched this video five times now since I got a link to it last night from Jonathan. Beyond the novelty of what the video is doing, I feel that a new variety of melody has been created which is approaching the Infinite Jest samizdat.

Red Shoe Diaries: Talking Dog?

Brian Risk — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:29:18 +0000

Hulu is now serving up the early 90′s erotica drama Red Shoe Diaries. I remember this as being quite scintillating before the era of the WWW. To see how reality lives up to my memories, I watched the episode titled “Auto Erotica”. In it a woman who is about to marry a nice, safe man is pushed by a mystery man into speed games with their very fancy sports cars. They then do it.

How did this stack up to my memory? Perhaps a bit of a let down. Not only is the phrase “was he real or did I make him up” repeated consecutively maybe 20 times but then episode is totally rescued by this completely WTF moment at the end of the show where David Duchovny is walking alone with his dog, Stella, reading the letter from this woman describing her affair. He starts talking to Stella and then, magically, it sounds like Stella responds.

David Duchovny: “What a question, hunh, Stella? I’d say that was a once in a lifetime experience.”

Stella???: “And what about the wedding? Was that real, or did she make that up to?”

David Duchovny: “I… don’t know”

The camera is no longer on the two of them, so it’s not like you see a talking dog, but, again, there is no one else around but the two of them. Here is a link to the clip of the dialogue in question.

Was the talking dog real, or did I make him up?

Qu’est ce qui gravite autour de la terre?

Brian Risk — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:36:49 +0000

You can learn a little French and mock them at the same time! Now… watch these people jump off of cliffs all flying squirrel style.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Now please watch this awesome looking water jet pack!

God Also Yearns

Brian Risk — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:24:49 +0000

Stephen Colbert told his audience to NOT remix his audio, specifically chapter 7 of his book I Am America and So Can You titled “Homosexuals”. Billy and I worked up this one minute long track using audio from that chapter and Billy set it to video using archive footage. (You may want to check out Sugarfix Mix to see more examples of Billy’s work.)

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“Accumulation” @ Local 506

Brian Risk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:37:38 +0000

Accumulation — Local 506 20081205 from Sexy Prime on Vimeo.

No, thank you.

Brian Risk — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:44:26 +0000