Advice To Online Video: Go For The Jugular

Prediction: in this final countdown to the election, expect to see a whole lot more political videos popping up, sorta like the end of a fireworks show where the engineer just sends a gangload up at once, I predict it'll be something like that. And if I'm wrong, buy me a coke.

I'm not talking about clips from last Saturday's SNL (one of the greatest, most solid episodes in the last five years), but the homemade online video variety made by voters for voters. Not everyone can or wants to do the important door-to-door canvassing or phonebanking. Some voters instead choose to reach and influence each other through quick n' dirty film making and posting the goods online. It's art, it's self expression, it's honing entertainment skillz to send out an important message. Because, not only has this election been killer for SNL and David Alan Grier, but it's also made a starlet out of Obama Girl. So expect to see an influx of crazy-a videos all in the name of campaign 2008 and President Obama.

But in this example here, a little diddy comparing hockey moms and pit pulls, produced by Modern Jackass Magasin and starring the erudite virtuosos of Southern Mothers, well, I don't really know what their aim is except if you watch it really, really carefully you'll see it's sending a subliminal message to Sarah Palin telling her NOT to run for president in 2012. As my feminist, Cameroon trekking girlfriend said last night, "I vowed not to hate Palin but shes making it impossible." Ain't that the truth!

And now for the entertainment. Hockey Mom / Pitbull (Jockin' SP Remix) by Southern Mothers

Comments

[Clist476]

Obama girl a starlet? Please...if anything, former starlet.

Love you Chalupa!!

[Johnjlws]

Interesting, at least here, early returns are showing young voters aren't voting as usual (happy days for the maverick's camp). They go to meetings, go to rallies, buy t-shirts and march and then sit at home when the important work comes. So anyone whose involved in this process make your silly videos, put something on Facebook or MySpace, blog until you're blurry-eyed and your fingers hurt. Feel as though you're accomplishing something, but boots on the ground knocking on doors and making phone calls are what still wins an election and what will (or won't) win this one for Obama. All the rest of it is just paddling the boat with a single oar--doesn't matter how hard or good you're paddling, you're simply going in circles.

[elsrks]

It's not in a young persons nature to do things early-- they wait 'til the last minute-- the day of the election --which will be a 24 hour period of unbearable excitement, distraction from anything else and for sure-- a day that the young people across this country will participate in this historic process.
They WILL come through--no doubt!!

[beartrack]

Sure hope they do. Afterall, it's their future we're talking about here.