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Vans Goes Venn

For all the Soccer Moms in the house who like their clever, webby venn diagrams, let me hear you say YEAH!

(Or just leave a comment below.)


 

Disney Mashup: Mean Girls Edition

What is it about Disney films that make them so easy to deconstruct and turn into an entirely different product?

We've shown you our Animated Classic/Modern Movie Mashup collection, and talked about the history of cartoon remix with Apocalypse Pooh, and with the rise of techno tracks from Nick Bertke, like Upular and Alice, Disney movies have become the great standby for homemade trailers/music videos.

But nothing could have prepared us for the brilliantly high-brow concept of taking everyone's favorite perfect princesses and turning them into our millennium's version of Heathers.

 

Stefania Rotolo - Italian Disco Space Queen

Stefania Rotolo GoldrakeIt deeply saddens me to know that we no longer live in a world where this kind of thing would air on television. I don't know what it is exactly (or inexactly, or at all) but it is deeply saddening nonetheless. The scene is Italy, 1979. Disco is either thriving or dying depending on who you ask, Star Wars is somehow involved, and Stefania Rotolo is giving it her all.

"I love that enough people got together and decided it was a good idea to make this," said someone who watched this video with me. "It's not like it's just one guy who's doing it, it's three people plus an entire studio."

 

Tudor Rose, You Make Us Feel Dumb

Color us stupid, but the English accent can sometimes throw us for a loop. Like, there are just some words that, when spoken in a lovely British lilt, make one sound like one has been caught mid-sentence while going to town on a jellybean casserole.

We love fish and chips just as much as the next Anglophile, but our brains are so racked by this commercial for Tudor Rose windows and flooring, we feel like there's something wrong with us. And Urlesque readers across the pond will likely wag their bloody fingers at me for this, but here's my question: is Tudor Rose supposed to sound like "Chew-dure Yoz"? WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?

(Also, good luck getting that jingle out of your head, by the way. Tudor Rose is the new Ke$ha!) (Or is it "Kay-zjha"?)

 

Ben Hoffman Sings The News

When I watch the local news, I can't quite keep up with the news-y aspect of the whole thing. Confused? Ben Hoffman gets me. His gorgeously crafted ditties cover the more (dare I say) interesting aspects of local news. Fat people from the neck down? Yes! Sliding cars? Of course. Gator news? Why not! These recurring local news tropes get just as much coverage as your usual serial killers and epidemics, so why not string them all together into a catchy ditty? My new favorite has to be 'Deer on the Loose', because there's nothing more terrifying (or newsworthy!) than these crazy four-legged dandelion-eaters.

 

The 14 Most Remarkable Apple Product Placements [The Awl]

From Carrie's famous laptop (Shoegal, anyone?) to the showtunes-playing iPod in Wall-E, Apple products have become quite familiar on the big and small screen. The Cult of Mac's glowing apple seems to creep on to the computer of all our favorite characters, and you wonder why Macheads have developed such a superiority complex. Yeah, I'm talking about YOU.