 | Jack Richardson's Gallows Humor Made for TA 11 Script Analysis class. Shot/Edited/Directed. I thought I'd upload it before I delete the workflow. |
 | Jewel Geyser (WARNING: Gallows Humor ;-) In 1997, I visited Yellowstone with my sister Holly and brother-in-law Brian. Brian promptly purchased Lee Whittlesey's book "Death in Yellowstone" and read of hot-spring related deaths while we waited for geysers to play, entertaining not only us but others with the horrifying accounts of those who came into close contact with the boiling water. Against this backdrop, we visited Jewel Geyser one morning and noticed a small child's hat next to the vent. The darkly humorous conversation contained in this video ensued. Listen at your own risk. This eruption is the same one contained in the video "Small Geysers of Biscuit Basin". |
 | Penn and Tellers Bullshit S4 E- Death Penalty 1/3 The guys tackle the death-penalty issue, and do so with an abundance of gallows humor. Includes interviews with prosecuting attorneys, death-penalty advocates and those against. |
 | Hermann Hesse's steppenwolf 2008 pt 14~finis Poor Harry learns slowly. like a raggedy old wolf. His execution is a sad bit of gallows humor...Somehow Kate Bush leaped forth at the last possible moment to underscore the drama and cosmic laughter of the final scene. If you have actually viewed this entire movie, Steppenwolf reconsidered, we hope you have enjoyed the quest. For any who may take exception to this work please remember not to lose your sense of humor...not tonight. As for the one you seek, look for yourself, and you will find her. The doors of perception are creaking wide open, did you notice? All time receded and now its the dream. Dream on, friends and lovers. Play your roles. The film is beginning. Just relax. |
 | Best Man Toast Matt Abisamra's best man toast at Patsy and I's wedding - June 3, 2006 |
 | Ryan McGinley by THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Ryan McGinley New Jersey-born Ryan McGinley studied graphic design at New York's Parsons School of Visual Arts. In 1999 he sent 100 magazine editors and artists he admired a 50-page book of photographs he had produced on his desktop computer entitled The Kids Are Alright. The book consisted of exuberantly bacchanalian images of his friends in New York City. In these images, fellow artists like Hannah Liden, Dan Colen, Dash Snow and Emily Sundblad masturbate, roll joints, tag walls, and scamper naked in the woods. Like Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, McGinley shot intimate portraits of friends far on the margins of social acceptability. But the humanity and poetry of his predecessors' work came from the pathos, pain and gallows-humor in their images, whereas the grittiness in McGinley's photographs glowed with the exuberant bliss of being young, hot and acting out. The day that Index magazine received the book, they called McGinley to fly to Berlin and shoot for editorial. In 2003, McGinley was the youngest artist (at age 26) to exhibit for a solo show in the Whitney Museum of Art. The tone of the 20 large-scale color prints presented in the show, as part of the Whitney's 'First Exposure' series showcasing emerging photographers, was described by Holland Cotter in a New York Times review as 'relaxed and playful, as if the world were on recess'. In an art world and mass culture pathologically obsessed with youth, McGinley's well-crafted and carefully selected images actually did what photography claims to do - they captured fleeting moments. His models were not professional kids paid to produce some simulacrum of youthful cool. Instead, they were actually members of that blessed demographic, and so was he. |
 | Funny Israeli Commercial About Ahmadinejad and Iran How about this for a touch of gallows humor: an Israeli cable TV channel is using Iranian President Ahmadinejad --and the specter of a nuclear attack on Israel— as a promo for one of its shows. Tasteless? Yes. But hilarious. It starts out with an actor playing the Iranian Prez (my one complaint: the actor's too appealing; the real Ahmadinejad reminds me of a scruffy Teheran bus collector) ranting away, declaring" The uranium is in our hands. And after Monday it will be good-bye to Israel." Suddenly, his audience of robed Ayatollahs and Hojatollahs and chador-clad women begin shouting at him: "What are you talking about?" yells one robed and turbaned cleric. "It's the last episode of Danny Hollywood on Monday night." The commercial for Yes TV then morphs into a full-on Busby Berkley musical, with Revolutionary Guards line dancing with their AK-47s, and thousands marching in the streets calling on Ahmadinejad to at least delay the annihilation of Israel until after the final show in the TV series. I called up my friend Meir Javedanfar, a Middle Eastern analyst based in Tel Aviv, who has keeps an eye on all things Iranian. Was there any Iranian reaction about their esteemed Prez being used as a shill for Israeli TV? The ad has not gone un-noticed in Tehran. Meir read me a commentary from an Iranian news website, Asiran.com: "The Israelis make use of every opportunity to remind us that their country is under threat from Iran, despite the fact that they have over 200 nuclear weapons themselves." No humorous banter there. But, it's easy to forget that Iranians, barraged by their own propaganda (and by the saber-rattling of Israeli Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz who says that an Israeli military strike against Iran is "unavoidable") are just as paranoid about Israel's intentions as Israelis are of Iran's. If only Ahmadinejad were a harmless ticket collector on one of Teheran's buses... |
 | Randy Cassingham's This is True #17 Randy Cassingham's This is True -- http://www.thisistrue.com -- online weird news since 1994. Episode 17: Politically Incorrect |
 | Smee & Blogg, Singing Executioners Promo reel of comedy songs and sketches by the masters of macabre mirth. Also includes footage of their comedy country act and Edgar Allen Poe Christmas Show. See video of these and buy DVD's at www.smeeandblogg.com |
 | The Naked Stage presents 4.48 PSYCHOSIS 4.48 Psychosis is a shocking, yet imaginative glimpse into the mind of a mentally ill woman. A beautifully crafted, detailed work of the imagination, the author's courageous examination of her own illness and despair makes this an important piece in the literature of psychosis and a fascinating watch for theatre goers. Spiked with gallows humor, Sarah Kane's final play is a brutal and poetic exploration of a mind preparing to shut itself down. APRIL 17 - MAY 11, 2008 Presented by The Naked Stage www.nakedstage.org |
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