Videos of The Week: Final Fantasy, Real-life rickroll, Sarsparilla, Kanye West

Posted by admin on December 5th, 2008
  1. Thanksgiving Parade rickrolled
    The internet made a fleeting appearance in real-life as Rick Astley interrupts a float presentation in New York to sing ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.
  2. Final Fantasy live performance
    Owen Pallett performs ‘The Butcher’ solo in a warehouse in Toronto with the aid of his loop pedal. Stunning.
  3. Sarsparilla – The Count
    A superbly produced video for electronic artist Sarsparilla made by Fergal Brennan shows Dublin Bay through a time-lapse and photoshop job.
  4. Kanye’s Acceptance Speech at the AMAs
    “In any other industry, you’re supposed to do better than the past, like computers should get smaller and faster. Whenever you say, ‘I wanna be Elvis,’ they say, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ Well, I wanna be Elvis.”
    Watch the video on Stereogum (Scroll down)

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