Coconut Wireless ™: 2017

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Neo Yokio is Vaporwave.

or why I like Neo Yokio ( and positively hate Rick & Morty. )

Beau Tardy. Saturday, September 30, 2017.

America is a very literal country. We say what we mean and we do what we say. Our founding fathers were all men of letters, even newspapermen, all very well read. Our constitution is written on a piece of paper by these same men. The very privilege to write anything and everything is enshrined in our first amendment. We are a country run by writers, whether they be writers of laws, of contracts, of screenplays or of checks. The writers literally run the show. Until now.

The writing on Neo Yokio is the polar opposite of the pedantic, heavy handed, supercilious Rick & Morty whose editorial board is essentially reddit.com. Please deliver us from these sanctimonious, college essay driven writing stylings of today's bloggers cum screenwriters who populate new media bullpens.

Neo Yokio is refreshingly superficial, light and breezy like a menthol cigarette or a diet 7 up. It's style is tongue and cheek, self effacing, unpretentious and full of 1990s anime cliches. Neo Yokio is light on the writing, light on the social righteousness and light on the eyes. In short, it's vaporwave.

The art is where the love is. Here finally is a cartoon that recognizes that this is a visual art, not a puppet theater for frustrated pamphleteers. From the mock 1930s Monaco Grand Prix posters, to the beautiful art deco renderings of the Chrysler Building, to the pink and blue nostalgia vaporwave skies of Neo Yokio, this is a clever pastiche and a clin d'oeil to art history.

Neo Yokio's absurdist retro futurism, the foppish cocktail parties, the mecha butler, the designer label name calling and the giant toblerones give the whole thing the feeling of an 1980s cocaine and vodka hangover that is just delightful.

I love it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Beau Tardy/
www.tardyartist.com

Neo Yokio is a Netflix original production.

Production
Created by	Ezra Koenig
Written by	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Alexander Benaim
Directed by	Kazuhiro Furuhashi Junji Nishimura
Creative director(s)	Ben Jones

Executive producer(s)	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Hend Baghdady Angela Petrella
Producer(s)	Matthew Chadwick Andrew Chittenden Kris Wood
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Studio Deen Production I.G. MOI Animation Infinite Elegance, LLC Friends Night
Distributor	Netflix

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

DizzyTV New Summer Episode Retro 80s! 😎📺✨

Watch a brand new episode of DizzyTV *free* on Youtube and Roku!
80s Synthwave and Retrowave!

Featuring Rodney Hunter / #Text Message / VictoriaXRave / Midnight Star and so much more!

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Jazzy Burn's - Aspirin - Music Video Mashup

From the upcoming new album *In Flight Entertainment*

by Jazzy Burn's exclusively on Bandcamp http://jazzyburns.bandcamp.com

Monday, June 26, 2017

Free Dizzy Poster Contest!

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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Dizzy TV Exclusive! Beat Plastic - Automatic - Music Video

Monday, May 1, 2017

VEKTROID - Don't Stop - Saint Pepsi Saves Teh World** by Dizzy TV

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Ghost In The Shell - Movie Review

Wow, how cool was that? I had no idea this movie would actually be this good! I was totally expecting a sub-par remake of the all time anime classic. After all who could possibly make anything half as brilliant as Mamoru Oshiis' animated masterpiece? Nobody of course. This redux has a lot going for it all the same.

But first, the weak spots. The biggest fail of all time is the fact that Scarlett Johansson decided not to play this in the buff like the original anime robot. Instead she is fitted with a latex body suit which is a huge let down even if it allows the movie to be rated PG13. Why can't us adults get to see a movie with a naked robot? Just why?

The anime robot was naked. But you knew that!

Also why on Earth did director Rupert Sanders decide to start the movie with a 5 minute flashback sequence that is slow and bothersome instead of 'plunging' right in the way the anime does with Major's dive from the building roof?

This has the effect of blunting the noir dread that is supposed to infuse this cyberpunk epic. To that point, everything is a little bit too clean and well lit.

A little too clean.

Last but not least this movie is lacking a proper kick ass soundtrack. I mean Tron Legacy has Daft Punk, man! The original anime has a beautiful eerie theme song by Kenji Kawai but this film relegates it to the end credits... bad move. They should've gotten Deadmau5 to score this film!

Scarlett kicks ass!

Now on to the good bits! Scarlett Johansson looks freaking perfect as Major. She plays it well in a stiff human-machine hybrid way. (I still think she should have been naked - I mean just think of the publicity! Built-in ad campaign! Chickens, the lot of them... )

The evil Geisha robot is dope. I want that thing as a body guard!
Batou played by Pilou Asbaek is awesome rad too.

In the original anime his look was inspired by the Italian comic book character RanXerox who was another cyberpunk icon of the 80s.

RanXerox classic 80s cyberpunk icon by Italian artist Liberatore.

Cyberpunk is a product of the 80s and Ghost In The Shell took a lot of cues from Blade Runner and Akira. The 80s were not a clean decade and the future looked grimy and dark. Millenials are too used to the sleek rounded corners and shiny surfaces of their asepticized iphones. Anyone remember using a pay phone on 42nd street in 1985? Any way I digress.

I saved the best part for last which are the awesome sfx and glitch tricks. I mean folks, augmented reality is coming and we better get used to navigating the third layer of VR holographic ads. Not to mention naked robots!

I feel this version of Ghost In The Shell has staying power and will develop a bona fide cult following. Definite addition to my cyberpunk collection!

****

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Pewdiepie Reinvents Public Access TV on Twitch!

Anyone remember Wayne's World with Mike Myers about two doofuses on a couch doing a Public Access TV show? Of course not, you probably weren't even born yet! Well, it looks like Pewdiepie doesn't remember either! Maybe this is a good time to insert brainiac quote "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." (Edmond Burke)

Although the movie Wayne's World was a fictitious parody of the Public Access TV phenomenon of the 80s & 90s in America, the reality is Public Access TV was a rich experimental playground for budding TV wannabees. As a free speech platform mandated by Congress in the 1970s, Public Access TV was exactly that: public access to the TV airwaves by any enterprising talent that felt like making a TV show.

Awesome shows came out of that experience, some even becoming famous like The Robin Byrd Show, TV Party, Beyond Vaudeville (which became a real TV show called Oddball) or TV with Ray Cathode that inspired MTV's AMP. (look 'em up).

All these shows broke new ground and did things on TV that nobody had done before. Pewdiepie's show 'Best Club' on Twitch however seems to be plowing fallow ground. After only two shows he is bleeding viewers, going from 80,000 for the first episode to 18,000 for the second episode which is a dizzying 75% drop. It seems that he got the message because the next day he tweeted: "that stream was insane, was just testing it out... wasnt expecting that. will do a charity one next time".

Was it that he wasn't expecting such a big drop in viewers or that the constant begging for donations made it sound like a PBS telethon? Either way, the formula seems wrong for Twitch. A prominent feature on Twitch is the chat which is simultaneous to the stream and allows viewers to comment in real time. This is a raucous place where memes are born and trolls earn their wings. During episode 2 of 'Best Club' chatters were complaining about being ignored, even when they donated money, a cardinal sin on Twitch!

'Best Club' episode on Twitch with Pewdiepie and Brad Woto. Looks a lot like Wayne's World to me :)

Best Club episode #2 also suffered from a rookie streamers mistake of plugging the cameras into a different input from the mic resulting in the dreaded 'audio out of sync' nightmare.

Twitch is a very different animal from YouTube. By any account this will be a head-scratcher for the producers of Best Club and it remains to be seen if the Pewds will be able to turn this lemon into lemonade.

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