We tune in occassionally to the Penn TV network (Channel 13, baby!) to see what our telecasting pals are up to. Check out their cheeky Valentine’s shout out special. It’s decidedly a bit tamer than Street‘s version of shout outs, but we appreciate the foreign exchange student, the guy who asks A-Gut on a date, and “all the single ladies from 1812,” whoever you may be.
Did you notice that weird building outside Houston last week? We saw there were people doing makeup but we JUST got a makeover so we walked right by. Clearly that was a mistake.
Turns out it was set up by Yoostar – the people who make this thing – as part of a campus tour they’re doing to help Jamie Kennedy find an extra for an upcoming movie. The audition tapes were created using the fancy Yoostar technology to insert students into famous movies. That’s just how show business works, guys. One day you’re pretending to be the secretary from Ferris Bueller after finishing your Blaze burger and the next day you’re not allowed to make eye contact with Mr. Kennedy while he makes America laugh.
Now, the important part is not that a Penn student might win the contest, but that Yoostar has posted all the videos here. They’re incredible. Seriously. We recommend you watch them all thousands of times, until every stilted nuance is burned into your brain forever, because gifts as wonderful as this don’t come around too often.
The last time we got atchyou with election coverage, print was still all the rage. But look out, Kasia “Fierce,” because MJ Gitter just tore down your trillions of posters in one fell swoop. Don’t get us wrong, MJ has posters too. Oh GOD does she have posters. But more importantly, she has a video. If you haven’t seen it, that’s weird. Watch it toute de suite!
There’s a lot to take in, so we thought we’d help out by providing you with our Top 10 M(J)ost M(J)emorable M(J)oments, complete with screen shots and an animation!
Check it all out after the jump.
We were psyched when US News & World Report gave us fourth place in their annual rankings, placing us alongside such famous #4′s as Brett Favre, Georgia, and The Color Purple at the 1985 Box Office. But we wondered, “Did they actually talk to people who go here?” Turns out: yes!
Check out the magazine’s CollegeClickTV for a bunch of interviews they did with students earlier in the year. Important topics discussed include how great our dance teams are, how much walking students have to do, how we treat the French and how we have short people and tall people that can stand next to one another for comedic effect.
Sure, they may love themselves, but we love them too. Yes, we’re talking about the men of Mask and Wig, who put on a free show for the frosh last week. While UTBTV wasn’t there, our friends over at the DP were. Though we sadly can’t embed the footage, click here to check out the Wig boys in all of their cross-dressing glory.
In our first of many video reports from Penn events, we hit last night’s Convocation and learned a lot about the new freshman class. Enjoy, take notes, and discuss in small groups.
Convocation 2009 from Under The Button on Vimeo.
If you’re anything like me, you haven’t paid too much attention to the current economic imbroglio. You don’t really understand it — you know it’s bad, yet you can’t help saying to yourself: “But they had so much money!”
Luckily, Jonathan Jarvis, a graduate student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California put together a badass video for his thesis: “The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.”
Jarvis makes “playing hot potato with a time bomb” easy to grasp even for English majors like myself, and at times the animation makes you want to chuckle. Then, like myself, you will realize you might never have a job and begin the frowning of a lifetime.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Sadly, we heard that Dhamaka did not triumph at Saturday’s Phillyfest (they were beaten by–ugh–NYU). Lucky for us, videos of the competition have been uploaded to YouTube, so you can decide for yourself whether Dhamaka was robbed or got served. Here they are, and please note the fake Mu Alpha Kappa frat house behind them, because we totally love it.
The final push at the end of the semester is a stressful time. The due date for the paper you’ve been putting off is drawing closer and your last midterms are finally in sight. Even if you don’t have intense coursework, the thought of Thanksgiving with your family, which means the endless “What are you majoring in? Really? Wow. And what do you plan to do with a degree in (insert humanities discipline here)?”, is enough to give you migraines.
Nobody likes being stressed, but at Penn, it’s inevitable. And now that the election is over, you can’t count on any any new video clips of Sarah Palin’s verbal gaffs to calm you down. But never fear, for we have found a solution for your rising blood pressure: live, streaming puppies.
Seriously, these dogs are the cutest things ever (though I find them considerably more adorable with the sound turned off). Even when they’re simply lying around doing nothing, you’re still watching cute puppies.
So a big thanks to the people whoring their puppies out for the rest of us. Because of your dogs, we will all sleep a bit more soundly at night.
And while we’re on the subject of puppies, the following video isn’t live, but it never fails to amuse us:
