An animator at the Milwaukee Animation Group meeting suggested this video for the Video of the Week. It is a student film by Kyu-bum Lee. It is created with traditional animation techniques which always blows me away as I stick primarily with digital tools. Without going on too long, let me introduce to you “Death Buy Lemonade”:
What I love about this film is that it has no dialogue.
Today I want to talk about inappropriate comedy, dark humor, and the boundaries of good taste in humor. I just recently uploaded a video that I’m wondering if should have ever been made. It is a reaction to Whitney Houston’s death. This is a current news topic and I wanted to create something as a way to catch the views as her name becomes a common search item on Google and YouTube. I don’t feel what I created was too mean, but was playing off of her death and maybe taking her death too light heartedly.
The question becomes, Where to draw the line?
The video isn’t the best ever made. It was created fast to take advantage of current news and people’s habit of researching current events. In the end I feel it isn’t a good video, but with 2,000 views in fewer than 24 hours I considered continuing those types of videos and hoping it will bring him a few subscriptions (and me a better understanding of YouTube Income possibilities).
The beauty of the Might Boosh as a blueprint for future performers is that they had to work their way up through different medias to get a TV show and they delivered every time. Most stand-up comedians are wondering when they are going to get a call from a TV producer for their television show, but the truth is it will never happen; or at the very least very, very unlikely to happen. It didn’t happen to the comedians of the Might Boosh. Instead they
