Shop Vac in the Suburbs Music Video
7 Feb 2006 in Jonathan Coulton by Garrick
Almost 50 years ago, Redbook magazine and On Film made In the Suburbs, a promotional video for suburban life.
A few weeks back, Jonathan Coulton released “Shop Vac” a catchy little theme song for suburban life.
I wondered what they’d look like together.
Behold the power of Creative Commons and archive.org:
Shop Vac in the Suburbs [quicktime]
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Shop Vac Music Video…
Garrick Van Buren did an amazing job editing together some found video from archive.org and Jonathan Coulton’s song Shop Vac into this glorious music video. Behold the mighty power of Creative Commons!
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Evil Genius Chronicles added these pithy words on Feb 07 06 at 5:49 pm[...] Garrick Van Buren has taken a 1950’s promotional film for suburban life called “In the Suburbs” and edited together a nice video to go along with Shop Vac – another great example of Creative Commons-enabled collaboration. The video is public domain and available on archive.org, which is a pretty amazing resource for all sorts of things. [...]
Jonathan Coulton » Blog Archive » Shop Vac Video added these pithy words on Feb 08 06 at 12:55 pm[...] » Shop Vac in the Suburbs Music Video - (2) [...]
Evil Genius Chronicles » EGC Clambake for February 9, 2006 added these pithy words on Feb 09 06 at 11:04 pmChris Yale added these pithy words on Feb 07 06 at 9:42 pmWhat an awesome video. Complements the song wonderfully. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
subpopper added these pithy words on Feb 15 06 at 10:55 amGreat job with the video. This song has been one of my faves since it came out a few weeks ago. Bravo.
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