I'd heard of The Trap Door for a while but hadn't actually watched any of it until now, it's pretty excellent! The scene with the mirror reminded me of childhood memories of some tv spot on The Neverhood. Strange musty rooms and clay monsters lurching behind the door. I liked the northern accents a lot too.
 
On the subject of old stopmotion shows I still don't know how much attention it has outside the UK and Ireland but I feel it's worth repeating again that Clangers is really fucking good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsMZKwqw3w&feature=related the visuals of endless black space + strange tinny textures + winding caverns has permanently stuck in my brain but I've only realised now how good the sound design is too. the general mixture of an elaborate and carefully constructed world which is also deeply alien and strange (any section without narration looks like footage from some terrifying snuff movie) still sort of gets to me.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw great minds..................................

the trap door aaaaaaaaaa

i love it. it's nearly as good as the lavender town tale that velfarre linked

I'd heard of The Trap Door for a while but hadn't actually watched any of it until now, it's pretty excellent! The scene with the mirror reminded me of childhood memories of some tv spot on The Neverhood. Strange musty rooms and clay monsters lurching behind the door. I liked the northern accents a lot too.
 
On the subject of old stopmotion shows I still don't know how much attention it has outside the UK and Ireland but I feel it's worth repeating again that Clangers is really fucking good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsMZKwqw3w&feature=related the visuals of endless black space + strange tinny textures + winding caverns has permanently stuck in my brain but I've only realised now how good the sound design is too. the general mixture of an elaborate and carefully constructed world which is also deeply alien and strange (any section without narration looks like footage from some terrifying snuff movie) still sort of gets to me.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw great minds..................................

yeah clangers is really good! i was gonna do a whole ITS CRAZY TO THINK THIS SHOW WAS FOR KIDS WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT OBJECTIVELY but i lack the finesse.....

NICHOLAS PICHOLAS: IS THAT HIS REAL NAME???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGcGgpdMh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvPGcYmNNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC26ASdedU4

This is it. This is the perfect distillation of my childhood. A nonsense-flurry of graffiti brick walls, brightly-colored geometric shapes, and fuzzy super nintendo footage, filmed in what is likely a re-purposed storage room.

strange subculture of early video art, advanced 80s computers, experimental science and microwave adverts! everything in the evltube and vintagecg channels is amazing + worth watching.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUTzT4a6aM scientists stumbling through a virtual reality technocave model of the universe
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS2iMk9BoA this is like a deleted scene from videodrome and gets real good about halfway in. is this really from 1999
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-l2GJ7eou8&feature=related essence of vhs *sips fine wine*
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2PhXPNvgTo&feature=related mystery road
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUcnTjR2KNY&feature=relmfu aaahahahahaha hell yeah. what is this. ronnie dobbs from mr show stumbles through portal to the video world
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZxw1Jb9vA&feature=related theres a lot of old experimental animations from the 50s and early 60s on youtube and they all look fantastic!! nes lion king looks astonished
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItpNdsrizUU pilortwing
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmSnUkftkU ahaha. i would go to this!! this IS the future
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA&feature=related mathchat
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXiZglgNpmU&feature=related model 500 - the future - the video
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgKh3vtOD0 AAAAAAAAAA
 
 
thats a lot of films but they're all really good + all worth seeing if you like other stuff in thread jesus christ. don't fight the pull of this strange youtube vortex.... let it transport you to, "technoreality"...
 
i'll see you on the other side *puts on shades, blasts off into the Star Rider multiverse*

i guess this is mostly for uh RAGNAR but its still an interesting piece nonetheless.

http://www.good.is/post/slideshow-this-is-your-artistic-brain-on-drugs

http://www.untoldentertainment.com/games/sissy/ I liked this. Takes five minutes.

this is actually adorable, and actually really good! i loved all the girl's put downs (you're a mouse now how'd you like THEM apples?) and it was really imaginative. god damn i wish i was that good as a kid.

http://www.untoldentertainment.com/games/sissy/ I liked this. Takes five minutes.

This rules so hard, it's like a playable Lauren cartoon.

The pain of looking at tiny digital versions of old experimental films and animations that were intended to be seen on film, projected.

This is true and I'm still getting used to the fact that even really neat old films etc that people have posted on youtube are almost unwatchable to me in that format, just because they're based on a particular tempo or mood that doesn't carry over well to being split and compressed into eleven small embedded digital videos.
That said it sometimes feels almost appropriate for some of those old experimental video pieces which were interested in things like tape noise and images in a constant state of flux to be suddenly put in this new context, and I've heard people say that stuff like the old BLAST magazines look kind of bland in their original form compared to the smudged third-generation xerox copies that got passed around by later generations. I do think there's a lot of insight to be had in trying to analyse stuff on its own terms/context rather than keep it awkwardly shambling forward into different formats but I'm still kind of excited by the idea of strange mutations arising from sudden juxtapositions and new contexts, the hope that some new aspect or idea lurking there will be teased out in the transition to become its own thing... a kind of newmedia version of the idea of  creative misreadings... I hold out hope for the children of tomorrow, raised on blurred youtube compressions of scratchy old vhs copies of fuzzy tv displays of 20th century culture... their eyes will be sharp and keen from trying to decipher the thick layers of distortion and grime on these videos... we can expect great things from this, the "dubstep generation"...
 
edit: altho whether sudden availability and decontextualisation will just homogenize everything into a shapeless blob is another question and one i sometimes feel more pessimistic about! i dunno. hegemony.. or lobotomy hrm tough choice..
 
 
Anyway, here's a game that makes me really want to learn to use DOSBOX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix9iD64pV4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmatftzuNJM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWP03NdT7g&feature=related
An open-world DOS Terminator game where you roam freely through an enormous polygon Los Angeles ("complete with a stadium, a cemetery, a huge parking lot, and more"), steal dogfood, tampons, weapons and 'scent' from local stores, rob banks, murder cops and drive the car from Test Drive III while you try to hunt down and destroy Sarah Connor. The walkspeed looks annoying but jesus christ.

dosbox is easy as heck to use, i can help you out if you need it