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Alanis Morissette – My Humps
First Justin Timberlake, and now Alanis Morissette. More proof that mass media artists can thrive in social media as long as they let their hair down with the rest of us: Alanis performs her parody ballad interpretation of the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps.
No, really. It’s the most viewed, highest rated, most discussed, most bookmarked, most linked video on YouTube today.
Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer
With Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories all after Grand Theft Auto III, I was starting to think Rockstar Games couldn’t count to four. Fortunately, we’re going back to Liberty City on October 16 with Grand Theft Auto IV.
The trailer is about 1:03 in length, and it reveals that the game takes place (at least partially) in Liberty City, a fictionalized New York City, and an immigrant with a heavy Russian accent, who appears to be the main character. The character has a brief monologue: “Life is complicated; I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different.” Then the trailer ends with the “IV” logo.
The trailer features many familiar New York City landmarks, including a location resembling Times Square and the “GetaLife Building,” a parody of the MetLife Building. All of the cars and buildings seem to indicate a present-day setting. The trailer uses a similar cinematic style to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi as it used Philip Glass’s original music from the film (a section of the track “Pruitt-Igoe”) as well as emulated time-lapsed filming.
Rockstar also revealed that all the trailer’s footage is generated real-time via the game’s engine RAGE, running on an actual game console, and that it was not pre-rendered. Whether the footage is running on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 has yet to be specified.
Yup, you read that right: this is real-time game footage, not some pre-rendered mockup. Looks like things will be different.
(Via Wikipedia.)
