music
jul 15
2008

Girl Talk Projects

Whoa! Someone has started a project to do a video version of Girl Talk's Feed The Animals, with part 2 and part 3 of what looks like a 14-episode adventure now on YouTube. (Side note: I was thinking the other day about doing a database journalism project with the album, breaking it all down into statistical units. There's all sorts of metadata: sample lengths, year the songs originally appeared, genre, etc. With all this data, you could crunch the numbers to reveal some new information. For instance, I'd like to know the median year-of-release of all the samples. That sounds interesting to me!)
6 comments

wikipedia has a nice page on Girl Talk, listing most of the samples

posted by Dean Wermer at 2008-07-15 13:45:02

Yeah, I <a href="http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-4501.cfm" target="_blank">linked</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_The_Animals#Tracklist" target="_blank">it</a> a while back.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> It's not data though -- it's just a list.<br /><br />

posted by Rex at 2008-07-15 13:47:15

Rumor: Waxy might be on the case!<br /><br />

posted by Rex at 2008-07-15 13:55:31

Yeah, I'm on it.

posted by Andy Baio at 2008-07-15 14:35:01

I just decided that this cut-and-paste-old-videos approach is too obvious and therefore wrong for Girl Talk.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Instead, the videos should be by <a href="http://scher.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/leau-life/">Jeff Scher</a>.

posted by robin at 2008-07-16 11:54:58

i think this is one the most incredible things I have ever seen.

posted by brigitta at 2008-07-16 20:01:40