Video Sunday: Marley, Muppets, and Mark Twain

And now it’s the usual Who Has the Best Fans? competition.  This week’s entry is firmly in the Adam Rex camp.  On his site you can see a group of Gorg vehemently protesting the representation of their species in The True Meaning of Smekday.  I can’t embed it here.  You’ll have to go and see it yourself.  And yes, it overfloweth with the awesome.  Other authors, the ball is in your court.

Been looking at a lot of video trailers recently.  The ones for the picture books that I admire the most are the ones with high quality scans that give a real visual sense of the book.  This new trailer for Tony Medina’s picture book biography of Bob Marley called I and I is a great example of that.  The music is superfluous.  You can take it or leave it.  What works are the gorgeous shots of Jesse Joshua Watson’s interior illustrations.  This is such a great medium for him.  I’ll need to review this one soon.

Those of you who are my Facebook friends will note that one of my status updates this week was "Today Show is late.  I am so getting Al Roker in a headlock now," or something to that extent.  Well, The Today Show was slated to appear in my library and to look at my co-worker, Mr. Edward a.k.a Winnie-the-Pooh.  It took them a while, but eventually a reporter of the blondish persuasion did come with her two small cute children.  I did every possible embarrassing move I could think of to get into the background shots, but no go.  Clearly they have some kind of editor over at MSNBC.  In any case, if you’d like to see the piece, here it is.  Makes us look mighty fine, I think.

Oh good.  This is clearly the perfect video to end our Video Sunday on.  The other day I received a birthday present from my friend Geoff that consisted of DVDs of Jump Tomorrow (I can’t recommend any video today higher than this film), The Muppet Movie, and The Great Muppet Caper (The Muppets Take Manhattan, ironically, did not make the cut).  It makes perfect sense that so soon after receiving a copy of Caper I should see this mash-up.  And as I also own Ocean’s 11 on DVD (not Ocean’s 12, which I think this is mostly playing off of) this is perfect.  Eerily perfect, in some ways.