Video-O-Rama: Digital Books, Mr. Spartanburg, Sk8 Park, NWS Rap, Triflin Friends And The Antibodies
If you missed the Digital Bookmobile’s visit to Spartanburg, you needn’t fret! Thanks to the consistently awesome “Monday Minute” vlog by the Spartanburg Library system, you can get a quick glimpse into what the project is and how it works. Here’s Jamie Kelly, Marketing & Events Associate with OverDrive media services, giving you the lowdown.
If I told you that the following video was of a guy from Spartanburg dancing around in some bikini briefs, clearly having a good time showing off his body, and strutting around to a club-friendly hip-hop track, your mental Gay-O-Meter alarm might start going off. Well, if you want to be the first to tell Mr. Spartanburg that he’s voguing it up a bit too much for your taste, be my guest.
If anyone was skeptical about the cultural impact of the new Hot Spot Skate Park, they need look no farther than YouTube. There’s usually two or three new videos of skaters showing off each week, and for each video that goes up, a few more people in the skateboarding world become aware of the city and it’s merits. In turn, local skate shops and places that cater to skater culture can actually become part of the engine for economic change in downtown. But, enough of all that stuff. Check out Dylan Church’s mad sk8 skills.
When it comes to needlessly using not work safe language to get across the idea that “I am now going to rap,” the V-Man isn’t someone to be trifled with. He’ll cuss like crazy just to say “Howdy,” I bet. Actual rapping starts at about 45 seconds in, and I’ll let you make up your own mind about his level of talent, lest I become a “hater.”
We’ve covered Triflin’ Friends a few times, a locally produced sitcom that tends to produce mixed reactions as viewing experience. (I find it to be an interesting and exciting media project, if occasionally baffling on a narrative level.) Here we have brief behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast, giving us some insight into the show and some of the personalities involved in making it.
When possible, we like to end each week on a song. Here’s Spartanburg’s own awesome rockers The Antibodies performing “Only It’s You” at a recent gig at HUB-BUB, courtesy of John Watson Video.
As always, if you know of a noteworthy, recently uploaded local video we missed in this week’s roundup, feel free to post a link to it in the comments below. Please add at least a short description so that we know what we’re going to be looking at, and mark it not work safe if there’s content that might not be suitable for viewing, you know, at work.
