Sometimes in doing my research on topics of interest, I come across some unrelated surprises. Like this morning for example, I was looking for an image to use for something I am writing and came across a few dandies that reminded me of my favorite Winnie The Pooh movie.
Ooopppsss… Pause for the cause: Why did an email that I sent to an elected public official on their public official email end up getting me an almost immediate “Out of Office” automated reply from a private email address from a private corporation? …Anyways‽
Last year I did watch the film about Milne and enjoyed it quite a bit. This is a recently remastered version of Todd Graham's original 1987 VCR-made remix that appropriates famous fictional animals from Disney's animated version of Winnie the Pooh and recasts them as characters in Francis Ford Coppola's gritty Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now. In the new narrative, the beloved Hundred Acre Wood is transformed into a horrific war zone in which Pooh, Piglet, and the rest of the gang struggle to keep their sanity. The humorous and slightly disturbing juxtaposition was an underground viral hit at comic book conventions, and bootlegged copies were passed around and traded on VHS tape. Graham's work, which he called telejusting, differs in some respects from that of later media jammers in that it requires viewers to at least know, if not be a fan of, the original source material. Graham, unlike many political remixers, also managed to create some sympathy for his telejusted cartoon characters.