Infocult: Uncanny Informatics

The horrible comedy of Llamas with Hats

Horror comedy is a hard trick to pull off.  For a good example, consider the very short web animated series Llamas with Hats.  

Each episode is very short (circa 1:20) and very simple.  One llama asks the other llama about what hes been up to.  The results are pithy, almost entirely dialog-driven, and increasingly horrific.

Try the first one for starters:

"Caaaaaarl...."

(thanks to Steven "Not responsible for the meat dragon" Kaye)

Irish Sea Gothic

Centuries of Anglo-Irish relations explained in a single bad headline:

British urgently want the blood of Irish people

(thanks to Charles Cameron on Twitter)

Discovering Soviet retro bone music

During the Cold War some die-hard Soviet rock music fans turned to repurposed medical technology to share their beloved, banned tunes.

With the aid of a special device, people started pressing banned jazz and rock n’ roll music on thick radiographs scavenged from the dumpsters of hospitals. X-rays were plentiful (not to mention cheap), and while the records could only be pressed on a single side, the music they produced using a standard turntable was passable.

Tighten up the Gothic: "The recordings even had a catchy name: bone music."

Like so:

Would the state have considered these dangerous and therefore fear them? Could this be a new case of fearsome technology and media?

(thanks to Randy McCall)