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Halo: All I Play-Oh

By cstubbs on April 5, 2009 1:00 AM | 1 Comment

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And yet again, the internet provides glorious things for us from its endless bounty.  If you are a Halo fan, appreciate a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover, or have a soul, you too will find yourself watching this video an unhealthy number of times.



In addition to its own inherent awesomeness, this video is made even more interesting by the fact that it was created collaboratively.  The song itself was written and performed by a group called Palette Swap Ninja, which has a handful of other game themed parody songs (I'm a sucker for their Viva Pinata/ Pina Colada spoof).  But the song itself didn't come with the impressive video accompaniment.  That was taken care of courtesy of YouTube user UseTheFork.  The end result is both cool and exceptionally well done but perhaps more importantly, it was a whole lot of effort for no other reason than "because".  Mashup culture is a beautiful thing.

Anyone else seeing an incredible digital storytelling assignment here, or have I just spent a bit too much time in higher ed?
   
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