Here’s a little project that I edited for Volkswagen last year. It aired on Discovery earlier this week.

Racing Under Green 2009 from Volkswagen Motorsports on Vimeo.

It’s also available here on Youtube but the picture and sound quality are better on Vimeo.

Twice I’ve sat down and attempted to draw up my Oscar picks and twice I’ve failed. Because this year I really don’t care — and not in my usual snarky detached sort of way — I really, truly, honestly don’t care about the Oscars. At all.

2009 was a shlocktastic year for movies and if “Transformers 2″ or “Avatar” are any indication, movies are going get a whole lot more mindless and derivative in the near future. Oh and they’re all going to be in 3D. Not because it’s better, but because it makes the studios more money per ticket.

So forget the Oscars. It’ll be nice for Jeff Bridges to win, but honestly, no one’s seen his formulaic comeback movie and next to Optimus Prime and that Worthington guy, J.B. really didn’t have that much competition this year. So it’s really more of a dubious honor.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit calcified in my thinking / creativity. It’s time for some inspiration, direct from the Golden Age of MTV.

Back in ‘94, we took clips like this for granted because, well everyone was doing a one-take videos back then, right? But in our modern world of motion-controlled, green-screened and CGI’d filmmaking, this clip is exhilarating in it’s lo-fi inventiveness.

Anyway, this clip was directed by someone named Gondry who later did his damnedest to kill off the one-take genre with his motion-controlled, green-screened and CGI’d clip for Kylie Minogue’s “Come Into My World.”

Now ask yourself, which do you prefer?

Hello old friend. It’s been a while. You look good.

Yes, I’ve let my hair grow out. Yes, it’s a bit thinner near the front. Yes, I’m starting to lose my looks to the bottle.

Weren’t the Aughts a complete disaster? Why can’t I remember half of them? I remember ‘01, some of ‘06 and then solid run of 07-09. Oh well. Twenty-ten has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

So let’s man-hug and make it up. Let’s hang out more often. Let’s try to get laid.

It’s good to be back.

Maybe this is old news, but I think this is amazing. Watch the whole thing, especially where they print out a plastic adjustable wrench that actually works.