This bumper double episode of TIMFT with Static Vision's Conor Bateman and Felix Hubble looks at the oddly familiar in two new media works: the idiosyncratic YouTube artefact 'Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires', and the extravagant pop deconstruction of easyFun's easyMix.

 

Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires (2008) https://youtu.be/nnl9rRw-Qgc

easyMix - easyFun (2015) https://soundcloud.com/easyfun/easymix

Embalming the obscure: The rise of B-movie cinephilia https://www.academia.edu/35802985/

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og

Perfect Film (1986) dir. Ken Jacobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_qJoqvzA4

Hollow Jungle (2019) dir. Conor Bateman http://norbateman.co/hollow-jungle/

Ian Barr tweet https://twitter.com/ianbarr/status/747995667461603332

Static Vision https://linktr.ee/staticvision